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by drabiega 12y ago
I've seen a few references to this today, but this is certainly the most link-baity of the bunch.
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by drabiega 12y ago
How so? It certainly seems like it's a combination of high cost of entry and Comcast's ability to take a regional loss to drive out other competitors that's granting them a defacto monopoly. Also known as market forces.
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by drabiega 12y ago
It's not illegal it just opens your company up to all kinds of liability.
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by drabiega 13y ago
At tipping establishments where health insurance is offered it's not uncommon for servers to lose all of their paycheck to healthcare and then have to give the company some of their tips to cover the rest.
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by drabiega 13y ago
That's not the cost of the program. The net cost of a BI is actually much lower than the net cost of the targeted program. The actual cost of the program is the expense of administration, how much resources are used by the government i
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by drabiega 13y ago
That laissez-faire attitude, to the extent it exists at all, is generally only aimed at the federal and to a lesser degree state level. At the local level the voter involvement is so low that corruption and pandering to special interests a
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by drabiega 13y ago
Maybe the community colleges in your area are different. I attend a state run college which gets a number of these types of transfer students from a few nearby community colleges. Even at my school the standard of education is not particula
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by drabiega 13y ago
Given my anecdotal experiences of this problem I would guess that Netflix's problem isn't a matter of figuring out what I would like, it's a matter of figuring out what I may not have seen yet. The problem is that the things
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by drabiega 13y ago
Citation?
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by drabiega 13y ago
> Prices going up is merely a potential symptom of inflation. No, seriously, increases in the price level is literally the definition of inflation. > Incomes do not inherently go up hand in hand with prices. If you hold purchases stab
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by drabiega 13y ago
If you keep minimum wage in line with living wage, you get the jobs that are worth doing. If the taxpayer has to kick in money to make the jobs live-able, we'd literally be better off just giving people money.
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by drabiega 13y ago
Not forcing tax payers to foot the bill for McDonald's labor is taxation?
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by drabiega 13y ago
When you pay less than a living wage you are not reducing the cost to produce whatever you are producing, you are using taxes as an input. If you literally cannot afford to pay your employees a living wage, that means it's real cost (i
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by drabiega 13y ago
The tax payers who have to supplement the sub-living wages?
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by drabiega 13y ago
If you answer the second kind of question over the first, you're not an economist, you're a pundit. In all of my economics training they have repeatedly focused on asking positive questions (the first kind) over normative, the sec
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by drabiega 13y ago
That is certainly true. However, if I had said 'employment is not decreasing' instead of 'unemployment is not increasing' it would still have been a valid critique without being vulnerable to that response, however.
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by drabiega 13y ago
What about it's obligations to the taxpayers it is soaking?
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by drabiega 13y ago
>Inflation harms the poorest the most, by far. I don't think that word means what you think it means. When prices go up, so does income. It has to because there are two sides to every economic transaction. Inflation often seems to c
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by drabiega 13y ago
> artificially high minimum wage Artificially high? If you're making a profit but your employees need public assistance, you're literaly profiting at the expense of the taxpayers. You are in effect benefiting from an artificial
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by drabiega 13y ago
If you don't get enough value from your employees to pay a living wage such that they need government assistance, then your business is a misallocation of resources. You are literally profiting at the expense of tax payers.
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by drabiega 13y ago
They said this in the article, but it doesn't make any more sense here than it did there. If unemployment remains the same, where are these 'better' workers coming from?
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by drabiega 13y ago
> that they expect, on average, to be worth their pay. This is actually a pretty huge caveat. As it turns out, information is hugely limited and this has pretty far reaching implications for the shape of the labor market. Firms desire to
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by drabiega 13y ago
They most certainly would not have to 'borrow it from China'. If for some reason they wanted to do this, they would just have to sell some securities, most of which would be bought by U.S citizens, the main holders of U.S. Governm
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by drabiega 13y ago
The underside of a Tesla is quite a bit more sturdy than your oil or transmission pans. A piece of debris able to do this would do something far more serious than cause a dent or leak.
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by drabiega 13y ago
Amazon has a page for that: https://payments.amazon.com/help/Personal-Accounts/Managing-...
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by drabiega 13y ago
This is only true because of government action to break up the most egregious of monopolies, however. Furthermore, -all- monopolies are vulnerable to disruption regardless of public/private status so this characteristic of private mono
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by drabiega 13y ago
I've lived in at least two cities where, despite cars being allowed, a significant number of people choose to park outside the city at mass transit depots. This is fairly parking-limited, but the wider you cast the mass transit systems
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by drabiega 13y ago
The patent system isn't a person or group. It's a weapon of mass rent-seeking built in part by these same companies so that they can reap huge profits without having to actually compete with their rivals. Responsibility for this s
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by drabiega 13y ago
This seems contrary to all of their previous behavior. They remain committed to a strong dollar because that keeps their stuff cheap and generates employment for them, though at significant economic cost.
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by drabiega 13y ago
I imagine it'd take some practice getting used to, but if they implemented both pads affecting the same cursor at different ratios, i.e. one for broad movements and one for more precise control, I would think someone who got used to it

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