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by thesagan 9y ago
I was wondering the exact same thing.
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by thesagan 9y ago
Not a helpful comment. Some people have more leverage than others.
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by thesagan 9y ago
I think a citation is needed, because I see a lot of cites of the opposite. One from a long list on a quick Google search: http://www.pulse.ng/world/angela-merkel-germany-wealth-inequ... http://www.france24
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by thesagan 9y ago
Maybe the two cancel each other out and things don't change as much as they seem.
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The World Is Getting Hacked. Why Don’t We Do More to Stop It?(nytimes.com)
26 points by thesagan 9y ago|60 comments
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by thesagan 9y ago
Maybe for now we can start walking a middle path and soften the blow of our current trajectory for a good chunk of displaced labor. Perhaps policymakers and institutional advisors can listen more to Piketty and start finding a path to stab
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by thesagan 9y ago
I identify with a lot of what you write, especially about wanting to avoid hurting other people in the pursuit of profits. What has bothered me lately, very much so, is how in-the-minority I feel about this "social crisis" that I
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by thesagan 9y ago
Roger that; I appreciate the intel!
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by thesagan 9y ago
I really appreciate that! Frontend is up my alley. Saved your info and may contact you in the near future and I'll intro myself. Thanks again. :)
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by thesagan 9y ago
I won't do any more political propaganda work; Bill Hicks/George Carlin (and my own nagging conscience) got to me on that front. And I won't do webdev for the big tv networks because all I did was build advert and spy apparat
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by thesagan 9y ago
Econ and politics is rife with semantics, and they're very important, and sometimes central to the conversation. Either way, I think you're the one making the claims that need substantiation. Years of studying econ hasn't pro
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by thesagan 9y ago
The goal is diffused and spread out among ~8 billion people. Theorizing goals is fun, but it doesn't make it a goal anymore than Darwin made "survival" a goal for nature (or life, more narrowly); which isn't always true.
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by thesagan 9y ago
Sounds more like a symptom than a cause, and even that's guessing at best.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Regarding Google and Facebook, I'm hearing antitrust muttered in the office where I work, lately. (A digital publisher) I'm ready for some more noise on this issue, publicly.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Within capitalism itself, some economists also argue that wealth concentration tends to suppress investment opportunities, because there aren't as many "moneyed eyes" on economic events worthy of capital and management; inves
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by thesagan 10y ago
Oh man, being from MI everything he said hit home in a big way, and it got red hot the summer+fall of 2016. (And then Clinton skipped our state, to top it off, after we voted Sanders.) Moore put into words the devastating alienation the Rus
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by thesagan 10y ago
For me, it's a bit of both, depending on the community. That's why I like Reddit; the culture is different sub to sub.
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by thesagan 10y ago
I, too, thought that was a big part of the fun! I liked the competition of it all. I'm a bit surprised to learn this wasn't a popular sentiment.
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by thesagan 10y ago
If ageism is hitting in our early 30s things are worse than I thought.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Great points. Also – these enhancers are also being used left and right to stay on the up-and-up at work, competitively. It's not at-all strange right now in my part of the tech world. Ever see Nurse Jackie? That.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Oh man, my thoughts and best wishes are with you. Incredibly unfair and damaging to not just you, but to anyone who would have (and did) benefit from your work. I hope for us all (but you especially) that you get out of that hole. (And rece
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by thesagan 10y ago
I think the a general human pattern has been established that high unemployment leads to civil unrest, especially when you look in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Sure, you could say that their society is much different than ours, but t
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by thesagan 10y ago
I really wish someone would. I know too many folks who've been laid off after an otherwise very successful run, and will not be interviewed by new companies because they fall sort in the credential category. It's enraging, frankly
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by thesagan 10y ago
I spent a few years working closely at a regional ad/P.R. firm in a smaller metro, and the game was to convince companies to spend because their competitors are spending. Although there might be good tools out there to measure results,
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by thesagan 10y ago
Love it! This is great communication, and I'd like to book Joe even though I have no copy that needs writing. (Or meet for a cup his namesake.)
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by thesagan 10y ago
I've been wondering the same thing. In my city the malls are not what they used to be, and I don't see the kids there much, now. We only have one roller skate rink left, and I haven't seen a busy parking lot in front for year
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by thesagan 10y ago
They may have it spread across a larger family and in opaque investment vehicles, etc.
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by thesagan 10y ago
FYI there are experienced students who do not do this. Many, in fact. I think I can recall only a few occasions where re-educating professionals did what you're describing. Most of my gripes with interruptions came from 18-20 year olds
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by thesagan 10y ago
Serious question: Shouldn't average users provide or retract traffic based on these preferences, and not Google as user-in-chief? Personally I'd prefer that Google not play party whip in setting behavior patterns; I'd rather
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by thesagan 10y ago
Quite right in your point. Myself and people close to me know that first-hand. Also, lots of businesses are started by ex-employees who've been squeezed out of their former position. However the article is careful to distinguish betwee

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