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by p_monk 7y ago
Neoliberals like PG love to pretend that their ideology - neoliberal capitalism - is not actually an ideology. It is ideological framework, just as much as Marxism. The notion that neoliberals are above the fray of ideology and independentl
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by p_monk 9y ago
"Some guy" Moritz is one of the most esteemed partners at the most prestigious VC firm in the world. He's a multi-billionaire with immense power. He's not "some guy." "has an opinion" He wrote an op-e
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by p_monk 9y ago
For those people suggesting programmers shouldn't unionize, read the op-ed in Financial Times written by Sequoia's Michael Moritz this week to see why programmers should unionize ASAP: https://www.ft.com/content&#x
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by p_monk 10y ago
Adam Smith was making this same argument the only time he ever used the term "invisible hand." Smith assumed (incorrectly) that capitalists would always prefer their own domestic markets. For Smith, his conception of capitalism wa
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by p_monk 11y ago
Yes. If you pause and click on any of the dots, you can also see details about that slave ship: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...
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by p_monk 11y ago
The creation of the EPA, (and OSHA, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, Highway Safety Act, FOIA) was created because people demanded it, not because a Republican President was benevolent. Ralph Nader, and the organizations who wer
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by p_monk 11y ago
Mark Cuban: "In the tech bubble it was Broadcast.com, AOL, Netscape, etc. Today its, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, etc." Broadcast.com wasn't Uber. It wasn't even a Groupon
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by p_monk 11y ago
According to a report that came out a few months ago, there has been a 12% rise in homelessness in LA in the last 2 years. [1] I believe that number is way underreported. I don't have any evidence to point to. I've lived in Los An
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by p_monk 11y ago
Israel Hayom is indeed the largest paper daily in Israel. There's really no other paper that's even close at this point. Yediot Ahronot was a long-time incumbent, but they simply can't compete. http://www.nytimes.c
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by p_monk 11y ago
If the problem is that monied interest control policy, "getting money out of politics" doesn't solve the problem. Look as Israel as a cautionary tale of a country that did everything right according to the liberal prescriptio
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by p_monk 11y ago
Uber's "we need to meet demand" argument is true, but disingenuous. Uber needs to keep adding more drivers because they have such a high turnover rate. Many drivers work for a few months, realize that after costs they're
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by p_monk 11y ago
Brilliant. I believe his exit was planned before the referendum, regardless of the outcome. He had already openly stated that he would step down if the result of the vote was YES, but the media never asked him what would happen in the event
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by p_monk 13y ago
I live on this street. For the last 2 years it was a restaurant called Gastronomico. They started as a food truck, which still is operating and tweeting here: https://mobile.twitter.com/thegastrobus . The couple who owne
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by p_monk 14y ago
I have been several times and I have a lot of family there. Notice how I started my comment with "young people." I'm not familiar with the eastern part of the island, but in Havana, mobile phones are quite common amongst young people. Fu
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by p_monk 14y ago
About a year ago, the young people in Cuba already knew that the cable was laid, but were already very skeptical that it would ever be in operation. It's disheartening to read that they were right, for now. A number of positive changes ha
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by p_monk 14y ago
What do they have to do with military dictatorship? They filled several important roles in Pinochet's government in Chile and Videla's government in Argentina. There are more examples in Latin America, but these were the most horrific. My
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by p_monk 14y ago
Ref: Los Desaparecidos - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War#The_Disappeared_held_...
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by p_monk 14y ago
The last time the Friedmanites tried to impose neoliberal economic doctrine in Latin America it resulted in wide-scale repression and murder [1]. It is tragic, yet not surprising, that it's happening again. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by p_monk 14y ago
Many cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, require bars to obtain a specific license for dancing.
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by p_monk 15y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but a now common feature of multi-level parking lots in LA tell drivers how many parking spots are open on every floor. I'd like to see the concept extended to indicate where on each floor the open spots are a
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by p_monk 15y ago
whoa, didn't know that. thanks for the info.
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by p_monk 15y ago
So it would only target cardio machines, correct? I haven't included any support for cardio machines yet, mostly because I didn't think a voice interface could improve the process of logging a cardio workout. One thing is that the type of
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by p_monk 15y ago
You don't have to count rep by rep. Here's an example of how it would work You say "Bench Press." The app confirms with a beep. You want to add the some weight to the bar and tell the app how much weight you are going to use. So you say
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by p_monk 15y ago
1) I'm going to try and get a demo video added soon. 2) I primarily built it for myself, and I mostly do weight training at a gym. So there are a few features that may be helpful for interval training (superset support automatically adva
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Show HN: Flexbug is a hands-free, voice-controlled workout logger for iOS(flexbug.com)
10 points by p_monk 15y ago|13 comments
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by p_monk 15y ago
You should remember you turn off NSZombies before submitting.
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by p_monk 15y ago
When I view the listings on the map, the markers need to display an infowindow when clicked.
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by p_monk 15y ago
This is great. I needed a asphalt-like texture for a project and I made one using a site like this one, except with textures from the real world. http://www.mayang.com/textures/
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by p_monk 15y ago
Yea, that sentence made me wonder -- what is so special about their "5.0 ... redesign" that makes it so interesting to google?
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by p_monk 15y ago
Clustering the markers will greatly improve performance: http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru... I actually had this same idea a few months back. I'm the developer of truxmap.com, a real-time food truck map, and

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