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>> "Because I am the buyer I had to pay her nothing... the seller pays..." This is literally the second most breathtakingly naive comment I've ever read on the internet.
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Bogleheads forum.
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People draw that comparison because the fundamental primitives of Marx's theory are capital and labor (aka people). I'm not passing judgement on the validity of that theory, merely explaining why the two are so often compared.
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The killer feature for Instacart in NYC is that they will deliver Costco to you. Typically at Costco you're buying more stuff than you can carry, so you'd take a car home, and this would cost $20-$30ish [0] plus you'd have to
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Bus themed solutions would definitely be an improvement over LA's status quo. However a better idea would be to reduce the need to travel long distances by building denser. LA roads are super wide right now, so the easiest way to raise
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This is the killer feature.
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This has happened at my company. We give a similarly near-trivial hw problem, and sometimes people come in and literally "cannot remember" any single thing about the assignment, including the names of the columns in the data or th
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On the topic of courts, there is a lot of severely misleading legal misinformation in this thread. I really really encourage people to read reliable resources (aka not the comments here) before making decisions. A good example of a reliable
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I seem to be the minority here, but I don't see how any entity (including Uber) has an obligation to make it easy for the law to ticket them. Anyone who uses e.g. the Waze app to evade speedtraps is similarly guilty of "systematic
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Keep in mind that normal life in the Legion involves running around carrying heavy backpacks (with normal straps) and being slightly less sleep deprived.
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>> "What do you do if they sort of do what they're told, but not really putting any effort into it?" You transfer them to some variant of a penal battalion. Simon Murray has a good description of this (from the French F
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>> "I'm not even sure I-5 could be widened in some areas" The fundamental law of road congestion [0] states that you can't build your way out of a traffic jam. This is because adding a new mile of road creates new
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>> "Why is it so high per mile?" Our society is afflicted by Baumol's cost disease :( See e.g. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
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If he gets to include RenTec in his bet then it's as close to a dead certainty as you can get that he'll win. I'd like to get in on that bet too.
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The NYT is already longer than anyone has time to read daily, even retired people. Ditto WSJ etc. There are more good movies than you could ever watch. Too many really good TV shows to keep up with. By "infinite," the OP really me
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VR is for porn. Then the isolating antisocial part of it is a feature, not a bug.
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I look forward to the day when the whole text-based internet produces output like this: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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"Beware Marx's cure but not his diagnosis." - Paraphrasing some wise person whose name presently eludes me IMHO the GP has a point about alcohol's role in panem et circenses . Obligatory disclaimer: I hate commies with
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The TSA's primary mandate is just to socialize legal liability for terrorist attacks away from the airlines. Their secondary mandate is crony capitalism. Their tertiary mandate is to acclimatize the population to the trappings of the u
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It still boggles my mind that there is no (good) way to search all an organization's repos at once. The docs (e.g. [0] but also in other places) claim you can just put "org:foo" in the search bar, but it has never worked for
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This is interesting; can you elaborate on what levers they pull to implement wage suppression?
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This is not directly what you want, but a better statement of the article's fundamental claim is given here: http://newworldeconomics.com/the-eco-metropolis/ and the other articles on that site give some ideas abo
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Actually this might be evidence in favor of the claim that the NSA has fancy methods for RAM data recovery.
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I'm not the OP but it doesn't strike me as absurd to imagine that if the security apparatus doesn't like you, they'll happily take whatever flimsy pretext presents itself to ruin your day. E.g. if they can get you for so
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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" (Written above the postal HQ in Manhatta)
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It's worth noting that in practice, the management of GM and EM coordinate so closely that they might as well be a single entity.
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Maybe he does his own offsite backups with "personal use" HD's in several physical locations, each in a highly-redundant raid configuration? Even so it seems like a lot.
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The trick is to put some of your monitors in portrait orientation. It's a game changer for reading text and for writing code (aka 95% of my computer use).
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The thing about the Mexican border wall is that it already exists. It's hundreds of miles long. National Geographic shot some panoramas [0] but otherwise you don't hear too much about it in the news. I guess "lengthening a wa
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I do this too but it conflicts with tptacek's injunction above to "not use Dropbox."

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