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by indubitable 9y ago
I'd like to see numbers here. There are huge industries that have been built around entertainment and recreation forever: sports, hunting, movies, television, books, music, etc. I expect, as a ratio, we're collectively spending fa
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by indubitable 9y ago
What you're probably referring to with 1973 is probably something like the increasingly lopsided share of income on the top of society. To put some exact numbers to your intuition in 1979 the middle class controlled 46% of all income,
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by indubitable 9y ago
For some interesting context on "Amazon's dominance", in 2017 they managed a total marketshare of 4% of retail. Surprisingly even if we restrict it to e-commerce only, they 'only' achieved 44%. [1] [1] - http:&#x2F
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by indubitable 9y ago
It's very easy to agree with what you say, but something that I think is difficult to answer is breaking it down into real numbers. How much do you think somebody should be paid for moving boxes? Again you'd probably like to respo
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by indubitable 9y ago
I could not care less about downvotes, but I enjoy discussion. And I certainly think people would like to disagree with me, but it seems none are really able or willing to form coherent counter points - which I think puts a very sad frame o
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by indubitable 9y ago
I sometimes think our views might be to 'current-centric' when considering a post automation era. In my mind one of the most distinguishing features of the labor world today is the growth of complete independence. You have solitar
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by indubitable 9y ago
A reasonable litmus test for monopoly is whether they would fail if they started exploiting their customers. Time Warner and Comcast pass this test. They refuse to compete and then aggressively raise prices, seemingly to no end, knowing ful
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by indubitable 9y ago
I think many people tend to grossly overestimate the profit levels of large companies. Let's take Amazon since they're arguably the reason for the failure here and a company I think many perceive to be lush with money largely beca
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by indubitable 9y ago
I believe his point with 'hostile' is to choose nations where they would be both likely and able to say 'no' should the host nation of an individual request sensitive information on the individual in question. For inst
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by indubitable 9y ago
I do not think there's very much diversity of bias in today's publications. It mostly breaks down into a very binary partisan split. You have 'liberal outlets' that mostly sound identical and 'conservative outlets&#
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by indubitable 9y ago
Thanks for the article. Let's look over this since I see it rather differently. The article states, "there are hundreds if not thousands of contract soldiers in Syria whom the Russian government has never acknowledged." Acc
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by indubitable 9y ago
There's a difference between news and editorial that has been increasingly lost. To give an exaggerated example: ---- - Air strikes in the US killed 15 targets in Mideastland. Representatives for the US armed forces stated the targets
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by indubitable 9y ago
You're putting your head in the sand here. Independent restaurants in the US are dying. This is not based on anecdotal evidence, but national data. And your entire hypothesis that chains thrive on a lack of regulations is similarly com
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by indubitable 9y ago
This is an interesting conversation to have as I used to feel very similarly, until getting to experience a nation where there are really no rules or regulations on food at all. It's actually what started reshaping my general view towa
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by indubitable 9y ago
It's 'controversial' only in the sense that most people don't understand this. Many people seem to think that the only reason companies aren't giving great salaries to people, and 'letting' everybody earn
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by indubitable 9y ago
Let's talk about terminology now. First is households. A household in the US is a bit more than 2.5 people. You can go ahead and bump up your costs to $41k a year on transport alone. The next is wealth. Let's hit on two points: -
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by indubitable 9y ago
There seem to be a couple of major similarities between software development and other jobs with bimodal incomes: - You do a job that is, in many cases, a company itself. Lawyers, doctors, and developers can all start independent operations
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by indubitable 9y ago
Let's think about money for a minute. Money itself of course has no meaning. But we apply meaning to it. It essentially works as a proxy for the value we assign to labor and materials - both of which are finite in reality. So obviously
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by indubitable 9y ago
Of course you're right, but the review process is connected to the journal. PLoS journals are very accepting and so they end up being seen as a repository for publications that could not get published elsewhere. That's not to say
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by indubitable 9y ago
Source on people eat out more when there are health inspections? I've lived and traveled to many countries where there are no meaningful food inspections whatsoever, and your statement there really does not pass the sniff test. And as
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by indubitable 9y ago
They just engaged in an action that substantially increases their monopoly over access to user information, which is their golden goose. And this action is going to result in some degree of backlash. People hosting information only static s
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by indubitable 9y ago
Can somebody explain the exact process for free access that people would propose? Most options seem to come with significant and foreseeable 'unforeseen consequences.' For instance if the idea is that research is submitted to a pr
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by indubitable 9y ago
Without defending the current system of publication, many things that are government funded are not free. For instance, our ironically named freeways. And nearly all government offered services from postal to patents come with costs and fee
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by indubitable 9y ago
I think that's improbable. You have to keep in mind that the US zeitgeist and even the Scandinavian zeitgeist are radically different, and diverging rapidly. For instance there was a 7 part television series published on regular televi
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by indubitable 9y ago
Mono is a product of the open source nature of C#, not the cause. In general, I think its wise to go as close to the 'first party reason' as possible. But the nuance there makes it surprisingly intricate, and nuance is often lost
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by indubitable 9y ago
In general intuition is a tool that can be used to help uncover things, but should not be used as a basis for a view by itself. You might be inclined to call the following the most "obvious, tepid, noncontroversial statement" &qu
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by indubitable 9y ago
In hindsight, something I think I should have emphasized in our discussion earlier is the exact state of Mono. Everything else is mostly tangential as 'the Mono question' essentially closes the discussion of whether C# was a &#x27
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by indubitable 9y ago
Something that's I've always found striking is how long lived ancient peoples were, if they made it to adulthood. Early life deaths is what really used to bring up mortality rates. If one out of 3 children make it 20, but the chil
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by indubitable 9y ago
From my perspective here, you're shifting the goal posts. In particular this conversation began with you apparently thinking that Mono lacked full implementations of ASP/ADO/etc. And I think that might justify the original co
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by indubitable 9y ago
Sure, here's an article from Microsoft describing how to access and view the source code for their library implementation, ASP/ADO/Forms/etc: https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/net-framework-library-sou

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