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The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More(nytimes.com)
123 points by cadlin 12y ago|172 comments
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by cadlin 12y ago
Maybe you could be bothered to link the paper? Otherwise this is no more than hearsay.
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by cadlin 12y ago
The data is derived empirically; that r > g has been the historical norm since the industrial revolution, with the notable exception of the period ~1910-1970. If that fact changes then the entire premise of the book is wrong. But the the
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by cadlin 13y ago
There is a book called "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" currently being discussed in the economics world that examines this phenomenon (wealth, however, not income). The tl;dr is that World War I, The Great Depression, and Wo
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by cadlin 13y ago
There was plenty of gun control enacted in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was targeted toward black southerners, however, and AFAIK rarely made it to the US Supreme Court. The laws were usually ruled more-or-less constitutional. H
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by cadlin 13y ago
Homeless people congregate where there are services that are available to them. Predominantly, this means shelter and food. So homeless people will know when they can get food, from where, and this generally means places with high populatio
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Netflix Hits Subscriber Milestone as Shares Soar(nytimes.com)
2 points by cadlin 13y ago|0 comments
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by cadlin 13y ago
The graph titled "Best and Worst Median Starting Salaries Ranked by College Major" is mislabelled. Looking at the source material[1], the table it's based on is titled, "[TABLE] 12: TOP 10 MAJORS WITH THE HIGHEST MEDIAN
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by cadlin 13y ago
I don't know why you'd say French writers in the mid-twentieth century wrote books without citing him. Of Grammatology, the ur-text of deconstruction, has 28 references for him in the index, and that's not including the intro
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by cadlin 13y ago
Isle Royale would be a good candidate for this kind of study. It's a small island in the middle of Lake Superior that has its own isolated wolf population. They take a lot of data from the wolf and moose populations, and it wouldn&#x27
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by cadlin 13y ago
I have a fair bit of domain experience, and I'm going to disagree with the other people who have responded to you and argue that volunteering time is often more helpful than donating money. The efficacy of time vs. money is context-dep
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by cadlin 13y ago
Have you considered the fact that you don't know anything about the lives of the people who live across the street from you and maybe you should refrain from judging them so harshly?
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by cadlin 13y ago
Unfortunately, the paper the map is based on costs ten dollars[1], which seems odd for a paper from a think tank. Apparently, Cato sells a lot of books/papers[2]. Is that a common practice for think tanks (I have no idea)? [1] http:&#
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by cadlin 13y ago
None of those are primary sources, just FYI. And from the second article (an op-ed by a Congressman): >Neither program allows the NSA to read e-mails or listen to phone calls of American citizens. This is blatantly false, and the Governm
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by cadlin 13y ago
Most Smith Act convictions were overturned by the Supreme Court because people were convicted when they hadn't done anything besides being a member of a political party. That's not the sort of thing that makes anti-communists look
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by cadlin 13y ago
>This story needs some historical context. This is pointed out in the blog post, but the main reason for wiretapping King wasn't his civil rights advocacy, but his communist leanings. Marin Luther King, Jr. leaned "communist&qu
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by cadlin 13y ago
The Guardian isn't walking back anything. The submitted article just takes another Guardian article about a different aspect of the story (article title: "NSA scandal: Microsoft and Twitter join calls to disclose data requests&quo
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by cadlin 13y ago
I couldn't tell if you were implying this, but FYI in the US today food stamps can be used on any food item that isn't prepared (i.e. already cooked).
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by cadlin 13y ago
I looked through that thread and what struck me was how small the body of research the guy draws from is. Maybe he is only citing a small sample of the research, but there seems to be a lot of conclusions drawn from very few studies. Especi
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by cadlin 13y ago
Yes, let's make up numbers to reinforce our prejudices.
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by cadlin 14y ago
I think American public policy has a hard time grappling with Wall Street because the financial sector has disproportionate lobbying power. Also, I don't think most Americans care about how free from regulation the financial sector is. Most
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by cadlin 14y ago
If you watch the video, it's clear that she's joking. It was a roast-style speech. http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/03/18/elizabeth-warren-st-p...
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by cadlin 14y ago
Greece has cut its budget on an order of ~20%. It hasn't helped them at all. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/GRCGFCEQDSMEI_Max_...
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by cadlin 14y ago
Planescape: Torment's spiritual successor on Kickstarter right now. It's raised over 2.5 million so far, with a whopping 8(!) pledges of $10,000. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...
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by cadlin 14y ago
Research suggests that more guns = more suicides. "The preponderance of current evidence indicates that gun availability is a risk factor for youth suicide in the United States. The evidence that gun availability increases the suicide rate
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by cadlin 14y ago
That guy in the video is a crank. I watched the first eight minute (until he brings out a poverty graph). He a)leaves out the massive reduction of poverty in the US in the first half of the twentieth century and b) brushes off Social Securi
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by cadlin 14y ago
There are 1,933,000 people over the age of 25 who work at a minimum wage job. There are 279,000 people of all ages who have a bachelor's degree or higher. Any data linking the two has to be speculative (like the numbers I provided in my pre
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by cadlin 14y ago
What you described is one type of subsidy. It's not the only type. From that wikipedia article you linked: "In standard supply and demand curve diagrams, a subsidy will shift either the demand curve up or the supply curve down. A subsidy th
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by cadlin 14y ago
The US also spends a lot of money subsidizing engineers. It spends $76 billion a year on defense R&D. For comparison, Google's annual revenue is just north of $50 billion. I don't know how much of that money goes to engineers, but I do
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by cadlin 14y ago
You're reading the data wrong. 7.3% of minimum wage workers have a bachelor's degree or higher. I assume you were looking at the number 13.5%, which is the percentage of minimum wage hours worked by those with bachelor degrees alone. Anothe

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