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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Business creation is not a particularly useful metric. Note that I qualified with "innovative." That there are more restaurants and more people have their lawn professionally landscaped rather than cutting it themselves doesn't really creat
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
What percentage of immigrants start innovative businesses? I think it's negligible. Immigrants overwhelmingly enter the labor market and drive down wages. http://cis.org/immigration-and-the-american-worker-review-ac...
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
The cadillac evokes a sailing sloop. The porsche evokes a stallion. Cadillac has long deliberately referenced maritime traditions for style elements. They're just stylistically different and I don't see how one can easily see superiority in
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
What exactly are the density restrictions on residential buildings in San Francisco? I'm slightly familiar with DC and Philadelphia and in neither case is building height or zoning the key issue. Unions and crime figure in. I'm rather again
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Silicon Valley firms need young men to find their socialization at work and put in long hours. In a properly functioning urban society people have many strong local relationships outside work. In a normal place you leave work at 5:00 or 6:0
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
The word you're looking for is ahistorical.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
Well at the very least you don't know what the tax rates will be when you begin withdrawals.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
You don't need to time sleep and you don't need to weigh calories. You just need to make sure nothing is fucking up your true sleepiness and that nothing is messing up your appetite. You have sophisticated systems in you to govern consumpti
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by 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
I remember pretty much the same article about young Japanese but published many years ago. Despite the thoughtful list I think the main thing is probably the same in both cases: the younger generation is poorer than their predecessors. Youn
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
There is a long history of cycles in immigration to the US. There were discrete periods of high immigration, followed by resulting social stress and unrest, and then long periods of zero net immigration. From the 1880s through the 1910s the
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
It's really one of the few things in the modern economy still clearly fitting the old Marxist narrative. It really is capital crushing labor.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
My guess is they have really narrow elitist concerns about bringing high skilled foreigners into Silicon Valley, but they figured out they can't pursue that goal stand-alone. So they're hitching up with the broader suite of treason-lobby ma
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
People very much want social prestige, about as much as salary. A profession associated with a high percentage of foreigners with strange accents and low cultural integration stinks of low prestige. It powerfully discourages entrants. This
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
I'm not sure what ties these people to the USA. They could set up shop in any of a dozen places and import whoever they want. They have narrow elitist interests and don't seem to care about the American society at large. If they did they wo
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
This is the letter of the law but everyone knows it's a joke. There are very successful consulting firms that guide employers through the process of "documenting" that workers are not available at the "prevailing wage." They list jobs in un
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
Immigration benefits the economic elite, but is either financially neutral or harmful to the larger population. http://cis.org/immigration-and-the-american-worker-review-ac... That's just a financial perspective but there are other costs
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
The reasons for the culture of urban sprawl in the USA substantially boil down to white flight. Urban planning was a disaster in most US cities, the governments and services were dysfunctional, and there were too many people in the cities t
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
There's also seems to be a case against eating any concentrated feed lot raised meat from the USA. Russia and others have banned its import.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
Isn't it more accurate to say that the state mandates the currency by requiring it in payment of taxes? If I start paying people in old Deutschmark notes or silver bullion it's not the Fed that will come at me, it's the IRS.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
If bitcoin plays out like the enthusiasts envision, then some laws get passed and people get thrown in jail and there's your kibosh. This should be obvious but the enthusiasts will still be surprised.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
Anybody have comments on Guile vs. V8 for embedding purposes? Performance? API quality?
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
> However, quite simply, porn is not inherently evil. (If you refute that, you’re engulfed by the Victorian-era hyperbole of the sinful and tasteless expressions of sexuality.) Anyone over 25 has witnessed the vulgarizing affect increas
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
In a legitimate land grab style business model you could be working lots of hours for a rather good shot at very large amounts of money. I don't see anything wrong with burning the candle hard for a few years on a well calculated risk for h
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
Are Taiwanese companies Chinese or not?
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
All the major Asian and Western urban centers are huge population sinks with way below replacement TFR.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
I don't see how access to the treasury market has bearing. The issue is seigniorage. In our system that mostly happens through fraction reserve banking, mostly independent of government debt.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
Inflation transfers wealth from savers and creditors to those with first access to newly created money. In our system it is the banks and the federal government that have first access to newly created money.
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by 13b9f227ecf0 14y ago
A lot of the monetary history stuff is wrong in the way that most economic texts are wrong. "Debt: The First 5000 Years" is a fantastic book from an anthropologist's perspective that clears up the real origins of money. For just one example