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by artsrc 13y ago
Your Pre-iPhone world was different to mine. * Everything was free phone at the low end and $199 at the top end One of my friends bought a Palm Phone. * Apps were pre-loaded onto phones This may be true. * Carriers drove handset manufacture
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by artsrc 13y ago
I don't want a world where people consider their own income before having children and find that they can't afford to have children and not live in poverty, and have to miss out on having children.
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by artsrc 13y ago
If there is 1 adult with 3 children it is close: $41.91 http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/3606151000
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by artsrc 13y ago
By artificial I mean "different from a market outcome". There is quite clearly an asymmetry in information and market power between Wal-Mart and individual employees. This will inevitably lead to artificially low wages. So raising
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by artsrc 13y ago
> and who defines what that is? In Australia in the past there was a national industrial court that did this. In Germany regular courts did something similar. Courts are expensive, so why not use a computer program from MIT: http:&#x2
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by artsrc 13y ago
Microsoft has created a non-intel living room device, the X-Box. Dropping support for the OEM's in the Phone and PC space would be an interesting move, which I think they could carry off quite quickly. I don't think they are head
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by artsrc 13y ago
A big part of these products is the software. You would have to create desktop software to deliver this, and that is not cheap.
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by artsrc 13y ago
> farmers consume more quinoa than they sell, and suffer when prices go up. Unless there are other foods they can buy which are cheaper. Then they benefit from the higher prices and don't pay them.
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by artsrc 13y ago
Quinoa has more and better protein. Brown rice is cheaper.
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by artsrc 13y ago
> a few rambunctious boys As the parent of a less rambunctious boy, I believe that discrimination should be on the basis of behavior, not gender. > The classroom dynamic was an absolute necessity to the healthy social upbringing of ea
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by artsrc 13y ago
If offer content in a way cheaper for you, and better for me then you might increase your revenue. Our family buys DVD's and watch them. DVD's are a pretty costly way to sell movies. Retailers take a big slice. You have to creat
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by artsrc 13y ago
If you want to find some DVD's that won't play due to scratches then I recommend that you borrow some children's DVD's from your local library.
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by artsrc 13y ago
It seems more complicated to me to define a document format that provides URLS, than to just tell people what the URLs are. In my mind I think of some things e.g.: google search, as a function not a resource. Trying to think about what the
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by artsrc 13y ago
I think what you have said is correct of how, but not why. However I think what this whole discussing is missing is the properties that you derive by adhering to a REST design. I think there should be some tests of a design to see if you ar
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by artsrc 13y ago
> Businesses that can't do at least some basic form of cost-benefit analysis will likely end up going out of business under a series of projects that don't make financial sense. You can't execute an estimate and make money with it, so t
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by artsrc 13y ago
Our business spent a fortune on a very poor performing, piece of junk, software. Maybe the support is OK, but the real world stability sucks too. Sometimes hookers, expensive lunches, tickets to sporting events and being golf buddies with
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by artsrc 13y ago
If I got set upon by fellow employees on the way home I would not be wondering what personal characteristic led them to choose me. How about: "Kids are frequently bullied because they are placed in an stupid environment which does not adequ
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by artsrc 13y ago
It is interesting is that an early study on the health impact of activity compared bus drivers and bus conductors, who also differ in sitting/standing: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/122/7/743.full#ref-1 Edit: sorry someone else had
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by artsrc 13y ago
I would prefer a Nexus software S4 to a Samsung software S4. I can't see any significant way that it is worse for Google for people to have their software rather than Samsung's. Although neither S4 justifies the price jump from a cheap Nexu
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by artsrc 13y ago
> It should be no surprise that the more government "regulates" and subsidizes health care, the more expensive it gets. And the answer to high costs is always more regulation! I am guessing that you might be American. Do you think you
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by artsrc 13y ago
The most important contributors to those two things are likely to be something other than the health care system. For example if you increase the tax on cigarettes you increase life expectancy. And if you increase immigration, and therefore
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by artsrc 13y ago
Because those industries work better when they do* Just like health care works better when it is provided by a single payer. * In the case of shelter, temporary shelter for those who need it is also provided free of charge, but that is not
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by artsrc 13y ago
Alternatively just charge everyone the average cost, with no disclaimer. In fact you can do that before the need for care is even known, and you can call it insurance.
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by artsrc 13y ago
I too would like bookmarks
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by artsrc 13y ago
Works in Sydney, Australia
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by artsrc 13y ago
Unlike many people in this thread, I loved living and working in San Francisco. And I live on the other side of the world, where house prices are too high, it causes massive problems, and nobody complains about it. In fact prices in my subu
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by artsrc 13y ago
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-03-01/cash-spews-out-of-comm... I studied ATM's at Uni, and they have been like that for over 26 years. As someone else on the thread pointed out, they do authenticate you, and record the transaction in a a
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by artsrc 13y ago
I am interested in any study that actually measures the effect of rates of tax on overall happiness. > Other theories exist - such as that people resent being taxed That part is a fact in my experience. Some people resent being taxed.
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by artsrc 13y ago
The mathematics looks like this, money adds happiness on a log scale. So going from $1K to $2K gives you as much additional happiness as going from $128K to $256K. So if you tax those with $256K at 50% and give $1K to to 128 people who ha
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by artsrc 13y ago
> legitimate trade secrets How long do trade secrets legitimately last in your view? There is room for people to have different views on this. > that is why judges exist The law is not equal when the parties have very different le

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