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by jldugger 3y ago
Is this any different than the sailing stones of death valley?
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by jldugger 3y ago
You probably should because the collateral damage here is like, a trillion dollars of other tax laws on the books that would also be ruled unconstitutional.
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by jldugger 3y ago
This case is batshit insane, as covered by slate[1]. 1. There are material misrepresentations by the plantiff and by their counsel. The entire premise is that Moore shouldn't have to pay taxes without realized income, and he has no con
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Without fail, for free events, there’s a predictable dropoff of around 30% of all RSVPs. If I have 50 people RSVP for an event, I’ll assume 30 or 35 will show up. I've seen a similar pattern with board game groups. At 50+, maybe t
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by jldugger 3y ago
My understanding is that there is a patent holder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(application)#Patent_in... in the US.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> but there are a bunch of users there that use the "report" feature any time that they see a post that doesn't support their own personal opinion how can you tell?
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by jldugger 3y ago
It's probably 36% of food imports, but oil & gas is also an incredibly important strategic resource China does not have nearly enough of. Which means their domestic crops are reliant on oil imports from which fertilizer is derived.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I got it in one submission by playing the sample, picking a note and removing it if they don't match what I heard. Was that cheating? It's been a few decades since I last played viola and I've honestly forgotten the tone:lett
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by jldugger 3y ago
> belief first and arguments second on a lot of things "support rather than illumination"
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by jldugger 3y ago
Can't readily find it but there was a pretty good Odd Lots podcast on the interaction between labor supply and restaurant design. California raises wages, and less labor intensive counter service measurably replace table service. As is
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by jldugger 3y ago
> That the board took this action without consultation with key investors is madness. It's a non-profit board, yea?
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by jldugger 3y ago
That's intentional, afaict. The circle in the diagram represents the stroke start point.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I have to assume it's to avoid the headache of cancelled orders, and ensure strong sell-through of the brand new high margin product.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> gas station attendants Only when legally required by law, and you end up paying for it in the price and availability -- ever tried getting gas in Oregon after 9pm?
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by jldugger 3y ago
I mean, 70 percent is pretty good for a selection strategy. I wasn't aware H&S had published a followup and now I'm curious if it ever got a peer review, because their table contradicts some earlier work suggesting that struct
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by jldugger 3y ago
I figure the tricky part is figuring out a rule that doesn't make buying any struggling 13 person startup an FTC enforcement risk.
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by jldugger 3y ago
Instagram had 13 employees[1] when FB bought it. IDK how you stop that kind of anticompetitive behavior without removing one of the big VC exit strategies. [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-first-13-employees...
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by jldugger 3y ago
I mean, Hunter & Schmidt says three really key things: 1. IQ tests work real good. 2. Structured interviews -- which are not IQ tests -- work about as well and strongly correlated. 3. Work sample tests -- which are _definitely not_ IQ t
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by jldugger 3y ago
Is median income even relevant in places with massive informal economies?
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by jldugger 3y ago
>> Thailand has a PPP of 3x China. > Where are you getting this? I'm no economist, but based on a simple search and data from wikipedia [1], your number seems wildly incorrect. Ah jeez https://data.worldbank.org&#x2
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by jldugger 3y ago
Thailand's GDP per capita was 7,066.19 in 2019. China's is 12,556.33. However, the Chinese GDP number is widely known to be inflated[1]. Even Federal Reserve has weighed in on the question[2]. Thailand is not exactly a free place,
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by jldugger 3y ago
I'm not saying these are not great products, or that they didn't raise the bar. I'm saying they all launched with directly comparable competitors, and everyone knew what it was supposed to do. In popular imagination, the iPho
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by jldugger 3y ago
> I really enjoyed the first half talking about how Apple and Nintendo followed a blue ocean strategy. Let me fix that for you. Blue ocean is roughly the idea of inventing new markets. While it might apply to Nintendo, that's really
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by jldugger 3y ago
Still seems like a waste of time if your MVP fails tho.
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by jldugger 3y ago
But it cuts both ways: Walter Freeman[1] was only banned from performing lobotomies after 100 patients of his had died of hemorrhage. [1]: https://www.econtalk.org/megan-mcardle-on-the-oedipus-trap/
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by jldugger 3y ago
Google wallet supports barcodes. While technically you can only set up cards for libraries who have gone through the registration program, in practice they pretty much all work interchangably. Downside is you can't change the display n
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by jldugger 3y ago
This post is from two months ago.
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by jldugger 3y ago
In the era before smartphones, barcode readers were highly tuned devices that emitted a specific frequency of light and the sensor was tuned for exactly that. Cellphone screens generally don't emit that frequency of red, and I guess ab
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Let's share the index as public data Common crawl[1] data has been in AWS for over a decade. [1]: https://commoncrawl.org
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by jldugger 3y ago
Yes, but 2021 was an outlier on many dimensions and now the public needs an update.

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