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by gwright 4y ago
I'm not sure exactly what was intended by the poster but I suspect it is related to the employment taxes associated with an employee vs a 1099 contractor or external vendor. In addition to the different tax treatment labor law regulati
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by gwright 4y ago
This observation, for me is a rationale for supporting efforts that shift power down. From federal to state, from state to county, from county to local gov, from local gov to individuals. Public policy discussions that start with the assum
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by gwright 4y ago
good naming Maybe that is not "architecture" or "technique" but is is definitely not trivial and is important in almost any context -- but also probably not what you were going for.
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by gwright 4y ago
> but manage them better on something more profitable. Well, yeah. I mean the entire endeavor of operating a for-profit business is to find the combination of resources/effort/ideas that creates value. The problem space is eno
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by gwright 4y ago
I was obviously referring to the net change in business value. Additional employees can be result in a net negative or a net positive return on investment depending on how they are utilized. That was what I was trying to communicate.
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by gwright 4y ago
Yeah, there could have been a lot more substance but to be honest a disappointingly large number participants here don't seem to understand that very basic principle when they engage in discussions here. To be clear, the parent to my c
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by gwright 4y ago
That isn't the way a business works. There is no intrinsic value to "staff", positive or negative. The value comes from the way staff (or any other resources) is utilized. Building twice as many widgets by building and staffi
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by gwright 4y ago
Almost as if TANSTAAFL.
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by gwright 4y ago
Why do they need to "pivot"? They should be prosecuting all those crimes, not just some of them.
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by gwright 4y ago
Many people really don't connect the dots between tax policies and health care insurance/payment policies. Saying that health care/insurance is "free" makes it difficult to have a coherent policy discussion. I know
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by gwright 4y ago
This language isn't very helpful. It is likely paid for from general tax revenue. That might be a better implementation but it certainly isn't "free". And if it isn't explicitly paid for via tax revenue it will en
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by gwright 4y ago
Maybe that is why we have a republic with representatives? Of course we can just shift the discussion to point out that US Congress critters don't seem to have a strong grasp on these topics either. :-(
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by gwright 4y ago
I had much the same feelings. It is very hard to describe to someone who hasn't witnessed it. In a moment, my perception of the earth-moon-sun system transformed into something much more tangible than it had been before. Sort of like
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by gwright 4y ago
There is a lot of effort going into this sort of thing: https://www.bandwidth.com/regulations/stir-shaken/
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by gwright 4y ago
Healthcare in the US is definitely not driven by the free market. It is probably one of the most regulated industries. Whatever disfunction you want to call out in US healthcare it is going to be difficult to pin that on the free market
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by gwright 4y ago
That chart is useless. It apparently only corrects for hours worked. What about years in the workforce, year in the job, occupational mix, job level?
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by gwright 4y ago
Don't disagree, but the challenge in this area is that no two people are alike and so the market price for developer-a is not the same as the market price for developer-b. Related, it depends on what job you are applying for as the sam
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by gwright 4y ago
For additional cultural context, I think this usage was popularized by Eddie Murphy in Delirious (NSFW language: https://youtu.be/Ft4kEk5CHrE , you'll want to listen to at least 2:15)
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by gwright 4y ago
> there is zero discoverability The shortcuts associated with menu items are shown in the menu item. I realize that there other discovery problems with keyboard shortcuts (on all platforms) but there is non-zero discoverability for &quot
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by gwright 4y ago
I had the privilege of working for Rich as a junior developer and then later with him as a co-author. He was my mentor and friend. Seeing messages like this over 30 years later really makes my day and reminds me how much I miss him.
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by gwright 4y ago
> A better calculator language See Calca: http://calca.io
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by gwright 4y ago
My understanding is that refinery capacity is a significant problem.
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by gwright 4y ago
Other negative side effects that I'm aware of: * disaster recovery efforts to Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria * cost of goods in Hawaii
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by gwright 4y ago
> Show me a large enough company and there will be a history The specificity of your comment (large enough company) is misleading. The flaws you call out are everywhere, not just large companies. Humans are imperfect. Human organization
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by gwright 4y ago
Still occupies acreage that could be used to grow something else.
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by gwright 4y ago
Too late to edit, but I think this was actually in the context of New York City Housing Authority and not Section 8. I tried to track down the article but couldn't find it quickly. This isn't the article I had in mind but it is re
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by gwright 4y ago
I may have remembered incorrectly but I believe it was in the context of the New York Housing Authority and I just made the perhaps incorrect assumption that it was Section 8. I tried to find the article itself but couldn't find it qui
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by gwright 4y ago
Hmm. I've been wondering why all the Russian yachts have been "arrested" lately in the news as opposed to "seized", for example. It sounded very strange to me as I thought that "arrested" only applied to p
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by gwright 4y ago
I've wondered at times if it would make sense for there to be an explicit legal proceeding at the age of majority in which you explicitly opt in to the social contract analogous to the naturalization process when a foreigner becomes a
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by gwright 4y ago
I most recently saw that with some criticisms of Section 8 housing. I'm paraphrasing but basically to be eligible for Section 8 housing you can't have too many assets. Good financial planning would say to scrimp and save so that y

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