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by scilro 7y ago
In terms of economic class demarcations, I find the Marxists' definitions much easier to follow and reason about. If you own capital, you're a capitalist. If you work for a wage/salary, you're a worker. You might be an e
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by scilro 7y ago
This reminds me of people who say that we can free North Koreans by (physically) airdropping tapes and books on Pyongyang - surely the only reason they support their government is because they're heavily censored, once they see the tru
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by scilro 7y ago
Of course I realize that, but America's free speech protections are the exception and not the rule. (Not making a value judgment here)
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by scilro 7y ago
Absolutely, and to me this is a more reasonable framework to understand how technology-enabled surveillance works in China and elsewhere.
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by scilro 7y ago
I find WeChat and its aggressively centralized model fascinating, and something to keep eyes on, but this article falls into the familiar trap of playing a bit loose with the facts when it comes to how the Chinese government surveils its ci
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by scilro 7y ago
You're correct, but only because we live in the core of this empire. The story is different for folks who live in its periphery
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by scilro 7y ago
Why was this downvoted? The point about the core vs the periphery is elided by media accounts of the US and China all the time. It's a crucial one.
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by scilro 7y ago
My Pixel 3's charging stopped working after a few seconds underwater, so I don't think it's that much of a loss anyway.
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by scilro 8y ago
I understand why it’s being downvoted, but I too find it very funny.
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by scilro 8y ago
Could be in many cases. But the question of "where should I send _my_ kids" should be considered separately from "how should education in this country as a whole be structured." You have to distinguish between the macro
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by scilro 9y ago
Thanks, all. I thought that "real" was the same thing as nominal.
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by scilro 9y ago
>Higher minimum wages are probably another cause. >After declining in inflation-adjusted terms from 1998 to 2007, minimum wages rose almost 11% in real terms between 2007 and 2016, Abraham and Kearney estimated. Firms may have outs
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by scilro 9y ago
It seems like it would be far less controversial if they took the cute machine learning tech and ran a b2b company that helped existing mom-and-pop stores service their communities.
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by scilro 10y ago
>Studies show that people are more depressed at home when unemployed and have more chance to improve their condition and salary by starting at lower paid jobs doing something. 1. Could you cite one of these studies? This is the first I&#
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Don’t use GitHub’s “Rebase and Merge” workflow (yet)(medium.com)
1 points by scilro 10y ago|0 comments
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by scilro 10y ago
Race wasn't the focus of the story, but it was an element of the prelude to it. My understanding of the purpose of that paragraph was to underscore that it wouldn't come up again. And frankly, if you break out in hives at the brie
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Unit testing React Native components(medium.com)
1 points by scilro 11y ago|0 comments
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Lil Data – Future User(dismagazine.com)
2 points by scilro 12y ago|0 comments
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by scilro 12y ago
Common knowledge is that foreign workers will typically have lower wages on average because they have less freedom to switch companies, and as such have less bargaining power. On the other hand, giving greater visibility into H1-B wages lik
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by scilro 12y ago
I was just thinking that a lot of this might be college kids having a better handle on their politics than their social norms.
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by scilro 12y ago
"Overall, since invention of Fed, dollar lost like 97% of its purchasing power (meaning, all that purchasing power was relocated to those who are friends with the Fed)." Please open a book and learn how compounding works. There ar
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by scilro 13y ago
I don't understand why losing 98% of value over a 100-year period is supposed to be a pejorative. That implies a very steady, <2% rate of inflation per year, which is what allows wages to keep up with inflation.
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Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers(pando.com)
157 points by scilro 13y ago|35 comments
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by scilro 13y ago
Not my thing, but good for them.
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by scilro 13y ago
The main argument against direct democracy is the danger of majoritarian oppression: e.g. imagine calling a vote to reinstate slavery and succeeding because 51% of the population supports slavery. Having a set of laws like the Bill of Right
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by scilro 13y ago
As someone who went to a small northeastern private school as well... I find it strange that it isn't abundantly clear to you that even our educations were a privilege that the vast majority of the country can't afford.
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by scilro 13y ago
Looked up some of them, and a good number are people who've been working there since the 90s. I know that if I had the same job for 22 years, I'd expect to at LEAST be making 200k...
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Leave Sean Parker Alone(medium.com)
2 points by scilro 13y ago|0 comments
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by scilro 13y ago
Meanwhile, the DEA is teaming up with the CCA.
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Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by scilro 13y ago|0 comments

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