edblarney

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by edblarney 10y ago
It's not flammable. And properly processed, even a leakage in the containment wouldn't necessarily be disastrous, i.e. requires cleanup, but no like chernobyl problems. I wish we would put more research into this. Imagine if we co
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by edblarney 10y ago
" I still wouldn't work for 16 bucks an hour in the hot sun around dangerous chemicals with no benefits in the middle of nowhere." You wouldn't work for what is about 20% above the national wage, to feed yourself, put a
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by edblarney 10y ago
There is absolutely nothing unpleasant about working in food services. What makes it 'unpleasant' is the destruction of the social contract that valued 'regular work', and the fulfillment of specific jobs by illegal migr
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by edblarney 10y ago
"You can't keep paying people more to solve the problem, it doesn't work. No one aspires to earn 30k a year anyway" No! The average income for the USA in 2008 was $28K! That's the average - meaning that for ever
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by edblarney 10y ago
"It wasn't as cool to work at fast food, and the area was becoming more affluent." If you walk into a 7-11 in Scandinavia (yes, they have some there) - esp. in a small town - you'll sometimes see a drop-dead '10&#x2
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by edblarney 10y ago
"There's no room to grow." "Productivity, respect and growth are. Are we having any all across post-development countries?" Have any of you ever taken a basic Econ course? 'No room for growth'? THE ECONOM
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by edblarney 10y ago
"The boomer's coasted on the tail end of a rising post-war economy and government largesse, then burned the ladder behind them and destroyed their legacy by electing Reagan. " Utter bullshit. It's not even anectodal - it
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by edblarney 10y ago
"It is so perfectly stereotypical and dicorced from reality " It is exactly reality - and that you don't grasp it only validates how utterly self-deluded Millenials are. By every measure Millenials are doing better. Milleni
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by edblarney 10y ago
"It doesn't matter how cheap the land/housing is if you can't get a job while living on it." B.S. Unemployment in the US is relatively low even on a long term basis. The average home prices in the US is $188K. Most
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by edblarney 10y ago
Utter and complete rubbish. The 'boomers' invented most of the 'computer stuff' you use, most 'developers' today are hacks (granted, some are amazing). Boomers had difficult upbringing, brought real social chan
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by edblarney 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with white-boards, it's how they are used that matters.
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by edblarney 10y ago
No, not at all. Facebook is a de-facto standard of communication. They have your info, you friends info - and you need FB to find and share with others. The technology medium is completely irrelevant. It's like saying 'hospitals a
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by edblarney 10y ago
In economics, there are just to many variables to satisfy - and of course, the impossible variable which is the nuance and choices that humans make. That doesn't make it unworthy, it just means we have to understand what we measure and
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by edblarney 10y ago
+ I think the author would put socialism square in his view of 'Eurocentric Modernism' as well. + Trump is the farthest thing from a neoliberal. He's a nationalist/protectionist, anti free trade. I reject a lot of the au
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by edblarney 10y ago
I don't think facebook is a fad. It's the default communication mechanism for many people. Telephones stink and we still use them because they are a standard.
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by edblarney 10y ago
So much complexity to put some pictures on a screen and have people click 'like'. It's dizzying. I wonder if build-system complexity is an artifact of reducible complexity in other areas. Perhaps the next time we develop a la
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by edblarney 10y ago
Well, Eastern European countries are growing much more rapidly than the others. But they are definitely different - they were closed economies, way behind, and there's advantages to their having the Euro (should they get it). Which is
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by edblarney 10y ago
"Combating xenophobia should be a moral issue, not a utilitarian one." Equating 'pro immigration' with 'morality' is the rather problematic basis of your statement. Many countries (most, in fact) do just fine w
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by edblarney 10y ago
"Apart from the idea of sorting people into useful and useless being inhumane, it also seems to be counterproductive." I'm sorry but this is totally unfair. Nearly every nation has immigration criteria. Canada, Australia and
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by edblarney 10y ago
The political ramifications are identical - it's not a technical issue. Spain is desperately afraid of Catalonia departing - and the nuance of 'we left the EU before we joined' won't matter to the voters. Scottish separa
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by edblarney 10y ago
" If we are to learn the lessons of the Brexit referendum, you need consensus to enact any major change to people's citizenship rights. Consensus there is not." UK citizens were never given a vote on their 'citizenship&#
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by edblarney 10y ago
The people voted, not Cameron. One could argue that the root political problem is the EU itself. Nationalist movements are on the rise across Europe: The Dutch are about to give their top choice a pretty hard core 'anti Muslim' gu
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by edblarney 10y ago
Sweden chose not to join the Euro. Oddly - European nations that don't use the Euro are generally much better off: Norway (though not EU), Denmark, Sweden, UK. In hindsight, the UK's decision to not join the Euro is widely accepte
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by edblarney 10y ago
"The general feeling is that this vote will now succeed." Polling for almost a year (see Wikipedia) indicates that it will not succeed - there's only one of more than a dozen or so polls that puts independence ahead - and the
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by edblarney 10y ago
? Again, NYC is not America. Again, we're talking about poverty rates, not homeless rates. Yes, I understand 'Latino' is not always central/south American in the classic sense, but fyi - Latino's are far more likely
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by edblarney 10y ago
I disagree. It's not clear at all.
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by edblarney 10y ago
If you are using the above logic of 'if you bought in 2008 and held today' - then it's about market timing, not fundamentals. Anyhow - you cannot win over time, unless you can beat Deep Blue over chess. And by 'win'
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by edblarney 10y ago
You're missing the point. It's not possible to 'time the market'. If you, or anyone else could, they would be Trillionaires. By picking an arbitrary point in time - and comparing it to another arbitrary point in time (sa
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by edblarney 10y ago
SF is not California. Moreover, it's not even the 'Bay Area' - it's a tiny, unrepresentative spot of 700 000 people. Also - 'homelessness' is not the same thing as 'under the poverty line'. California
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by edblarney 10y ago
"The poorest people are rural whites and southern/inner city African Americans. " I don't agree. There are very large numbers of Central/South Americans who come to Cali, largely unskilled, and they occupy the bigge

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