hoaw

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by hoaw 8y ago
It is supported because it is accepted, especially in places like hacker news, to not be scientifically literate. In fact it is so obviously problematic that you would to a large degree have to be obnoxious to support it without reserve. Wh
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by hoaw 8y ago
> If you have no access to better credit, payday loans are often the least-worst option. Just isn't a very relevant argument. The reason you regulate things are because they provide, often strong, value to one or multiple parties bu
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by hoaw 8y ago
It is an important distinction. Contributions pay for employees, taxes pay for a successful society where companies can be successful. When companies end up not paying much tax, the feedback loop between successful companies and a successfu
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by hoaw 8y ago
I think little of the advice so far is that useful. What happens when you burn out is that you engage in a unsustainable situation, often for some time, until the effect catches up with you. To not burn out again you need to regain the conn
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by hoaw 8y ago
I think there are a number of companies building modular homes. IKEA has a join venture with a construction company for example [0]. Just that construction isn't generally the problem. We know how to build relatively cheaply. [0] http
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by hoaw 8y ago
Right. I am saying that if you take time off you end up being at odds with much of society. You realize that many things, even leisure activities, now only exists in relation to work. And after not working for a while few of these things ar
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by hoaw 8y ago
I am not sure it is. At least not in a bad way. Things like sleeping, eating and showering are universal. There is a quite defined line, in terms of space, where things gets fundamentally worse. Even in terms of pure functionality, as in e.
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by hoaw 8y ago
I mostly agree and think there are a number of points to be made. 1. There is nothing wrong with living small, but there is a point when every square meter/feet makes a lot of difference. 2. We really should be getting better standards
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by hoaw 8y ago
If you didn't take much vacation you basically cut your own salary by 10% compared to "limited vacation" though?
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by hoaw 8y ago
Not unlikely, which is why I wrote somewhat vaguely. Ironically I don't have time to read your resources at the moment. My point is that there just isn't that much room for other things these days. So many things, from a $5 coffee
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by hoaw 8y ago
I think that is a very weird conclusion. In Europe, because there is a safety net, there is mostly nothing to "climb out of". Working a menial job and/or playing video games before going on to university or getting a career i
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by hoaw 8y ago
Only a couple of minutes ago you were saying that effort was the measure, not resources or risk. Which are entirely different concepts. I don't really see the point of arguing if we don't even have common understanding of differen
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by hoaw 8y ago
I have done similar things and it generally isn't. Or it is getting very hard to make it so. Western society has become much more hierarchical in recent years. It is harder and harder to find any "cracks in system" on a funda
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by hoaw 8y ago
That is a selective view of the free market. For any company under pressure to succeed there are others whose expertise is extracting, rather than producing, value. Failed projects, both private and public, are often run by such companies t
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by hoaw 8y ago
No, it is arguing that it is factually wrong based on prejudice. Most obviously that the groups negative factors aren't inherent and their contributions aren't valued.
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by hoaw 8y ago
Which is essentially the whole argument of the article. For example as summarized in the last paragraph: "Expert knowledge, of course, has an important place in democratic deliberation, but it can also cut people out of the policy proc
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by hoaw 8y ago
Not the mixed market economy as such (though that is losing its meaning as well), but taxing automation. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/sweden-social-democracy-m...
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by hoaw 8y ago
> On-site blue collar jobs are safer, as a percentage. Robots can prefab things in factories, but it will be a long time before automated robots can build or repair anything on-site with the efficiency of humans + power tools. It is hard
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by hoaw 8y ago
People in this thread have essentially been saying that in the future we could pay people to do other things. I am saying that we could already do that today. Simplified, basics might cost $500 a month, but to live in New York you are payin
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by hoaw 8y ago
I don't see how it can be decoupled. Most programmers have (hopefully) created enough value when in their thirties for basic living the rest of their lives. The reason you can't is because you are, both before and after, paying so
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by hoaw 8y ago
I don't see it as much of a problem. Unless only a minority gets to enjoy the increase in productivity, which is what we are mostly seeing now.
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by hoaw 8y ago
The problem is that it isn't an income issue. It is a cost issue, which in turn is a power issue. As in who decides what and therefor who society is for. Taking underprivileged people, or even anyone else, and employing them at CERN is
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by hoaw 8y ago
For what it’s worth, Oatly is using Canadian oats in North America.
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by hoaw 8y ago
You do get used to it, but it is also a different experience. Most plant based milks won't be fresh (both in taste and literally) or neutral in taste. If I drink soy milk for awhile I can appreciate it, but I still wouldn't drink
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by hoaw 8y ago
I don't know. On the one hand branching out could be a good thing if you can use your experience as a positive. On the other you end up competing with people who have done nothing else through high school, university and thier first jo
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by hoaw 8y ago
Especially unless they want to pay for it. Most experienced people already have all the jobs they need. No one else is going to train your employees for you. You don't want to pay the premium? Hire on potential and award those that do
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by hoaw 8y ago
As an outside it became apparent that moving to SF/SV would be a challenge around ten years ago. There are a number of post on HN from "back in the day" that discusses this topic e.g: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by hoaw 8y ago
Generally the hardware and software ecosystem isn't robust enough in these applications to make a big difference. It is a bit like desktop linux. You can run different distributions, environments or applications, at the end of the day
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by hoaw 8y ago
I don’t disagree. I am talking even smaller scale though. A lot of people would risk being deemed a poor performer and getting fired if they did things correctly. Because what they would be delivering wouldn’t be valued. There needs to be a
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by hoaw 8y ago
I get what they are usually saying and I generally agree. For example DHH has a ton of material on how to do things differently, or more sane if you so will. It is just, now that I am convinced then what? I can try and incorporate some thin

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