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by cheriot 7y ago
Minimum wage affects the pay of people earning close to it. When a business decides it can make more money by hiring better workers, they have to pay more than the competition.
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by cheriot 7y ago
There's always a segment of society trying to make ends meet on minimum wage. It doesn't matter how long one person is doing it.
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Watching commuters unlock their phones would make my morning so much more entertaining...
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Are there empirical estimates for how trades routed through Citadel and other intermediaries differ from trading directly on the exchange? I've read elsewhere that a large volume of small trades lets them sell to large entities the abi
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by cheriot 7y ago
> Serious question: with how big the federal budget is for... pretty much everything... why is this the case? Is there truly not enough funding? How much money goes in and where does the money go? By the time we're talking about non
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by cheriot 7y ago
> They made a point of telling me that I’d have to take a huge pay cut and work with out of date equipment, and deal with extreme amounts of red tape. > stale sugar cookies & bottles of water for refreshments Well, that's wha
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It's worth distinguishing between the lenders and the credit bureaus. The latter cause much of the pain around identity theft afaik.
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I think I read the same article (Portland?). The key thing is that the change was slow because demand was building up slowly. OTOH, if changes are held back for decades and demand is pent up (ie soaring prices and increasing commutes) then
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by cheriot 7y ago
It doesn't take 30 years to build new homes. As soon as California forced cities to allow ADUs they were built in large numbers. Add duplexes, three plexes, etc and we'll get even more. The thing about regulating symptoms is that
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> negative externalities that Airbnb has on rental vacancy and land values Is that an externality of AirBnB or poor city planning? Cities are eager to build offices and advertise to attract tourists, but convince themselves they don&#x27
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> Turnabout is fair play. If owners organize politically to control supply... It's frequently renters talking about gentrification that oppose new housing around me.
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That's an interesting tidbit of history. Thanks
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> For those of us lucky enough to be in good health It's a common refrain that only people with health problems need health care, but that's just not true. Risk has a price. That's why health care and life insurance for he
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by cheriot 7y ago
The scary thing is that every time an individual or company does something wrong someone justifies it as a "right". No, having a right to do something does not exempt them from taking responsibility for their actions. Network news
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Mitt Romney talking about only income tax is intentionally myopic. What's their total tax burden including payroll taxes?
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If blatant is not overt in this context then I'm curious what the overt discrimination against asian males is?
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by cheriot 7y ago
here's a more recent example than redlining https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/sausalito-school-segre...
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That's not the only subject of the book
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> Asian males, are the only racial group in America subject to overt policies meant to disadvantage them on the basis of their race I'd recommend reading The Color of Law, https://www.epi.org/publication/the-col
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Does it account for access to health care? How about the way we underfund schools in poor neighborhoods?
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> Infinite high density cities aren't all necessarily the best thing. Then SF shouldn't have permitted the office space that brought all these people. City planing needs proportions. When a city adds offices, it needs home, sch
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> do you think every drug addict on the west coast wants to hold down a job and live our normal life? That's not the relevant question. Is it better for the rest of us if that drug addict is on the side walk or living inside? In the
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by cheriot 7y ago
I happily pay for a number of excellent tools. I also have no interest in doing business with IBM and Oracle again.
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by cheriot 7y ago
So developers can choose to have the batteries included or to pay a vendor. I hear signing contracts with IBM and Oracle is a great experience. Is that the joke? > proof that Java community does care Oh, the community wants them. It&#x27
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These two are the most recommended where I work: https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-scal... https://leanpub.com/fpmortals/read
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Scala is great for statically typed functional programming. It can be as pure as Haskell, but with the escape hatch of not requiring that purity at the language level. With Scala 3 coming out next year it will become more approachable to de
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It doesn't take dozens. GM, Tesla, and Google are already making the expensive part of the investment (developing ai cars in the first place). Will Uber make more money with one competitor or four? I mean, is there a chance these three
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I hope they don't actually think that. Autonomous vehicles will turn a two sided market into a one sided market. Just think about all the companies working on self driving cars that don't currently compete with Uber. As soon as th
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Banks are going to love this. It's called regulatory capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture Less threat of competition just means their margins get to stay high. I'd rather be looking for w
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by cheriot 7y ago
Meritocracy requires some sort of result that holds an idea up against reality. The scientific community uses experimentation and replication of successful results. The economy uses "creative destruction" to a similar end. People

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