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by rndmize 13y ago
On that note, there's another book that's probably similar (haven't read the one you mentioned) called "The Lights In the Tunnel" (the author has a set your own price download for those only casually interested). h
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I think this is mostly bull, frankly. No matter how easy things get, most startups are meant to solve some kind of problem and they employ technical means to do so. You're never going to get rid of the need for a technical guy, no matt
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U.S. Companies Thrive as Workers Fall Behind(nytimes.com)
4 points by rndmize 13y ago|0 comments
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There's been a whole lot of articles about heavy use of temps in US warehouses. I think I recall one from a few months ago which talked about how the average temp in some CA warehouses was around 90 degrees most of the day and was staf
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I'm inclined to disagree. The problem the article illustrates has little to do with government, state, federal or local, so much as it has to do with incentive structures. I think that in this day and age, we need a new method for deve
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by rndmize 13y ago
When a machine replaces the work of a man, the value that work generates goes to the owner of the machine instead. I don't see why this would lead to less work for anyone, as the man the machine replaced still has to work to make money
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by rndmize 13y ago
> "Having a scholar teach and engage his or her own students in person is far superior to having those students watch a video of another scholar engaging his or her own students," the professors wrote. I beg to differ. Lecturin
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by rndmize 13y ago
Soon - "Auction Sniper now supports urbanspoon! First 3 reservations are free!" There's something frustrating about reading this. Perhaps its that a technological advancement that was supposed to make life easier is being cap
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by rndmize 13y ago
Tribal warfare was usually a matter of establishing boundaries. If I remember my history correctly, this was pretty clearly demonstrated in battles between Native Americans and European colonists in the 16 and 1700s. Tribal attacks were clo
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by rndmize 13y ago
Subsistence farming isn't a reference to famines, its a reference to inequality. My point was that even today, the majority of the civilized world spends their time doing endless agricultural labor for minimal benefit, even though one
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by rndmize 13y ago
As compared to the Civilized Man, who has only solidly developed all the things you describe in the last couple hundred years and took thousands of years of war, famine, plague, slavery, and endless grinding inequality (still haven't q
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by rndmize 13y ago
Articles like this (semi-political stuff) tends to get flagged and thus, disappears from the front page at speed. When I clicked the link to read the article, it was around #6 with 20-something points after 2 hours; when I refreshed HN ten
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by rndmize 13y ago
> The point is basic economic theory define this as an impossibility. Given that economic theory is often wildly divorced from reality, I don't really see a problem with this. Snark aside, I don't see how service jobs are safe
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by rndmize 13y ago
This is precisely the reason I don't understand it when people say the cost of the tax will be passed onto consumers. What cost? The tax is on profits...
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by rndmize 13y ago
I would think people with basic income would be much less likely to commit crimes because a) essential needs can be met and b) they would have something to lose (freedom, time, money). Beyond that, there's something inherently silly
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by rndmize 13y ago
On the contrary, guaranteed low wage jobs sounds like it has all kinds of perverse incentives - for politicians and corporations. Not to mention, why should people have to do worthless government-assigned work to get that money? Yes, of cou
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by rndmize 13y ago
Ironically, Murray wrote a book in 06 called "In Our Hands" where he advocates replacing the welfare state with a universal income of $10k/year per person for every citizen 21 and over. He opens the book by saying his prefere
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by rndmize 13y ago
> When talking in public expect the public to respond. I'm confused - how exactly was anything they did talking in public? > We chose a remote location (Big Sur), invited no press, and did our best to conceal that location from t
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by rndmize 13y ago
> How does being a part of the evil "one percent" make you any less qualified to have or hold a variety of political views? I don't think this is what he's saying. It's that one percenters have an inherently greater voice on political i
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by rndmize 13y ago
The fourth point in the article?
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by rndmize 13y ago
> I'll believe personal experience and observation over some conclusion from a published paper that used obscure statistical methods Then you are in good company. There are many reports of villages complaining about wireless towers caus
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by rndmize 13y ago
I generally read the Economist by means of their website, and its quite interesting to read the comments on articles; they usually fill in the gaps of the articles or point out errors (especially in the case of articles focused on a single
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by rndmize 13y ago
By all means, point me to a single administration in the last fifty years that hasn't tossed ethics by the wayside. I'm of the opinion that ethics has very, very little to do with politics; the appearance of ethics is the important thing.
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Miniature Flying Robots(economist.com)
3 points by rndmize 13y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 14y ago
You have an odd definition of "utterly evil". By my measure, the most "utterly evil profit maximizing business" would prefer to externalize the costs of employment as much as possible by not paying for healthcare and paying employees as lit
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by rndmize 14y ago
This is absolutely correct. I remember all too well when my graphing calculator was stolen from me during a movie in religion class (high school freshman year, catholic all boys school). I was socially inept and naturally, the first thing I
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by rndmize 14y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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by rndmize 14y ago
I'm largely of the opinion that aptitude has little to do with anything. It seems that a much bigger problem is our tools for teaching conceptual material are simply terrible. (I'm actually tempted to argue that our tools for teaching a wid
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by rndmize 14y ago
Yep. There's a lot of potential for some games to almost go beyond being games and become platforms - Skyrim, Minecraft - if the community was allowed to sell material they created for it.
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by rndmize 14y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding something. A post-labor has nothing to do with population and everything to do with automation. As it becomes more efficient to have robots and computers to do what was previously human work, we will eventual

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