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by jbooth 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly Trust-busting and anti-collusion laws aren't "anti-capitalist", even though you could argue backroom deals are just the free market at work. The same goes
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by jbooth 12y ago
Local-perspective decision-making and "50 laboratories" are usually the general line for that kind of thing, with efficiency and consistency being the arguments in favor of federal control. Funnily enough, the states with Republic
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by jbooth 12y ago
I don't see why costs for supplies should decrease, necessarily, even in real terms. I guess you can have consistent churn at a brick & mortar business to keep paying minimum wage by replacing people with younger people as they le
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by jbooth 12y ago
If your employees expect raises greater than inflation (like say 3%), or you're giving out any kind of healthcare benefits (that cost grows 10% annually on avg), or your rent goes up, etc etc, then you need to be growing in order to be
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by jbooth 13y ago
Experienced Java and Go dev here. On formatting, gofmt is awesome. There's an IDE called LiteIDE which automatically calls gofmt for you, or you can just run it yourself whenever. Additionally, because there's deliberately no ro
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by jbooth 13y ago
I definitely haven't read it, but it's going on my list. How does he contrast the current unemployment situation with the boom-bust cycles during the industrial age? It seems completely different to me. Currently, we've got
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, you're an outlier. Deleted the rest of my post since I'm on my way to bed and didn't want to steal the last word. You can probably guess most of it.
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by jbooth 13y ago
> Are the non-rich getting drastically worse access to teaching and learning resources? Yeah, that's what I'm arguing if you're going to point to online certificate programs that get advertised on the subway as evidence fo
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by jbooth 13y ago
I feel like this conversation is sidestepping the fact that "cheap online education" is synonymous with "we'll take a bunch of your money under unique loan conditions and operate as a paper mill". Not to say anythin
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by jbooth 13y ago
The hiring filters for most of the security services seem to select for people who consider following orders to be the most American thing they could possibly do.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Someone mentioned in another thread that it seemed (allegedly, I don't know any of these people) like the type of people who apply for investment banking jobs are now applying for YC. I think the most salient fact about this stereotypi
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think that it can. With some weights of 0 and some weights of 1, you can trivially map 'jumps' that skip from a node in one layer to a node a couple layers distant, by means of some incorporate-no-other-inputs intermediate node
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but my guess is because it makes it really easy to materialize the weights between layers as a 2d matrix and we have some really good library code out there for dealing with matrices. There's probably room for e
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, I'm glad you've concluded that you're still right.
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by jbooth 13y ago
The gang of four book predates Java the language. FYI. The book's written in Smalltalk.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, it'll be way easier to get rid of once the program is established and there are people who's jobs depend on it.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Once they've built the app, almost every one of their costs aside from executive salaries (!) is a recurring per-unit cost -- paying the drivers, buying the food, the gas, etc. Still sounds more like 100k bank-loan material than 10M VC
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by jbooth 13y ago
Probably none, what with game theory and the free-rider problem. Or, as it seems, about $2k.
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by jbooth 13y ago
No, you can't make that same argument. Software is fundamentally scalable, due to incremental copies being free after the first copy costs a lot of money to produce. Food service is about as far towards the other end of the scale as
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by jbooth 13y ago
Whether or not you want to call it 'significant', every $15 meal they sell for $8 is either $15 or $8 in revenue that a legitimate business didn't get. This phenomenon literally breaks capitalism, by routing money from those
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by jbooth 13y ago
You totally missed the point of the article. The lunch that guy described is impossible to deliver for $8 in the US, and especially in SF. That business makes no sense, ever. Losing money while making a unit profit on that lunch, ok, let&
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by jbooth 13y ago
FYI for outer boroughs: see that parked black car outside the subway stop? Give him the head nod. If he motions, get in. Negotiate price BEFORE the car starts moving. You're right that a card makes this harder.
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by jbooth 13y ago
IMO, what makes it a 'bubble' is that the speculators don't care about the underlying theory, they're just jumping on the bandwagon because it keeps going up. Which is why it crashes so suddenly as soon as forward momen
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's exactly the column I was thinking of, I specifically remember the mortgage reference. Thanks. And I agree on your distinction there, and the historical record bears it out, with inflation rising from 2003-2007 and then near-d
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by jbooth 13y ago
I really don't think speculators were thinking that far ahead -- herd mentality is a way more believable explanation, there are hundreds of examples going back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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by jbooth 13y ago
Krugman was right, but I remember during the Bush years, he was predicting inflation caused by the deficits that Bush created. He's a really smart guy but can be pretty partisan. That said, at least he adjusted his opinion in the face
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by jbooth 13y ago
You don't think there's more money in her US Government contacts?
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by jbooth 13y ago
Hey, it's not like they're storing people's data or anything. Privacy just shouldn't be that relevant to them.
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by jbooth 13y ago
From an outside reading of what seemed to happen in that White House, I'd say "there's no doubting her ability to stay on everyone's good side by watching which way the wind blows and not standing on any principle whatso
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's much more to my liking, but still, we've got multiple ways of doing option types and now I've seen 2 different operators, which I presume are overloaded to deal with those types somewhere? Or we're dealing with a

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