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by asr 8y ago
Belatedly... yes, you are right, I haven't described any shift in the demand curve. But so what? I was responding to a suggestion that the reason there is a housing "issue" is that demand is relatively inelastic, and exceed
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by asr 8y ago
I'm amazed at how brazen/obvious of a cheat the code here is: Tipton’s extra lines of code first checked to see if the coming lottery drawing fulfilled Tipton’s narrow circumstances. It had to be on a Wednesday or a Saturday even
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by asr 8y ago
I have a different proposal I'd like to run by you... I'm concerned about congestion on California's roads. The issue is simple: at rush hour, for many popular routes, N > M, where N is the number of cars on the road, and
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by asr 9y ago
The salary comparisons are also hurt by the fact that "architect" and "lawyer" are titles you have your entire career, while "restaurant manager" is a title only one person in the restaurant has. If you compare
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by asr 9y ago
It's sort of ironic that a proposal not to show "likes" comes in for strident criticism on HN. After all, this very site has vacillated a few times on whether or not to show the karma score for each post, and seems to have d
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by asr 9y ago
Trump's most recent travel ban was not "upheld" by the Supreme Court--it was allowed to take effect while legal challenges are pending.[1] At the same time, the Supreme Court instructed the Courts of Appeals hearing the cases
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by asr 9y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. Although, from your answer I take it that U.S. companies are, in fact, the major subjects of these high-profile EC enforcement actions and there are not actions of similar magnitude against EU companies that I&#
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by asr 9y ago
Do you have any idea of a good data source showing the total amount of state aid fines imposed by the EC? One source I've found [0] suggests that total state aid fines by the Commission from 2005-2015 were somewhere on the order of 2.5
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by asr 9y ago
But Amazon is part of a generation of companies which see some value in pushing back against this trend.[1] Microsoft moved to Redmond; Amazon moved downtown. If they really want a second HQ to mesh with the first culture-wise, they are li
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by asr 9y ago
I am having a hard time digging it up, but I remember reading some reporting on the Netflix Prize that said (before Netflix abandoned the star system) that many users rated things only one-star or five-star. But, counter to the OP's po
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by asr 9y ago
How about a citation instead of the somewhat snarky suggestion to "take a gander at the history of the federal rules"? I am not an expert here, but Wikipedia suggests that the history of grouping similar cases for efficient resol
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by asr 9y ago
Before you go thinking about how this applies to healthcare... health insurance in the U.S. is different from other types of insurance and personally I think we'd all be better off it were not even called "insurance." Health
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by asr 9y ago
Re-posting this as a top-level comment: The author's point about how Google Shopping is an ad is really not worthwhile. When Google introduced shopping it was a search product, not an ad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by asr 9y ago
One important point for everyone to keep in mind, whenever you read an article about some years-long competition investigation, is that it is talking about conduct that happened in the past. In this case, by internet standards, we're
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by asr 9y ago
The concept of "Monopoly" in U.S. antitrust law and the concept of "Dominant position" in EU law are basically the same. Compare the laws here: EU ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?u
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by asr 9y ago
Conversely, just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean everyone else feels it's broken. At the same time Google was introducing the shopping results that the Commission says were illegal, Microsoft was running advertis
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by asr 9y ago
I'm very surprised prereigstration systems exist at all for college level lecture courses. Personally, I prefer the system where anyone can sign up for (almost) any class and then the university hires/reassigns teaching assistants
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by asr 9y ago
Conglomerates are companies that hold unrelated businesses. Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate. Railroads and car insurance in the same company! Standard oil and AT&T were not broken up because they were conglomerates. They were bro
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by asr 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the latest version of worksite/workshare (never was sure which is which or what all the names are) can diff PPT files; apologies if I'm misremembering but that is my recollection from my firm. I agree the deve
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by asr 9y ago
The fact word offers a competing feature does not mean this is not a pain point people would pay money for. Have you tried to use Word's features as part of a mid-size team to manage a complicated document being edited by multiple user
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by asr 9y ago
Love it, just put this on my phone. Looking forward to ostentatiously interacting with this app whenever someone starts scrolling through FB/Instagram in front of me.
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by asr 9y ago
The Preliminary Injunction order from earlier this month basically agreed with you and said many of Waymo's trade secret claims are probably overbroad and won't hold up. But, the court said, it looks very much like Levandowski did
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by asr 9y ago
This is often called "metering" and I agree it can be a good thing if, for example, you are selling an experience good where people cannot accurately predict how much they will want to pay for it until they try it--it allows you t
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by asr 9y ago
If what you are hoping for is a situation where manufacturers will sell printers at a loss and then also sell ink at cost, I don't think that's a long-run equilibrium. If you are looking for printers where you can get ink at cost
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by asr 9y ago
Yes, the contract is (presumably) enforceable. The reason it matters is that Lexmark has to sue its customers --the ones who signed the contract--in order to enforce a contract right. In the case that the Supreme Court just decided, Lexmar
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by asr 9y ago
Some regulations are fine. Like requiring that your drivers have insurance. Or even requiring that your drivers pass some sort of test which demonstrates that they are actually skilled drivers, if you want. But I actually don't like
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by asr 9y ago
The issue of whether or not what Uber did was illegal seems to hinge upon whether or not the underlying activity was illegal. That's not quite right. The issue of whether or not Uber tried to hide activities from authorities is sepa
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by asr 10y ago
Always great when someone is willing to go out and collect actual info -- this comment was worth more than the article. Thank you!
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by asr 10y ago
Yeah, the title here should be changed. The Home Secretary is actually arguing that end-to-end encryption should not be permitted. From the article: "Referring to Whatsapp's system of end-to-end encryption, she said: 'It is
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NYT (re-)review of Amazon Echo(nytimes.com)
1 points by asr 11y ago|0 comments

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