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by otalp 7y ago
The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Bread It was written in the backdrop of massive industrialisation. Many argue that it predicted both: (1) the problems with capitalis
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by otalp 7y ago
Not many people know of the worst cases. Take the case of Chomsky's "Counter-Revolutionary Violence", which caused angry executives to literally shut down the publisher[1]: "Sarnoff(chief of book operation, Warner commun
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by otalp 7y ago
Of the top of my head, these are a few things that if Tesla can get away with while having a huge fanbase and no repercussions, every future startup is going to try: 1) Tesla Had 3 Times as Many OSHA Violations as the 10 Largest US Plants C
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by otalp 7y ago
Depending on the location and profile of the company, I would venture most companies aren't rejecting "99% of qualified candidates"
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by otalp 7y ago
Wondering if this could lead to an "index fund bubble". If everyone invested using index funds, markets exhibit increasingly erratic behaviour https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/09&#
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by otalp 7y ago
An exceptional superpower would have to be one which does not consider itself exceptional
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by otalp 7y ago
- The Study[1]: 400 people from Amazon's Mechanical Turk were given an online poll, where they were asked to guess how many dots were in a given picture. They were then given some information about dot density to see if they changed th
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by otalp 7y ago
"As long as you're giving us tax breaks and not regulating us, we don't care about your politics when it comes to LGBT/Environment or whatever else politics is about"
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by otalp 7y ago
Senior Judges are appointed by the executive
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by otalp 7y ago
"Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser with House Speaker Paul Ryan next week as the iPhone maker tries to strengthen its relationships with key Republicans" (2016) https://www.politico.com/story/2016&#x2F
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by otalp 8y ago
I think the intention is that someone with malicious code placed in the users device still won't be able to access bank details
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by otalp 8y ago
>But of the potential superpowers, there is only one that respects freedom and democracy, and there is only one that doesn't wage wars of aggression to expand their borders. - The US has military bases in over a hundred countries in
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by otalp 8y ago
Both MMT advocates and critics have agreed that MMT isn't particularly new; it seems to be a rekindling of Neo-Keynesianism. And generally people do have a misconception that printing more money = inflation. For example in the last 2 d
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by otalp 8y ago
To be scientific would require proving a definite causal relationship between IQ and intelligence, while also convincingly proving that intelligence can be measured with a number
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by otalp 8y ago
Wonder what HN thinks of Modern Monetary Theory[1] which posits amongst other things that government debt is consumer surplus - and not inherently a bad thing, and also that printing fiat currency specifically to pay for domestic programs d
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by otalp 8y ago
Just because something is a good predictor doesn't make it scientific. There could be a third variable like wealth which needs to be controlled for, but is rarely done in those studies with few exceptions. In those exceptions, it was g
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by otalp 8y ago
No, the screen is not usually "fully redrawn" when reading, which involves a full flash visible to the user. Often it's only a fraction of the screen that has to be redrawn as most of the pixels can remain the same between pa
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by otalp 8y ago
Blind is to Silicon Valley what 4chan is to the internet
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by otalp 8y ago
I don't have a history of doing that and came to comment very similar things. US sanctions against Iran are motivated solely for geopolitical realpolitik.
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by otalp 8y ago
https://reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator
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by otalp 8y ago
Oh yeah, I agree that a FAANG job(Facebook is usually the highest TC) in the valley is way better value then staying in Canada. But of course the average person doesn't get close to that much. On _average_ software engineers are bett
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by otalp 8y ago
It's also nearly impossible to permanently migrate to
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by otalp 8y ago
Toronto is a few hours north of NYC and Vancouver a few hours north of Seattle, both don't differ in weather from their counterparts too much.
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by otalp 8y ago
Seattle/Austin/Colorado are better than Canada in almost every aspect. But, you could make an argument that with the higher tax rates, renting/house prices and living expenses of California and NYC, Canada could be a viable a
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by otalp 8y ago
While Montreal does have very cheap(or at least non-insane) housing, jobs are harder to get and French is still a big thing as far as I understand: you need to know French well to fit in. Also the weather is more extreme. I think if you can
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by otalp 8y ago
As someone in the big 4 I can tell you 200k TC in SV is nowhere near 200k annually starting out. That would involve 70-80k in RSU that vest over 4 years, and in companies like Amazon(whose stock has been going up like crazy) that is diveste
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by otalp 8y ago
I suppose my comments from yesterdays thread about "Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere" is relevant: I did the math for Toronto(which is more expensive than Montreal, and about the same as Vancouver). For a t
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by otalp 8y ago
According to numbeo[1] which crowdsources data, groceries and restaurants are 20% cheaper(adjusted for currency) in Toronto, but of course the salary is more than 20% lower, which might explain your experience. The real kicker is the rent,
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by otalp 8y ago
90-100k CAD comes to 27% here for Ontario: https://simpletax.ca/calculator I'm talking about the average for the whole salary, not the marginal rate for the highest bracket. It looks like you have to earn $250,000 CAD
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by otalp 8y ago
I did the math for Toronto(which is more expensive than Montreal). For a typical software engineer, taxes take away 25% of gross pay in Ontario while it's over 30% in California and New York. Cost of living is much less(by 30-40% if yo

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