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by z0r 15y ago
>Another evil I forgot to mention about minimum wage earier is the trap effect. Imagine your effective wage is worth less than minimum wage, but you've managed to land a dead-end job making minimum wage. Now you have a disincentive to r
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by z0r 15y ago
Funny you should mention Citibank and security in the same breath, just the week after this: http://consumerist.com/2011/06/how-hackers-stole-200000-citi...
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by z0r 15y ago
In my case, they've helped to destroy my ability to focus (or provided interruption and excuses not to develop it)
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by z0r 15y ago
Page won't load :p - nevermind, got it after a handful of attempts
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by z0r 16y ago
I don't think you deserve to be downvoted because I made a whitenoise comment. I should have pasted the explanation I made in my defensive response in the first place or not bothered at all. My bad.
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by z0r 16y ago
Admittedly, I only read up to the end of the claims section here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec... If you read those and skim to see passages like these: "The problem, then, is to provide the speed of access
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by z0r 16y ago
What a perfectly ridiculous patent.
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by z0r 16y ago
Bwahaha, there's a huge market of entry-level workers in all kinds of fields (software being just one of them) where people work essentially for free (unpaid internships or internships with a small stipend). It's kind of disgusting!
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by z0r 16y ago
Blame the poor for being poor?
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by z0r 16y ago
99 weeks of publicly subsidized unemployment for a non productive commodity? I agree, this is outrageous. These commodities need to transport themselves to a more favorable market and increase their utility through intelligent investment of
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The Subsumption of Education by Economy(harpers.org)
3 points by z0r 16y ago|0 comments
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by z0r 16y ago
Your point about supply and demand determining value is well taken, and I acknowledge that is the way capitalist economies operate. I was criticizing it because I find the commodification of labor to be dehumanizing. If only there were some
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by z0r 16y ago
Making money is about exploiting economic opportunities. "Value" is an almost meaningless word. The garbage men who take the trash off my curb provide more value than a lot of white collar management, in my opinion. If you're either intelli
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by z0r 16y ago
Not to detract from your point, but it's definitely possible to work on a software project while washing dishes :) Devoting thought, or focus, might be a better qualifier for boredom than just having to devote time.
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by z0r 16y ago
Your argument just seems dogmatic to me. I suppose my comment was not constructive. It is interesting that you have inferred that I don't care about the poor from my post.
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by z0r 16y ago
Yes, the desire to exploit and the drive to work tirelessly to maximize what you might get from being exploited is the source of all good things.
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by z0r 16y ago
Marx had quite a bit to say about 'voluntary' exchange, hahaha.
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by z0r 16y ago
This was used at Waterloo in CS 135 back when I took it (maybe it still is the text?). An introduction to programming that really is an introduction to programming. On an unrelated note, this suddenly reminds me of "Assembly Language Step B
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by z0r 16y ago
Destroy jobs, increase supply of labor commodity, ???, profit
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by z0r 16y ago
I could pull up the LOC, but it honestly wasn't the Scala compilation that was the true issue. The true issue was that the project was built with maven and it had a tremendously large number of dependencies. If all the Scala in the project
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by z0r 16y ago
I enjoyed writing Scala more than I enjoy writing Python, but there are a few undeniable advantages that Python holds over Scala. The motivation to port from Scala to Python was to avoid the lengthy build process that had been slowing down
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by z0r 16y ago
Just the pleasures of a powerful type system, inference, pattern matching, higher order functions... The usual good stuff, but on the JVM. I was paid to learn and program in it for a good five months earlier this year (everything ended up g
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by z0r 16y ago
For what it is worth, Marx spoke of the expenditure of "nerves and brains" as well as simple physical labor. As for the means of production, the game has clearly changed in our sector, where the most important tool has come down so far in p
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by z0r 16y ago
Who cares who owns what, as long as it isn't stolen from others, indeed. But there are conflicting opinions about how predatory the current economic system is. How much wealth is stolen? It's not easy to answer unless you are an ideological
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by z0r 16y ago
Run the startup as a syndicate with democratically determined division of duties and compensation, of course!
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by z0r 16y ago
Make it cost a dollar more every time the image is changed, and put it under a better url!
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by z0r 16y ago
It's good to have your pockets picked by invisible hands!
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by z0r 16y ago
The police must be held to a higher standard than the citizens they regulate. They should be subject to panopticon.
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by z0r 16y ago
Data structures and algorithms are the foundation. If I ever find myself unable to write a list or a tree or a sort, I'd better be doing a different job.
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by z0r 16y ago
I think most education is not wasted - your example is not unheard of, but relatively uncommon. I think most people would complain about tax dollars paying for useless "arts majors". I think it is in general always better for society to hav

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