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by rfrey 8y ago
How are you measuring leisure time? My impression is that great gains were made in the union heyday of the 40s-60s, but that leisure time for most workers has been declining since then. The move to almost universal dual income households me
902.
by rfrey 8y ago
Sorry to contribute to a diversion, but that’s not how I’ve understood the phrase (and to add argument-from-authority to the mix, I did grad studies in philosophy). I understand a strawman to be an argument presented by the author in a part
903.
by rfrey 8y ago
Why did you put the word response in quotes?
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by rfrey 8y ago
The article says they're different: that manipulation degrades the other's decision making process while persuasion does not. You seem to disagree, which is fine. But your argument above to the article's "they're di
905.
by rfrey 8y ago
You may believe you are being downvoted because you said something about Clinton, but it’s likely actually because you are quoting statistics without understanding how they work.
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by rfrey 8y ago
I have no particular stance on WeWork's policy, but this argument seems pretty strained. You seem to be saying that if implementing the opposite of policy A would be unacceptable, then implementing policy A is hypocrisy. That doesn&#
907.
by rfrey 8y ago
I read mkempe's comment as agreeing that it sounds pretty darned good... in fact too good to be credible.
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by rfrey 8y ago
That level of humility-vacuum doesn't occur in nature. They really have to work at it.
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by rfrey 8y ago
If a commercial developer saw a license like that... they could pay for a commercial licence. Presumably a commercial developer thinks software is worth paying for.
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by rfrey 8y ago
I agree with absolutely everything in your (really well written) post when applied to a random salesperson who fits the description - and I'm sure there are many, many, many. But I don't think goatherders wrote anything to indicat
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by rfrey 8y ago
Bixi made a 3 or 4 year go of it in Toronto before exiting the market. So it could be that all their locations (except Montreal) are profitable because they exit markets where they are losing money (except Montreal). If that's true it
912.
by rfrey 8y ago
If only all hiring managers were this honest during the process, everyone would be better off. The candidate, for example, could just walk out of the interview and go for a beer, while the hiring manager could get on with the business of fi
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by rfrey 8y ago
He did not need a crystal ball, there were plenty of exploding baby carriages (and mailboxes, and garbage bins) in the 70s and 80s.
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by rfrey 9y ago
You may be interested in reading Allan Organ’s books. He claims that aspirations to Carnot efficiency are a red herring and claims (with Much Math) that the peak efficiency is closer to 50% of The Carnot cycle.
915.
by rfrey 9y ago
In the 90s my uncle was disgusted with me because I couldn’t fix his TV — didn’t I have an EE degree?
916.
by rfrey 9y ago
But this would be the copyright owner selling the recordings, just like a commercial album or movie.
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by rfrey 9y ago
Recordings that are not public domain are sold all the time... is there something that makes these different?
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by rfrey 9y ago
Buy two iPads and use one as a keyboard.
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by rfrey 9y ago
I’m not sure if you intended to, but this sounds like you’re accusing antirez of being a paid shill.
920.
by rfrey 9y ago
Old guy question: what is the book bay? None of the search engines helped me, and I don't know anybody under 72 years old that I can ask.
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by rfrey 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, but the root of graphics is graphikos, Greek for writing or drawing. Mathematical graphs are called that by analogy to their graphical forebears.
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by rfrey 9y ago
I'm not sure why you think that, this sort of thing seems to be his priority for the last, what, decade? We need a new dog-whistle term for this kind of reflexive skepticism. I propose "cynisignalling".
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by rfrey 9y ago
I can see it from that point of view. I purposely don't use the phrase "free market" though, because I don't share the assumption that complete freedom is what leads to an efficient, well functioning market. There is all
924.
by rfrey 9y ago
That wasn't the proposal, the proposal was to enforce better information availability to consumers by displaying the owners of the brand prominently. IANANC but my understanding is that a true market is two-sided: it requires informed
925.
by rfrey 9y ago
This asks for $35 to read the article, to save other non-academics the click.
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by rfrey 9y ago
Company response is "Yeah, that's way too hard, nobody can do that".
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by rfrey 9y ago
He also posted the who's hiring entries. Regardless, deepstream seems pretty awesome.
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by rfrey 9y ago
"switched to"? Aren't you the CTO of Deepstream?
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by rfrey 9y ago
In my experience regular exercise makes it much easier to eat properly. For some reason, if I'm exercising regularly a plate of fries is revolting.
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by rfrey 9y ago
That is so reductive, even if it weren't a tired cliche. Not every example of a successful policy that happens outside the U.S. is because of accidental political geography.

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