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by kough 11y ago
Or you can throw this in a table and be done with it.
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Book Review: The Redistribution Recession(blogs.harvard.edu)
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Fantastic point, I have to admit I missed the consequences of that, too.
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by kough 11y ago
Well congratulations, you found a nit to pick.
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OK, I understand your argument now. It's almost like we should guarantee some basic level of comfort to all citizens regardless of their employment status, so that they could afford to be hired on at wages employers are willing to pay.
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I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. If your "low skills Americans" were more attractive to employers than low skills workers, they would replace those workers regardless of the wage. Increasing the minimum wage will incenti
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All you're arguing is for a decrease in the cost of hiring from a specific labor pool, which is exactly what the government has already done by allowing companies to hire disabled workers for below the minimum wage.
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> No one wants to hire them at a high minimum wage, especially when locals are readily available The main drawback to a minimum wage is that it artificially increases the cost of labor, to the point where it's no longer worth it to
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by kough 11y ago
Maybe one of the reasons demand for local programmers has increased is the strong protectionism exhibited by the Swedish department of labor. My application for a work visa for a summer internship in Stockholm was just denied because I&#x27
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Interesting idea but I really don't like the user experience. As I'm reading the post on my phone I notice that the image is wiggling slightly. Try to drag it around with my finger. No dice. Then start waving my phone around and r
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by kough 11y ago
While we're thinking about mobile CSS enhancements, what about a proper quoting mechanism? Using code-formatting makes wide text impossible to read on narrow screens. I totally agree that thread-collapsing would be a useful enhancement
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I'm also from outside the city (30 minutes) and recognized it exactly as described in the article. I've never heard it as a replacement for "the shit", though -- go figure.
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In my circles (think east coast top-tier university) this is being replaced by "suss", from "suspect". This comes directly from the internet.
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> Also, removing the file system tree would be a huge step backwards. Absolutely agree. I also fully believe natural text search is the future for computer interfaces. But what this article ignores is that you can easily have both. I use
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Huh, it's almost isomorphic to the problem of old code: total rewrite, or careful maintenance and update? One's a lot sexier and more interesting for the people doing the work.
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by kough 11y ago
I can't comment on the societal changes of post-WWII Japan, but I see what you've described playing out right now in the US. There is a lot to dislike about American "traditional values" (like, I don't know, racism?
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> It’s not that people lack friends, she says. Facebook, Instagram— scroll around and you find a country bursting with mugging, partying companionship. It just isn’t real, that’s all. “There’s a real me and a masked me. We have a word fo
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by kough 11y ago
gr8 b8 m8
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by kough 11y ago
Wow, fantastic advice -- if only we weren't so financially illiterate, proud, and foolish to boot!
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by kough 11y ago
I'm in a similar situation right now: on paper my father's business owes him a lot of money that he "loaned" it from his salary, but in reality that money does not exist and it's not going into his pocket any time s
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by kough 11y ago
Can anyone give a background on this story?
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Yeah, fair, and he shows up at their holiday party and hands out money (no joke, I had the "pleasure" of attending one). I get the impression his whole life was dedicated to the company for so long that he doesn't want to let
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by kough 11y ago
No longer the CEO fwiw.
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Yeah, frequently. Force yourself to write something and get it out there. Applies to programming too: how many times have you put off actually coding a project because you're still tweaking the design? If you're me, too many times
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by kough 11y ago
No mention of Eno's Oblique Strategies [0]? I've found them very useful for prompting me to think in different ways, which often leads to something to write about. I set up a little shell script, `strat`, which prints out a random
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Found myself agreeing with all of this. I very much second the decision to not use a framework and instead use the core to libraries and a standalone multiplexer. Another huge benefit of this is that you can write some glue code and test yo
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I would give you a count if I could. My guess is on the order of thousands, but not tens of thousands. Seems like the browsers are trying to download every single note I've ever created at once (from looking at the network requests and
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Absolutely agree. And when you're really pushing the edges of the documentation (hard to do, but happens on occasion – like reasoning about authentication plugins, or model loading behavior) I've found the source code to be incred
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The trick is that there is no actual definition of minimal, so you can always add it to your list of adjectives and sound more hip as a result. Another good one is "clean". All my code is bloated and messy, tbh.
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Even worse, Google Keep with ~3 years of notes. Actually unusable in a web browser for me at this point - chrome, Safari, Firefox, doesn't matter. Trying to figure out the best way to export all my notes. Sucks, because it's fanta

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