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by markharper 5y ago
Notably a core plot device in the French Home Alone style film Deadly Games (aka Dial Code Santa). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Games_(film)
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by markharper 6y ago
one correction: neoclassical economics, not neoliberal economics
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by markharper 6y ago
> He fundamentally does not understand how markets work. I am a software engineer. I can assure you that the Harvard and Yale educated professor that's written textbooks on the subject knows how markets work. He might be heterodox i
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by markharper 6y ago
> My question: an oft repeated refrain, when Marx is touted as a reasonable alternative, is that any time anyone tried his ideas out, it was a total disaster (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Chavez). A couple things. Chavez is of a different categ
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by markharper 6y ago
I'd second the other response's recommendation of Richard Wolff's work. He's a marxist and democratic socialist, so read his work understanding his perspective in relation to your own, whatever that might be. That being
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by markharper 6y ago
Claiming that something is right because it exists as it is under the current system without further justification is equally, if not more short sighted. It's where "plainspeaking" and begging the question combine into a kind
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by markharper 6y ago
What would be the benefit over electron?
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by markharper 6y ago
There's also option 4: - Increase worker pay and benefits
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by markharper 7y ago
That sounds similar to the incremental lambda calculus described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0658 There's an implementation for DOM updates in Purescript ( https://blog.functorial.com/
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Google Cloud, Meet StackBlitz(medium.com)
2 points by markharper 7y ago|0 comments
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by markharper 8y ago
Almost, that will set the foundation for fully using the DOM APIs. The host bindings proposal mentioned at the end of the article should close the gap.
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by markharper 10y ago
There is nothing fake about the news coverage that CNN provides. It cannot be honestly or rationally equated with the fake news phenomenon that we saw on Facebook during the election. Also, 538 was the most accurate model during the electio
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by markharper 10y ago
Cutting out sugar to the level described in the article and expecting a long list of health benefits is just as extreme as diets from the low fat craze were 20-30 years ago. It amazes me that this kind of misinformation continues to thrive.