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by czep 8y ago
You raise an interesting point, but I am honestly more concerned with people who would otherwise starve or be homeless rather than students who would not be able to backpack around Europe for a summer. Minimum wage (and other worker protec
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by czep 8y ago
> All it matters is people interacting voluntarily My point is that it is most certainly not voluntary. There are people in the world who are not as lucky or intelligent or resourceful as you, me, and most others on HN. Try to empathiz
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by czep 8y ago
> And employers don't need wages and money to "survive in the economy" ? Not if they inherited it. The key idea here is asymmetry of power. When people are desperate enough that they would take a sub-minimum wage job, th
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by czep 8y ago
Opponents of the minimum wage argue that it reduces employment by creating an artificial floor on wages, that jobs are lost because employers can't afford to pay the minimum. But if you can't pay the minimum, then you didn't
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by czep 8y ago
> Doing a review of Julia based on the experience in the first month after 1.0 will be grossly misleading. This is definitely a fair point and a main reason I am not rushing to judgment after trying Julia for just a few weeks. I like th
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by czep 8y ago
In math when we write a sum, we say "sum from i = 1 to n", not "sum from i = 0 to n-1". Zero-based indexing of arrays makes sense in a language like C where arrays are just pointers and offsets are determined with arithm
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by czep 8y ago
Julia holds a lot of promise: the next 5 years will determine whether it can deliver on its quest to solve the two language problem. Over the past few weeks I've been evaluating Julia as a potential R replacement. IMO, it's defin
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by czep 8y ago
Can you please share at least some of that arsenal? It would be good to have a few more backup phrases that work in a pinch.
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by czep 8y ago
The receipts do not show who you voted for, only the fact that you voted. They can only be used after the election to lookup online whether you voted, but again, it will not show your voting choices.
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by czep 8y ago
> "it was concerned that a large increase in the number of women posed a serious problem for the future of the university hospital, because female doctors tend to quit after marrying or starting families." And I've got a b
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by czep 8y ago
Economically, older cargo types can make a lot more sense than a new plane. With the 744 no longer in production, a used model with another 15 years of use at $50mn is a better investment than a new 748 at its $400mn list price. Well-capi
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by czep 8y ago
> Boarding/deboarding is faster on single-aisle planes No, the complete opposite is true. Boarding and deplaning are far more efficient with twin aisles. The other features you mention are correct, however. Lower operating expens
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by czep 8y ago
> Flexport's 747 freighter The article literally has nothing to do with Flexport... I wonder why YC companies constantly shilled around here?
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by czep 8y ago
> less money for cargo pilots I believe this is wrong; cargo pilots typically have higher comp than passenger transport pilots, even within type.
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by czep 8y ago
Airplanes account for 5% of global emissions. Ground transport, 40%. Presently, the low hanging fruit is ground not only because of its much larger share of emissions, but also because transitioning to renewables is easier (at least today)
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by czep 8y ago
> People in their 20s and 30s now will regret not stamping out ageism when they hit their 40s and 50s, as they inevitably will The problem is, everyone in their 20s and 30s assumes they'll be gazillionaires by the time they're
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by czep 9y ago
Few insurers offer earthquake insurance, and those who do charge very hefty premiums, we're talking about adding 50% to the cost of your mortgage over 30 years. Hence, a very small portion of the housing stock in SFBA is insured again
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by czep 9y ago
> though the chance is 5% in the next 30 years. Not even close. USGS estimates over the next 30 years are: 72% probability of a M6.7 or higher 51% probability of a M7.0 or higher 20% probability of a M7.5 or higher Source: https:/
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by czep 9y ago
"Witnesses on the morning of April 18, 1906, described the city’s streets as rising and falling like a ribbon carried by the wind." "one out of every four buildings in the Bay Area might not be usable after a magnitude 7 eart
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by czep 9y ago
"We startup wannabes were not entrepreneurs. We were suckers for the shovel merchants" Now for a little experiment: everyone reading this, go immediately to the mirror, look at yourself, and explain the business model of the compa
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by czep 9y ago
Wait, this is just someone's opinion? There's no data here! This should be an empirical exercise, why should we trust these cities the author pulls from random anecdote? One idea would be to use voter registration records and cen
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by czep 9y ago
Yes, but the memo you quote is fairly recent. Before that, the prevailing guidance seemed to be that bitcoin should be treated as currency, not property. So as of what date does this rule take hold?
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by czep 9y ago
> Does it seem like Youtube is overrun by millions (must be millions overall, for all kinds of movies) of fake "movies" This is done intentionally by studios and fully sanctioned by Google, the intention is to pollute search re
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by czep 9y ago
By the way, everything on his site is absolute gold, I can't remember a time I was so awed by someone's blog. Even his resume is brilliant and hilarious! I highly recommend browsing, it's great writing.
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by czep 9y ago
I was suggesting they should voluntarily resign, in the current market they will have no shortage of opportunity. It would send a strong message to Google (and others) that the behavior is not acceptable.
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by czep 9y ago
It would appear his reputation has been well known for a long time, that is precisely how everyone immediately knew who he was even though he wasn't explicitly named in the blog post. This doesn't seem to be a case of a good man b
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by czep 9y ago
> I think ruining the person's life would be over reacting. If lives are ruined, it is the harrasser's own doing. It is precisely the fact that such incidents are routinely shrugged off that harrassers feel emboldened to conti
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by czep 9y ago
> I felt that this was evidence that, like S, all of the other more senior men who had showed interest in my research must actually have only been trying to sleep with me. This is one of the intangible yet insidious impacts of harrassme
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by czep 9y ago
I think we are in agreement here. The scenario I was envisioning assumed heavy traffic. I completely agree that failure to keep right is as dangerous and unlawful as excessive speeding. I would definitely be in support of higher posted sp
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by czep 9y ago
I completely side with Gelman on this issue, but you can't point to this one case to dismiss all of social science. One can find examples of p-hacking, irreproducible research, and fabricated data in any field, but the existence of su

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