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Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?(washingtonmonthly.com)
2 points by sethg 17y ago|0 comments
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by sethg 17y ago
Well, natural gas turns into carbon dioxide and water when it combusts. But allegedly this box can run on other kinds of fuel as well.
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by sethg 17y ago
...or maybe this happened before the Galoob case that the OP mentioned, and therefore the compiler author’s lawyers had good reason to fear that a court would side with Stallman.
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by sethg 17y ago
We are all familiar with software licenses that place broad restrictions on what the customer can do (“you may not decompile, reverse-engineer, benchmark, or play FrisbeeⓇ with this Software...”), but if those restrictions have any legal ef
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by sethg 17y ago
If I worked for the IRS, my wife and I would not exactly be sleeping comfortably tonight. And I think it’s fair to assume that Mr. Stack intended to provoke that feeling in every IRS employee.
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by sethg 17y ago
In related news, a NYC Councilman, recently indicted for corruption, is alleged to have taken a $7 receipt for a soda and bagel sandwich, doctored it to look like a $177 receipt, and submitted it for reimbursement. This was part of his tec
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by sethg 17y ago
The genius of that strategy is that many dysfunctional organizations already have people who work this way, so if you start imitating them, nobody will suspect that you have an ulterior motive.
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by sethg 17y ago
Shelley Powers ( http://shelleypowers.burningbird.net/about ), who is quoted in the post, has worked in the industry for decades, has written several O’Reilly books about Web technologies, and used to be highly critical of the way HTML stan
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by sethg 17y ago
Sorry, I forgot to post the link to the poll numbers themselves: http://www.pollingreport.com/p.htm#Palin Observe how her unfavorable ratings have been going almost monotonically upward since the election. The more people hear about Pali
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by sethg 17y ago
In a poll taken earlier this month, 55 percent of the people surveyed had an unfavorable opinion of Palin, and 71 percent said she was not qualified to be President. I don't know why the media still treats her every tweet as newsworthy, be
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by sethg 17y ago
Palin is not campaigning against the word. Rather, Rahm Emmanuel, the White House Chief of Staff (who, in general, has a reputation for cursing like a sailor), described certain political opponents as “retarded”, and Palin, whose son has D
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by sethg 17y ago
Last summer, my aunt was crossing the street in NYC and was hit by a cyclist . She landed on her head and ended up spending days in a coma, weeks in a hospital ward, months in physical therapy, and a six-figure medical bill. Fortunately,
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by sethg 17y ago
I would bet that in some poor neighborhoods, watching TV is safer than playing sports.
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by sethg 17y ago
Replace "dig holes" with "pick up litter" or some other menial but necessary task, and it looks like a net win to me. If there are already people employed by state or local governments to pick up litter, they won’t be happy to see former
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by sethg 17y ago
I can see a case for arguing that someone who has zero children doesn’t “believe in the future” (whatever that means). But surely the parents of one child “believe in the future” no less than the parents of eight.
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Can Greece reform?(washingtonmonthly.com)
1 points by sethg 17y ago|0 comments
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by sethg 17y ago
The dollar-denominated cost of unskilled labor in the US can’t get much lower, but if the dollar-to-[insert some foreign currency here] exchange rate goes down, then US exports will become cheaper when denominated in that foreign currency.
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by sethg 17y ago
Nokia has a plurality of the market share for cell phones worldwide, but over the past few years they lost a lot of market share in the US. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/technology/companies/19nok...
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by sethg 17y ago
I attended a certain technical school in the Northeast at a time when the undergraduate male:female ratio was at least 60:40, and I never noticed the men there making drastic changes in their behavior for the sake of attracting female cla
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by sethg 17y ago
The last (and, thank God, only) time I was laid off, I was serious about getting a job even before my severance pay ran out. Damn good thing, too, because the search took me ten months.
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by sethg 17y ago
It occurs to me that one of the effects of meritocratic mobility is that school systems in less-desirable places get caught in a downward spiral. Public schools in Kansas, for example, get the bulk of their revenue from Kansas taxpayers.
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by sethg 17y ago
Is the problem “jealousy and feudalism” in general , or is the problem efforts by the leaders of the Windows and Office units to preserve their turf in particular ?
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by sethg 17y ago
Before the Citizens United case came down, thousands or millions of people were free to get together to say the same thing at the same time by donating money to organizations (“527 corporations”) whose specific purpose was political adv
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by sethg 17y ago
I am reminded of a piece of alleged research I read a few years back: Scientists have determined that regular jogging extends your life span. The amount by which it extends your life span is precisely equal to the amount of time you spend
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by sethg 17y ago
Every conversation has a limited bandwidth, and the participants usually have a shared understanding—an agenda—of what topics constitute an appropriate use of that bandwidth. When you say something that goes beyond that agenda, even if wh
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by sethg 17y ago
As the father of a geeky seven-year-old, the “struggling with turn-taking” section really hits me where I live. (Not that I ever exhibited such maladjusted behavior when I was seven, or seventeen, or thirty-seven. No, never! Well... ha
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by sethg 17y ago
I am reminded of the tradition in Chicago that when you bribe an alderman or judge to do you a favor, you put the dirty money in an envelope and put the envelope on the table. It seems that even among public servants who are as crooked as
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by sethg 17y ago
How do people from religious backgrounds where “karma” refers to something serious feel about the word being appropriated to mean a number on a web page?
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by sethg 17y ago
The British got out of the imperialism business soon after they introduced universal sufferage; the average blokes would rather see their tax money spent on things like jobs for themselves than on maintaining supply lines to India.
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by sethg 17y ago
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