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by jeffbax 9y ago
"minimum wage regulations should generally help the local economy." I would not say that with such certainty… http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046216... https://paper
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by jeffbax 10y ago
Following economists, journalists, technologists etc that I have no immediate connection to, let alone their phone number? Twitter is for what I care about, relative to the general drivel that FB thinks I value. My friends on FB certainly d
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by jeffbax 10y ago
I would seem prudent for an article complaining about deregulation and market solutions to mention the fact that: > "Foreign companies and individuals—think Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic Airways—are forbidden by U.S. law from
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by jeffbax 10y ago
There's a big difference between being the premium product when the range for them is $0-$1200, your margin is massive, and everyone on the planet needs one. It's another when the range is $12,000-$100,000, margins are much more c
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by jeffbax 10y ago
Reason Foundation (obviously coming from a market/privatization point of view) did a series of videos about these types of problems. TL;DR: Tolls make sense in the situation of "only highways" regardless. You can make high-sp
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http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article136478098... "Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly acros
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by jeffbax 10y ago
I think Snap has potential to be huge… anything that wins the race to replace TV is going to be big. Whether they can do it before FB clones them/leverages their network is a big open question. That said, despite the fact that I love T
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by jeffbax 10y ago
Companies don't just "abandon" $20B/year businesses, and it will sure take a lot more than a "few years" for that to decline to make a comparison to iPhone's inevitable cannibalization of the iPod. Additio
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by jeffbax 10y ago
Not commenting on the BDFS so much as its really cool to see large Chinese companies contributing to open source, does anyone know of other large projects outside of the main Android forks? Pardon the ignorance. Also wonder if there will be
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Yeah, but you get to make it without hugely-out-of-your-control health complications. Developers can get fat eating a lot of pizza, but they can run it off. Harder for a miner to avoid all the hazards with the job. As much as I hate the ope
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by jeffbax 11y ago
It's kind of absurd to blame capitalism, when the vast majority of countries implicated are nothing close. Calling Russia or China capitalist is laughable, they are oligarchies greasing the wheels at every turn with extreme levels of c
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by jeffbax 11y ago
"It is untouchable as far as HCI is concerned" (among the "it just work's" argument, or the privacy advantages, generally superior ecosystem, etc) and yet "Pricing is unreasonable". The dissonance… is stro
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by jeffbax 11y ago
Yeah, but all iOS Keyboards have serious stability problems. I'm sure that it's Apple's API's fault first, and hope that MS's resources help iron things out, but its really frustrating. Integrating Cortana into the
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by jeffbax 11y ago
You mean, when capitalism isn't bringing unprecedented amounts of people out of abject poverty? (eg, cutting world poverty in half in the past 20 years) Socialism is great, until you read a history book or look at its actual implementa
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by jeffbax 11y ago
Nostalgic memories of the few things that ran good on your S3 cards back in 1998? More seriously, from that list at least for me: - Speed and battery life from Metal, to start - Better window management - Bug fixes - Spotlight improvements
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by jeffbax 11y ago
Yeah, his problem is he's so lost in his own ego these days he's just a blatant ideologue at this point. He's uncharitable to his opponents, unwilling to acknowledge his own biases, and is more and more like the Bill O'R
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by jeffbax 11y ago
The article ignores the fact that Fidelity has passively managed target date index funds as well: FFFHX 2050 Actively Managed @ 0.75%: https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/31579... FIPFX 2050 Ind
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by jeffbax 11y ago
RCN is available in only certain parts of Boston, but not all. I certainly had it in Brighton while living there.
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by jeffbax 11y ago
Absolutely. A QT/GTK/Java UI framework is immediately noticeable on OS X, and IMO even Windows though to a lesser extent. Doing native is without a doubt the right call.
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by jeffbax 11y ago
You should partner with online dating applications, and have all images sent from men to women run through this first. Sr. Dick Detection Specialist will look pretty interesting on LinkedIn.
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by jeffbax 11y ago
I would say that the bill is being left by congress by spending a ludicrous sum of money, not by corporations acting rationally (and taking advantage of/keeping countries competitive with one another). The real danger is with the upcom