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by lkrubner 5y ago
You've heard the XTreme slogan "Where you would write a comment, we would write a method"?
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To correctly measure the quality of an item one needs to take something like Google's PageRank algorithm and apply it to people. That is, there needs to be some measure of the reputation of the person posting. This doesn't mean th
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Depending on what you consider decisive you can use 1949, 1958, or 1973 as the decisive turning point. The double recession of 1958-1960 was certainly decisive if we're looking at labor's political power. It was after that, for th
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Please think about the amounts of money that we are talking about. Would you seriously consider disbursing $4 trillion dollars through EITC expansion? It is absolutely not designed to handle that kind of money.The EITC cost $90 billion in 2
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by lkrubner 5y ago
That's true, but keep in mind, the peak year for unionization in the USA was 1949, the Communist hysteria of 1947-1954 forced the labor unions to purge their militants, and afterwards the unions were in slow decline. And the divergence
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The obvious thing that is needed is strong labor unions. The open question is why so much of this money is flowing into asset price inflation instead of either consumer inflation or higher wages, or some combination of the two. Even a 50&#x
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by lkrubner 5y ago
This subject feels like the mirror subject to the question that was discussed on HN 2 days ago: "Do we live in political echo chambers?" My response: Who cares? I know what my values are, I know which side I'm on, I know what
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Who cares? The framing of this issue is strange to me. I know what my values are, I know which side I'm on, I know what I fight for. If you're looking for new philosophies or perspectives, I strongly suggest two things: 1. fiction
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I agree, but it won't be possible to expand construction enough to cover all of the jobs that agriculture lost. Back in 1950 that was almost 5% of the work population. Construction might absorb 2% or 3% under ideal conditions. But some
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by lkrubner 5y ago
What should strong, stupid men do? Male participation in the economy peaked in the 1950s. It began to decline as the USA automated agriculture. Millions of years of evolution gave us some men who are very strong, but very stupid. There used
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by lkrubner 5y ago
As a consultant, I've been helping startups with their hiring process, and I've noticed, at this point, even very junior engineers, just starting, are expecting flexibility of schedule, and many are looking for work from home opti
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There is only one real question here: why is that 1916-1980 Fed stimulus would tend to raise wages, whereas since 2000 Fed stimulus has no effect on wages but instead becomes asset inflation? The Fed increased the money supply last year. A
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by lkrubner 6y ago
Germany has much stronger labor unions than the USA, a legal requirement we forced on them when they finalized the constitution (Basic Law) of 1949. Since that time, compare the fate of the American auto companies (GM, Ford, Chrysler and Am
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Trump's Twitter account was hacked, but ethical hacker faces no charges(theguardian.com)
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I think if the Justice department was more technically savvy, and in one of its strongly anti-trust eras, they would see this as Amazon extending its monopoly power, and the Justice department might stop this.
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by lkrubner 6y ago
Many of us make the assumption that Paul Graham's essay, discussed here, is partly in response to Zach Tellman's criticism, which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25325716 The footnote, in
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by lkrubner 6y ago
I like Zach Tellman's response to this: "Pretty sure Paul just called me a Renaissance man" https://twitter.com/ztellman/status/1337921811397283842 At this point, my main criticism of Paul Graham is
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by lkrubner 6y ago
We had to read this story and write an essay about it back when I was 15 years old, and I think the story was written for that market, as an essay starter for young people.
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by lkrubner 6y ago
There is also the question of which personality does the most good for a company. I'll hope you will all forgive me if I quote myself here. At the end of my book "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps" I concluded
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by lkrubner 6y ago
" I mean who the fuck spends 7000 at a colo for 40.0000 users. " You misread the article. The startup with the $1 million devops ended up with 40,000 users. The startup with the co-lo was a different startup, which in fact had a v
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by lkrubner 6y ago
This can go a very long way. Using Ansible and Packer to provision AMIs, and then Terraform to spin up what's needed, goes a long way, without introducing a new layer of technology.
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by lkrubner 6y ago
Slightly off topic, but one of my most popular essays from last year was, in part, a criticism of Kubernetes. Kubernetes is best understood as an advanced optimization that offers benefits to very large firms with thousands or tens of thous
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by lkrubner 6y ago
“The irony is that the attention it gets here may end up accounting for the lion's share of exposure it gets.” Anything that Zach Tellman writes is going to get attention simply because Tellman has a following that takes him seriously.
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by lkrubner 6y ago
I’m engaging with the article itself on Twitter. On Hacker News I’m only engaging with you, again, because I like what you’ve written in the past and I’m surprised you’re so critical of this essay.
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by lkrubner 6y ago
Suppose a professor has a Very Great reputation, and another professor has an Ordinary Great reputation. You take a class with each. From the Very Great professor you get several maxims that don’t seem to actually help you, nor can you figu
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by lkrubner 6y ago
Your comments are drawing my attention because you’ve previously written a great deal on Hacker News that I agreed with and so I’m surprised that you have such a negative view of such an excellent essay.
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by lkrubner 6y ago
I’m worried that I will either overestimate or underestimate how much you’ve followed the conversation regarding brevity and programming. If I’m saying something you already know, please disregard my comment. In other essays, Zach Tellman h
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by lkrubner 6y ago
" Low interest rates benefit only the asset rich. " If you want to get more speed out of an engine, you need both more gasoline and also more oxygen. If you change the amount of gasoline, without changing the amount of oxygen, you
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by lkrubner 6y ago
Apparently it is relatively easy to control this virus during the summer, and almost impossible during the winter. Australia's summer seems to be helping it a good deal, even as winter in the northern hemisphere is making things much w
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by lkrubner 6y ago
If anyone is interested in the early conflicts (Dave Winer threatening to sue Roger Cadenhead) that shaped RSS, I wrote a fight-by-fight, meeting-by-meeting history of the conflict, back in 2006, which was widely discussed back at the time,

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