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by adjkant 7y ago
So this is discussing two competing studies done at the same time. I linked to an article about the authors from the original study actually revising their results a year later with new data and basically saying "our previous conclusio
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by adjkant 7y ago
> No, it doesn't. Competition can also do it, but idk how that eliminates minimum wage from doing it. Neither raises revenue, both simply put pressure on profit margins. The only difference is one is regulation, the other is market
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Try it like this. Federal minimum wage comes out to around $15,000/year. This is in the same ballpark as college tuition -- which is generally regarded as costing a lot of money. If you go to an institution where you're a nov
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by adjkant 7y ago
> My understanding was that Seattle commissioned a multi-year study, and then when the results didn't go their way, quickly rushed a study out the door that said what they wanted. Do you have any source for that? Because the same au
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by adjkant 7y ago
The argument you're making requires that you are making a significant personal investment in yourself at that $4 an hour job, which I have yet to find such an example of. I'd be happy to hear about some. Internships for lucrative
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by adjkant 7y ago
> It’s an exciting example of people looking really hard for ways to confirm their priors on both sides. It seems like you're doing that here yourself: > The Seattle minimum wage study showed a reduction in hours and benefits and
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Speaking as an economist > As a profession, we have a miserable track record on morality. You can't say they didn't warn you!
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by adjkant 7y ago
The irony of this comment is that it is exactly missing the morality in an economic situation, the claim being that if you are capable of work and are trying your best, you deserve to have enough pay to live off of. Minimum wage does not pr
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by adjkant 7y ago
"decide" is not incompatible with determinism, it just means the decision will always be the same. We all make decisions every day, they just aren't free. So in this case, it has all been determined that we do not have the ed
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by adjkant 7y ago
I mean building your database via "I'd like to connect" message is one thing, getting specific job descriptions + being asked to start the recruitment process is a bit farther than that. I'm getting about the same ratio
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by adjkant 7y ago
Anecdotally I'm still getting lots of recruiter spam from these types of companies on Linkedin and my current company that offers a good deal of RSU's is still hiring. It's not everywhere but in this particular recession and
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by adjkant 7y ago
Anyone thinking of starting a company to see if this idea is viable? Asking for a friend https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs
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by adjkant 7y ago
When the companies are the main lobbyists of corporate tax law, they effectively become judge/jury/executioner. You can say "Boycott Apple" but that's not really viable either for an injustice that is not seen by mo
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by adjkant 7y ago
> I'm sure the airlines did keep enough cash for an emergency fund, but every emergency fund comes with a model of what an emergency looks like, and for airlines what makes sense to cover is things like oil price increases or a rece
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by adjkant 7y ago
> The auto industry did this through high wages and very large pension plans, and got absolutely destroyed in '08 and also demonized by taxpayers for creating an undeserving "welfare class" of autoworkers that was too expe
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by adjkant 7y ago
4. Increase pay/benefits to your rank and file employees for helping you get so much cash 5. Invest back in the business at reasonable levels so as to keep enough cash for an emergency fund 6. Focus on improving world impact through st
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by adjkant 7y ago
> How can you even claim an "average death rate" when you don't even know how many people were infected, had mild symptoms, and recovered without reporting it to anyone? We can either throw our hands up and give up or we c
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by adjkant 7y ago
That "as much as" was attempting to account for overloaded medical conditions which will raise the rate, though for 20-44 it'd be unclear by how much. If we go by that table using a 2.3% death rate, that'd already be .3%
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by adjkant 7y ago
The thing missing here is that you're looking at deaths without looking at number of cases of each. The flu causes the number of deaths it does because it infects tens of millions of people a year[0]. The death rate is an order of magn
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by adjkant 7y ago
Agreed completely. I think it's quite easy to imagine that a virtual version of this law could be enacted to require that they actually deal with these situations in a timely manner.
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by adjkant 7y ago
https://apnews.com/ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Maybe I could see an argument for localc, but sheets is actually pretty costly at $50-150/year. Where are you getting that from? I see Enterprise GSuite at $25 a user (max) and that includes mail and drive. The cost of sheets here
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by adjkant 7y ago
Is the other half the hole of legacy support you dig yourself into supporting the bad decisions and naive assumptions you made driving with that hubris?
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by adjkant 7y ago
Sheets will fit a lot of excel use cases for those not doing serious heavy lifting with it. FWIW, I'm a software engineer and our IT department actually let people opt out of Microsoft office if they weren't using it to save money
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Nothing will stop stalkers from crawling stories with archive.is or even just taking screenshots. That assumes many things, the first being that someone thinks you're important enough to archive, and that you were important enough
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by adjkant 7y ago
27 hours checking in here. Melatonin can help but generally I tend to go in stages of not getting enough sleep, some forms of biphasic/polyphasic sleeping, and basically going to bed early when not getting enough sleep to buy me a few
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by adjkant 7y ago
I don't think the parent would be asking for such an app based on the other content, and sometimes that's the most important answer in tech: to know where it isn't needed.
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by adjkant 7y ago
I'm really hoping to see this soon: https://blog.golang.org/why-generics
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by adjkant 7y ago
I couldn't recommend a yearly budget higher. I have a "Banking" spreadsheet and a "Budgeting" spreadsheet that work together. "Banking" tracks current assets/loans/etc as a current picture as wel
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by adjkant 7y ago
I mean city life isn't for everyone but I personally love dense urban cities and you can 100% have a great QOL there, especially when well designed. I live in NYC and would point to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Budapest, and Amsterdam am

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