knieveltech

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by knieveltech 8y ago
I'm sorry but I don't think the 80s are really something that can be explained to someone that didn't live through them, which I assume you didn't, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for clarification on Reaganomics.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Not sure what's expected here. I mean, this is hardly the format for 20 page dissertations on lived history. I'm guessing these downvotes are coming from folks that are missing context because they're in their 20's and d
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by knieveltech 8y ago
These downvotes are unfortunate given this statement is objectively true.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
O RLY. So you claim your average sixty year old with (in your example) 20 years of experience owning a personal computer, is somehow so technologically illiterate as to be unable to utilize browser bookmarks, desktop links, or write down a
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Rolling out "grandma" as a reason to not do N is a tired chestnut that is growing less relevant with every passing day. It's ageist. It also ignores the fact that all of the people you're casually dismissing lived throug
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Quick question: in this hypothetical where China presents an existential threat to the US, what happens to the Chinese economy when they invade the largest consumer of their domestically produced goods and services?
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by knieveltech 8y ago
If you want people to vote make it mandatory like Australia. Anything short of that seems incoherent.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Scandinavia and the entire Soviet Union spring to mind instantly. There's nothing particularly white or privileged about healthy skepticism of any system that hinges on labor arbitrage to accomplish it's goals. Go meditate on the
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Sure, but the argument is specious for all of the same reasons that philanthropy has a track record of exacerbating the social problems it intended to solve.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
That an education should be pursued primarily or solely as a means to achieve employment is even more dubious. Unless, of course, you're trying to claim that having a highly educated populace isn't, in and of itself, a Social Good
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Letting "the market" decide what is and isn't valuable in terms of human knowledge seems dubious at best. We are talking about a system that prioritizes extraction of non-renewable resources to produce dumb shit like blueto
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by knieveltech 8y ago
There have been spontaneous demonstrations among the workers voicing their joy and gratitude at our happy new way of life. /s It seems pretty naive to assume that a handful of individuals being paid a fraction of the going rate for wes
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Agreed, that is a particularly offensive line of bullshit. Labor arbitrage is a thing, sure, but it takes a special flavor of insipid shithead to try to unfurl that kind of tortured logic to handwave past the obvious exploitation taking pla
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Poorly, if at all.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
History isn't done yet. Your rosy prognosis appears to ignore current widespread ecosystem collapse and mass extinction, growing geopolitical instability, and the looming possibility of the biosphere becoming incompatible with human ci
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by knieveltech 8y ago
An error only becomes a mistake when you refuse to correct it.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
I am saying that using economic activity to gauge positive impact on society is utterly misguided. Consider: we are currently living in an age of robust economic growth and international trade, historic levels of income inequality, and are
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by knieveltech 8y ago
What is good for the economy (short term) and what is good for people (long term) are frequently not the same things.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a coworker six or seven years ago. Dude comes to me to get me to help him spec out a web-based "tool sharing" service. I told him that what he was proposing, first and foremost, automat
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Average income hasn't even kept pace with inflation since the 70's, go take a look at a graph of income inequality over time if you're curious where all those productivity gains went, you prove my point regarding no measurabl
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by knieveltech 8y ago
In theory. In practice, this has lead to collapse of rural economies, rampant poverty, and epidemic drug usage amongst rural populations. As to driving food costs down, that's trivially disprovable. Loaf of bread in 1950: 12 cents. Adj
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by knieveltech 8y ago
ahem Income inequality suggests otherwise.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Then econ 201 clearly hasn't studied a graph of income inequality over time, and appears ready to ignore that the bulk of economic activity has shifted from manufacturing and other labor-intensive activities to the financial industry.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
And what is Econ 201's solution to pervasive unemployment, or lack of spending power due to underemployment? Is that also classified as "societal value"?
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by knieveltech 8y ago
In heavy enough weather it's possible to drop sail entirely and still make way on a bare mast, so nah, they might act less like a sail, but they don't stop entirely.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
I took this for a test drive this morning. In addition to producing a raft of errors trying to install globally, I ran into a number of issues where the documentation didn't exactly jive with observed reality. I threw up my hands and w
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by knieveltech 8y ago
The guilty flee where none pursueth. You'll note my original post was carefully non-partisan. Your rush to bring conservative talking points into the discussion suggests some kind of bias, or perhaps a guilty conscience.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
We have observed reality to draw conclusions from. Regardless of political affiliation, would anyone really argue that special interests haven't taken over the political process in the US, and made significant inroads in most if not al
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by knieveltech 8y ago
Considering the De Beers cartel basically fabricated the entire ritual around engagement rings from thin air through paid marketing and op-ed pieces this would hardly be surprising if true.
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by knieveltech 8y ago
You claim a slur has been used? Please point it out.

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