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by slurry 13y ago
Pando.com is making a big play on this kind of class-focused journalism. Mainstream outlets will do it from time to time, but mostly as a sideshow to the conventional liberalism of the Red/Blue culture war. America has a lot of liberal
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by slurry 13y ago
Face-rational moralizing about people's lives and especially reproductive choices is, as a general principle, nearly always jerkish. "Only have kids once you're independently wealthy" qualifies as rational only on HN or
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by slurry 13y ago
No, it doesn't make sense. Your comment is naive and/or jerkish. You should feel bad about yourself for posting it.
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by slurry 13y ago
RMS had a pretty testy interview with Z magazine a few years back. Was very emphatic that his vision of the future included businesses, and swatted down several attempts by the Z people, who wanted to abolish all businesses, to get him to r
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by slurry 13y ago
The System i was folded into the POWER server line along with System x (midrange unix) a few years ago. It seems like they're trying to kill both lines with one stone, sadly. I could replace half my data center with a POWER box and man
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by slurry 13y ago
I'll give you Chile as a counterexample, although it's not as recent as the others.
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by slurry 13y ago
I know economists are good at math, I'm more curious what kinds of math they tend to use.
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by slurry 13y ago
Since I know a couple of mathematicians (and like to pretend I understand what they work on) I am always a little skeptical of economists' claims to be mathlords. But perhaps my skepticism is misplaced? How rigorous/sophisticated
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by slurry 13y ago
Two points: I still perceive India as a "shithole". Whereas China's elite has used its newfound wealth to finance widespread infrastructure and especially sanitation projects, India's has not, not on a mass countrywide s
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by slurry 13y ago
a. My bad for using chem e as an example. Switch in K-12 teachers instead and the comparison vs. humanities academics works out about the same, modulo more complaints about working conditions. b. Humanities PhD programs also have enormous
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by slurry 13y ago
Cut policies at chem e programs are brutal and I sympathize. However, an unsuccessful chem e student who becomes a coder, or uses his prereqs to get into nursing school or become a K-12 teacher is still following my advice. It's not ab
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by slurry 13y ago
No commercial release yet, no source release ever. Bureaucrats quoted as praising it seem to be mid-level at best. Either vaporware, or reskinned Linux/Android, or most likely both.
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by slurry 13y ago
Academia, nonprofit work, the arts and other low-demand "dream" jobs are also extremely demanding and not possible for everyone to do. My argument was that being one of the (high percentage of) chemical engineers with a job is bet
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by slurry 13y ago
I think it's interesting that you love what you do and also work in a high demand field. I don't think those are actually coincidental. All the chemical engineers I know (I know a few) are pretty happy. Most find their work intere
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by slurry 13y ago
How do we know that having undue respect for hierarchy is objectively a bad thing? I'd say China in the late Qing Dynasty would be a good data point for it being a bad thing. Or a compare-and-contrast of Spain and the Netherlands in
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by slurry 13y ago
I find a good initial test of writings about consciousness is to ask "would Ray Kurzweil or his website get excited about this?" If the answer is no - perhaps the material is too dry, language-oriented, technical (in a non-sexy fi
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by slurry 13y ago
Being poor is expensive.
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by slurry 13y ago
In terms of judicial politics (as opposed to legislative politics of judicial nominations), this isn't Democrats vs. Republicans. This is Clinton and Bush II nominees vs. everyone else.
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by slurry 13y ago
Good move. IMHO homeownership is inadvisable where it can be avoided.
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by slurry 13y ago
Isn't this a bit like saying once you have a killer jump shot, basketball is easy? A lot of things are pretty easy once you've got an extremely hard part out of the way.
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by slurry 13y ago
Not sure we actually disagree. I wasn't taking issue with your main point or your list so much just costing it out (roughly) for my own amusement. Both a sense of perspective and a modicum of cash are necessary but not, imho, by themse
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by slurry 13y ago
1. No debt is fairly expensive in this world. Either you need a nontrivial income or a fairly high threshold for ascetic living. 2. Full stomach/quenched thirst is trivial if you don't mind tap water and simple starches, but once
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by slurry 13y ago
Misleading to have Marissa Mayer as the face of this article when the vast majority of the CEOs evaluated in the study were men. Also, this is only "surrounding the first day when the C.E.O. is on the job". Value and long-term gro
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by slurry 13y ago
I'm not going to get into the fascism vs. not-at-all-fascism debate. But there is something like nationalism at work here. You have the self-appointed champions of "real Canada" (Harper's base in the landlocked provinces
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by slurry 13y ago
Yes, we might call this the "no one would ever fight a land war in Asia" fallacy.
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by slurry 13y ago
Yes, but other countries do voting without the need to pre-register. Some US states (e.g. Iowa) do voting with same day registration. I might actually be okay with an ID requirement if we also got rid of the previous registration requiremen
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by slurry 13y ago
Sorry, to clarify: I meant take out a loan as a borrower. Deflation will tend to increase my real interest rate over time, inflation the opposite. Obviously in equilibrium theory, interest rates will cancel out these effects; but they do no
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by slurry 13y ago
Okay, sure. In your (imho wildly implausible) scenario, the transaction costs of doing business in dollars would rise and consumers would pay an increasingly steep premium for using them. Don't really have an argument with that logic.
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by slurry 13y ago
> Assuming the interest rates are the same, I'd agree. Would they be? I doubt they'd be the same in either nominal or real terms. But that's a side issue. You could already do what you're talking about with gold. A ba
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by slurry 13y ago
Inflation is a function of money supply and velocity. If everyone adopted bitcoin, the velocity of the dollar would approach zero. Which means that inflation would go down, not up. And yes, I would rather have my [savings] account in a hard

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