Evbn

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631.
by Evbn 14y ago
What does part time have to do with hourly wage?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Gosh, I wonder if being ruled by a mass murderer dictator might have been a factor?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Deadweight loss only occurs if government is incapable of putting people to productive work. government, while imperfect, has some capacity for organizing productive labor.
634.
by Evbn 14y ago
Unemployed people can do plenty of things to develop skills, and are often required to do so by welfare programs. What are the main skills acquired by working at Walmart after the first week?
635.
by Evbn 14y ago
The problem with EITC (and Medicaid) is that it subsidizes employers like Walmart.
636.
by Evbn 14y ago
By that same logic, if government raises the rate, negotiating on your behalf, your labor is worth more.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Unemployment doesn't have to be worse than low-wage employment, in a progressive socialized economy.
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by Evbn 14y ago
It costs $25-$35 / diner to pay a server $12/hr?
639.
by Evbn 14y ago
Are you somehow under the impression that Hollywood buys fewer screenplays than it would if producers could pay less? That there are some movies not getting made because of this?
640.
by Evbn 14y ago
Yes. In this modern world, it is better to give unemployment checks to pay people to study or clean the streets than to do something no one would give a tenner for.
641.
by Evbn 14y ago
Did you just confuse revenue with earnings?
642.
by Evbn 14y ago
Java's private is class based, not object based, so it's not really private. That is sort of broken. Closure actually has truly local mutability, in its "transients" feature
643.
by Evbn 14y ago
If you have meetings with 20 people with nontrivial frequency, you've already lost.
644.
by Evbn 14y ago
10 yeas on, I have never finished waiting for Spotlight to index my drive and serve a query.
645.
by Evbn 14y ago
What hackathon? You can run your own business in FB APIs, not just hand them over to FB.
646.
by Evbn 14y ago
You are severely underpaid, my friend. Surely you can think of a better recipient of your charity than the owner of your company?
647.
by Evbn 14y ago
You can save some effort by using a well regarded way of making money: getting a paycheck.
648.
by Evbn 14y ago
You forgot income tax there.
649.
by Evbn 14y ago
More like 12 years. If you retire in 10 years, you will need more than 25 years of retirement spending.
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by Evbn 14y ago
The only way to prevent abuse is to keep your data unavailable to Google and others.
651.
by Evbn 14y ago
It is kept secret from the victims, the most relevant people to the spying.
652.
by Evbn 14y ago
How could gmail support PGP? The whole point of PGP is that the infrastructure can't read your mail. Even of Gmail wanted to, they couldn't, except maybe in the android/iphone app. But even then, you would be insane to trust them to do it r
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by Evbn 14y ago
The international barrier is a large extra hurdle to cross.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Google, the largest ad business on the planet, derives much of its revenue from a product that is directly antagonistic to advertisers: organic search.
655.
by Evbn 14y ago
What if pure code throws an Exception? If every function is effectively impure, it still sucks.
656.
by Evbn 14y ago
Functional programs don't make this easier. And don't say "monad transformer stacks" somehow solve this problem in an easier way.
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by Evbn 14y ago
And which shows that the supposed 'fall' is nothing new.
658.
by Evbn 14y ago
Or maybe colleges are diverse and you had a well behaved group of friends.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Teach? Easy. Grade? No. And that's what the problem: too much focus on grades, which are nearly meaningless.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Ironically (note: probably wrong diction), the worse the article is, the better it proves its point, as it is a student publication.

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