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by capisce 13y ago
Are you 20 % less productive than those that work 40 hours a week?
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by capisce 13y ago
Or better yet, pay for results, not hours - if only results were always easily measurable. If A and B have the same base productivity assuming they work the same amount of hours, B's productivity per hour might be less if he works 70+
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by capisce 13y ago
> Better to watch Game of Thrones or read the books? Purely subjective, there is no superior choice. I think it can be argued that one is a more intellectually stimulating option, while also being entertaining. The fact that people prefe
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by capisce 13y ago
I sure hope that's not what he meant by "not a legimate end of the day".
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by capisce 13y ago
Stranger in a Strange Land was a bit too predictable for my taste although it was an entertaining read to some degree - but I found Dune much more interesting and worthy of praise. First time I tried to read Catcher in the Rye I found it du
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by capisce 13y ago
> A transaction increases utility for the two parts concerned, otherwise it will not happen. But it happens all the time, through manifactured desire and the exploitation of people's addictions. People are not "rational actors&
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by capisce 13y ago
How does buying a can of pringles or a pack of cigarettes create wealth for the buyer?
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by capisce 13y ago
On [1], one interpretation of quantum mechanics says that the universe is the evolution of all possible future worlds through branching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation The other major interpret
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by capisce 13y ago
Maybe it's because web apps perform so badly on ARM: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...
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by capisce 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation#Business
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by capisce 13y ago
You might do well by reading http://www.raikoth.net/libertarian.html
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by capisce 13y ago
Money is not a powerful motivator when it comes to innovation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_Abo... Money is still a motivator when it comes to getting unrewarding work done, but basic income
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by capisce 13y ago
Should we eliminate taxes, welfare, and universal access to health care too? Let people starve or suffer if they can't find work?
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by capisce 13y ago
Inequality within a country is a far greater (inverse) predictor of your unborn grandchild's standard of living than worldwide inequality. There's enough wealth in the world to go around if evenly distributed.
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by capisce 13y ago
Decreasing inequality between nations is surely a good thing. However, the increasing inequality inside nations is dangerous not just because of a sense of injustice - concentrated wealth implies concentrated power, and concentrated power t
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by capisce 13y ago
Where is the documentation for worldwide inequality falling? According to this page for instance GINI (a measure of inequality) has been rising in most countries since the 1980s: http://geo-mexico.com/?p=5044
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by capisce 13y ago
The master plan has always been continued military spending to secure American financial interests (those of the elite and not of the people mind you) domestically and throughout the world even at the cost of local democracy and governance,
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by capisce 13y ago
They certainly put up a good show of it, but then they need to be able to justify the spending somehow. Historically though they've sponsored magnitudes of difference more terrorism around the world than they've prevented.
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by capisce 13y ago
Interestingly in Norwegian and Swedish "solsystem" can mean any planetary system, but if you say "solsystemet" i.e. "_the_ Solar system" you typically refer to our own. http://sv.wikipedia.org/w
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by capisce 13y ago
In fact basic income would provide both better incentives for those without a job and increase liquidity in the employment market since people would no longer have to suffer a crappy boss or work place out of fear.
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by capisce 13y ago
Does this also mean the Pomodoro technique is not particularly effective for programmers?
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by capisce 13y ago
Isn't killing jobs through automation a good thing?
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by capisce 13y ago
What about the fact that there are different kinds of saturated fats and different kinds of cholesterol?
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by capisce 13y ago
I'm not particularly impressed with HTML5's developer experience compared to say QML.
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by capisce 13y ago
How are you planning to do animations?
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by capisce 13y ago
Me too, although it was less about the individual lecturers than about questioning the value of the whole system. I got mediocre grades overall but excellent grades in a few subjects considered very hard, simply due to finding them interest
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by capisce 13y ago
Pushing yourself to stay awake is probably not something you should be doing if you want to function at max mental and physical capacity.
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by capisce 13y ago
Better might imply more freedom or flexibility, which short-term gigs could offer.
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by capisce 13y ago
I'm sure there are a certain amount of people who have simply given up on or refuse to subject themselves to the standard interview process and will either become freelancers or get their jobs through networking.
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by capisce 13y ago
Because clearly him spending his money there instead of somewhere else is a net negative for the country? Here's the source for who he hired to work for his company: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/3891714

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