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by nateabele 8y ago
It also occurs to me that there's an interesting meta-commentary here, which is that an outlet like Quillette can publish an article like this with such obvious counterarguments. They don't even have sufficient editorial feedback
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by nateabele 8y ago
Yes ! I did read the article, and was about to say something similar. The article makes the following argument: > In short, people value expertise in closed systems, but are distrustful of expertise in open systems. A typical example
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by nateabele 8y ago
The talent pool in professional sports is actually a closed market that runs on the rules of the market operators (i.e. the MLB/NFL league administration). The capitalism/socialism comparisons are easy but wrong. True natural mo
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by nateabele 9y ago
But look at the form of the statement quoted. To paraphrase, 'I disagree with this idea , therefore any proponent of it is a bad person '. The underlying assumption (or one of many) is that all perspectives have moral judgements
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by nateabele 9y ago
You're not a weirdo, but you would be a weirdo for not having, say, insurance (health/car/home/whatever). Unfortunately, the world is such that we're coming to the point where this just needs to be another item on t
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by nateabele 9y ago
End the Fed? Let the market set the price of money? Allow competing currencies? Stop bailing out losers? The possible solutions are innumerable.
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by nateabele 9y ago
This would certainly disproportionately impact authors, entertainers, and anyone else who makes royalties from media, but I don't know that they represent a large enough swath of the economy to account for the broad trends we see here.
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by nateabele 9y ago
> You're seeing something shaped like an exponential growth curve and missing the fact that it's not a growth curve at all. Okay, slice the upper quartile and graph it over time. Now it's a proper growth curve, but it co
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by nateabele 9y ago
And James Watson has some pretty wacky ideas about biology, but he still discovered the structure of DNA. I'm not sure how not to take most of this, other than as ad hominem. Other people have cited links elsewhere in the thread [0], a
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by nateabele 9y ago
That's an interesting point, and it's notable that every affected industry suffers from a high degree of government intervention, either in the form of regulation, or the artificial injection of cheap money. As inflation is also a
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by nateabele 9y ago
But wages are sticky and tend to increase slowly, especially in blue-collar sectors where labor demand has been held at bay by automation.
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by nateabele 9y ago
That's a fair point. My guess would be the other compounding exponent, increased productivity through technology, has held down demand.
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by nateabele 9y ago
Charts / sources?
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by nateabele 9y ago
> They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing. An exponential growth curve is an exponential growth curve, irrespective of what it measures. Thanks anyway for the pedantry. &gt
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by nateabele 9y ago
> Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate
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by nateabele 10y ago
I had a manager once who had a prior career in government. One of their many cynical internal catchphrases was "the conveniences which you have requested are now mandatory". Anyone with common sense and a knowledge of history know
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by nateabele 10y ago
Prototypical example: healthcare. Healthcare in the US is one of the most unfree markets anywhere. Price transparency is near zero across the board, and federal and state agencies, which engage in reverse price-fixing (mandating costs for
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by nateabele 10y ago
I think the real question is, why is the amazing interactive simulation medium that we call a computer so abysmal at capturing and representing ideas (particularly ideas about the computer itself ) that we have to resort to inventing a n
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by nateabele 10y ago
Every OS project README needs 2 sections: Purpose, where it explains what it is and why, and Prior Art, where it explains what came before, and how the project improves on / differs from them. With time at such a premium, that is by fa
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by nateabele 10y ago
"[T]hey’re using an arcane legal structure that is simply not available to the many smaller businesses Apple competes with." Either it's illegal or it's not. If it's not, then shut the fuck up. The shame isn't
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by nateabele 10y ago
I appreciate that jQuery got us to where we are today, but as far as best practices go, I don't think we should encourage its current use. The best we could do for a 'replacement' is a site that lets you pick which browsers y
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by nateabele 10y ago
If by "look hard" you mean 'make us prove our innocence at the cost of huge sums of money and time, under the threat of years in prison', then yup, that's about the size of it.
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by nateabele 10y ago
If my wife doesn't show up to any court date set by a judge, we're on the hook for $100,000 and she goes back to prison until trial. If you're privy to some magic whereby a paralegal can appear in her place, then by all mea
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by nateabele 10y ago
Oh, thanks, you really don't have to though. I suppose in retrospect, posting the link seems self-serving, but that's the only place the story lives.
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by nateabele 10y ago
That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. In order to even get to that point, you have to: - Come up with the funds to get out of prison in the first place ($10,000 cash in my case, some % of which you typically never see aga
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by nateabele 10y ago
Philadelphia metro area.
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by nateabele 10y ago
'Justice' implies something other than what the system is. This is a 'win at all cost' punishment system. Justice doesn't come into it. I can tell you from first-hand experience [0] that, if the system has an oppo
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by nateabele 11y ago
This is admittedly a nitpick, but, seriously people: there are no good reasons (although plenty of bad ones) to continue using CoffeeScript. Just write ES6†. † ES2015 for the super-pedants :-)
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by nateabele 11y ago
Dirty money funded the making of a movie about dirty money? And it involves the prime minister of Malaysia? Now all we need is an assassination plot, brainwashing, and Blue Steel.
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by nateabele 11y ago
And what of the countless civil liberties erosions of progressive hero FDR?

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