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by padobson 7y ago
Anybody up for a grand bargin? I'll trade you Medicare-for-All in exchange for a complete privatization (w/ vouchers) of education.
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by padobson 7y ago
The math doesn't add up here. Either integrity is a virtue, or it's not. Either it's something people value, or it's not. If it's something people value, then it should be one of the attributes people weigh when the
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by padobson 7y ago
Does his understanding matter? If Mnuchin and Lighthizer are hitting all the right notes in the negotiation, does it matter if Trump understands any of it? Let him bluster and take credit for Mnuchin and Lighthizer's good work.
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by padobson 7y ago
Some of this stuff definitely seems weird to me, but at the same time I think the weird stuff is built on true stuff. I'm definitely skeptical of people selling home designed cryochambers, but cold stress seems to have real benefits[0]
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by padobson 7y ago
Four of those 10 districts are suburbs of DC. They're voting for bigger government because they're getting rich from it.
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by padobson 7y ago
Wow. According to that first chart, the middle class has shrunk 10% since 1971, with the upper class getting 5% larger and the lower class getting 5% larger.
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by padobson 7y ago
This causes them to act against their own best interests. This is why enlightenment values have ultimately tilted toward capitalism. No collective can accurately define the best interests of every individual and design a policy to match.
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by padobson 7y ago
I spent a minute thinking about a product local to me that had the same appeal. I typed http://michiganlamb.com into the browser and discovered the concept is not uncommon.
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by padobson 7y ago
I had the exact same thoughts watching this: https://youtu.be/A5xKz5AcuXE Right around 4:20 he actually argues that real estate investment is a bad thing. What really blows my mind is that the production value of this vide
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Can We Capture Energy from a Hurricane? (2016)(smithsonianmag.com)
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by padobson 7y ago
Wow. So do you see an analagous relationship between the freed blacks entering the American labor market in the late nineteenth century and the Chinese peasants entering the global labor market in the last 4 decades?
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by padobson 8y ago
I don't think I blame the author at all. I'm not sure why you would start with microservices, unless you wanted to show that you could build a microservices application. Monoliths are quicker and easier to setup when you're t
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by padobson 8y ago
The process of forcibly integrating colonized peoples into the capitalist labour system caused widespread dislocation (a history I cover in The Divide). Remember, this is the period of the Belgian labour system in the Congo, which so upen
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by padobson 8y ago
I feel like profits need a re-branding campaign. It's so easy to paint them as a negative, and even the most vocal capitalists will shrug and suggest they're something neutral. Profits are a signal, and a powerful one at that. Out
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by padobson 8y ago
I sort of find myself in the same boat, but now I have very few high quality arguments. Reddit and Facebook and Twitter are chalk full of people ready to have a low quality debate, but there are some rare instances where you'll get som
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by padobson 8y ago
They should stop selling advertising and charge for API access to the social graph, both users and app developers. There should be a free tier with the core functionality for users. This will realign Facebook's interests with the inter
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by padobson 8y ago
I wonder if there's a tipping point in information asymmetry where the theory becomes irrelevant. Sellers will almost always have more information than buyers about a specific instance of a product, but there comes a point in a market
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by padobson 8y ago
I completely agree with this. After reading some of the examples in the list (E-Sports vs. Traditional Sports, Hybrid Cars vs Electric Cars), it was clear the concept was not fully baked. This one needs to go back in the oven for a bit. In
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by padobson 8y ago
I think what you're describing is really a part of the decision making process by founders and initial investors who are taking the company public or shopping equity to VC. The default mode of a company is to increase shareholder wealt
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by padobson 8y ago
After a successful hanging, there are plenty of possible afterlife scenarios where you could have plenty of opportunity for regret. Most religions teach that suicide is punished in the next life. If we're living in a physics experiment
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by padobson 8y ago
Still too much work! How about you give me a list of meals, I pick 50 or 100 of them, and then you give me a shopping list for the month including where to get it at the best price, taking advantage of bulk purchasing and overlapping ingred
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by padobson 8y ago
There's a question as to whether ethics/morals/compassion scale with power. I think there's a solid argument to be made that human power has scaled near exponentially over the last 200 years while human ethics seem to be
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by padobson 8y ago
Yeah, I definitely hear that. It's very easy to fool yourself into believing that something is helpful when it's not. That said, I've definitely gotten a ton of benefit from reading HN. It's a great resource for discover
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by padobson 8y ago
Love this. Especially this part: When Implementation mode fails it means the architect needs to reevaluate why and make changes Every plan I've ever put together to improve myself or my life has failed on initial implementation. It w
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by padobson 8y ago
Plus anything that can be done to juice the supply side of the healthcare curve is a big benefit. Cheaper school means more doctors means lower labor costs means cheaper healthcare.
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by padobson 8y ago
TV series residents don't even have time to sleep Unless it's with each other...
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by padobson 8y ago
I've read that Nintendo basically had to make guarantees to big retailers like Sears that they would buy back any un-sold stock. That kind of risk taking coupled with the reasonable assumption (particularly in hindsight) that video gam
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by padobson 8y ago
Akrasia and Enkrateia remind me of the dual nature of humans that St. Paul describes in Romans: We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not
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by padobson 8y ago
I thought those particular examples were caused by federal subsidies and regulations juicing the demand side of the price curve via Medicare/Medicaid, Fannie/Freddie/FHA/USDA, and guaranteed student loans. As I understan
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by padobson 8y ago
This is, by far, the best comment in this thread. It explains clearly, with simple arithmetic, that Marx's dream is already available to labor via the machinations of capitalism.

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