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klarstrup··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
Rate of Profit (which has a tendency to fall)
klarstrup··on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
A woman is someone who sees in herself at least one attribute, which she regards as a sufficient condition for her own membership in that category. What that attribute is can vary from woman to woman.

The same definition applies mutatis mutandis to men.

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Now what is the concession that's being made?

klarstrup··on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
It is unclear to me what concession is being made by way of accurate language?
klarstrup··on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
Yeah, there are men who want to have kids. Many such cases.
klarstrup··on We need a middle class for startups
> In fact, Mittelstands will probably perform even better if they can figure out how to attract the kinds of talent well-funded startups do. And from there, it'll be a virtuous cycle.

Perform better towards what end?

klarstrup··on We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
"criminal laws that disproportionately penalized black males, sent them to jail for long periods of time and hurt their potential to find jobs, earn money, and support their families when released"
klarstrup··on Sen. Joe Manchin says no to $2T bill: ‘I can’t vote for it’
why are the people in Manchins district are reliant on coal
klarstrup··on Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)
What are some examples/places you've seen that have simultaneously allowed marijuana smokeing but discouraged tobacco smoking? In my country the signs are just "no smoking" they don't say what
klarstrup··on Sen. Joe Manchin says no to $2T bill: ‘I can’t vote for it’
curious to know where you were going with this comment
klarstrup··on Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)
Yeah it's weird how there seems to be so little institutional support for regulating low-risk psychoactive substances like nicotine(and caffeine). Stimulants that increase alertness and enhances concentration, very useful for productivity.
klarstrup··on Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
I would've preferred to see this come by way of union power, but government bought is ok
klarstrup··on Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
it says "out of working hours", even if your hours are flexible they're still working hours I would say
klarstrup··on U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huawei gear
What is an ideologue?
klarstrup··on Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families
And

4. For some people there simply isn't a risk.

klarstrup··on All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
glance over a stirner summary i beg you
klarstrup··on No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
There are examples in that paper of scenarios of effectively influenced coin tosses...
klarstrup··on DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes
"It would be cost-prohibitive not to litter"

If one can't do business without carelessly leveraging finite public resources I would argue that that business is untenable

klarstrup··on A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
Property(intellectual and otherwise) enforcement _is_ a goody from the state, by the by
klarstrup··on Finland's prime minister wants her country on a four-day workweek
Makes you wonder how the globalised standard improved over the past century

(it was the unions)

klarstrup··on Finland's prime minister wants her country on a four-day workweek
Back in the old days the English really knew how to keep youth employment high
klarstrup··on Finland's prime minister wants her country on a four-day workweek
> There are also not a lot of countries where people complain more than the French. It's a national sport.

Sounds like it's working

klarstrup··on The dark side of GraphQL: performance
You can implement your GraphQL server to do either of those, it's not inherent.
klarstrup··on Why I Voted to Sell .ORG
It's true, property exists exclusively as something someone enforces with violence directly or indirectly.
klarstrup··on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
>Why do people want to give the authority to Facebook to decide whether an ad is within the acceptable range?

Do they currently not hold such power?

klarstrup··on To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews
bros'll be bros
klarstrup··on California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft
The extremely low barrier to entry for their workforce is a part of their business model, and what by extension forces those of no other choice to subject themselves to it.
klarstrup··on Why ElementaryOS Left Medium
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there is actually a code of ethics within my union, I'll try to seek it out and see what we may want to do. Could be cool.
klarstrup··on Why ElementaryOS Left Medium
Your point on worker solidarity got me thinking. In some countries(such as mine) we have decent unionization rates for IT workers, would it be a good idea to have such ethical issues encoded into the union lines?