blindwatchmaker

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by blindwatchmaker 6y ago
I have missed Matt's columns since he went on parental leave. Does anyone have recommendations for anything similar to scratch that itch?
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
> 2008 was bad because the collective banks of the US realized trillions in mortgages were money on the books that wasn't real and was never going to be real An even larger amount of money was placed on bets on whether those mortgag
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
Not a hostile question, I'm genuinely trying to understand this: How is liquidity provided by, for example, someone interjecting themselves into a trade that was already going to happen?
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
High rents and debts are a massive drain on the economy. Less disposable income means less to spend on consumer goods and services, which hits real businesses hard, and leads to fewer jobs. The fictitious growth in the FIRE sector is not go
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
> You know what Chicago and Mexico have in common? Failed liberal policies. Agreed. It's time to get Tough On Crime, and declare a War On Drugs. Shame no one's thought of it before.
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
I'm not overly concerned with hurting a politician's feelings. I am bemused at the idea that someone can observe the last few decades of the capture of the government and major political parties by corporate and oligarch interests
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
> Another way to think about it is that if people were actually straight up buying votes on a regular basis the prices would likely be much higher And as I said earlier, the campaign contributions are window dressing for the rest of it a
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
Sorry, but it is that simple. We live in a second gilded age with near total regulatory and legislative capture and trying to soft pedal it by using euphemisms like 'strong networks' does not obfuscate the fact that this is a com
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
I'm sure it's just coincidental that senators and their family/friends frequently get lucrative positions on the boards of various companies, investment sweeteners, and actual positions in these companies for family. For exam
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The Collapse of Antiquity(nakedcapitalism.com)
1 points by blindwatchmaker 7y ago|0 comments
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
GP is not the one being disingenuous.
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by blindwatchmaker 7y ago
Could be wrong, but I think India and China rail is government run.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Re: documenting code, I've gotten a lot of conflicting advice over the years, with some people insisting code should be documenting, and others insisting on docstrings.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
The 'pressure to undergo abortions in case of fetal abnormalities' sounds the only potentially troubling part of that, but I don't exactly get what's 'authoritarian' about insisting women with complications sta
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Been witnessing this a lot in my city. Developers talking a big game about deregulation and additional supply being the only way to drive prices down, then building only "luxury" condos that are snapped up by speculators and price
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Perhaps you could acknowledge what I've actually written instead of sidestepping around it?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
I thought the summary was pretty good. The objections you're presenting here are nitpicky, the NYT article is just one of the links provided and the thrust of the article that ideologically motivated opposition to minimum wage hikes wa
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
I'm not really sure what to say. I thought I was pretty clear in my previous post?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Not sure that contradicts what I said? For example, Richard Nixon was a social conservative that ran on a backlash against socially progressive causes, but was still a left wing president. Supported industrial regulation with the EPA, insti
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
I think it's pretty fair to say that the leadership of both major parties, elites in and outside the government, and the military/intelligence services are right wing, and have been historically so in the United States barring the
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> It only is if you think someone who has ever set foot on Iran is an ethnic Irani. We're both adults here and I assume we both can realize that splitting these hairs doesn't make my statement that banning everyone that's
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Assuming that for some reason I should take your word over his, banning for "having logged on in Iran at some point" is, effectively, banning for ethnicity.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Yeah imagine bitching because you lost a primary communication tool and a bunch of your saved data because of your ethnicity.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
What way of structuring frontend prior to the react/redux 'fad' do you think was superior?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
An alliance of the business elite right and the religious right against the left. Money wins.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
I both lived and work near there and this is the exact opposite of my impression. King from bathurst to spadina is always jumping. The biggest annoyance for me is all the damn plants the restaurants and bars have been allowed to put on the
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Excessive rents and debts are a drain on consumer spending and ultimately harm the economy. The root cause isn't greedy students wanting an education (weird way to think about it), but tuition costs ballooning out of control. It's
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
The current situation we have is insane. It's like the height of the gilded age with no trust busting in sight, the largest corporations in the land buy out politicians and are openly taking public money.
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NY Dem announces bill to block Amazon deal, redirect subsidies to debt relief(twitter.com)
1 points by blindwatchmaker 8y ago|0 comments
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Is there someone on Qualtrics' board that used to be management/has connections with management at SAP?

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