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by skylan_q 13y ago
That must be why it has such strong labour laws and enormous social safety net supported by a tax and spend government then. We can't have good labor conditions without the capital and productive capacity in place to offer good labor
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I agree with this. But you have to realize that most people on hacker news who want socialism never had first-hand experience with it. People have to learn their lessons the hard way. :(
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Let's say that this passed and became law. With this law in effect, why would I want to work as an executive in Switzerland when I can get much better pay elsewhere?
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by skylan_q 13y ago
...have to be persecuted for what are obviously not crimes The revolutionaries that founded the US didn't care that they would be breaking laws. That's kind of the point.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Bonzi buddy favicon
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I worked for a company that had two dictionary names put together for a company name. No one was able to find us online.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
When do we get paid? Every two weeks or twice a month? Every two weeks means your pay is essentially reduced by two entire paychecks. With "twice a month" your paycheck is $NET_SALARY/24. With "every two weeks" you
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Since people only want to live and food and shelter are a means to this, then they too are in a bubble. Bubble everything!
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Us feeble-brained humans are uncomfortable with path-dependent outcomes. We don't want Bitcoin, or anything, to have an arbitrary price determined merely by marginal bid and ask, let alone a multiple equilibrium - we want it to have
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by skylan_q 13y ago
These ethical factors are, of course, a trade-off with the others. Sweatshops and child labor are immoral, we will not tolerate that. If we don't tolerate those, then we don't tolerate giving them the best alternative possible.
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The problem are the conditions that make sweat-shops the least worst alternative for a lot of people. It's power, money and corruption. If the least worst alternative is taken away from them, then they have only the next least worst
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by skylan_q 13y ago
But if use is in decline, its value should follow. To see its value rise as its use declines is simply odd. This is a decrease in the velocity of money, not necessarily a decrease in its demand. Sometimes and increase in the demand for mo
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by skylan_q 13y ago
No need to improve working conditions when you can choose those candidates from the pool that will put up with the workplace as it is. This is why HR is evil.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
an act which would border on criminal negligence if it was done in the private sector and someone was harmed For example, someone thought they got coverage for something and they didn't. That mis-communication can lead to actual harm
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by skylan_q 13y ago
And they might have to abandon some streets and only keep up the ones necessary to get around from property to property. We might even see some gravel roads in some places. :/
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Fructose is digested/processed differently from glucose. So the issue isn't even glycemic load alone, either.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
RADs didn't target web browsers (and especially not to this extent)
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Maybe people just love feeling that "freakanomics" feeling of mental superiority that they're willing to swallow any alternative hypothesis that challenges the norm. Maybe people just don't trust medical science. I hop
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I'm glad that there will be that 1% or so of people who pick up this article and have it change their minds. :) That dietary cholesterol necessarily causes heart damage is taken as a matter of faith. :(
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I'll be using it. I always have Emacs open anyways.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Try telling that to economists who claim to discover macroeconomic theories through econometric models and call it "empirical"
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Am I the only one, or would it be a really good idea to provide transcripts of the interviews? No, there are at least a few of us.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Yes we can!
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Because there are never "not enough men" in some field, it's always "not enough women."
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Present them an exclusivity contract that lasts 3 years
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Thank you for the breakdown of how performance is affected with the new architecture. I've had a few quibbles about where performance gains would be, and all too often I was told that the performance increases would be solely realized
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by skylan_q 13y ago
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I have aspergers. Give me money.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I read this piece from the Onion years ago and it stuck in my memory because I found it so funny at the time: http://www.theonion.com/articles/illegal-immigrants-returnin... Now it's not even just Mexicans moving
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I don't think this really relates to the "men's rights" stuff. I think all the paper does is show that the bellcurve for men is flatter and that men are nature's crapshoot.

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