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by quoderat 18y ago
In my experience, I did make slightly more, but I couldn't afford health insurance. If I had any kids, it would have been even worse. That's why I believe that some form of nationalized health coverage will actually lead to far more entrepr
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In the gig economy, everyone is a hustler(thedailybeast.com)
25 points by quoderat 18y ago|18 comments
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China factory workers heading home as global economy cools(spiegel.de)
5 points by quoderat 18y ago|1 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Microsoft seems to be on the path of making their OSes both less powerful and more difficult to use, while Linux distros -- what Vista forced me to switch to -- seems to be on the path to making that OS both more powerful and easier to use.
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Same jobs, less pay -- firms cutting salaries(money.cnn.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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Comcast bandwidth throttling active in all markets(neowin.net)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
True, but I am more a mouse type of guy. If I am mousing around, I hardly ever touch the keyboard, so this doesn't help me.
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Regulation is everywhere. Let's see who benefits.(bostonreview.net)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
And a good thing that will be for the continued health of the internet. I use three browsers regularly, none of them IE. I use Firefox, Epiphany and Opera, in roughly that order. I've customized Firefox so much that most people don't even r
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by quoderat 18y ago
No one ever got fired for hiring based on experience. It's a low-risk proposition from a culpability-for-failure standpoint.
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by quoderat 18y ago
The final and insuperable issue that drove me from Windows Vista to Linux a year-and-a-half ago was Windows Explorer doing away with the incredibly-useful "up" button in favor of breadcrumbs. Yes, I understand how breadcrumbs works and I am
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by quoderat 18y ago
Are people still shilling for McCain at this late date? The election is over, you know.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I wonder how these people spend so much for school, especially for low-payoff degrees like photography. Sure, follow your passions and all that, but don't spend $140,000 for a photography BA. If you love photography, go out and take photos.
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by quoderat 18y ago
"Most women don't make professional decisions hoping to increase their chances of havin' a cutie in the next cubicle." Not consciously, anyway. And it doesn't have anything to do with "havin' a cutie," it's more to avoid going into fields w
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by quoderat 18y ago
Women are socially (and, perhaps, otherwise) conditioned to avoid those society perceives as loser-types. Unfortunately, mathematicians still fit this mold, as much as I wish it weren't so. This alone largely explains the absence of women i
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by quoderat 18y ago
The strange thing is, those who made correct predictions like Dean Baker et al., are marginalized even after they turn out to be correct. The lesson: There is little penalty for going along with the herd, even if you are wrong, but there ar
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by quoderat 18y ago
I read the article. I wouldn't call one anecdote data, though it's about 1/10,000 of a good start.
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by quoderat 18y ago
The problem is that there are many qualified people in charity work who make barely-subsistence wages who would likely do an as-good or better job with far less pay. So, for the most part, my guess is that $500,000+ salaries are a form of r
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by quoderat 18y ago
More regulation may be needed, but I'd be satisfied with enforcement of existing regulation -- which was completely and utterly neglected during the Bush administration, but that began during the Clinton administration. The financial crisis
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by quoderat 18y ago
I'm most productive working about 25 hours a week, from what I've discovered over the years. Modern jobs aren't the sort of the old days, like hauling coal out of a mine where working 80 hours produces almost twice as much coal hauled up as
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by quoderat 18y ago
"Having the government "stimulate" the economy with demand only postpones the inevitable" Since we're basically borrowing money from the future to attempt to smooth out a difficult transition in the present, I think a stimulus can make the
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by quoderat 18y ago
TARP was the largest economic mistake of the last 30 years, at least. That $700 billion, if it needed to spent at all, could've done much better in so many other ways. My favored idea was capitalizing an alternative financial system, that l
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by quoderat 18y ago
Pabulum for people who have Rand or Heinlein poisoning. Saying that Bear Stearns and AIG were cash positive is absolutely meaningless, as if I just bought $5 million worth of stuff on my credit card, make $40,000 a year and haven't gotten a
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by quoderat 18y ago
Vista was a problem looking for a solution. Unfortunately, the solution never came, so the problem hung around like a miasma. Vista is why I switched to Linux. Congrats, Microsoft.
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by quoderat 18y ago
Wow, that's a terrible article, short on facts and long on ideology. The vast majority of the subprime mortgages doled out were never sold to Fannie or Freddie -- they were bought up eagerly by investment banks who had lax leverage requirem
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A robot rights revolution(michaelalanmiller.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
This is just my bitterness speaking, but the capriciousness of death really hits home when someone like her dies. Millions of infernal idiots yet breathe, and yet we lose someone so sagacious and rational to something so random. I would it
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by quoderat 18y ago
The financial crisis is more than half over, but the follow-on economic crisis in the real world is only about 1/10 of the way through, I'd guess.
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by quoderat 18y ago
In the future, everyone will be in jail for piracy.
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Engine flameouts and market regulation(michaelalanmiller.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments

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