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by pkkim 6y ago
Bret Devereaux of acoup.blog defends the idea of civilian control of the military here, with better references and more eloquently than I can. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336392888629010437.html In particular,
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by pkkim 6y ago
Why don't they? What do they use instead?
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by pkkim 6y ago
One book I'd recommend for changing your perspective, especially to anyone in the Bay Area, is _Imperial San Francisco_. It ties together early San Francisco's extractive economy with late 19th century American imperialism and ind
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by pkkim 6y ago
Bringing it closer to home for many software developers, when we talk about the reliability of a system, we also use a variation on log probability (of success), but we call it "nines:" 99% reliability is two nines, 99.99% is four
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by pkkim 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I don't expect to convince you but I want to make my opposing view clear. For me the most important benefit of a wealth tax is eroding the wealth of billionaires. This is important because having that much money giv
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by pkkim 6y ago
Nice subtle brag that you're able to both play Factorio and do other productive activity in the same week.
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Hundreds of apps have hidden tracking software used by the government(androidauthority.com)
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by pkkim 6y ago
There are two reasons I'm guessing the author doesn't see himself as part of the working class. 1. He doesn't make fun of the working class like he does to the other two. Either because he doesn't know them well enough t
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by pkkim 6y ago
I don't know much about contract negotiation, but for organizing "high touch" doesn't begin to describe it! The labor organizer's job is to convince the worker, who likely and often rightly fears for her job if she
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by pkkim 6y ago
As the article says, China learned it from the US. In the past, they have justified it by saying that they're just doing the same thing that the US did in its War on Terror. I wish the US could lead on this with moral authority, but in
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by pkkim 6y ago
Quite interesting work. My main questions are: What is the West? Which countries? and What do decline and death mean, and what don't they mean? These, I think, should be established as early as possible, and the ideas of Spengler and T
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by pkkim 7y ago
Hi, I worked for the UAW campaign to organize Tesla a while back, and I did some of the data analysis for this report. https://uaw.org/report-worksafe-internal-tesla-data-shows-in... I wish I could answer questions about it
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by pkkim 7y ago
I was lucky enough to visit Dynamicland at one point. The computing environment they had set up there was interesting. Programs are stored on a central server, but are executed by putting a printout of the code (with colored dots around the
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by pkkim 7y ago
If you want to prevent the formation of a pool of cheap exploitable immigrant labor, there are two ways. The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering, but that's impossible. The second best is to make sure that those who enter
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by pkkim 8y ago
I have not read Bill Gates' book, but I have heard little dispute that the material conditions of the working class _in the developed world_ have not improved much in the last forty or so years. The "elephant curve" is the be
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by pkkim 8y ago
s/Ming/Qing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuang_Guandong During the first two centuries of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this part of China, the traditional homeland of the ruling Manchus, was, with few excepti
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by pkkim 9y ago
He also implies he lives with his parents, since he says he cleans for them when they ask.
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by pkkim 9y ago
You can take a picture of your payment card instead of typing the digits in.
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by pkkim 9y ago
Harvesting animals also requires harvesting plants, for animal feed. It takes a lot more plant matter to create 1000 Calories worth of beef than of any plant-based food, probably around ten times more based on the amount of food energy requ
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by pkkim 9y ago
One important tip is that the commands under a target each run sequentially, but in separate shells. So if you went to set env vars, cd, activate a Python virtualenv, etc to affect the next command, you need to make them a single command, l
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by pkkim 9y ago
Cool! I especially like the little villages in the valleys.
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by pkkim 9y ago
The first passage is a weird mixed metaphor. I think the part before the semicolon is relatively straightforward. The force of mind is a plant (though, who ever heard of a plant thriving in adverse soil but not in a prosperous flower bed?).
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by pkkim 9y ago
I used to work at Uber and heard anecdotally that despite the advertising, something like 50% of Uber rides in the Bay Area are done by the top ten percent of drivers. And they do work a lot. So the vast majority might be part time but they
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by pkkim 9y ago
As someone who participated in this transition, I don't think that was a part of it. The new database layer took quite a bit of instruction to use properly as well, and there were plenty of people misusing it.
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by pkkim 9y ago
Everything you're saying is true, and yet, I think that relying mostly on this line of reasoning to justify poverty reduction leads to discounting the importance of supporting disabled people and old people. I think most people believe
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by pkkim 9y ago
There are dedicated anti-union consulting firms that teach their clients the same bag of tricks. The union is a third party, they'll threaten the company's success (this one is hard to do legally, a consultant can help), etc.
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by pkkim 10y ago
If I were Lyft, I might try to detect what traffic is coming from suspect clients and present an inaccurate view to them to maximize inefficient spending on Uber's part. This seems like it should be easy to do without harming someone i
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by pkkim 10y ago
I completely agree! But it is a very difficult problem because the job security of so many individual members of Congress depends on gerrymandering. Obama and former attorney general Eric Holder are working on an initiative related to this,
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by pkkim 10y ago
(US centric response) I'm not sure if this was a rhetorical question...but the answer is that districts are drawn by the ruling party in order to assure its continued dominance. The incentives for these legislators are totally differen
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by pkkim 10y ago
This reminds me of the one-week safety investigation that Tesla promised to undertake after one of their workers published a blog post. http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/02/1903910/

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