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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> The kid was probably making more than many adult workers. Indeed, and the “why” of that economic reality is worth thinking about.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> Applying the second definition to the labor market would mean every worker is being exploited No, it means the labor side of the labor market is being exploited by capital. It means the capital side of the labor market is being exploit
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> Why does your interest in their material condition outweigh their interest in having a good income right now? “Outweigh”? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
The reason I constructed my initial response to you in the way I did was to try to make it clear I was acknowledging how complicated this topic is. It’s not as easy as “pay them a Western wage” or “unionize the global south” or whatever. It
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> so what Indeed, so what?
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Labor is a resource. That’s why the phrase “human resources” exists. Your contention that “exploitation” can’t refer to labor is a political construction, not a rational one.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> No one is extracting nothing Well, this is just objectively not true. As for the rest of your comment, I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
“Exploitation” has (at least) two meanings: 1. treating someone unfairly for one’s own benefit 2. make use of & benefit from some resource Are you sure this labor pool isn’t being exploited?
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
It’s both an opportunity and exploitation. The opportunity exists only because this labor pool is composed of laborers who are vulnerable to such exploitation. To me, this article isn’t about whether it’s good or bad for the laborers involv
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Your critique of the article is sensible to a point. But your analysis is incomplete. I’m gonna lay out a few predicates hopefully we can all agree on as true, then get to my point. First, hopefully you can agree that, fundamentally, the co
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
sasa ke, pampa
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Do you but I dunno if asking HN for advice on Alzheimer's prevention is the move
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
that query isn’t for new Github repos, it’s for the number of github repos the counter was 1. allowed to count and 2. knew how to count. all that said it is pretty interesting 90k repos went away somehow between August 1 and September 1 l
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
For people who don't want to follow the author down the unnecessarily loquacious dive into matrices etc., but like me are interested in techniques for self-learning, here is a wiki article on what spaced repetition is https:/&#x2
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
What a well-written, approachable article. if I understand right, the summary is basically, there is a certain way, an abstraction from geometry, you can use to mathematically describe electromagnetic fields. You can also use this certain g
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> assuming that we all agree that civilizational stability is a desirable goal. Sadly this assumption does not seem to hold.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> I'm a moderate shocking > law abiding average people suffer the consequences law-abiding average people suffer the consequences of increased policing and incarceration, it's just law-abiding average people you don't s
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Right, and that's why I said: > "Certainty of being caught" apparently does [provide a deterrent effect], but as you build a police force that makes getting caught of committing a crime a certainty, you have already fallen
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> The threat of punishment is an effective deterrent. > [Police] arresting for petty crime however [is] effective Incorrect. These are myths that people fall back on when they want to advocate for the same policy positions that have p
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Yes I understand your position. I've been listening to variations on the theme for decades. You're still rehashing the same policy positions that have only ever created more problems than they've solved.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
where you and i differ is thinking that more cops & more prisons actually solves anything. i'm getting old, and watching the ultra rich play the same tune on the same horn, exploiting people's legit fears & concerns to stu
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
No I get it, warehousing poor and mentally ill people in prisons definitely hides social problems from rich people & lets us pretend we've fixed something meaningful. Cops & prisons are a great way to do that.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Have a nice day.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> asinine > insufferable whiner I don't think this is a proportionate response to a convo about ethics in tech.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> There's nothing it "should" be, it's not your company Well for a lot of us humans, ownership is not a stopper for conversations about ethics in technology.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
This is a really insightful comment.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
It is grammatically a question, correct. It is also a rhetorical device the author chose to use to make a suggestion for the reader to read.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
tl;dr in context of the top-level comment: 80% of births to women under the age of 20 in the U.S. are unplanned. So nothing even close to “most.”
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
What surprises me is you’re so bold about painting teenage girls with an extremely broad brush in your top-level comment, then go on to detail all the ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic complexities that make generalization irresponsible. I
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Go watch the classic Simple Made Easy and you'll understand the comment. https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4

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