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on Sep 5, 2021
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If I may ask, what's your view (if any) on the nascent (a?)political

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on Aug 4, 2021
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I kind of am.

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on Aug 4, 2021
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Not to mention the massive amount of resources the invisible hand has reallocated from preventative…

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on Aug 4, 2021
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No amount of decades would have that effect, because our current economic system is trending in the…

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on Aug 4, 2021
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No. Punching down does not result from perception of unfairness.

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on Aug 4, 2021
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He's placed them on standby...for now.

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on Oct 1, 2020
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There's no such thing as a company too big to audit.

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on Sep 6, 2020
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Accused big time by David Newhoff, who carries water for Big IP.

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on Sep 5, 2020
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Social contagion is BS.

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on Sep 5, 2020
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Love it. I'm stealing this.

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on Aug 2, 2020
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Trial by ordeal.

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on Jul 27, 2020
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I certainly wouldn’t describe myself as an opponent of algorithms (not sure whether I should be…

The post doesn’t name any people as opponents of algorithms (perhaps prudently, given libel considerations), which is a little…

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on Mar 25, 2020
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I like that you say significant future and not indefinite future. I appreciate the optimism

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on Mar 25, 2020
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I am an anti-market anarchist.

The C4SS people and other mutualists talk a good game about worker-owned cooperatives, but assume competition between cooperatives. I do…

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on Feb 9, 2020
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I guess this is the unintended [?]

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on Jan 12, 2020
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It’s always refreshing to see people who view economies as something that can be modeled in some…

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on Dec 16, 2019
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There’s no reason it has to be this way.

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on Dec 16, 2019
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A guy in a lab coat is questioning your own memory of your own past. Sounds gaslighty to me.

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on Oct 26, 2019
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fertilitarianism

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on Oct 23, 2019
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gaslighting

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on Oct 23, 2019
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Source? Just kidding, I’m inclined to believe that’s still technically true, but I’m also inclined…

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on Sep 18, 2019
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Likewise, when egalitarianism-bashers invoke “absolute poverty” as an argument by suggesting that…

But the poor have cell phones…

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on Sep 4, 2019
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Woe unto you, lawyers!

Luke 11:52

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on Aug 26, 2019
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What is this, Stack Overflow?

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on Aug 25, 2019
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What’s the difference between a notary and an o

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on Aug 25, 2019
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Who are the developers?

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on Aug 25, 2019
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Don’t know about law, but maybe bookkeeping.

I only took two semesters of physics. If I learned nothing else, I learned SI, or Système Internationale, a system of units of measurement…

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on Jul 24, 2019
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Wait a minute, are you saying the legal profession is an example of a corporation?

Is the legal profession a corporation?

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on Jul 22, 2019
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In the physical sciences, power can be defined as “that which is measured in watts.”

Power is that which is measured in watts

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on Jul 22, 2019
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?

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on Jul 9, 2019
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I’m of two minds on the subject.

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on Jul 8, 2019
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Not requiring registration could arguably be seen as more small-scale-friendly and…

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on Jun 11, 2019
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I’m not sure what, if anything, to do with the information, if any, in this article.

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on Apr 6, 2019
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgSO8_cRio

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on Feb 3, 2019
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1965 birth cohort here.

While I have no apologies for those younger than myself, I do believe the economic conditions they have been handed are even worse than…

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on Jan 26, 2019
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Congratulations. According to Sartre, 40 is the age of reason.

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on Nov 29, 2018
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Entrepreneurship is truly a cancer.

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on Nov 28, 2018
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I liked this most of all:

It’s time we reduce the perceived need for intellectual property by guaranteeing everyone an unconditional basic income,

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on Nov 13, 2018
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Certainly there are no new apps.

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on Aug 28, 2018
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Speaking as an anarchist, my desire is not so much to progress from being governed by algorithms to…

Speaking as an anti-market anarchist, I must say that I don’t see negotiability as the solution to anything, as negotiation is quite…

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on Aug 6, 2018
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Lucy Parsons:

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men…

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on Jul 30, 2018
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Coordination Problem

Venezuela

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on Jul 20, 2018
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I dunno. I get nervous any time anyone brings a “skin in the game” argument to the table.

Also, “it’s a business” makes anarcho-capitalist governance OK. OK, but I guess for me, the whole point in opposing capitalism is so maybe…

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on Feb 11, 2018
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I haven’t given much thought to the many eyes thing.

For now, though, I think I’ll take a breather from participating in Medium at all. So far, I’ve unsubscribed the “digest” mailing lists…

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on Jan 27, 2018
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Dunno, maybe my Generation X membership (and hacker/open source/DIY ethos) is showing, but I hate…

Part of me wants to try professionalism on for size, but mainly what’s holding me back is, what if I monetize my writings, and end up…

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on Jan 27, 2018
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Do you seriously believe that American economic history post-Reagan is a decrease in the level of…

It becomes clear in your last paragraph, where you reveal yourself as part of the “it’s really *crony* capitalism you’re against” crowd…

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on Jan 21, 2018
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The web was so much better before the advent of client-side scripting.

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on Jan 16, 2018
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Extreme compared to what?

Perhaps mixed economy is one of those “high in the middle, low on both ends” phenomena, like the Laffer curve. If so, and the rightmost…

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on Jan 16, 2018
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Hello. I’m one of those people who say we should get rid of markets and prices and that whole…

* Prices are, ostensibly, measurements of what human beings value.

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on Jan 14, 2018
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Yup, and I’m one of them.

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on Jan 14, 2018
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Foreign policy doves and civil libertarians have always been the exception rather than the rule…

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on Jan 13, 2018
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Transgender politics isn’t a thing.

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on Jan 12, 2018
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Can I get a first developer job in my 50s if it would also be my first “career” type job?

By the way, I just noticed that medium.com doesn’t advance the cursor when I type a second space between sentences. That <i>really</i>…

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on Jan 12, 2018
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“You know, the articles that start out by acknowledging that transgender people exist and should…

Yeah, bait and switch. I thank them daily for not literally persecuting me. /s

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on Nov 29, 2017
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Who is gonna bell the cat?

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on Nov 27, 2017
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This is the best voting schema I’ve seen so far. Carry on.

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on Nov 26, 2017
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Depends what exactly you mean by ‘hustle’

You use ‘hustle’ to mean “work both hard and smart.” I don’t think any reasonable person would disrespect that. Perhaps because I’m old, my…

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on Jul 11, 2017
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I live in Warren, Michigan (in the infamous Macomb County).

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on Jun 16, 2017
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Looking at Uncle Bob’s numbered list I see one part pledge of ethics and two parts pledge of…

Another thing, and maybe this is more under the heading of data scientists’ code of ethics than programmers’ code of ethics, leveraging…

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on Jun 6, 2017
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Tell me about the specific moment when you lost amateur status.

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on May 21, 2017
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I’ve reached the conclusion that business models and education should be mutually exclusive.

I strongly believe that monetization of content/information/knowledge <em>necessarily</em> implies <a…

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on Apr 27, 2017
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This is very interesting and this article is very useful to me.

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on Apr 24, 2017
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Are you sure Western Governors University is a legitimate school?

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on Apr 12, 2017
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