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by jellicle 8y ago
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02....
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by jellicle 8y ago
Do you believe that the researchers who study these sorts of things are, without exception, complete idiots who never thought of the possibility that there might be other factors changing at the same time as the minimum wage change? https:
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by jellicle 8y ago
The argument, very strongly made by minimum wage opponents, was that Seattle's restaurant industry would collapse entirely. Hacker News even ran several stories about the impending collapse. That... didn't happen, and it's i
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by jellicle 8y ago
It really doesn't. Every year, the US does numerous natural experiments as states raise (or don't) their minimum wages while similar states do the opposite. Every time, without fail, the states which raise their minimum wages do
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by jellicle 8y ago
> And, if you work in a federally-funded research lab that pays for your graduate education, and that allows you to publish papers, attend conferences, and perform original research on working time, then you probably don’t need a union.
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by jellicle 8y ago
But as the public is typically entitled to that "other stuff" information as well, you're just obstructing.
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by jellicle 8y ago
The reasons are pretty simple: taxes and racism. They use Birmingham as an example. Many of the pieces of land that seem like they "should" be part of Birmingham were racist enclaves founded specifically to avoid desegregation.
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by jellicle 8y ago
> Ergo, the only thing left here is that Slack broke the law that forbids discrimination based on ethnicity. That's not how it works. Even if Slack is mistaken in their belief that export regulations apply, their action is still tak
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by jellicle 8y ago
Here's a discussion: https://www.longviewoneducation.org/why-does-jordan-peterson...
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by jellicle 8y ago
> $1 ointment/$76 ointment When prices can be 76 times higher at one facility than the one next door, with no notice to the patient until their bill is overdue, there's obviously no way to price compare at all and market functi
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by jellicle 8y ago
There are great numbers of people who drink only water bottled in small plastic disposable bottles in their home. I have a set of relatives that have a garage full of cartons of bottled water (there was a sale). Their tap water is of excel
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by jellicle 8y ago
The reality is that 100% of the groups "targeted" by the IRS, mostly Republican and a few Democratic, were and are obviously, blatantly violating tax law in order to launder political activity through a fake tax-free group, to dod
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by jellicle 8y ago
The MTA moves 5.5 million people daily, why don't you do the math on door-to-door individual vehicles for all of them? Like, major office buildings can have 10,000 workers in them, and there may be a bunch of such buildings in a compl
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by jellicle 8y ago
> I really don't care for public transportation Right. We get that. It's very obvious that much of the hype around self-driving cars is premised around people who simply reject mass transit outright and therefore believe that
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by jellicle 8y ago
"Humans will try hard to survive", while undoubtedly true, isn't really a counter-argument. As a counter to your "humans are smart" theory, I would point out that we've known about climate change for half a cen
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by jellicle 8y ago
The most sudden warmings Earth has ever seen happened at 1/100th or 1/1000th the speed of the current warming, and wiped out most life on Earth.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Kids are required to be in car seats until age 8 in most states.
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by jellicle 8y ago
The amount of money we just gave Jeff Bezos for putting a headquarters near his new house would fund the entire US food stamp program for a week or two, or if you prefer depth instead of breadth, would fund food stamps for hundreds of thous
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by jellicle 8y ago
If we burn or release the ocean methane deposits for any reason, most of the Earth's land surface would be uninhabitable to humans, meaning all unprotected humans would die. Maybe there would still be habitable zones near the poles. No
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by jellicle 8y ago
Cool, hopefully they can get some tips from the US, which has been doing this for a long time via credit agencies and secret FBI, Homeland Security, and NSA databases. > unable to move even a single step Hey, it's a no-fly list. ht
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by jellicle 8y ago
Meh, it's the norm in developed nations that medical care will not bankrupt you, period. You can fall off a cliff and break every bone in your body and in any of the green countries here, your out of pocket costs will be minimal: htt
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by jellicle 8y ago
The price gouging here comes from owning the only hospital that serves a particular area, not from any sort of evil government insurance mandate. Your choices are: a) pay high prices at the door of the hospital b) pay high insurance prices
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by jellicle 8y ago
You can look at the work of Page and Gilens, who have shown that the US is not democratic in any meaningful sense. That is, if you know that policy A is preferred over B by 95% of the citizens of the USA (an incredible supermajority), that
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by jellicle 8y ago
So HN is upset that Venezuela has a national ID card which can be used to apply for government services, can be used for mobile payments, and the government has a "database" (in scare quotes) which lists the political party of the
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by jellicle 8y ago
The payment processor makes pennies from your business. If doing business with you ever costs them more than pennies - if it costs them dollars, or hundreds of dollars, or thousands of dollars, or more - they're going to drop you. ht
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by jellicle 8y ago
Err, so, this paywalled article is about how a Republican governor who ran on a platform of cutting welfare in the state of Indiana brought in some "algorithms", some "computers" of some sort, that ended up giving a lot
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by jellicle 8y ago
Right. You can quit your third job if you're making more from the first two. This is a plus, not a minus.
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by jellicle 8y ago
But this isn't a warming or cooling cycle caused by any external event, but rather one caused by humans. It's not going to "switch back" to cooling, and this is indeed very new, entirely unprecedented in Earth's ex
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by jellicle 8y ago
I see a lot of comments about how this is "opt-in". By definition, all of the videos that officers can see the existence of through this portal exist on Ring's servers, not on some individually-owned machine. So if you decli
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by jellicle 8y ago
> This is why it makes me nervous when people suggest we should be able to prosecute members of Congress for insider trading. This thing that you fear may happen in the future happened in 2012 (STOCK Act, clarifies that insider trading i

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