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Silicon Valley's Awful Race and Gender Problem in 3 Mind-Blowing Charts(motherjones.com)
8 points by jvm 13y ago|2 comments
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by jvm 13y ago
Indeed, I find vimperator's interface exceedingly minimal.[1] [1] http://imgur.com/MkGwZZ5
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by jvm 13y ago
See map here: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger They're located between major cities so you can make a road trip, not in them because the idea is when you're home you just plug them into your wall at night.
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by jvm 13y ago
He's suggesting a carbon tax. That means you can expect low-carbon energy sources to slowly win out price-wise over high-carbon sources. The electric car will use whatever is economical for the utilities, whereas a gas car is committed to g
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by jvm 13y ago
It's fairly accurate to think of it as a place that has tried as hard as possible not to move away from the Soviet economic/social/political model.
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by jvm 13y ago
TLDR: You might think Silicon Valley is a rich white boys club. But we're a progressive rich white boys club. Our values are highly superior to J. P. Morgan's (or just about anybody's really) so there is actually nothing to be critical of
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by jvm 13y ago
To be fair, technology has allowed crop yields to grow considerably which has been credited with decreasing world hunger. Lower food prices is clearly a good thing, even though I agree more buying power for the world's poor would be better.
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by jvm 13y ago
I've said elsewhere, but this is only true if short-term and long-term housing aren't fungible, which could only result from a messed up regulatory structure in need of some serious overhaul.
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by jvm 13y ago
> can only decrease the supply of 12-month leases Temporary and long-term housing should be fungible. I've learned from other commenters that maybe they're not due to the NYC regulatory structure. If so then that's creating horrible d
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by jvm 13y ago
The mechanism for the induced demand is lower prices. That was my point.
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by jvm 13y ago
I completely agree that there are negative externalities to AirBNB, so I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion. But point #2, the rising rents thing, seems unlikely to me. AirBNB increases the supply of housing. It does nothing to demand.
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by jvm 13y ago
> Case in point, look at how badly JCPenney fared after Apple retail exec, Ron Johnson, became CEO for just 17 months Not that I'm disagreeing with anything you're saying, but I would like to point out that the changes Johnson implement
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by jvm 13y ago
Re: the first point, it actually is surprising, at least to some, because under Keynesian doctrine, Japan was supposedly in a "liquidity trap" slash "zero lower bound" where monetary policy is supposedly ineffective, but obviously it was th
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by jvm 13y ago
Considering sexism and racism in your own industry to be "special interest" topics of no interest is probably the surest sign of being a proud beneficiary of those dynamics. They're of paramount concern to anyone who doesn't benefit. I'm no
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by jvm 13y ago
I realized I should have clarified > internet retailers do not legally owe any sales tax to any state they don't have nexus in This is technically true but highly misleading. In almost all states, the receiving party is required to pay
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by jvm 13y ago
I wasn't talking about what's legal, I was talking about what's ethical and/or economically efficient. States didn't tax online sales because there was no legal framework for doing so, so online retailers were able to gain an edge over loca
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by jvm 13y ago
This argument is ludicrous. You are saying that you shouldn't have to pay the taxes you legally owe because it's hard for you to do the accounting? It's much harder to file taxes if you have to itemize returns, should that make you exempt f
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by jvm 13y ago
a) Silicon Valley doesn't have "its own senators" b) Why should internet retailers get special privileges? Complexity sucks but that's life, and the law does require states to simplify the collection process.
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by jvm 13y ago
That's actually log income that they're comparing to life satisfaction there, so they're clearly indicating that returns will diminish up to the point where their measures aren't sensitive enough to detect it.
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by jvm 13y ago
They actually made a big point about the fact that they had fun going out to dinner so it didn't ruin their enjoyment of the night. They juts also (not unreasonably) noted that $30 for a beer and a salad is sort of ludicrous unless there's
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by jvm 13y ago
When they made the agreement, they included a "safeguard clause" indicating that the deal would be off if immigration exceeded a particular amount. It has. I'm completely against the policy, but it's not a violation of the agreement.
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by jvm 13y ago
> The only extra thing it does is ensure the data is valid JSON, Even that's actually not quite fair, it has special syntax for queries within the JSON (->> etc), and a bunch of functions: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/s
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by jvm 13y ago
Nobody's mentioned it, but their competitors would be the big obvious winners. I don't know if I think they are the likely culprits, but Mt Gox has a major network advantage right now over its competitors which is surely being drained by th
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by jvm 13y ago
I think he's actually saying gunicorn was simpler than Apache. I've also found that to be true (anecdotaly).
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by jvm 13y ago
If you read the article, they actually do an experiment and show via random assignment that assigning the posture actually causes the outcome (in this case, job interview success). They didn't show the mechanism, but they did in fact show t
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by jvm 13y ago
Noboyd's saying it's defensive, exactly, but I think it is unambiguously a signal that you don't have social ambition in the given context, which makes you unoffensive but also uninteresting.
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by jvm 13y ago
Right, my point is just that futures markets will of course reduce BTC volatility, but they're not going to make it nearly as stable as TIPS or something. Parent was saying it was going to "really stabilize." Speculating, I think an optimis
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by jvm 13y ago
> When a worthwhile Futures market hits, then BTC will really stabilize. I agree that a futures market would be a stabilizing force, but other volatile commodities are still highly volatile even with futures markets. The reason most cur
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by jvm 14y ago
> actually, you'd be surprised - i think those people who don't consider themselves upper-class are probably right in their judgement I completely respect your opinion, but the fact that you think that doesn't "surprise" me, it's in fac
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by jvm 14y ago
It sounds like my own country too, the United States. :-)

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