mark_edward

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by mark_edward 9y ago
Because we like being employed. I don't get paid by increasing the global productivity of society. The idiot who automates their own job (and shares it with their employer) is much more likely to be impoverished than lauded.
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Scientists Discover a Bone-Deep Risk for Heart Disease(nytimes.com)
1 points by mark_edward 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Above comment confirmed as fake
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Buzzfeed did not invent lists
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by mark_edward 9y ago
The Constitution has no checks against that. The founders had the opposite fear and largely detested popular democracy and the "rule of the mob". It is functioning as designed. Edit: role -> rule
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by mark_edward 9y ago
What? Bitcoin ownership is even more concentrated
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by mark_edward 9y ago
China still has a high savings rate, one of the highest actually https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNS.ICTR.ZS?year_hig...
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Better not do anything with computers then. China is completely integrated in global supply chains, what you want is probably impossible at this point without giving up whole swathes of industry
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BrickerBot Author Retires Claiming to Have Bricked Over 10M IoT Devices(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by mark_edward 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_edward 9y ago
I agree. Some of the things done in the name of ergonomics just strike me as wrong and/or possibly misleading for learners. People who say Rust is hard to learn have always confused me. I learned programming in this order: scheme, C,
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by mark_edward 9y ago
It's not, I feel the same way, but it's hard to be intellectually honest. I will be a vegetarian soon I think, it's been getting harder and harder to manage the dissonance since I got a dog.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
This problem is solved in China. Blame your local incumbents.
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The Uncounted – Civilian Deaths in Iraq(nytimes.com)
2 points by mark_edward 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Amazing lack of evidence being provided.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
This article is fake news. All the browsers fail it.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
I'm not against democracy. I'm just saying, by WWI women couldn't vote, most black people couldn't vote (though the legal right was there since the 14th and 15th amendment, white terror and legal disenfranchisement effec
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by mark_edward 9y ago
it really didn't. democracy was highly restricted for the first 150 years of the U.S.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
This still works on Reddit unfortunately
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by mark_edward 9y ago
What's the point of making a beautiful phone that has to be in a case
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by mark_edward 9y ago
I'd say go to Berlin. There is a security for you and yours in a country like Germany that no amount of money can buy in a place like Dubai. I wish I could explain it better, but my family is a migrant family from the Caribbean to the
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Both, like email
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Those are the people who matter in this world.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Probably social anxiety
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Yes. It's propaganda.
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NYC cops did a work stop, yet crime dropped(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mark_edward 9y ago|2 comments
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by mark_edward 9y ago
i tried to implement this ~7 years ago when i'd just learned programming and had also just heard about rust. did not go well
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by mark_edward 9y ago
The correct answer is most likely languish in poverty at the margins of society.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Keynes did actually say the rentier class should be liquidated. The landlord is the ideal rentier. A grocer is not necessarily a rentier, they add value by providing a service. Rental income is purely a privilege of ownership, received due
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Yes, the worst is the people who feel that "call-out culture" and SJWs are some form of oppression and destruction of the right to free speech.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
I really have a hard time believing there are people so incompetent employed as software engineers? How are they not caught out? How do they get hired?

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