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by xbpx 5y ago
Yes, weaken labour regulations, allow workarounds like the gig economy, break up unions, enforce no increase in minimum, tolerate regulatory capture, permit highly wealthy individuals and organizations to have substantial say over politics
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by xbpx 5y ago
Linux somehow managed to be both the dark horse and the pride pony. Preferred tool of hacker and mega corp alike. It helped launch my career in tech when I messed up a dual boot with Windows XP and fixed it by partitioning MS out of existe
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by xbpx 5y ago
Luckily there are many models that show divergence from the norm many years ago and continue to show stable and accurate predictions. Like the IPCC reports, and well, most climate CO2 models. Now it's less about determining if divergen
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by xbpx 5y ago
Actually it's quite easy to poke holes in that rebuttal provided by the linked article in Max's tweet. Basically there is a lot hidden by looking at average income per person per country when inequality has risen dramatically ever
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by xbpx 5y ago
I've suggested two books you could take a look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835835 They are oriented towards how we got here and solutions to get us out of it.
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by xbpx 5y ago
For those interested in learning more about the agrowth perspective, and how investment in public commons can be a convincing solution I highly recommend Jason Hickel's work, specifically his book "Less is More". If you want
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by xbpx 5y ago
Since the 80s Raegan era cuts, inequality has grown massively owing to reduction of wealth, capital gains and inheritance taxes. The end result is a much more unequal society with the attendant effects on politics, happiness and social stab
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by xbpx 5y ago
Because of a tiny wealth tax that is already lower than in many other countries? You think a relatively well off individual from a less wealthy country facing many systemic problems for business will pass up the opportunity to migrate to th
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by xbpx 6y ago
I did some graduate studies with Eldad Haber in the early 2010s and one thing that stood out for me, and is present in this paper, is the lucid simple presentation of interrelations and concepts. I recommend his distillation of operators fo
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by xbpx 6y ago
It isn't coincidental. The reason the institute is there is because of the high prevalence of bats and bat viruses in the region. If you want to study bat viruses you can't pick many better places. The researchers involved, includ
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by xbpx 9y ago
Cheney is also speaking to a camp who have argued against generics in Go using various definitions of simplicity and complexity. Rather than getting into the weeds and highlighting differences in opinion about precise definitions Cheney see
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by xbpx 9y ago
Thanks for the reminder, done!
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by xbpx 13y ago
Yeh this is Substack, I have seen this design and concept evolve over the course of several nodeconf's and jsconf's.
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by xbpx 13y ago
If Reader parity is the goal then there seems to be a feature bug. Audio feeds like the New Yorker Comment Podcast and Science Magazine Podcast do not have audio elements in the feed. Though clicking on the title does bring up a download di
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by xbpx 13y ago
Good work on the UI - it has that clean responsive feel I really enjoyed about Google Reader. It took about 90 seconds for my 200 or so feeds to transfer from Goog. This is during the period this article is trending on HN - that is about an