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by clavalle 9y ago
Fair points. I don't know what Trump's actual policy is when it comes to trade deals I was making (bad) assumptions on the fact that he backed out of or signaled backing out of some trade deals that relied too much on market forc
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by clavalle 9y ago
The trouble with economic globalization is that we assumed that markets work and work well all over the world. That there would be an inevitable stable middle class built from the sheer power of market forces. It turns out that those in pow
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The time savings alone probably paid for itself in two days of use.
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Agreed. Critical thinking isn't a subject, it is a framework. It seems foolish to allow a framework of non-critical thinking to take root for 13 years then expect a few classes to tear down and rebuild those habits of thought. Further
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by clavalle 9y ago
Acknowledging luck as a factor is good sense. Flatly attributing to luck is foolish. Tearing down the wealthy because they happened to be lucky in some way is hostile. Statements like 'Most wealth is appropriated from others, not made.
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by clavalle 9y ago
Hoo boy the tone in this article is toxic. The truth is that, yes, there is luck involved but a lot of hard work, too. It is a rich spectrum. Lucky is buying a winning lotto ticket. Luckier still is finding one on the street. The same is
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by clavalle 9y ago
Interesting. So you are talking about executive management, finance, and other overhead staff not developers or product development. I asked because you mentioned developer salaries earlier in the thread. 24% does seem awfully high.
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by clavalle 9y ago
No argument here but what do you mean by 'admin'?
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by clavalle 9y ago
>Etsy should know what makes it special to customers. Why isn't it more efficient at delivering that? It is a Very Hard Problem and I don't envy them at all. Verification of authenticity. I honestly wouldn't know where to
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by clavalle 9y ago
>The easiest response is to ask you to read some Warren Buffett. I've read plenty of Buffet, Munger, Graham, Dodd and the rest. Pretty common knowledge. What you are missing in your analysis is that Buffet et. al. invest in very we
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>Market value means that your turnover should already be low, your employees can't leave for better paying jobs. The curve isn't flat. >Do you really think those people are going to leave Etsy because it no longer has the CE
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by clavalle 9y ago
>paying above market wages and benefits does nothing for the company and it's shareholders Again, we can use Friedman on both sides of the argument (which was my original point as to the meaningless of the statement if not in origin
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by clavalle 9y ago
It is a beautiful example of dogma. It has some meaning but can be bent and molded to fit almost any argument. The obvious argument, especially in Etsy's case is 'well, this works for the short term but can mean no profits in the
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by clavalle 9y ago
I'd be willing to bet that if we eliminated the home mortgage interest deduction completely it would barely move the needle of what homes people choose to buy or the number of renters vs. owners. I would love to see the numbers, though
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by clavalle 9y ago
Tools writers really are the unsung heroes of the development world.
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You can say the same of artists...there is certainly a huge difference between the best and the worst. That's taking to broad of a view IMHO. You aren't, generally, going to hire a Picasso. Picasso will be off being Picasso. You
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by clavalle 10y ago
That 100% doesn't give a lot of wiggle room. Avoiding estate tax as it stands is incredibly difficult and generally takes decades of planning and foresight. There is already a fairly substantial incentive to avoid it and there is a re
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by clavalle 10y ago
Equal opportunity leads to equal outcomes. Not for individuals but for the statistical whole. If you can place winning bets on how wealthy the parents were by how wealthy the children are long after the parents are gone, you are measuring
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by clavalle 10y ago
I disagree with the idea that people will just find a way around the law. My problem with the idea is if it /works/. How does all of that stuff find its way back into the hands of people that can make the most use of it?
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by clavalle 10y ago
The most interesting graph is the 'Child Income Percentile vs the Parent Income Percentile' compared between 1980 and 1940 [Graph D]. The rest can be explained away by a general stagnation of real wages. This graph, however, show
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by clavalle 10y ago
If the offenders have better outcomes. Time spent in jail. Re-arrest rate after release. Job performance after release, etc.
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by clavalle 10y ago
> When people are asked how they should spend their own money, they're very careful with it and analyze expenditures and benefits carefully. On an individual basis, money is spent efficiently and people understand that. We seem to k
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by clavalle 10y ago
This is half the battle. The other half is figuring out the value created by the spending. Hopefully having the data in one place can help us calculate that fuzzier side of the equation.
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If there are equal outcomes, then we have succeeded at creating equal opportunity. Not as individuals; but statistically. Individually preferences, choices, dumb luck, etc. of course would lead to unequal outcomes -- as it should be. But w
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>The team discovered that this increased flow was possible in part because when mice went to sleep, their brain cells actually shrank, making it easier for fluid to circulate. It could be that the brain needs to fire up for short periods
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I was having a conversation with a friend working on high volume data problems and was surprised just how low level he has to get in order to meet some very stringent but necessary requirements. I've worked at a high level for so long
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by clavalle 10y ago
Well, more than other populations which, these days, isn't saying much.
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I think it is less about recognizing the need for quality and more about not needing nor being able to afford those skills. It's like mechanics: F1 mechanics make a hell of a lot more than your average wrench turner (for good reason).
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by clavalle 10y ago
It definitely depends on the sector and situation. If someone told me that a dev that some would offer $80K was making $200K I'd say 'Oh. In the financial sector?' Otherwise, what I'm talking about is the fat part of t
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by clavalle 10y ago
> There's no way you could in good conscience employ someone who couldn't do the work Oh, if it was only so simple as 'can do the work' | 'cannot do the work'! It is, of course, a very course and rough estim

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