edblarney

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by edblarney 10y ago
They should reduce business taxes out of urban areas to encourage companies to move and setup there. In today's world, there economic advantage of being collocated is not as strong. Bankers, lawyers etc., sure, downtown, but everything
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"1) Creating a twitter profile costs $5." It's over then. 99% of users don't care about Twitter that much to pay a dime. Can't charge old users, and growth is already small anyhow. Only about 1% of these various ser
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by edblarney 10y ago
Maybe one things missing: 'specific domain knowledge'. At least 1/2 of programming is learning. You can make a basic Android App, but have you learned how to do 'deep linking'. Well, it can take a full day the first
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by edblarney 10y ago
Great story. That's exactly it.
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Sorry, I'm not describing a jurisdiction, rather explaining how I think it should be done. I guess I didn't make that clear as it was an appendage to my earlier comment. :)
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A civil union is the civic definition of partnership. It confers the 'legal rights'. 'Marriage' is something cultural and religious. People can call themselves married, or not, it's not legally relevant. You go to C
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by edblarney 10y ago
The headline is misleading. Warehouse workers use separate bathroom facilities than other workers? This is common. Unsanitary conditions for warehouse workers ... sadly, this is probably common. I once worked in the front office of a fairly
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by edblarney 10y ago
Civil unions would have been a better answer to that. It's a much more culturally secular entity, and can defined better. For example, two people who live together long enough can be declared in a civil union, this way, someone can get
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by edblarney 10y ago
'Marriage is a right' - but between whom? In many parts of the world, polygamy is legal. The president of South Africa has many wives. We dare not question their 'cultural integrity'. A libertarian argument for polygamy
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I think it's rather desperate to introduce to very different things and conclude that one causes the other. Along with 'gay marriage', 'gay acceptance' has been on the rise in general. Social interventions, heck, so
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"That's not much of an exchange, given the Saudis have to sell their oil at market prices to someone and the market is entirely fungible" It's a very important deal considering how much Oil they have, and that they could
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by edblarney 10y ago
So is Canada. We have zero high speed rail. In fact, many traveller rail lines have been closed over the years. Sadly.
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Of all the 'freedoms' we can worry about, as a Canadian, not having the right to see 'hand drawn child porn' is not remotely one that I am concerned about. The 'real' issue of freedom in Canada is that it'
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by edblarney 10y ago
House of Saud are not vassals of the US, and they don't control the US. They made a deal way back that the US would keep House of Saud in power, in exchange for their Oil at market prices. That - and the fact that they are allies on &#
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by edblarney 10y ago
The US is about 25% of the world economy and shrinking fast. Same for Europe. EU + US are about 1 Billion of 7.5 Billion people on the planet, many of whom don't have cars, but are about to be able to afford them ...
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by edblarney 10y ago
OPEC does not exist anymore. There is no more real coordination. As a bloc it is basically defunct.
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"The minute Tesla and others get electric vehicles to have sufficient range and low enough costs, we're going to see demand for oil go into structural decline. " No, sorry. People have been predicted 'peak oil' and
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It's useful to some things, esp. when there is a high value potential click conversion, i.e. amazon and ebay items. Some ads are bought by brand advertiser with little understanding of the impact because a) it's 'brand'
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by edblarney 10y ago
"And there you've slung just enough mud to implicate Obama in the same kind of antics without offering any tangible proof. " Are you kidding? Obama invented the use of social tools to get elected. [1] Google, who, as an org m
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by edblarney 10y ago
The 'hype cycle' [1] applies to all things. http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp... Whether or not something has a real utilitarian value determines if it will rise from the
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I don't think the issue is whether it stopped or not, but the possible discrepancy in how it was communicated.
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by edblarney 10y ago
That's odd, because I always thought developers should look a little 'off'. I generally dress well. Like a business guy. To overcome prejudice, I would wear sandals to my interviews. I wouldn't care to get a job in softw
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by edblarney 10y ago
"The hesitant feeling goes away in first year anatomy. " Surely 'first year anatomy' is not the same thing as a bloody mess on the table, alarms going off, a frantic staff, and someone about to die in front of you unless
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by edblarney 10y ago
Yes, this is a paradox that applies in business. A VC may very well believe that you are brilliant, and doing great work, and can make all the right decisions. But it matters to his investment that he believes that others will buy into yo
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"To be incensed that immigration laws are not enforced completely seems disingenuous." I'll bet $1000 that everyone concerned about illegal migration would absolutely support going after crooked bankers. Nobody will do it for
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To be fair, I think the article is correct in that women are less likely to apply if they feel the are unqualified. Whatever it means or doesn't - I'm pretty sure that it's true, I've seen this before.
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Agree on Belgian. Belgian is a 'nation' but the ethnic identity is Walloon or Flemish. I live in Montreal and immigrants have the same problem: English or French? There is a 3rd category here (we use linguistic categories) - calle
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"It really isn't like that everywhere in North America" I totally agree. America is a big place, so is Europe. It's varied. But I would say, on the whole that EU is far more 'enclave-ish' than the US. In fact,
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It depends on the context. Generally, the most valid data from crime apparently comes from 'victimization surveys' - as opposed to actual police data, which is politicized. So, from victimization surveys - people can only necessar
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"... is your opinion, contradicted by the available evidence" This is false. In fact - the evidence points much more strongly towards 'behaviour' than it does 'economic status'. (By the way, I'm not making

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