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by erehweb 5y ago
Seems like a lot of tedious work at low pay for little impact, particularly for people who are tech savvy enough.
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Flash-Mob Thefts Planned on Snapchat and Other Apps, Police Say(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Second point is good. For first point, they might be getting their healthcare included via work, so their hidden compensation is higher. Or perhaps they're taking a risk, which is certainly possible, but not a great way to have a stres
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by erehweb 5y ago
NZ is higher than most, if not all of Western Europe, and Canada, per https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarcera...
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by erehweb 5y ago
Looking at your chart, it has NZ at 188, UK at 114, FR 87, Germany 69, Canada 107. NZ looks higher on a skim than most (all) of Western Europe. What do you think I'm missing?
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by erehweb 5y ago
Are you factoring medical insurance into consideration? Can be c. $3K / month for a family.
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Bookstores are dying. Barnes and Noble’s pricing policy may help explain why(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by erehweb 5y ago|7 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
From the article "Do we really need to have an argument about whether New Zealand [with a higher rate of incarceration than SF] is a carceralist state, or can we all just agree that this claim [that SF had been practicing mass incarcer
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Instacart President Carolyn Everson to Depart After About Four Months(wsj.com)
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A Couple Stored IRA Gold at Home. They Owe the IRS More Than $300k(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments
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Alexas are changing their names because of Amazon’s voice assistant(washingtonpost.com)
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Would you give 10% of your salary to charity?(bbc.com)
3 points by erehweb 5y ago|5 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
I interpret the link re 99.9% of over 65-year olds having had one jab in the same way as you, but I'm doubtful as to whether the number is correct - see e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/ltc-vaccination-da
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by erehweb 5y ago
Death is not the only bad outcome from COVID, though, so some behavior modification could be justifiable based on risk tolerance.
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San Francisco Reaches $5.3M Settlement in DoorDash Labor Dispute(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
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Match Introduces a Human Matchmaking Element to Its Dating App(wsj.com)
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by erehweb 5y ago
I'm confused by how "all you approve of" should work. In an election with Center-Left, Center-Right and Fascisf, if my preferences are in that order, do I approve of the Center-Right candidate? I suppose they are better than
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by erehweb 5y ago
See also CS Lewis's notes on the Inner Ring https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ "In the passage I have just read from Tolstoy, the young second lieutenant Boris Dubretskoi discovers that there exist in th
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by erehweb 5y ago
We already have gold, though.
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What Went Wrong with Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 5y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
What incentive would any individual company have to join such a blacklist? Re 1, California says you can't refuse to hire someone because of criminal history ( https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/discrimination&
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by erehweb 5y ago
Being willing to use your employer's product is a really low bar in compatibility.
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by erehweb 5y ago
Possibly. But if you're a big company, then not thinking about the impact of your product on the disabled is wilful ignorance, even if it doesn't make you that much more money.
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by erehweb 5y ago
The average selling price may have doubled, but this is affected by the mix of cars that get sold, as outlined in https://publish.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehi... - correcting for that says pri
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Two men with long criminal histories stole bikes. What should S.F. do?(sfchronicle.com)
6 points by erehweb 5y ago|3 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
The other fun development is take-home Data Science problems, where you have to spend a weekend, you're never quite sure if your results are good enough (you can always improve a model), and then they want the regular panel of intervie
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by erehweb 5y ago
So why do they do it?
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by erehweb 5y ago
That might be just a story, rather than something that actually happened. https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a...
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by erehweb 5y ago
What do you think about platforms moving to first price auctions? Do you think we'll start to see more of that?
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Atlanta Chose Data over a World Series No-Hitter. That’s Baseball’s Big Dilemma(wsj.com)
2 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments

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