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by hx87 10y ago
You have strong points there, and it is indeed difficult or impossible for small eCommerce companies to do the calculations themselves. That being said, how much do carriers charge clients for API calls? Unless it's a ridiculous amount
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by hx87 10y ago
In that case, add a business/home selector or checkbox to the form. It's not that complicated. After all, if the information that I enter when I actually buy the item is precise enough to price the shipping, why can't I enter
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by hx87 10y ago
If they have a functional inventory system, they know the weight and dimensions of the product, and all that's needed for destination is a box for postal code.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's certainly true. I wonder if there is a way to increase the number of people who are trustworthy and seen as trustworthy in a given social circle?
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by hx87 10y ago
Price controls are a terrible solution except in special and temporally limited circumstances, e.g. total war. Much better to make construction as easy and cheap as possible, i.e. no quantitative limits on it. > This is also why basic in
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by hx87 10y ago
OTOH, if you impose high holding costs while disallowing trading, you will have either foreclosures, property abandonment or squatting on a massive scale, which are arguably worse.
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by hx87 10y ago
If everybody had an account with the central banks, sure. For now the SUs only have access to the major-banks sandbox, and playing around in this sandbox does nothing except cause asset inflation.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Revalue Greece debt though, and there goes a whole bunch of European banks with greek debt on their books, and a GFC style cascade failure to who knows where in the system. If that's true, then one possible solution would be to le
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by hx87 10y ago
> There are a shockingly small number of people who are really capable of being a CEO of a large (or even medium sized company) and doing it well. How much of this is due to genetics and prenatal environment and how much to education and
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by hx87 10y ago
I don't mind if shipping isn't free. I do mind if the shipping cost isn't queriable until I: 1) Add the item to the cart 2) Create an account 3) Enter all my personal info If your business makes it that much of a hassle to fi
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by hx87 10y ago
Sounds like you need exposure to a wider variety of Chinese literature and film...
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by hx87 10y ago
> I doubt, however, that this is an eternal intrinsic attribute. I'm not sure why something has to be intrinsic and eternal in order to be true, or at least useful.
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by hx87 10y ago
General American is still an accent, albeit a neutral one, and it's hard to find people who still speak it on a daily basis outside the Pacific Northwest. Even in the region where it was allegedly first spoken (Iowa), the average perso
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by hx87 10y ago
The simplest explanation of your finding is that salary differentials are endogenous to industry, not to salary transparency. Did you sample software companies without salary transparency? Did you differentiate between finance companies wit
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by hx87 10y ago
If the "willing to work for $X" was based on flawed or incomplete information, and X would be higher if more complete information was accessible, then yes, I would say they should crash and burn. OTOH, if two people with access to
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by hx87 10y ago
Exactly--open salaries might cause some companies to crash and burn, but these are companies that /should/ crash and burn.
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by hx87 10y ago
> What happens to the guy in open salary co who is legit 50% better than everyone else? Do his peers vote to give him 50% more money? Presumably, that's how it works.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Can usually get close to ranges if you ask a few coworker friends and/or interview around. Isn't that transparency, although in a very biased and limited form? Why would having more transparency reduce your leverage? It'
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by hx87 10y ago
> As long as Musk decides to roll all revenues back into operations, investors get nothing. Don't investors get a higher-valued company (and thus higher share price)? At the end of the day, capital gains is capital gains, whether it
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by hx87 10y ago
Doesn't mean it's a good idea to criminalize/delegalize it if the negative effects are worse than those of cannabis itself.
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by hx87 10y ago
> "Hey, if you want to ruin your life with heroin then go for it" The problem is with the "ruin your life" part, not the "heroin" part. If we really want government to get involved, they should get involved
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by hx87 10y ago
Decriminalization still leaves a legal gray area, which given how racist and power-trippy local law enforcement tends to be does not sit well with me.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Marijuana doesn't have the same wallet loosening effect. Perhaps Mr. Adelson needs to improve the quality (and price) of the restaurants in his casinos.
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by hx87 10y ago
Modern capitalism, combined with the expectation that things should improve over time (which wasn't very prevalent until recently) can be one hell of a driver.
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by hx87 10y ago
You're still stuck in a relatively small seat with little chance to walk around, breathing air with close to 0% humidity, a cramped and uncomfortable toilet, a dull roar in the background, and (if you're flying on an American airl
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by hx87 10y ago
That might work if the windshield is steeply raked (e.g. Honda Civic) but not if it's closer to vertical.
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by hx87 10y ago
Let's see: no weird angles, no distortion, no phones sliding around the dash, no having to run shoddily made apps with backwards displays...there are plenty of reasons for the $799 price.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm probably an outlier then--I'm fully unpacked by the end of the 3rd day and made new friends by the end of the second week, and from my point of view an excellent friend is an excellent friend, whether for 6 months or 30 years.
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by hx87 10y ago
Chip-and-signature cards are annoyingly common in the USA, but I though chip-and-PIN cards were standard in that part of the world.
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by hx87 10y ago
The downvotes (for comments after the first) are more for the spamming and metacomplaints than anything else.

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