Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
This could be a very good or very bad idea; a lot will depend on the execution, even more will depend on whether it gains enough acceptance. Overall, I think it should be handled more like a console and less like a tablet; its tablety goodn
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by Hyena 15y ago
I do think the competing link is a bridge too far, mostly because it involves a third party.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Short answer: in California, no, and given the extent of the CA tech industry and the reach of its boilerplate, ypu might be pleased to see that the clause from Cali is in your contract in Georgia.
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by Hyena 15y ago
No, I think that attitude is why people feel like they can get away with not paying. An established norm of "pay or things get nasty" would more effectively enforce payments. If nothing happens, the defaulter gets free stuff until it's reso
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by Hyena 15y ago
Very good. I applaud their decision to live well apart from me. Now if I could only convince the woman at Vons who is convinced that a DJ from Portland is controlling people in Los Angeles using the US Bank Tower to do the same.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I've actually heard this several times from people when I extol the virtues of Android. I use both systems, though.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Stories like this convince me that many of the most sophisticated cases of tax evasion are actually the product of an OCD-like behavior.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I stopped reading major media for this very reason: I was 22 and felt dejected because, unlike the latest crop of amazings in Newsweek, I had not cured cancer by the age of 19. Second best decision I ever made.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I'd be happy if tis succeeded, as it would tend to vindicate my view that social networks will be connected toeqch other but fragmented by localization.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I'm inclined to agree with the premise that "large numbers of people quietly despise their lives", but I think it's generally a weak effect. Most of us will, especially if questioned, find regrets that make us despise our lives; "years lost
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by Hyena 15y ago
No, in 2002 the US and Europe were in recession. That is why you had trouble finding a job, not your skills or whatever else. That it took a couple of years is incredibly bad and that recession was comparatively minor. I think you don't kno
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by Hyena 15y ago
Can you name an international software acquisition which has gone well?
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by Hyena 15y ago
Lots of comments, but I didn't notice any questions. It would be ineffective to prescribe a solution based on what is said because there is not much information. All the proposals here seem to be for a problem diagnosed in the commenter. Wh
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by Hyena 15y ago
"and when those companies make boatloads of cash in their own country, guess where they will start pushing out to?" Nowhere. They're localized copies of services existing elsewhere. Their strength tends to be either localization or central
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by Hyena 15y ago
I wonder if Google even needs to profit from Android or "keep people in its ecosystem". Given Google's scope, it might be profitable to do any fairly low expense thing which increases Internet use.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Because one currency for one continent has been working out so well for Europe....
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by Hyena 15y ago
Save that, as PG points out, the important question is what percentage of your life becomes school as a result. One poor consequence of this model could be that people spend less time working with motivated others and instead push through c
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by Hyena 15y ago
"Overall compensation" refers to salary plus bonus and options, rarely does it include things like health insurance, employer payroll taxes and the like. If it did, the lower numbers would be much higher than they are, IIRC.
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by Hyena 15y ago
If only 10% of the population is driving economic growth, that would indicate an intense resource problem. Doesn't it seem plausible that we should seriously consider the possibility that somewhere around 1973 our essentially 19th century s
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by Hyena 15y ago
Diffusion, not innovation, drives economic growth. This is simple to demonstrate by looking at the rate of catch-up growth. If there is a problem with economic growth, it is more likely that there are too few diffusion pathways than too lit
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by Hyena 15y ago
The main problem statistically is how we account income. Generally the employer-paid health insurance and other benefits are not included, even though these can often vastly increase total compensation. Scott Winship did a good job followin
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by Hyena 15y ago
First, it doesn't control for increasing health costs. Employer-provided health plans have seen large amounts of cost growth and this depresses wages, for which they substitute. This is better than the raw story. Second, much of the top qui
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by Hyena 15y ago
This presumes that only the "top end" has access to those levers. That's only true through the patent system and, incidentally, Dean Baker points out that the patent system is a good predictor of inequality. So levers for me, not for thee h
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by Hyena 15y ago
Sadly, the premise going forward is that everyone should get a basic income. I don't think the monkeys will agree until it's far too late.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The problem is that a wage-to-wage comparison with their export markets isn't important. China's advantage is stacking low wages + large staff against high wages + machines.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The reason that people feel prostitution is wrong is because they feel that no-consequences sex is wrong and so providing an inducement is doubly wrong, likewise, that doing anything immoral for money is worse than simply doing it. All the
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by Hyena 15y ago
Damn it! 8 minutes too late!
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by Hyena 15y ago
The part being left out is this: we've had only one setup for computer users since (what?) the 1960s and it would be incredibly surprising if that was the way everyone wanted to use computers all of the time. Should we really be surprised t
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by Hyena 15y ago
This makes me think: I'd love to see a tell-all about how product developmemt works at Samsung more than another about Apple. Other comapnies are more mysterious to me at this point.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Because this religion is actively engaged in market labor, they wouldn't qualify even as a religious worker.

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