bjhoops1

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by bjhoops1 8y ago
fry squinting can't tell if ironic or earnest...
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
It does for shareholders, the only people who matter in a capitalist economy. The only people at all, really, everyone else is just a resource to be maximally extracted from.
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Everything is NOT a market, that’s a profoundly ideological statement. Check out Karl Polanyi and the distinction between a society with markets vs a market society. We live in a market society, but that is a historically unprecedented stat
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
I think it is useful, and that’s a perfect way to describe mainstream economics. What’s frustrating (but predictable) is that there exists an entirely separate branch of economics which makes much more powerful observations about the fundam
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Thank you for demonstrating my point. Economics imagines that it's possible to divorce the two, when it fundamentally is not. When economists do attempt to divorce the two, they inevitable work from a set of political assumptions which
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Strongly agree about values propagated into everything. Speaking of game theory, I highly recommend Adam Curtis' documentary The Trap. He talks about John Nash, the Cold War ethos and his struggle with schizophrenia, both of which high
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Yeah, and because basically all of mainstream economics has VERY strong ideology built into its foundational assumptions, and its practitioners enjoy a great deal of (largely undeserved) respect and often great power (unlike other more trul
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Their definitely is a difference between academic economists vs the "economists" who direct policy in the halls of power.
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
If you're a hyper-wealthy property owner of the type who can afford to fund an entire economics department, the answer is "no."
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
If only there were a branch of economic thought which predicted regular, increasingly intense crises of capital, say, one which was articulated by a bearded 19th century German...
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Good thread for more specifics on the myriad problems with mainstream economics: https://twitter.com/unlearningecon/status/920325123810447361
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by bjhoops1 8y ago
Golly, if I didn't know any better I'd think that maybe the field that deals with questions of power and resource allocation might not actually be apolitical, but may be primarily driven by the need to justify existing distributio
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by bjhoops1 9y ago
I think the answer lies in the history of the collapse of the mid-20th century consensus (capitalist economy with strong unions, regulations, welfare state ad broadly shared prosperity) and the rise of neoliberalism starting in the 1970s. N
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by bjhoops1 9y ago
People who say "unions are good" almost always have a critique of unions (they should be more democratic, member-led, etc.), but our neoliberal environment is SO strongly anti-union that it's not strategic to give ammunitio
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by bjhoops1 10y ago
I don't know about other islands, but on Oahu you can get up to 300 down with Oceanic TWC. I was pleasantly surprised.
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by bjhoops1 10y ago
Awesome! Windward side FTW. :D
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by bjhoops1 10y ago
I just moved to Oahu (Kaneohe) from the mainland, thanks to flexibility of a 100% remote gig. Worth checking out, and if you play your cards right you can get a solid salary to boot. weworktremotely.com, angel list, etc.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Why yes. Yes it did. Maybe the real benefit of homeopathy is making people like me feel superior... Hmm..
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I found a bottle of Teething Tablets for my 10 month old labelled "homeopathic." I threw them in the trash, pointing out to my wife that placebo effect can only occur if the patient is old enough to comprehend that they are recei
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I also think it would be nice to have a search/browse page to see more than one favor. I looked for such a feature and of course didn't see it. That way if the current favor isn't my cup of tea, I might find something else
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Haas is also a popular variety of Avacado. #TheMoreYouKnow
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I knew someone would beat me to this. :) Even as an introvert, I rarely have moments of sadness and loneliness like this any more. I kind of miss that, and enjoy it when one does sneak its way into my life. It's really hard to regu
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
And how do you imagine these "massive penalties" would be enforced? Perhaps by government regulation? Can't recall the last time I heard a Libertarian talk about a lack of that, or say anything favorable about labor unions.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Terrible. This reminds me of what was going on in Saipan 20 years ago. A paradise of conservative/libertarian economic governance that Jack Abramoff and Tom Delay worked so hard to protect from the horrors of organized labor and work
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
That is very amusing.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Half of the time when I'm pissed off at the DMV, it's because I stupidly forgot to bring a document that I needed. I'm afraid to admit DMV workers have far more to complain about me than I them.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I'm amazed you haven't deleted this post considering it must have been down-voted into oblivion. Or so I hope. > government-job level human potential I'm so fucking sick of hearing (presumably conservative) people badmout
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Emphasizing "shareholder value" as a corporate strategy has always seemed self-evidently short-sighted and foolish to me. I find that it is frequently embraced by the sort of people who look for quick answers to complicated probl
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
This was incredibly engrossing and amusing. It was interest timing to see this, since today is actually my last day working as a contractor/consultant at a large financial company doing a job that repeatedly left me with days or weeks
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I get a 500 error on the /new POST that occurs when I click the "Try RethinkDB Now" button. Might wanna look into that. UPDATE: it's working. Load issue of some sort?

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