joi_de_vivre

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by joi_de_vivre 6y ago
You literally judged it by its title alone, but congratz on knowing how to say ad reductio.
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by joi_de_vivre 6y ago
These guys make it seem nice: https://www.visionect.com/blog/tiling-eink-displays/ . It would probably be a pain to set up, though.
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by joi_de_vivre 6y ago
Smaller e-ink displays are astronomically cheaper--I wonder if connecting several of them and then rastering the pdf would look much different?
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by joi_de_vivre 6y ago
But if the "bottom rung" got to a certain height (i.e. food, shelter, healthcare) wouldn't further charity be unnecessary?
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by joi_de_vivre 6y ago
Why can't we make an effort to raise the height of the bottom rung of the ladder? In the case that we did, wouldn't charity then be unnecessary?
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by joi_de_vivre 7y ago
not GR? your name is, uh, evocative
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by joi_de_vivre 7y ago
Ahh, indeed. Unlike the meritocratic private insurance industry, which definitely doesn't benefit from and encourage corruption, "centralized control of public health" would be a total waste of taxpayer money! It's not a
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by joi_de_vivre 7y ago
Yes, if you care primarily about skimming the surface of things, collecting ideas you can bring up in conversation and being "up to date," books are totally overrated. Content aggregators fill that role much better. But if you act
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by joi_de_vivre 7y ago
Great game--I think it would a little better if you had to pay each employee a salary, just to give it something of a challenge factor.
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by joi_de_vivre 7y ago
>Given the narrative of rent extraction, you'd expect the declines in labor share of income to have happened during the long period of deregulation, reduced antitrust enforcement, etc., starting in the 1970s. The point of this artic