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by ahi 15y ago
There are far fewer protected classes in most US jurisdictions than in canada. E.g You can be fired for being gay in most states.
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by ahi 15y ago
A glance at the options pricing suggests to me the market agrees. Not a whole lot of volume, but betting against groupon will cost quite a premium.
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by ahi 15y ago
I suspect it is significant that Kip Hawley is former administrator. He is no longer being paid to stick to the party line in the face of reason and fact. A debate with the current administrator would be a display of colossal stupidity.
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by ahi 15y ago
More than a decade ago I worked in a warehouse with far superior automation than moving pods. Pieces could be picked off 50 foot high shelves and moved to the proper packing stations and loading dock on conveyors. Moving entire shelving uni
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by ahi 15y ago
Most of the content seems to be thinly veiled PR/ads as well.
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by ahi 15y ago
No one needs 29,000 trades a second liquidity. HFT serves no market making function. It is a drag on market operations and confidence.
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by ahi 15y ago
R is a delightful environment hobbled by a hideous language.
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by ahi 15y ago
Social validation is a powerful force with good and bad consequences.
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by ahi 15y ago
Of the three listed, the only one that is actually protected in the United States is religion. In the vast majority of the United States you can be fired for being gay or a republican. If you work for a labor organization in the United Stat
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by ahi 15y ago
Antitrust among other non-regulatory reasons.
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by ahi 15y ago
I would need some sort of spec or at least a vague understanding of intended behavior before testing. A good day is a day my lead dev doesn't bork the repository.
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by ahi 15y ago
I suspect your wind-farm energy is around 4.5 cents per kilowatt- hour edit: napkin math: .40 * 1000 watts = $400/kw Assuming 4380 hours of optimum sunlight per year and lifetime of 10 years ~= .01/kwh Should be competitive even when my ri
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by ahi 15y ago
Could this be rephrased as, "Why is linode so damn expensive?" I don't know the answer to that question. Maybe Hurricane Electric is both unreliable and expensive.
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by ahi 15y ago
Wonga is a rather poor example. They charge interest rates > 4000%. At that APR you can hand out loans to fourth graders and still make bank. edit: first attempt at finding a payday lender with cheaper rates was a success: 600% http:/
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by ahi 15y ago
When I'm working, it's always a bug in the compiler, kernel or hardware. The semicolon was implied. Just give me a minute to work around the compiler bug.
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by ahi 15y ago
JPMorgan hasn't had to figure out how to make those customers profitable because they've been able to load them up with fees. New regulations are giving them the option of pushing customers away, or figuring out how to make them profitable.
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by ahi 15y ago
The marginal cost for servicing an account should be roughly 0. There's no reason accounts with 1.50 should be unprofitable if you have updated your tech and business processes. Plenty of services survive with customer values in the fractio
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by ahi 15y ago
I can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe, but it takes Megabank a couple days to "wire" (what the fuck does that even mean?) my money to Hugebank a couple blocks away. I am sure we all have plenty examples of our banks'
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by ahi 15y ago
The original paper: https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dcvoting-fc12.pdf
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by ahi 15y ago
I don't think it was ever very good, but they did fire a bunch of people I would consider competent. Apparently competent is too expensive.
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by ahi 15y ago
They did that in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The local paper is now annarbor.com. It's terrible. They don't really have any professionals left. Most of the articles are written by interns or kids right out of school with no sense of history or con
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by ahi 15y ago
Agreed, but it's not called the Washington Consensus for nothing.
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by ahi 15y ago
The Economist has its own biases. Argentina gets picked on because they aren't on the same team.
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by ahi 15y ago
Presumably the data is now publicly available? Or at least FOIA-able? What's stopping me from running my own analysis and writing my own paper? I am not part of any agreement the industry made with DEMS.
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by ahi 15y ago
A default is inevitable. However, last time I read about it (month or two ago) government expenses less debt payments was still greater than government revenues. So they still need financing. If they can get revenues and (non-debt) expendit
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by ahi 15y ago
I want to love Riak, but the documentation is a mess. At least the 'Fast Track' is out of date and inconsistent: http://wiki.basho.com/Building-a-Development-Environment.htm...
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by ahi 15y ago
All SSNs of deceased people are publicly available. It helps prevent fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index
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by ahi 15y ago
Sarcasm? That's the very definition of the Associated Press.
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by ahi 15y ago
My favorite approach is the approach taken by exiledonline.com. Trolls and Ron Paul fanatics get their comments "improved", often with sarcasm highlighting the stupidity of the underlying comment and poster. Guts that particular troll so ot
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Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets(harpers.org)
43 points by ahi 15y ago|15 comments

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