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by jellicle 10y ago
In practice, every employer pays what it needs to get employees, and nothing more. Unless something changes the number of employees available, salaries don't change. Tax cuts go straight into the employer's pocket, as the employe
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by jellicle 10y ago
The U.S. should move to a political system where coastal city-dwelling individuals have 4x the voting power of people who live inland and in rural areas.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Well, unless you ever annoy Amazon, bounce a check, charge back any purchases, or get put on any government no-drive list. Then you're walking for the rest of your life.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Hotel occupancy rates in NYC are 90%, compared to 65% elsewhere in the USA, so if we were to try to draw a causal conclusion: high hotel tax rates cause high occupancy.
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by jellicle 10y ago
> as though they are doing something illegal. They are not. Of course they are. And Uber has been fined/sued/charged hundreds if not thousands of times for doing just that. The penalties have proved insufficient to deter them
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by jellicle 10y ago
If you don't want a 5.7" mega-phone, your choices are basically a $100 trash phone or going without.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Apple has never gone with an open standard when a proprietary closed standard would do. More likely than using any sort of standard port would be Apple inventing yet another new proprietary port.
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by jellicle 10y ago
In my experience the situation is the exact opposite. The "city planners" tend to produce perfectly reasonable transit plans, moving the most people for the least money, which then occasionally get derailed and set on fire by cit
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by jellicle 10y ago
$10/hour, no benefits. 4 years job experience and college degree required for entry-level job. No training. "We can't find anyone"
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by jellicle 10y ago
Other than the 3% of all workers who have become permanently discouraged workers in the past decade, you mean? http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 It's only 5 million people or so, so I guess you're sa
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by jellicle 10y ago
In the U.S., there is no right to a lawyer for any civil case, and for that matter not even in a criminal case. You have to be both destitute and a criminal defendant to receive a court-appointed lawyer. Many people believe that all crimin
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by jellicle 10y ago
Well, obviously putting paper over the webcam would result in a FAIL grade for the test, so it's hardly that easy. Maybe you could record yourself staring intently at the screen and play that back to the webcam during the exam.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Cheaper, duh. As a corporation, you want all of your corporate inputs to have multiple suppliers and heavy competition to supply you. That gives you low prices for your inputs. You want your outgoing product to be a monopoly, or nearly s
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by jellicle 10y ago
Enjoy it while you can, as most likely the incoming administration will turn off this satellite. Why spend a lot of money to discover politically inconvenient data? Two birds, one stone.
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by jellicle 10y ago
The US government can contact one of the many consumer data brokers and obtain a list of every Muslim in America in about five minutes. They have no need to use the Census or anything else. "Experian’s Ethnic InsightSM is a comprehens
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by jellicle 10y ago
You turn on the TV. It tells you something. You turn on the radio. It tells you something. You turn on the internet. It tells you something. Should you be skeptical of it when all your sources of information agree that this is a real
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by jellicle 10y ago
Society doesn't have an interest in assuring a predictable supply of anything?
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by jellicle 10y ago
> as long as there was work Not work. Creativity. Big difference.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Then give them jobs. Plenty of old coal mining sites need to be cleaned up.
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by jellicle 10y ago
> > whether higher minimum wages were going to kill jobs. The early data is in, and so far it doesn’t look like they do." > This seems like an awfully broad conclusion to draw. Why? We have mountains of evidence that supports
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by jellicle 10y ago
Quashing abuse means preventing people from creating dozens of throwaway accounts. Preventing people from creating dozens of throwaway accounts would immediately eliminate any growth in Twitter's userbase - it would kill one of Twitte
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by jellicle 10y ago
You're getting downvoted because the readers of HN do not get old or have neighbors.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Protestors will probably be on the Federal "no-drive" list or the private one maintained by ChexSystems, so you can protest anywhere you want, as long as it is within walking distance. It'll be funny when people are put on th
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by jellicle 10y ago
It shows much regulations have had an effect, and it shows how policy changes in government (from anti-monopoly, to pro-monopoly) can have a major effect on the corporate landscape.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Yeah! When has exploring ever benefited anyone! No more exploration! The mission cost the citizens of Europe and Russia a bit over 1 Euro per person.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Why would you think it's not enforceable? Indeed, the more restrictions Tesla adds, the more enforceable it is: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/the-end-of-used-m...
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by jellicle 10y ago
That is charmingly optimistic.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Sadly, no.
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by jellicle 10y ago
That would be an excellent requirement to add to U.S. law, yes.
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by jellicle 10y ago
You're using "free market" when you mean "competitive market". There are very many free markets that are not competitive. The primary goal of companies selling a good or service is to reduce competition to minimal

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