mempko

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by mempko 3y ago
It's wise to learn from your enemies. Not getting into war is something both the Russians and Americans can learn. The fact that Russia got into a war shows how weak Putin was diplomatically.
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by mempko 3y ago
I've been doing C++ since the 98 standard and C++ today is far easier, faster, more productive than anytime in the past. My code often feels as simple as python but much faster. Especially now that there are libraries using more modern
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by mempko 3y ago
I've worked for a US military contractor and have seen the waste first hand. There is a LOT of fraud in the industry, a lot. Contrast this with Russia, which increased it's production substantially after the start of the war in Uk
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by mempko 3y ago
That would be a very positive outcome.
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by mempko 3y ago
This is why employees should run companies. Each board needs to be run by employees. It's funny we accept fiefdoms in our every day life.
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by mempko 3y ago
This would be brilliant for helping simplify some contracts (preconditions, postconditions and invariants).
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by mempko 3y ago
Think about your own life. Does a toilet simplify your life? When you need to go to the bathroom, it seems much better to go to the toilet than say outside during the cold having to dig a hole in dirt every time and bury it. Yet toilets and
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by mempko 3y ago
It's ironic he talks about markets yet Netscape came from Mosaic, developed at a public university (Urbana-Champaign in Illinois) without market forces. HTML and HTTP developed at CERN, another public institution.
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by mempko 3y ago
Techno-optimism? lifts hood hey, it was techo-feudalism all along!
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by mempko 3y ago
How many board of directors out there control half the economy (boards make all the important decisions). I bet it's smaller than the number of aparachiks. US economy is centrally planned, just not all publicly planned.
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by mempko 3y ago
Everyone needs to read The Limits to Growth and then come back to this piece for a laugh. Donella Meadows is far more profound and intelligent then the vast majority of non-system thinkers who stumbled into the halls of power.
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by mempko 3y ago
We are not pessimistic about technology, just the few who own and control it. Markets? Literally everything was developed in the public sector. The two leading drivers of technological development in the 20th century was the US government a
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by mempko 3y ago
UBI is more than just housing right? Yes housing is a problem and there needs to be more of it. What I'm saying is if you raise taxes on profits, you incentivize reinvestment. Because it gives a business owner a choice. Either give the
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by mempko 3y ago
So what you are saying is society should always have a population of destitute as a sacrifice so that companies don't raise prices 'because they can'. But wait, more profit means more taxes. Maybe raising taxes is a better ap
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by mempko 3y ago
economists proudly ignore real world data. They care about their models, even when they are obviously wrong. Milton Friedman said "Truly important and significant hypotheses will be found to have 'assumptions' that are wildly
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by mempko 3y ago
Reminds me of the quote from that Simpsons episode with Bill Gates "buying out" Homer's internet business. Bill Gates says: "I didn't get rich by writing checks".
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by mempko 3y ago
OP said they are Greek, they didn't say they lived in Greece.
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by mempko 3y ago
Security cameras are everywhere. You are always being watched.
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by mempko 3y ago
I once sent a message via linkedin to a VP of an error I was getting on their company's website. He answered and had one guy on their team to look into it. They fixed it the next day. Sometimes people answer their messages!
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by mempko 3y ago
You have it backwards. A balanced budget would not be fiscally responsible because money IS debt. If you like economic growth, then a balanced budget will cripple it, which is not fiscally responsible from that perspective. On the other han
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by mempko 3y ago
It is accounting! It matters because if the US government decides to reduce that debt, we all get poorer! The government debt is an asset to the private sector.
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by mempko 3y ago
How would the US not be able to pay it's debts, which are denominated in dollars. Where exactly do you think dollars come from? You can't print them. I can't print them. China can't print them. So it makes no sense. Reme
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by mempko 3y ago
Another way of saying this is "US National Savings tops $33T for First Time". Debt of the public sector is an asset to the private sector. This debt shows up as deposits in our accounts.
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by mempko 3y ago
This is great, I hope they get it. The wave of unionization in this country is a good thing over the long term.
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by mempko 3y ago
This ^, exactly this ^
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by mempko 3y ago
We had more than 1 million, mostly older experienced workers die from covid. Why is anyone surprised we have a labor shortage?
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by mempko 3y ago
What you have to do is make it worthwhile for people. Steve Keen's idea of a dual price is imo a great idea. How it works is everything has both a dollar price and a carbon price. Everyone in society gets the same amount of carbon cre
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by mempko 3y ago
The rise of the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, and real estate) to become the largest sector in the US economy (22+%) coincides with an increase in proportion of private R&D expenditure compared to government expenditure. In 2010 busi
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by mempko 3y ago
We should own our data. But another way to take on big tech is just to break them up into small tech. Good old fashion monopoly busting. Sometimes old tools still work in the modern world.
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by mempko 3y ago
This is only true if you literally crash the economy and do nothing else. What we can do is instead shift priorities, like food and housing security, while reducing the economy by not doing useless, pointless things. Do we really need all t

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