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by chiaro 10y ago
>The estimated benefit of TTIP is 400,000 jobs and 0.5% GDP for the EU. My support for most post-globalisation trade liberalisation treaties tends to be lukewarm. However, this can't really be called "not much". 400,000 jo
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by chiaro 11y ago
I assume it's some kind of solar sail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
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by chiaro 11y ago
In every other industry that gives out the title of "engineer", you're taking on a weighty burden to be the guy that signs off and assumes the liability. Software engineers have taken the role, but eschewed the responsibility
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by chiaro 11y ago
I knew briefly a woman who had ran away from everything she knew at 17, to avoid a marriage. The stories of what counted as "normal" was horrific, especially with regards to daughters. Between the corporal punishment, starvation a
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by chiaro 11y ago
This is misrepresenting the data. The majority of economists and the relevant literature agree that allowing more freedom of immigration improves the welfare of American worker. This is ignoring the huge benefits to the immigrants themselve
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by chiaro 11y ago
>And of course H1B visas drive down wages. This is basic supply and demand. In the short run. The increased growth associated with them would typically lead to a general rise in wages in the long run. They also offset the tendency for co
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by chiaro 11y ago
Well good news is you can always surround yourself with shorter people like him.
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by chiaro 11y ago
There's a few simulations around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQeEgPhSfI
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by chiaro 11y ago
*anti-gamergate story
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by chiaro 11y ago
It's at least reached the saturation point where they've even been villains on Law and Order.
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by chiaro 11y ago
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/stubborn-pay-gap-is... Nope. Male nurses still make more, which, with respect to your post, is a strong data point in favor of the discrimination hypothesis.
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by chiaro 11y ago
I studied architecture. I can't wait to get my hands on this, it feels very much like the killer app for that niche. What separates the students from the men and women who have developed their "vision" is the ability to go ba
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by chiaro 11y ago
Necessary vs sufficient conditions. Ideally, it wouldn't be either.
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by chiaro 11y ago
From a game theoretic point of view, you can easily see why they raise this much much money. While I think it's obscene that 1 billion will be spent on the campaign of one candidate, this is necessarily a problem with the system rather
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by chiaro 11y ago
Yep, definitely. The process of writing anything out (ideas, emotions, plans) lets you separate out the roles of describing the idea vs criticising it. Trying to evaluate them in your head requires you to do both simultaneously.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Spiders lack moral agency.
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by chiaro 11y ago
It seems like the verisimilitude of the advertising medium to the product makes for the most innocuous marketing. So trailers are a "friendly" way to advertise films, like chapter extracts are friendly ways to advertise fiction bo
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by chiaro 11y ago
Huh, looks like I've underestimated how effective isolating myself from that is. I could only identify the first one of those slogans with any confidence.
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by chiaro 11y ago
While a good point, "good" (as in critically acclaimed) television is disproportionately from networks like HBO, BBC and Netflix that are supported by other means.
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by chiaro 11y ago
This sure seems to be HN's flavor of the month (and possibly for good reason). One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that markets are created, not discovered. LLC's and Delaware C-Corps didn't materialise out of
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by chiaro 11y ago
Probably because it's very easy to measure, and correlates with other dimensions through well known adjustments like Purchasing Power.
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by chiaro 11y ago
>To fly on an airplane, you just had to walk through a metal detector, and if someone was there to meet you or say goodbye, they could go all the way to the gate without a ticket. >If a flight was longer than a couple hours, you got a
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by chiaro 11y ago
The ideal would be the car drops you off, parks itself somewhere nearby in a high density area, then returns itself for loading in an open area when you need it.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Kevin Systrom made around $400M before tax when he sold Instagram. After 15% CGT, there's $340M left in cash. Whether this is a "fair" reward or not is a political opinion. I'll put forward mine here: 1. Equity stake is
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by chiaro 11y ago
Question, could you simply expand legislation for tobacco to include marijuana?
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by chiaro 11y ago
Arguably more important than the consumer rights are the rights of the workers. There's no need to pay healthcare if you call your workers contractors, despite failing most of the IRS's tests for what role they fill.
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by chiaro 11y ago
America's rarely been a bad place to be for one with money to spend.
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by chiaro 11y ago
It's strange to me that a group of people that is sometimes stereotyped as being too preoccupied with logical fallacies will still invoke slippery slopes. Making good decisions now does not remove our capability to make good decisions
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by chiaro 11y ago
In many countries other than the US, patriotism is seen to be crass at best and dangerously close to nationalism at worst. The dearth of national flags adorning houses in Australia, England and Germany are part of this.
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by chiaro 11y ago
This is part of the big federal innovation push today. Looks like more open data will be a focus, thankfully. http://www.innovation.gov.au/page/data-sharing-innovation

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