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by capisce 12y ago
What did it get you thinking??
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by capisce 12y ago
> "after numerous complaints over rowdy visitors" Tragedy of the commons... This is why we can't have nice things.
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by capisce 12y ago
Let's not stop there: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours Piketty has the solution for the reduced wages at the bottom, with a tax on capital - just combine that with basic income and peop
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by capisce 12y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2013/02/09/why-sit... Though that's more of an argument for using a standing desk instead of sitting the whole day.
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by capisce 12y ago
> god forbid I ask for Fridays off, I'd be shown to the door real quick They must be really afraid of the precedence it sets - that other employees would also start to negotiate for reduced work hours.
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by capisce 12y ago
I think a lot of the fear of not keeping up might be connected to the fear of not being able to make money on something you enjoy doing.
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by capisce 12y ago
A comfortable level of 20-25 hours of billable work per week seems to fit my experience in freelancing too. In the long run I don't think I'd want to try to push much beyond that.
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by capisce 12y ago
Hehe, the web of interests sounds very familiar. I'm using pocket (getpocket.com) to cut down on the number of tabs though, maybe it would be useful for you as well.
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by capisce 12y ago
I too am looking to work less than the standard 40 hours a week for similar reasons. Only committing to 4-6 hours in a given day also gives me more freedom to take a large break in the middle of the day to go for a walk or a run, which can
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by capisce 12y ago
Well, I much prefer a democracy to a capitalocracy (the rule of capital). Maybe that's hard to achieve on a local level though, without making some sacrifices in order to become self-reliant. Only globally could we deal with the threat
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by capisce 12y ago
So in a way you could say the economy is held hostage by capital? We have to play by capital's rules or suffer the consequences.
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by capisce 12y ago
Absolutely, ideally way longer than that too.
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by capisce 12y ago
Why is labor income taxed so much more than capital gains? Effectively those with large fortunes are paying a way lower effective tax rate than most salaried employees.
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by capisce 12y ago
Even if you imagine just a small risk of an AI being hostile or indifferent toward us, is it worth gambling our future on that risk? Where is your evidence that a vastly greater intelligence would have a moral that is perfectly aligned with
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by capisce 12y ago
How easy is it to find places to rent is these locations? Through Airbnb and such it seems you end up paying quite a high monthly rent.
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by capisce 12y ago
Maybe it's worth worrying about because AIs might eventually become orders of magnitude more powerful than humans.
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by capisce 12y ago
Usually the employee has a much weaker negotiating position due to the threat of finding himself without a job. Basic income could lead to a "freer" and thus more efficient job market (free markets are efficient, right?).
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by capisce 12y ago
Productivity is not the only concern, individual preference should also be accounted for. Someone might want to sacrifice 10 hours a week for 20 % less pay for instance (productivity vs hours worked is more than likely not linear). People s
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by capisce 12y ago
Do workers prefer spending more than half of their awake time in their workplace in order to make more money, or do they simply not have enough bargaining power to negotiate for a shorter work day?
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by capisce 12y ago
What non-profit idea are you working on?
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Developer Anxiety, we’re not alone(geekyboy.com)
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by capisce 12y ago
For a lot of knowledge work I think it's closer to a bell curve, in that if you work too few hours you'll be swamped by overhead, but if you work too many hours, your per-hour productivity drops due to lack of focus caused by insu
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by capisce 12y ago
Sounds robust... Doesn't that defeat the purpose of JSON?
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by capisce 12y ago
Gerrit is really good for code reviews
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by capisce 12y ago
Is the time difference not an issue?
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by capisce 13y ago
So if a copy of you were made, you would be ok with swallowing a suicide pill?
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by capisce 13y ago
In Chrome pressing the "Get the pre-release now" button immediately opens the pdf in the same tab, which means it's not possible to subscribe for updates. I had to use Firefox instead for it to work as intended.
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by capisce 13y ago
Can you give an example of someone in the real world who has "a high IQ, but lacks the ability to be able to connect different ideas and/or come up with solutions which require more than just processing mathematical computations&q
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by capisce 13y ago
You might like http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/
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by capisce 13y ago
My favorite work of science fiction is the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, I think it's really an unmatched tour de force in the genre.

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