norea-armozel

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by norea-armozel 9y ago
You keep using that word, probably, as if it's a quantifiable number by which a firm can and will make their business model upon in such a manner which they can bank on gains/losses to actually turn a profit which they can model p
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
Supply and demand curves don't follow closely with most, if any, markets. Agriculture and some commodity markets follow the models but the rest don't. You literally couldn't model your restaurant's business finances on t
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
The thing is that even Adam Smith and David Ricardo didn't believe free markets existed either, it's just that folks like Milton Friedman played up the idea that competition will always lead to better outcomes for firms and consum
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand the motive behind progressive web apps. Some apps I can see being web-only. But apps that require extensive storage, low latency, and much more traditional computing resources isn't going to work in the m
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I can't see myself buying another phone after buying an iPhone 6 in 2015. I just don't see a reason to replace it until the battery can't charge anymore. By then I don't have plans on getting an equivalent phone. Maybe s
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
There's a key flaw in the idea of resurgent city states and that is the fact that to coordinate production you have to secure the infrastructure which is between the cities. Imagine all the complex relationships that goes into making a
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
>It has nothing to do with nerves being struck and everything to do with your 150 year out of date social analysis being so absurd that it's not even wrong. Tell that to the US DSA which is seeing record membership increases. And te
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
The propensity to work is more of a social matter than an economic one. Also, most people today in the lower economic classes are over worked. I remember when I was working out of a temp agency with someone who had been working three jobs (
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
It's weird how my comment really struck the nerve that it did since it's partly in jest. But I will say this much, historically the rich have always favored military solutions rather than economic (or social) ones in dealing with
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
Yeah, more likely the rich would just self-fund fascist paramilitaries to keep "the poors" in line like they've always done.
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I think one of the future innovations that will seem baffling to some of us will be mostly social and legal. In particular, I suspect the concept of income as a human right will become a reality. I won't debate the exact nature of why
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
Or maybe we're seeing the silliest version of Snowcrash come to life.
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I always feel that part of the reason why disasters hit us so hard is the fact that despite having some built in resilience in the current system we have it's not resilient on the small scale (i.e. the individual). If SHTF as an indivi
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I agree that Whole Foods isn't a big deal merger but the fact that Amazon has a logistics system in place that could topple the other competitors is very scary. The silver lining to this is that it'll be mostly Walmart vs Amazon n
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I'm not sure we can get a bust when all the major reserve banks (especially the US Federal Reserve) keep propping up the economy. The real question is how much longer can investors take advantage of this? We've basically been in Q
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I'm not sure why Mozilla needs to track what sites I'm going to but if they add tracking into their browser then I'm just going to have to find another browser or at least put together a build of Firefox without the tracking.
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
The key problem with any attempt to revitalize nationalist interests is that there's nothing that keeps people together as it once did in the past. There's little, if any, affinity between people as it once existed in the past her
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
The biggest problem, imo, isn't the random flagger but rather the concerted actions of groups to flag videos. This is obvious in terms of reddit or 4chan users swarming a channel they don't like. This kind of behavior needs to be
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I think YouTube really needs to hire more humans to review flagging of videos rather than leave it to a loose set of algorithms and swarming behavior of viewers. They assume wrongly that anyone who flags a video is honest. They should alway
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
More chatter doesn't mean more people. This is something that needs to be stated if we're going to actually understand the social dynamics at play here. And the fact that more people use a certain word doesn't mean they'
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I agree but only in part. The real problem isn't that Google is able to shutdown a site as a registrar it's the fact DNS as designed needs a hierarchy to make it scale. This is the real problem with DNS and trying to shame Google
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I'm 6'4 and I flew once to see family back home. It was a nightmare. I don't think I ever was able to settle well enough into my seat since my knees were always getting bumped (no fault of the fellow passengers when they pack
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
Let me ask you this then. If a homeless Nazi begged me for a dollar to get a McMuffin (not sure if those are on the dollar menu but take it as part of the hypothetical here) so they won't starve that day and I refuse to give them a dol
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I'm not sure this is a good idea since Cloudflare came out initially in favor of maintaining their account. Mind you, I don't like Nazis and frankly I don't care that they lost their account but it's bad for a business t
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
Unless the GOP is willing and ready to fund right wing militias to be their official paramilitaries this is not going to get much further. The fact Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have explicitly called out the far right groups means this push for
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
They're targeting production which is wise but they never ask who's the one filling out the orders for the production queue (hint: Wall Street). If they want to do anything to stop the death toll of Fentanyl they should also deman
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I'll say that among leftists and even market anarchists this has been the problem discussed at length for at least the last five years since some of us (myself included) come from flyover country (Kansas for me). Some of us tried to ta
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
I always suggest people to learn Common Lisp or OCaml since they're easier to get into (OCaml is the easiest imo) if you want to get your head around the basic ideas of functional programming.
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
The First Amendment isn't a subsidy for speech. It just says you can say the most offensive thing you can cook up but no one owes you their ears, papers, or servers to furnish an audience.
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by norea-armozel 9y ago
Can you actually prove that I'm wrong or are you going to admit you're a liar? Because there's a big problem with your non-argument so far since you assume that the discussion isn't about victim blaming when the grandpar

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