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by kevmo 9y ago
I largely agree. However, I think it is important for regulations to generally (not always) be structured on a sliding scale that is directly related to company size, i.e. the bigger the business, the more regulations it becomes subject to.
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by kevmo 9y ago
If there is one thing I've learned from two decades of reading about labor history, it's: Every gain labor has ever made has been taken. Every gain the working class (i.e. the overwhelming majority of people) has achieved has come
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For Struggling Consumers, a Cheaper Way to File for Bankruptcy(wsj.com)
4 points by kevmo 9y ago|0 comments
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Doesn't detract from the fact that his information design is A+.
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A lot of evil in the world has stemmed from people not worrying. I am glad our community is worrying.
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by kevmo 9y ago
This is the highest-impact format with which one can consume news, though. Magazines are great, but lots of people are just looking for a quick shot of the current news. This sort of UI is ideal for that need. This is exactly why the Drudge
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by kevmo 9y ago
They say every cartoonist has 200 bad pages in them. Best to get through those first 200 ASAP. (source: my girlfriend is a cartoonist)
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"In propaganda, "everybody" is your audience, not a defined segment." Everybody _can_ be your audience. Or a group of 1,000 can be.
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by kevmo 9y ago
When I was a junior programmer at 30, it sure felt like I was on the older side. :) It's a separate subject, but there is a lot of age bias in the field.
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by kevmo 9y ago
I am 33, and I have paid a lot of anecdotal attention to what seems to keep my brain fresh, i.e. able to still learn new skills at a rapid clip. Just by way of credentials: I was a successful lawyer for a few years of my 20s (rising to leve
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by kevmo 9y ago
"We, marketers, are selfish, lying, short-term thinking scum. We believe that our job is to manipulate people as we market to them." The book Propaganda by Edward Bernays is an excellent read about how to think long-term about mar
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by kevmo 9y ago
Indeed. The soil pH, while important in and of itself, seems like a bit of a red herring (or maybe a secondary story) when evaluating the macro-changes.
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Another possibility is that the soil was so degraded that only crummy grass could grow there. Perhaps the larger native plants, which are more complex organisms, need nutrients in greater quantities than the grass. So it's less about b
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by kevmo 9y ago
The author has probably heard of it, but deemed the solution as not being good enough by their criteria to be worth mention.
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Empire of Cotton. It's a story about the development of the international cotton trade, which was the specific environment within which many of the state and capitalist institutions we now live with were originally developed. It&#x27
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"Just move away" is not a legitimate response to these problems.
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by kevmo 9y ago
Apparently good money does not translate into a liveable wage. "Stop grandstanding and take care of your own house first" is more of the message of this article, I'd say.
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by kevmo 9y ago
Aggressive kindness has opened so many doors and smoothed so many paths for me. It's painless and pays enormous dividends while making you feel great about yourself. I also get tons of free shit by just being nice to service workers.
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by kevmo 9y ago
I think it makes sense to not accept brand-new bootcamp grads. That subset of people should already be able to at least get on a junior web or QA engineer position and will be better served by actually getting out there and doing it. Goin
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Blue Cross sending out USB cards, instructing people to insert into computers(twitter.com)
1 points by kevmo 9y ago|0 comments
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by kevmo 9y ago
"inevitably"? Is there a criminal case pending? I can't find any reference to one. And my outlook is not wrong. There are two justice systems in America - one for the fairly-to-very wealthy and one for everyone else. I us
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by kevmo 9y ago
That's how the "justice" system works in America. Giant crime by a party with a lot of money? DOJ will just slap you with a relatively small fine. Bag of weed? You're going to jail, buddy!
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by kevmo 9y ago
Dan Abramov is one of the most actively helpful open source authors I've even encountered. He debugs basically every Github issue that gets opened against his libraries.
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Profits are too high – America needs a giant dose of competition(economist.com)
8 points by kevmo 9y ago|1 comments
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At the end of the day, he was just the same old establishment president. Didn't move the needle on mass incarceration, furthered crony capitalism.
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I'll just rattle off some sweeping observations that I think have to do with the narrow set of viewpoints and shallow analysis that often results: - Incentives in government (and most of the professionals here work for the government
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Initially. They tend to get pretty flustered if you simultaneously remain calm and knowledgeably begin discussing how you disagree with a premise (when people get heated, they're much easier to dismiss). Especially in the current clima
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by kevmo 9y ago
Proactively: Be overt about your policies and values. Even though everyone will shift uncomfortably and roll their eyes, have occasional training sessions. Make a discussion of "what is not ok to say" part of your onboarding proce
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I predict that this will be the new primary source of propaganda undermining public belief in climate science.
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To the early adopter go the spoils.

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