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by Dove 14y ago
Let me get this straight. You think a minimum wage increase will increase the velocity of money, which will cause inflation, which is a good thing. That's the argument? Is that argument . . . original?
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by Dove 14y ago
The flaw in the argument is a basic type-error: Type MORAL does not match type FACTUAL. I . . . think you must be thinking of someone else. I didn't make a moral argument. (Well, okay, I've made lots of moral arguments, but I haven't ma
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by Dove 14y ago
You still aren't criticizing the argument. You're criticizing the motivations of the people who wrote it. Even if you're correct, even if the people who wrote it are against government action in every form (and they aren't, by the way!),
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by Dove 14y ago
let's imagine we are going to see an doubling of productivity in the economy as Software Eats The World. But no increase in the number of jobs. I'm not comfortable with that assumption. All that software isn't going to write itself... Bu
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by Dove 14y ago
I'll accept the first proposition: the people who were earning below the minimum wage before, who keep their jobs, have more money to spend. (Limitation: I accept the argument that says if they are producing significantly more than they are
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by Dove 14y ago
Criticize the argument, not the name of the website.
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by Dove 14y ago
Inflation doesn't work that way. You can't legislate it into existence, and you can't legislate it away. If you could, it would be an easy problem to solve. Inflation occurs when you add to the money supply more than you add to the econom
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by Dove 14y ago
Teenagers don't need to support a family. Without much in the way of valuable skills, they may still want a job for spending money and experience. Your proposed minimum wage would make this illegal. College students don't need to support
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't think it's nonsense. The things that are wrong with a $1000 minimum wage are the same things that are wrong with a $10 minimum wage. They're just happening to different people. Setting a $1000 minimum wage would destroy essentia
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by Dove 14y ago
rising minimum wage makes for more spenders I don't see that at all. Raising the minimum wage results in people at the bottom losing their jobs, hence fewer spenders. I can't imagine why on earth you'd think there would be more. Nor d
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by Dove 14y ago
Ah! Thank you! I had the most miserable time trying to google for that exact graph.
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by Dove 14y ago
That isn't entirely accurate. The Fire doesn't prevent you from installing arbitrary third party apps and app stores. It's just that it can't use the most important one: Google Play. This is not entirely the Fire's fault. Play is no me
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by Dove 14y ago
We've had different experiences, then. I've done work through vworker -- now freelancer -- for the last couple years, and at no time have I had trouble getting work at my target rate. Sure, I pass a lot of projects that can't afford my w
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by Dove 14y ago
Not that unusual. People just don't know what things cost. I find it even more tragic to see situations like this: https://www.freelancer.com/projects/PHP-Android/LOOKING-FOR-... Here's a fellow who wants to build something difficult. H
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't think the noise matters. Just the signal. There are a lot of impossible projects, on impossible budgets, for impossible clients on these sites. There are also projects that are cool in all three categories. You sometimes have to
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by Dove 14y ago
Not always , no. They measure different things and fail in different ways. Take the dataset [7, 8, 9], with a median and mean of 8. Adding a 100 to the set results in a median of 8.5 and a mean of 31, so the mean moves much farther. This
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by Dove 14y ago
I think you can use the word "amazing" as a synonym for "dramatic" rather than for "unexpected". For example, I have heard people describe sunsets as amazing.
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by Dove 14y ago
Programming enables automation of your domain-specific knowledge. Animators who could program gave us CG movies. Musicians who could program gave us software music composition tools. Would garbage collectors who could program give us rob
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by Dove 14y ago
Large, skilled populations bring great advances. In a world with hundreds of programmers, you get FORTRAN and specialized computers solving defense problems. In a world with hundreds of thousands, you get everything from smartphones and v
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by Dove 14y ago
Well, thanks -- that's good input. :) I didn't mean to be misleading. I agree with you; the strong opinion I developed was that those animals are clearly food. And that some of the excessive compassion spent on them would be better spen
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by Dove 14y ago
I also found that hard to believe. When I am reading aloud, I typically read a few words ahead of what I'm speaking -- and sometimes as much as a sentence or two! It's really necessary to get the emphasis right; I like to comprehend a whol
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by Dove 14y ago
I know! Art from other cultures can be so confusing! I grew up in the pacific northwest, surrounded by a lot of examples of Inuit art. The captions always said something like, "This one is an orca," and I always thought, "If you say so!"
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by Dove 14y ago
My thought as well. My exposure to animals as a kid was almost exclusively through cartoons, and very occasionally through zoos or other people's pets. I had no strong opinion on vegetarianism in jr. high, though some of my friends did.
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by Dove 14y ago
That's not practical. Sometimes things need to stick together in a package, and it might be bigger than two pages. As a simple example, if you had a bill that included "Fund this new program" and "Levy this new tax to cover it", those pro
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, it's hard to get sympathy from me for upping micro requirements. That could be because I'm bad at it, and find it uninteresting. Those might also be related. :P For example, take that trick with keeping a couple of void rays charged
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't know that that has anything to do with carriers specifically, though. The old AI just wasn't very smart -- there were lots of cheap game-breaking tricks you could use. Lurkers in the base entrance, for example, generally resulted
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by Dove 14y ago
Really? That's interesting. I've noticed that units never seem to have the good sense to target Brood Lords rather than Broodlings when they have a choice. It seemed odd, given that the AI had improved so much in other areas -- pathfindin
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by Dove 14y ago
It's a recursive process. He made a darker shade of the main green for big shadows; the entire lower body is painted that color. He then made shadows for that green. He also did highlights by the same recursive process. The hues aren't con
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by Dove 14y ago
I would imagine some sort of fault tree analysis. Safety engineering in complex systems does that a lot: you start with an event you don't want to happen, imagine all the ways it could happen, estimate the probabilities of each contributin
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by Dove 14y ago
Oh, it can be done. Just not every day. I once went on a hacking run in grad school that was over 24 hours sustained. I was a gibbering mess for the next couple days, but I think it was worth it. I wouldn't do it for a job, though. I th

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