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"Real wages are the standard." Standard for what? What are real wages? There is no "real wage" that can be compared across sectors very meaningfully. What really matters is access…

> And these days prices are not moving much and it is recognised that it is very important that they go up, a lot, for those at the bottom. Oops. I meant nominal wages must go up, and nominal p…

Possibly. But "inflation" is a slippery concept. It is often published as a single number but it is not. Prices do not rise in the same way for all people. Relative costs and prices acro…

I block "Google Analytics" trackers. It makes me wonder how useful they really are.

On my lawn I have clover, daisies, dandelions, and fescue. Fescue is the only one I planted. The bees are quite pleased We have a lot of rain in Waitati and I do not water it. Three years ago it dri…

...an algorithm or data structure operation described as being 'O(n)' could really be 'O(n) + x' No it should not. (O(N) + x) is O(N). That is how it works, is spoken about... Wh…

I prefer my food made by a plant not in a plant...

Not really. The GFC was a financial/banking crisis There is nothing in "growth at any cost" style "capitalism" that means banks must all collapse together in a coordinated sw…

* A organisation's requirements for data processing is a function of the organisations data processing capabilities and always greater * All software has bugs, no software is inefficient * A prog…

Front running.

I cannot read that article in Firefox. Ironic

Is this a joke? I quote: "A neat little trick is to make the link to close the modal small and put it very close to the link that lets the user install the application. This will make users much …

* Privacy policy does not seem to prohibit much data mining That, data mining, must be part of the business case. Especially the friend maps they can generate.

Why Slack? Why are their services used by anybody? It is like IRC never happened. I have been on a couple of projects that used Slack and AFAICT there is nothing in their service that accounts for t…

A "moped" has pedals. These are not mopeds...

Happy memories

It would be EconTalk with Glen Wyle. Batshit crazy. A Georgian land taxer who is just as batshit as all their fellow travellers.

Drugs are a social justice issue. Not a health issue. Drug abuse is a health issue. Most drug use is not abuse.

I had to look up MRA. It is a shame that men's rights activists cannot spend time advocating for men in areas where men need it. I would assert that is clearly not in tech! But in areas such as …

Thanks, I did not know about that. I am puzzled by some of the decisions. Whatever, up to the moderators how they moderate.

Explain? "...look at this thread."

Why are so many so afraid? Would they be afraid of a "Black Founders Conference"? What about men tackling issues like work/life balance and getting connections to their families? A &qu…

Totally agree about the need for moderation. I am not complaining! I am not sure how our comments are adding to the problem. We should not act as if there is no problem with prejudice and bigotry in…

The comments here have been weird. The moderation intense. It is a valid question: Why does women organising together create such hostile excitement? Perhaps it is an illustration of the need for su…

Just don't do it. The economy of Nepal has been horribly distorted by western trekkers and do gooders.

Perhaps Twitter is big enough? It grew to the propper size and there it can stay...

Exactly. I start with text files and for most purposes I do not bother with anything else. Next is a key/value store. Simple. Relational databases carry large overhead in translating data (as ab…

That is a misunderstanding of latency. "Very fast" is still latency.