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by zeteo 13y ago
Blunt contradiction does not really make an argument. If you had something more precise to say than "give less equity to people who joined later" - now that would be interesting.
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by zeteo 13y ago
Well, you know, you're working in the kitchen and I'm waiting tables. Last night's tips were $100 and I have a perfectly fair system for dividing them. I get $50, here's $40 for you, and I'll give $10 to the busboy.
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by zeteo 13y ago
Yeah, it's quite symptomatic of pulling numbers out of thin air to then claim a large amount of imprecision. No system that nonchalantly allows say, a six-fold variation for the first employee can be said to be absolutely fair and corr
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by zeteo 13y ago
Umm that's a whole bunch of pulling numbers out of thin air. The 50-10-10-10-10-10 progression is proportionate to what exactly? The article would sound just the same if he recommended 75-5-5-5-5-5 or 40-30-20-10 instead.
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by zeteo 13y ago
> No company is entitled to a person's money, and if they make their public face about politics they accept the consequences I think Eich was chosen for his technical contributions (e.g. the creation of Javascript), not because he
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by zeteo 13y ago
And you base your opinion that future societies will condemn these on... what? There's also a significant proportion of the population that would pick abortion, gay marriage and atheism. And they have better demographics.
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by zeteo 13y ago
> Ancient Greece did not genetically survive I'm not sure if that's true (considering just Hellenism and the descendants that Alexander the Great's people must have left between Thrace and India), but to address this more
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by zeteo 13y ago
> civilizations which held the nuclear family as their most important asset have absolutely dominated the world I'm not aware of any civilization that "held the nuclear family as their most important asset" (whatever that
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by zeteo 13y ago
>everything is unclear. A car, a hammer - even the computer you are reading this on can all be used as capital and lent to workers to apply their labor to. Yes, many means of production can be used by the owner as well but I don't t
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by zeteo 13y ago
> [Marx] thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things. I don't think that's accurate. Marxists want to abolish private property of the means of production . So it's OK to have a h
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by zeteo 13y ago
>Some people are pointing to Gox’s failure as a reason Bitcoin needs more governmental regulation, but I believe cryptography and peer-to-peer consensus protocols can eventually replace the need for certain types of regulation entirely.
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by zeteo 13y ago
>Not only do these tactics not accomplish anything in reality, they also distract people from making a real effort to change the world. You might say the same thing about a massive street protest. Those people are just standing in the st
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by zeteo 13y ago
> these WASPs of the past that the chap in the article is lamenting so much were pure, unabashed racists And sexist and elitist - but not more so than the society they lived in. Holding them to the norms accepted today is about as pertin
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by zeteo 13y ago
> if the number of people using Bitcoin continues to grow, our institutions and infrastructure will have to evolve to address the problems mentioned by the author So basically Bitcoin will be successful if Bitcoin will be successful. &gt
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by zeteo 13y ago
> This is a dangerous idea. Why? Because it starts with the idea that single-sex schools are better, then proceed to attempt to prove that point with studies I'm sorry, someone who attempts to prove their point with studies will alw
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by zeteo 13y ago
>The thing about [OOP] is that it allows you to model a problem domain in real-world terms. That's only true on a superficial level. Sure, in CS 101 it's easy to explain how to make a Point object and add a Move() method to it.
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by zeteo 13y ago
>[ ] The name of your language makes it impossible to find on Google Unless you work for Google, in which case your language's name (maybe shared with a common verb or a popular board game) will quickly become the top search result!
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by zeteo 13y ago
>the article is claiming that to Westerners a smile is neutral [...] The article is making the implication that a smiling Westerner [...] is faking something. I don't see where you got the second sentence as the article's impli
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by zeteo 13y ago
> this comes off as complete BS. I've seen this written before and it's always in the form of "It's not us that smile too little, it's you Americans that are fake and smile too much!" Which is pretty much wh
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by zeteo 13y ago
>you should carefully think and model things I agree and that's basically my criticism of the article. The underlying economic model can be expressed in 2-3 arithmetic equations. It competes in a field where people routinely spend y
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by zeteo 13y ago
>shut the fuck up and write some fucking code [links to argument that simply writing code is the best way to learn programming] Way to confirm stereotypes that programmers are abrasive and narrow minded. Writing code may be a good way to
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by zeteo 13y ago
>you'll buy drugs for high cholesterol the rest of your life Not if you get killed by an infection first.
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by zeteo 13y ago
> we're helpless and the world is again going to be a scary place Whoa there. According to the article, we have few new antibiotics precisely because the old ones have been so effective: >Infections are not that common compared t
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by zeteo 13y ago
Wait, what? There's nothing about current operating systems that prevents apps from entirely managing their data. They can keep it in a dedicated hidden folder (e.g. game save files), a local DB, in the "cloud" etc. Yes, some
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Did the NSA help with the SilkRoad investigation?(forbes.com)
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by zeteo 13y ago
Well, I'd say everyone tries to overstate their case a bit, don't we? But if we care about the state of everyday debate and judgment then we should also accept improvements. And it could be considered improvement if a politician &
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by zeteo 13y ago
>I think the effect is the propagation of a lot of wrong beliefs among a vast audience of influential people You mean like politics? sports? Hollywood? Yes, maybe Gladwell's writings don't pass muster for publication into an ac
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by zeteo 13y ago
> cannons were in use in Europe from the 11th century I'm sorry, you're off by two centuries [1]. Yes, cannons started making an impact in the 15th century, but that doesn't change the fact that military technology was ove
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by zeteo 13y ago
Adjust for socio-economic background. Separate by majors to avoid Simpson's paradox. And get a group of subjects who haven't been influenced by knowledge about this kind of studies.
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by zeteo 13y ago
I don't "define technology as 'gunpowder'", it's the article that says the model uses military technology: >The borders are seeded with military technology, starting with the use of horses. That technology

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