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by jahaja 8y ago
There's a lot of other non-health related insurances and more that depends on an assumed average lifespan. Mortgage/Loans, employment etc. One could become an second class citizen in such a dystopian future.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Worth to note is, well, in my opinion at least, that today's go-to web stack is generally not about simplicity or quick time-to-deploy. The benefits I assume are long-term. So unless a goal is to become up-to-date with the latest popul
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm curious to how US economists (or perhaps reporters) are able to ignore most of western-Europe when talking about labour costs. Shouldn't these countries be head deep in unemployment for the last 60 years or so if this was stri
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by jahaja 8y ago
If they're using Perforce one can "Shelve" a CL (changelist, similar to a commit in git) to make it available for others to unshelve. This can be used as a workaround, albeit limited, to share work-in-progress stuff.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Well, "Civic Duty" should be assumed to have a collective definition rather than some individuals selective thoughts. I think it's pretty clear that the sum of your posts in this thread isn't in line with that and it giv
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by jahaja 8y ago
By whose standard? I reckon not actively avoiding taxes is quite high up in most peoples list. Proclaiming the virtues of civic duty while still championing corporate tax avoidance rings very superficial to me at least.
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by jahaja 8y ago
This attitude seems inconsistent with your other recent post: > some of the world's biggest companies which have absolutely failed at anything resembling civic duty. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18771628
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by jahaja 8y ago
How would one measure each employee's individual profitability?
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by jahaja 8y ago
1) Taxes should indeed be reverted. Omitting the large tax cuts over the last 20 years or so distorts the context. 2) Apart from the fact that there's been a significant influx of refugees that entire point should be seen as pure opini
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by jahaja 8y ago
Excuse my pet-peeve rant, but the "random personal contacts" line is characteristically vague. In some sort of reflexive pursuit to avoid admitting irrational factors, explanations become necessarily vague. For example, the irrati
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by jahaja 8y ago
This just indicate that it's just a pointless managerial social status and/or micromanagement practice. If you don't need to persist it, or people stop answering the bot, maybe it's because people feel it's meaningl
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by jahaja 8y ago
If the only way to do this sort of communication is to force it out through a stand-up surely something is very wrong?
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by jahaja 8y ago
> talks about how having a teacher or going on meditation retreats will help you become better at meditation than just going it alone. Maybe I'm cynical, but that reads like a pure monetization strategy to me.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Care to explain? For example, the following is from "The Failure of the Working Class" by Anton Pannekoek in 1946: The workers of the world nowadays have two mighty foes, two hostile and suppressing powers over against them: the
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by jahaja 8y ago
This is the reason why some people called it state capitalism, since the only difference for the workers is who's the boss.
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by jahaja 8y ago
An interesting appeal to nature. Would you paint all socialist with this brush or just the Bolsheviks? > The problem is, "the conditions imposed in the name of communism" are intrinsic to communism itself, because it is not a p
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by jahaja 8y ago
The double standards, lack of historical context and nuance, the surgical separation of capitalism from the power concentration it creates and its consequences (inequality, skewed democracy etc), the euphemisms (usually using the word free
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by jahaja 8y ago
I think one need to understand that those kind of things have been said about western capitalism/society for a long long time, even under appalling injustice, segregation etc. Its purpose is to comfort the privileged, not necessarily t
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by jahaja 8y ago
I think so. 39,000 in Stockholm. http://www.stockholm.se/OmStockholm/Forvaltningar-och-bolag/
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by jahaja 8y ago
However you frame it, a very widely used package management system based essentially on trust and a community that doesn't expect any amount of responsibility with regards to those packages seems like a bad combination.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Thinking about the Bertrand Russell quote: "Drunkenness is temporary suicide", and wondering about the correlation between ~70k drug related deaths per year and this topics ~40k suicides per year. Would suicides increase if the ea
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by jahaja 8y ago
Sigh, so you googled up an interview with a representative from Fastighetsägarna (literally translated "The property owners") and conclude with confidence that government restrictions is the reason. These were in place during th
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by jahaja 8y ago
Isn't there an incentive for the company to make sure that driver pay is unbearably low without chasing these "incentives"? If so, it seem to just be a scheme to ensure loyalty for the same price.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Uhm, this goes back to my first reply? Furthermore it's in general a terrible argument since it can be more or less claimed by every despotic regime in history.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Thanks. But as I suggested above, the same is happening in other countries, including mine, without these restrictions. And just as here, the report speaks of various tax and cash incentives etc, basically profit guarantees, needed to get p
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'd think it would be good manners to at least provide a summary that puts the report into the discussions context when linking to some pdf report.
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by jahaja 8y ago
In this "It's actually votes that counts after all"-scenario, how would you explain the vast difference in worker rights and benefits, who surely constitutes the majority of the eligible voters, compared to West-European coun
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by jahaja 8y ago
NIMBY/YIMBY arguments seem just too convenient an excuse for me. It's almost if one has actively tried to find something that can plausibly explain the housing crisis but does not challenge the status quo of structural/system
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by jahaja 8y ago
> The middle class is not asking for progressive taxation of the rich for altruistic reasons either: they want the benefit of that taxation: access to housing, health, government jobs, college education, etc. This needs a change of persp
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by jahaja 8y ago
Why aren't they? They're not doing it from altruistic reasons, they've just found people willing to work for less pay. Surely a king upon conquering even worse off subjects, which enables him to maintain and expand his wealth

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