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by nico_h 10y ago
I'm saying that churning out barely edible mater for a highly structured organization that pays you less that living wages and provides no benefits of any kind (maybe a free meal once in a while?) and treat you less well that the consu
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by nico_h 10y ago
The flaw in this analogy is that the current top earners (CEO, traders, White collar) net contribution to society has no correlation with the money they extract from the system. Does a CEO improving his company market value by firing people
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by nico_h 10y ago
The trouble with all that is that we don't think about an alternative to "corporation extract the maximum economic value they can" (a.k.a profit). One hope is that with sufficient automation and competition, the marginal cost
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by nico_h 10y ago
It's a lack of political will to enforce the deal between the state and corporation (edit: and citizens). Governments grant tax cuts to corporations (edit: and citizens), even thought it hurts the very infrastructure and society that e
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by nico_h 10y ago
You mean made to work for insulting wages and subsistence in prison sweatshops. Prison population is a captive source of cheap labor, easily abused and exploited.
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by nico_h 10y ago
Heck, even if you made that proposition to a fast food worker that he could do meaningful work instead of smelling like fried stuff all the time and always be worried about working enough hours for a crappy boss and no future, or to a janit
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by nico_h 10y ago
A more modern and relevant example would be the foreign workers from the indian subcontinent on most of the middle east construction sites building the sky scrapers or the next FIFA cup facilities. (withheld pay, life threatening living con
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by nico_h 10y ago
A possible solution to the "raising taxes on corporation will drive them to other jurisdictions" problem is to make the taxes the same everywhere, at least within the same country, ideally at the world's level, for a truly le
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by nico_h 10y ago
This are the idea I have been struggling with: 1) how do you get people to accept the existence of basic income without perceiving the beneficiaries as moochers. 2) what do people on basic do? Right now your example of people visiting the e
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by nico_h 10y ago
Maybe because they made their money playing with imaginary numbers and caused huge amounts of harm to the economy and lots of people when it all blew up in their face?
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by nico_h 10y ago
Rule #1 : Anything that can be economically automated will be. Corollary: Anything that is automated is not economically sensible for a human to do. - Freelancing and consulting gigs have huge overhead. - Uber drivers (for now) own the car
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by nico_h 10y ago
a) is this worse than the current system? b) Is it really human nature? This is what social norms are for. Slavery is for now still mostly frowned upon, and in some circles even racism is. Even though using either usually results in huge pe
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by nico_h 11y ago
This is a post from 2013, any pointer as to how this could be improved in this post-CISA world? The part about the location seems to still be relevant. As for spooky23, while most your email recipients might be NSA accessible, maybe not _al
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by nico_h 11y ago
>foreign citizen somewhat benefit from Pax Americana but there is no guarantee it will continue, whilst US citizen are covered globally with much more certainty Tell that to the lybian, syrian, iraki, Salvadoran, etc... that have "b
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by nico_h 11y ago
Oops my bad, Billy didn't decline the 0.4% deal, I should read more carefully. >John explained that he’d spoken with Startup Weekend organizers and was told that contracts aren’t allowed from the event, so he asked for a handshake d
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by nico_h 11y ago
I understood that the 0.4% deal meant that at the end, they would together decide what happens with the project. Parties who decided to go forward and create a company would give out 0.4% to the members of the team that would not go forward
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by nico_h 11y ago
Reading comprehension 101: Identify the characters of a story and what happens to them: - Protagonist, narrator : Bobby, Dev. knows John and 2 other devs, they meet before the week end. Part of team 1. - Narrator's friend: John. Propo
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by nico_h 11y ago
Humankind produces enough food for humankind, but due to various reasons entirely human, some of it is wasted or destroyed (to keep price up) rather than distributed to those in need. http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05&#x
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by nico_h 12y ago
As an example of the current exchange imbalance, the top of the line 13" MacBook pro is: - 1799€ -> 1845CHF (->$2110) on the French Apple store. - 1949CHF -> 1900€ (->$2228) on the Swiss Apple store. The kicker here is that
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by nico_h 12y ago
Anyone fancy providing an answer for the question left as an exercise for the reader?
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Anatomy of Frankenstein's 2 part 1 (Markdown to html via sed and bash only)(niconomicon.net)
2 points by nico_h 12y ago|1 comments
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by nico_h 12y ago
Read the article quickly and they mention that they actually tested LaTeX with the editor used by the participants (not just LaTeX), but they don't mention if they used the orthographic and grammar correction in the editors. I know the
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by nico_h 12y ago
Proper name would be "Frankenstein's ___.sh 2.0 or why build a static multimarkdown generator in 84 lines of bash", but that wouldn't fit in the 80 characters limit for the title.
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Frankensteins's ___ 2 or why build a static site generator in 84 lines of bash(niconomicon.net)
1 points by nico_h 12y ago|1 comments
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by nico_h 13y ago
Anyone has any idea about how far this research is nowadays? The applications could be life saving beyond neonatology: - Pregnant women being diagnosed with illness that would threaten the baby. - Pregnant women being diagnosed with illness
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Oru Kayak: the origami folding boat(kickstarter.com)
5 points by nico_h 14y ago|0 comments
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by nico_h 14y ago
Hi Are your scripts online somewhere? As the creator of "frankenstein's ___.sh"[1] I am always looking at ways to improve it, mostly by peeking at other people's code. [1] https://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins
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by nico_h 14y ago
Thanks, nice to know. Btw, do you use a particular model of fountain pen (hard / supple head, wide / narrow tip) ?
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by nico_h 14y ago
Unless you're left-handed :-( Then you spend your time scratching and pushing against the paper and smudging your handwriting :-( If you're trying to do mirror writing they become awesome again, but that's not a frequent use case:-(
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by nico_h 14y ago
Presumably: cheaper, easier set up. Sounds a lot like PiCloud.com

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