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by timtas 12y ago
Car Talk brought me joy and laughter for 25+ years. R.I.P. Tom. My favorite crazy credit was the short-lived: Sexual Harassment Intervention Councilor, Pat McCann
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Also a huge amount of insight and information on this topic here: http://www.povertycure.org
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Summers is most likely correct in his conclusions, but he is predictably wrong is his explanation of the cause. The end of crony system, he contends, will shift control to untested free market players, removing certainty of high performance
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Hopefully you notice that this data offers little insight independent of: 1. absolute income 2. income mobility 3. net migration How does, for example, the middle tier in Poland compare to the bottom tier in the U.S.? If ou
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> They will abuse transport regulation - just like the old cab companies - to monopolize the market if we let them. Are you saying that they will partner up with government to create a protectionist racket as the incumbents did so effect
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by timtas 12y ago
I cannot resist to point out that your assertion that "Uber lies, cheats and steals" rests entirely on logical fallacies. Let's stipulate your one assertion of fact, that Uber acknowledged that on one occasion an employee cal
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by timtas 12y ago
Sigh. Ideologues drinking and re-drinking their own bathwater. The thesis of this article is nearly opposite of the truth. Capitalism -- the kind we have evolved (call it socio-crony-capitalism) -- has badly wounded free markets. Here'
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by timtas 12y ago
Whatever broke the kids, it's fairly predictable that Common Core will break them more. Hey, let's do a probability problem? How many teachers will turn this lesson on it's head as this teacher did transforming it from someth
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by timtas 12y ago
Having recently migrated from Resque to Sidekiq, I can attest that this solves a problem, albeit not terribly a big one. As with any abstraction, implementation-specific features make leaks. So far, the README doesn't say how I will co
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by timtas 12y ago
If by "giving them cash" you mean put them on an annuity, is there anything more disempowering? If you depend on me to survive, your independence is gone. The only power left to you is to vote for me again.
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by timtas 12y ago
A good analysis of Piketty by some real economists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL90pISm7Y8
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Just to add a little balance: "...it's almost impossible to quantify whether the Koch brothers or Soros dominate this political realm. That said, both the Kochs and Soros have spent incredible riches in this area with no sign of s
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If I experience a 2-fold increase, and it's "grinding on my psyche" that that someone else got a 5-fold increase, you can bet it's because someone with something to gain is whispering discontent into my ear.
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by timtas 12y ago
No, "working to reduce inequality" is most certainly NOT a noble cause. Working to increase prosperity, especially of the poorest, that is the noble cause. We have seen again and again that policies, programs and revolutions aimed
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by timtas 12y ago
My first job out of college in 1987 was a COBOL programmer working on the Unisys version of the ACH system. There were two versions, IBM and Unisys, which were mandated to maintain 100% feature parity. The reason for two versions was that
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by timtas 13y ago
C'mon now, illustrations of a slippery slope oughtn't start so far down the hill. So, what about a post-menopausal mother marrying her adult son? If "consenting adults" is the standard, it must be sanctioned as "mar
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by timtas 13y ago
You seem to intend this as a rhetorical question, but I think it's an excellent literal question. Did this happen? Perhaps you will cite some cases.
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If that's true, isn't it terribly disturbing they were not concerned he was lying.