cjy

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AOL Kills Instant Messenger(slashgear.com)
7 points by cjy 15y ago|0 comments
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Crowdsourcing: A more efficient job interview(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
1 points by cjy 15y ago|0 comments
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by cjy 15y ago
There are some bugs. I looked up some mouth symptoms I had and the entry on Tooth Abscess talks only about depression: http://symcat.com/conditions/tooth-abscess
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by cjy 15y ago
I think you misunderstand the economic meaning of "rival good": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
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Internet blacklist power to be stripped from Protect IP (arstechnica.com)
6 points by cjy 15y ago|0 comments
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by cjy 15y ago
But gold isn't the only store of value. You could have used silver or copper. And, the value of gold fluctuates wildly in response to fears of future inflation. This creates a lot of noise. Finally, you should know that most economists
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by cjy 15y ago
I thought this article made a lot of really good points (especially about wasting time tracking commissions). However, the OP seemed to miss why we pay sales people with commissions but programmers with salaries: it is easy to objectively
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by cjy 15y ago
How is the state linking health care to employment? My understanding is that health care is linked to employment because of the adverse selection problem that occurs in a free market of individual health insurance. Can you elaborate on why
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by cjy 15y ago
I always think of this when I have my laptop with me in the car. I worry that if I leave it in the car, a would be thief will walk by and see it. But, if I take my backpack out and put it in the drunk it is a huge signal that "my backpack
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by cjy 15y ago
Closer to 1/10. The 1/4 figure comes from a study where only 1/14 women self-identified as being raped. Regardless, too many, and the reference to rape in the original article was unnecessary. But, repeating nice round inaccurate statisti
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by cjy 15y ago
I agree with you that the cost of education is very high, but you need to look at the marginal cost. A person has to eat and pay rent regardless of whether they are in school. You can't count that 25K as the marginal cost of school.
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by cjy 15y ago
I think it is really funny that you consider cleaning to be an unskilled job and cooking to be skilled job. They are both low skilled job that are a lot of work. Your anecdotal "they like being a cook" misses the point. On the margin, so
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by cjy 15y ago
Awful article. Others have discredited it well, but I wanted to comment on this plausible assertion that it makes: "The market cannot accomodate everyone to be the best at something; in fact it is impossible by definition." Actually, this
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by cjy 15y ago
I debated the WMD topic in high school pre-Iraq war and the expert consensus was that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons. Arguing otherwise was a losing debate. It may have been obvious that invading Iraq would be disastrous, but i
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by cjy 15y ago
The average hedge fund averages something closer to 11% (Wikipedia_. It is easy to pick the winners after the fact. And, when you have too much money it is harder to get greater returns on it. It's a lot easier to find 10 million dollar
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by cjy 15y ago
I don't like Thomas Friedman either. But, that is a good quote that I think Milton would agree with. He doesn't say that invention is a necessary condition for prosperity. He said it is a necessary condition for prosperity GROWTH.
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by cjy 15y ago
Really? I'm bet it has to do with further testing. You could give a little bit of credit to GlaxoSmithKline for working on this for 24 years. This isn't exactly a good example of "big pharma" greed.
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by cjy 15y ago
Nowhere in that paragraph does he say or imply that grandparents where living on 7K dollars in nominal terms. He simply notes that they lived simpler lives. That is supported by the data. Our grandparents had median incomes about 40% of
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by cjy 15y ago
THAT wasn't clear. Both of your examples, law and medical licenses are legally required. Journalism schools already teach ethics and offer certificates. Reporters already are members of organizations with ethics statements: http://www.sp
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by cjy 15y ago
You can't be serious. Licenses for law and medicine impede freedom. They limit our choices of (and the cost of) legal and medical services. We are just willing to make this trade off because average people have a hard time determining th
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by cjy 15y ago
Too much student debt is a reoccurring theme in these stories. Part of me thinks how can someone be so foolish to incur $100,000 in student debt without getting in marketable skills? But, the other part of me blames the schools/government
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Stories of People Occupying Wall Street(wearethe99percent.tumblr.com)
1 points by cjy 15y ago|1 comments
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by cjy 15y ago
I had the same question: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=96815
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by cjy 15y ago
If that was the case, wouldn't prisons already force inmates to sell their plasma/sperm? I'm pretty sure that would get struck down in a court.
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by cjy 15y ago
"I have NEVER met a motivated person who has said they would not chase their goals because of tax rates" This is a common mistake that Cuban makes. The problem with taxes is that they affect marginal behavior. The doctor works a little
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by cjy 15y ago
How is time spent on something in any way correlated with how much he learned? The whole idea of failing fast is that you don't need to invest pointless time after you have learned something is not going to work.
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by cjy 15y ago
Inequality can be a bad thing without being an externality. Externality has a precise economic meaning. Pollution is a negative externality because the byproduct of my voluntary transaction to buy gas and burn it in my car is that you hav
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by cjy 15y ago
Thanks for the correction. I was at the UPS store the other day and this guy wanted to insure $10,000 in cash he was mailing to his nephew. He wanted to mail the cash to keep it off the record and out of the view of the IRS. The people w
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by cjy 15y ago
This is a bit off topic, but the FAQs on your website recommend that people insure shipments of cash. As I understand it, UPS/USPS/Fedex will not insure cash or cash-like items. You should look into this so that you don't misguide your cu
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by cjy 15y ago
I think it is important to keep in mind that manufacturing output has actually been increasing over the last 50 years. It is just manufacturing employment that has fallen. That is a natural consequence of becoming more productive. See: h

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