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by eqdw 12y ago
I know this person personally. She's not writing a parody
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The exact opposite would happen. If there is a tech labour shortage, that is to say, too many jobs and not enough employees to meet those jobs, then we expect the price of labour to rise until enough people are incentivized to work. Think
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by eqdw 12y ago
Local media tends to send accusations of just that towards tech workers: "They're coming here with a gold-rush mentality, making the big bucks, and then leaving to somewhere else, leaving all the gentrification problems behind&quo
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by eqdw 12y ago
I dunno, there tends to be more than a fair share of anti-immigration nativists here who have some pretty loud megaphones. Apparently I came here and stole a job that could've gone to a hard-working American, after all. And the local
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by eqdw 12y ago
I'm beginning to think the honest answer is "DON'T", but people are still scared of being so brazenly xenophobic.
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by eqdw 12y ago
It's trivially easy. Just think of all the debates we've had over gentrification in Nob Hill or Pac Heights. Oh wait. We haven't had any. Because these are the enclaves of people with so much wealth that even the techies can&
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by eqdw 12y ago
> Ok but as you allude to those buses have been going on much longer than the last month. You're right. I did. Because they have. I don't know the details of any legislation that may have applied before the one that I linked. B
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by eqdw 12y ago
I actually do ask that. Pretty regularly. It was pretty shitty that I had to move to another country 2000 miles away just to find employment, when anywhere with internet is more than capable of employing me. And back home I had 250 down&#x2
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by eqdw 12y ago
> The city doesn't know how to police this. How would you build a law or tax around regulating this behavior? New York may attempt a pied-a-terre tax, but no one really knows how to deal with this issue of vacant housing units held
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by eqdw 12y ago
> My problem is this: a lot of tech companies, based outside San Francisco go out of their way to make it easy for employees to live in SF and get to work outside of it. This is not accurate, for two reasons. First off: Many of the penin
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by eqdw 12y ago
Winnipeg has the same thing. My walk to work was about 3.5km, half of it inside. Winter? What winter! I laugh at your winter!
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by eqdw 12y ago
They also, y'know, cost a ton. You're not going to put them at every crosswalk
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by eqdw 12y ago
So.... this is just Coin, but with e-ink?
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by eqdw 12y ago
The wheat board was dissolved two years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Wheat_Board
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by eqdw 12y ago
> of which the two largest components are "student services" I also had to pay for student services at my (Canadian) university, for things like meal plans, supplemental health/dental/vision insurance, subsudized bus
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by eqdw 12y ago
> Finnish students get allowance from the government for the duration of their studies (max ~60 months) and get government backed cheap loans which they start paying back after their studies. Thought experiment: American students also ge
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by eqdw 12y ago
Both of the mentioned articles (I'd say "cited" but only one was named; I had to find the other based on author names) are specifically scoped to only developmental problems. eg: If 3 year olds are exposed to too much lead,
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by eqdw 12y ago
That statement is meaningless unless you know how much fluoride is in the water
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by eqdw 12y ago
I had both experiences. When I was at my mom's house, technology was heavily limited, and in the hour a day I was allowed online, they were hovering over my shoulder the whole time. When I was at my dad's house, unlimited access.
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by eqdw 12y ago
The tyranny of the battery equation?
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by eqdw 12y ago
Hey man, I share your fear. I hate cars. I hate driving. I live in the SF Bay Area. I work in downtown San Francisco. When I lived in SF proper, it would usually be faster to walk somewhere than drive, because of traffic. Then factor in fin
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by eqdw 12y ago
Planet Money did a series on "policies economists would love and politicians would hate". One of their biggest suggestions was "eliminate the corporate tax rate and significantly raise income taxes on the high end". For
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by eqdw 12y ago
> Try giving the money away with no strings attached in one city or state (far away from me please) and see what happens. My Alma Mater did that in the 70s. The results were unequivocably positive. http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by eqdw 12y ago
> My policy preference would be a law that creating a universal wage subsidy of $7.75 an hour, thus guarantees every worker a total wage of at least $15 an hour. I really like this idea. Lately I've been thinking about minimum wage
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by eqdw 12y ago
This doesn't work. It gives the troll and their followers more fodder to troll about. The only winning move is not to play. Completely ignoring them.
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by eqdw 12y ago
As a white male, I have. Wanna trade anecdotes on anything else? I've got a shiny holographic bystander-effect story that's raring to go, having read this ( http://kirstensamazing.com/stop-leaning-in-put-down-your-i
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by eqdw 12y ago
I work in SF, and I don't live in SF. Why should SF subway operators need to live in SF?
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by eqdw 12y ago
GEB was one of the single biggest influences on me to leave the religion I was raised in. In short, GEB gave a sensible, intuitive, and non-magical explanation to things that I would have previously ascribed to a mystical soul that Jesus ma
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by eqdw 12y ago
Where I'm from, the city routinely carpet-bombs the city with pesticides ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malathion ). This is pretty contentious, especially since it's primarily for pest control and not actually
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by eqdw 12y ago
My girlfriend is diabetic. Her mom is pretty stereotypical anti-GMO hippie type. To me, the irony is delicious. Course, then I realize that my girlfriend's mom is essentially anti- her living and it stops being funny

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