looprecur

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by looprecur 16y ago
I really don't think anyone can predict when this bubble bursts. There are too many political and cultural factors involved. Also, as employment prospects decline and remain dismal throughout our second "lost decade", I tend to predict more
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by looprecur 16y ago
This assumption is a mix of broken societal wisdom and an association fallacy. FWIW, there's another fallacy committed when they themselves become unemployed; everyone else unemployed is a antisocial lunatic, but they are a good person who
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by looprecur 16y ago
True and depressing. I think one side effect of suburban alienation is that, because this geography thwarts organic friendships and also maintains social class barriers, people fall out of touch with people who are less (or more) fortunate
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by looprecur 16y ago
It's my firm belief that the hottest rooms in hell will be saved for those who kick people when they're down.
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by looprecur 16y ago
I have been reading an unfortunately large amount of articles here on Hacker News seemingly deterring prospective students like myself from entering a university, especially from the field of Computer Science. They cite large tuition/livin
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by looprecur 16y ago
Motivation is tricky. Sometimes it's worth it to continue, and sometimes it's not. Only you can make this decision, but you have to listen to yourself and figure out what it is that's bugging you. If it's a transient "motivational crisis" y
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by looprecur 16y ago
Great point. A sad reality of the career game is that you win not by being most truthful, but by building a coherent story. My moral stance is this: "fudging" is okay-- if you were fired, turn it into a layoff-- as long as you're not repres
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by looprecur 16y ago
No. First of all, a lot of startups still need to raise money. It may be cheaper now than in 1998 but it's still not cheap to pay 2-6 people for 6-24 months. And getting users and customers does not necessarily equal profitability. What has
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by looprecur 16y ago
Renting in general (cars, housing) is one of those things that people want other people to do, but not for themselves, at least not on things they consider important. For example, if you rent textbooks, you give them up at the end of the se
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by looprecur 16y ago
No. Poverty is overrated. It sounds like his argument for "poverty" is that investors micromanage and sink companies. The obvious solution is hands-off VC and more trust of entrepreneurs. In other words, we need to move away from a culture
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by looprecur 16y ago
This is a serious problem, even today, but the article seems to fail at addressing it. 1. The "nurturing" sort of work isn't inferior to the analytical style of work. Both are important. Raising children is one of the most important things
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by looprecur 16y ago
Surprising fact: most people like working. Many people hate being told what to do and when to do it, but people have a fundamental desire to work. Here's how to do basic income. Starting with 2010 GDP as a base, 50% of all GDP after that go
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by looprecur 16y ago
Right. All they have to do is sell their kids so that they need less space (cheaper housing) and don't need to spend money on education, and then "wing it" with regard to health insurance. "Just don't get sick" is great advice that I'd give
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by looprecur 16y ago
I will gladly work to destroy the bigoted and heartless sort of society that conservatives and so-called "libertarians" seek.
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by looprecur 16y ago
Depends on the kind of slavery. Slavery has been a fixture of most economies, with the degree of force and inflexibility variable across societies. In one phase of the Ottoman Empire, slaves could own land and armies... but were still slave
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by looprecur 16y ago
The Hacker News libertarians (who are, despite our shared nausea, far smarter and more reasonable than the right-wing of any other community, I'll note) believe they will be future technology "barons". Pretty much everyone I've ever met wit
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by looprecur 16y ago
By definition, a person who is working only because he must will not get a fair wage. One side has leverage, one does not. So the worker gets screwed. The ideal society is one in which no one has to work but everybody does. A basic income g
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by looprecur 16y ago
We're not there yet, but our economy has been headed in that direction for the past 30 years. Michael Lind has termed it "Brazilianization", in reference to the inequality and corruption one sees in much of Latin America due to the lack of
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by looprecur 16y ago
You don't get to the leaderboard if your account is nuked. Survivor bias. Admittedly I've said things that are immature and stupid and that I regret. None of them merited the destruction of 2000+ karma account. Not a one. The banning policy
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by looprecur 16y ago
I don't think "fucking asshole" is much worse than "trophy kid". They're about comparable in terms of incivility.
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by looprecur 16y ago
I agree. Hacker News has a lot great people on it. Karma, however, is a joke because accounts are regularly nuked for no good reason, which necessitates starting over at zero. Hellbanning spammers and outright trolls makes sense. Hellbannin
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by looprecur 16y ago
I think a lot of the criticism of our generation and of job hopping is projection. The whining about entitled, self-centered young people sounds exactly like the complaints that were made of the Boomer generation in 1970, and they're just a
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by looprecur 16y ago
Job hopping is a touchy subject because young people don't like job hopping, as was discussed in those posts. They do it because, in today's corporate climate, they usually have to do it in order to prevent being pigeonholed, neglected, and
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by looprecur 16y ago
Are you learning? Every job has grunt work, even the interesting jobs. If you're not learning from what you do, and if your boss doesn't have your advancement/education as a top priority, then learn. But if you have to put up with a couple