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Comment Re:Yes, because moderation is oh so hard to do (Score 2) 384

THIS. Huffington Post isn't saying "you have to use your real name to comment here", they're saying "you have to have a facebook account to comment here". Big difference.

Needless to say, fuck you Huffington Post and anyone else who requires me to give facebook more personal info.

Civil enough for you?

Comment Re: (Score 1) 606

No, no misconceptions. You didn't argue against a single point I made, go read again. lol indeed.

You are talking about the mechanics of how people get paid which is complete unrelated to the point(s) I made -save labor unions, and your post backs up mine. "That is when people started seeing that 90% of what unions were needed for was already encoded into law and their remaining usefulness was mostly about greed of income". Ahem, unions were harder to break before, and easier to break after.

Comment Re: (Score 1) 606

wth? Where did you get that from?

*No one* who talks about this is interested in beating down the rich, and I am no exception.

Supply side economics: If the wealthy have more money someone is more likely to build a factory.

Traditional economics: If most people have more money more factories will likely be built to satisfy demand.

Supply side economics (voodoo economics if you remember) is a LIE that only continues because a handful of people at the top benefit a lot *right now*. But even they realize that it's a long term loser for the whole economy.

Comment Re: (Score 3, Insightful) 606

The minimum wage is/was *supposed* to be for kids in or just out of high school, college students, etc.

The real cause of this, the point at which we jumped into the race to the bottom was in the 80's, when two things happend:

Union busting actually became popular. Reagan busting the air traffic controllers, and the unexpected level of approval from Americans, was a tipping point. Upward pressure on wages fell away across the economy.

Supply side economic policy has been the norm since (under Reagan) taxes on the super rich was basically cut in half.

Income inequality is the real devil here. The flatter the line is the better off everyone is, even the super rich. To fix it we need two things, upward pressure on labor wages, and an artificial friction to acquiring wealth. By that I mean the more wealthy you are the harder it is to get more wealthy. A progressive tax system does this, but maybe there are other methods.

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 88

Really?

First, I think Docker is pretty awesome. Many people have been struggling with home grown solutions for LXC for a while now and Docker comes along and wows us, like dang it's clear how it should be done now that I've seen it.

But. I am disappointed in the lack of words given to LXC.

Your analogy would be appropriate if dozens of people worked for almost a decade inventing a database and then someone had a great idea for a really usable front end. And presented it to a database ignorant world with hardly a nod to the guys who made the database. I'm not feeling any derision towards the Docker guys, but disappointment, yes.

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