YokoZar

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by YokoZar 11y ago
And out here in the bay area, basically none of them have. In parts of the country where Asian restaurants are relatively scarce, I believe combination restaurants are a lot more common. There is much less room for market specialization, a
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by YokoZar 11y ago
It's a bit surprising that we managed to actually find some more capacity in certain areas.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
There is certainly technology that substitutes many cheap (low-skill) workers for a few individually more expensive ones. The value to the business of the labor would increase, and on average "labor value" would be higher, but it
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by YokoZar 11y ago
The problem here is that Wine is buggy, not that application developers aren't all rewriting everything.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
It's not quite the case that using Wine is an alternative to porting. Sometimes the port itself simply bundles Wine. Some say that this "doesn't count", but when Wine works well users can't tell the difference bet
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Questionable revival or not, the fact remains the US manufactures more in terms of dollars than it ever has -- it just does it with dramatically fewer people.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Hole digging is a waste of labor. Basic income allows the person to do other valuable things, such as work a job part time and care for children or go to school. Or they work a non-hole-digging job full time.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
What happens in this situation is the people who used to make the obsolete things are now out of a job, and eventually get employment somewhere else. What they do then counts for productivity. If they earn what they did before, you&#x27
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by YokoZar 11y ago
>UberPool and UberHop are actually productivity increases. A single driver can provide 2-4 trips worth of value with about 1 trip's worth of work. However, that's just going to drive the cost of trips down. If Uber and its driv
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by YokoZar 11y ago
It has to be good, it's the standard by which other medicines are judged !
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Patents last 20 years, well over a decade.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
From the article, it seems Oracle is only claiming one billion in damages.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
I find it hard to blame Q-tips when common ear buds these days go just as far in the ear.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Why do you think Google was the ad network responsible? The article names several other ad networks (Atomx, Yahoo) and doesn't even mention Google.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
By preventing them from selling their insurance on the state-run exchange if they don't meet the standards.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
We're only interested in the salaries of the jobs we actually take. Final offers will be negotiated upward from the interview request. Interview requests where the candidate (or company) don't proceed won't. So why use inte
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by YokoZar 11y ago
I don't think hired.com really takes candidates who are just starting their careers, so their data will be almost all mid-career folks.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
It's not dictators that are ok, it's the overly strictly defined "independence of irrelevant alternatives" It is entirely possible that reasonable voters will end up with a rock-paper-scissors situation among their top t
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by YokoZar 11y ago
With any luck, you have a group legal plan.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
It's certainly possible that the observed bias isn't the fault of First Round Capital's selection process if the applying populations are different -- the "pre-selection" bias you're talking about. If that&#x27
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by YokoZar 11y ago
It is true if you are in the unfortunate position of havig a good chunk of your pension tied up in company stock. This is a terrible idea for the pensioner, of course, but nevertheless many 401k plans and a good chunk of defined-benefit pl
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by YokoZar 11y ago
I'm not sure you read the article correctly. He was asked to make his tests easier, and his students performed better in subsequent classes taught by different professors.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
In practice you don't even need to make a "good faith" claim that you actually have a copyright at all -- no company has ever been punished for sending takedown notices for things that are clearly in the public domain.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
I always did think it a bit odd that I can't just create an "Open Cell Tower" the way I might make an open wifi access point. This is true even if I have the resources and property rights to build such a thing - say, to make
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Are you being paid minimum wage? No? Then there's something you're not considering. There is at least some competition for your labor, and making it dramatically more expensive to employ you will have some effect on how much m
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Boomers will at least get social security payouts. The next generation almost surely won't. In terms of policy, it seems like the Boomer's main investment strategy was to take it from their children via payroll taxes.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
State governments generally do not without some creative accounting. Most states have "balanced budget" requirements, although they're allowed to issue bonds - provided said bonds are specifically earmarked for specific prog
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by YokoZar 11y ago
There's a substantial difference between teambuilding work events on work time and putting out a basketball court on campus for employees to use in their off hours. The latter is still a "company provided opportunity for shared g
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Sorry, but what? What does an ad that shows between levels of angry birds on your phone have to do with ads blocking you from getting your search result? This sounds like some weird sort of misdirection attempt.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Or decide whether or not to flip it by putting it on top of your other hand depending on how it landed when you caught it.

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