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by karzeem 15y ago
Suppose you've been charged with a crime and the police have obtained a warrant to seize the contents of a safe you keep in your house. American courts have ruled that the 5th Amendment does not protect you from being compelled to open the
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by karzeem 15y ago
It stops recording when the phone is locked. But I'd imagine that as long as it's recording, the phone wouldn't go into lock mode unless you specifically told it to. The good news is that even if someone takes your phone and deletes the vid
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by karzeem 15y ago
I think I missed the part of the article where they discussed a good reason not to privatize Amtrak. If government subsidy made it better than private sector alternatives, that would be something. But the argument here is what, that we shou
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by karzeem 15y ago
From an economic perspective, open borders are highly desirable. But you're right that they're not really compatible with welfare programs. I don't know if it's ever been tried, but one solution would be an "open borders, but non-citizens a
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by karzeem 15y ago
Surprising downvotes. I wouldn't have thought that the HN hivemind feels that something illegal is ipso facto immoral.
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Mpemba’s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold?(skullsinthestars.com)
2 points by karzeem 15y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 15y ago
I don't know enough to have an opinion about whether it's illegal, but even assuming it is, that doesn't mean it's immoral.
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by karzeem 15y ago
At the risk of revealing some intrinsic immorality or something, I don't really see what's wrong with this. It would be wrong of the sales team to claim to have used Airbnb for stays that never happened, or to invent false testimonials, but
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by karzeem 15y ago
Yes, and they're lobbying state governments to be allowed to do more.
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by karzeem 15y ago
The government does regulate the safety of things like propane tanks, but major retailers, Home Depot included, usually have merchandise quality standards well above what the government mandates. That's suggestive (though not conclusive, I'
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by karzeem 15y ago
He argues that private certification organizations (think Consumer Reports, but for doctors) are a more reliable and versatile way to see how competent a doctor is, and also that hospitals and clinics have an incentive to only hire competen
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by karzeem 15y ago
And you're absolutely right to be risk averse. That's why if you needed major surgery, you'd go to a reputable hospital and not to some clinic above a grocery store. The hospital in this case is a middle man, and their role is vouching for
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by karzeem 15y ago
There are a couple encouraging signs in medicine. First, a lot of doctors advertise that they're board-certified. That's a voluntary, private certification that attests to the doctor's competence and has more rigorous requirements than stat
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by karzeem 15y ago
> "Some occupations clearly need to be licensed. Nobody wants to unleash amateur doctors and dentists on the public." Actually, Milton Friedman famously (and impressively persuasively) did oppose mandatory licensure of doctors. http://
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by karzeem 15y ago
Anything that makes it easier for people to buy their own health insurance is a good thing. There's something about employers buying products for employees that makes those products tend towards crappiness (cf. enterprise software).
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by karzeem 15y ago
The YC data point probably has a sample bias. I'd expect that young people apply in disproportionately large numbers.
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by karzeem 16y ago
I spent a couple years of my errant youth in the entertainment industry, where unpaid internships are the standard way to enter the business. But those jobs aren't worth anything like a minimum wage to the employers, so if they weren't unpa
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by karzeem 16y ago
You're of course right. I'm questioning whether it's a wise price to pay. A lot of funds' results take a big hit once you account for fees.
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by karzeem 16y ago
> AR Magazine said Mr. Shaw, who gave up day-to-day oversight of [D.E. Shaw's funds] in 2002, made the list because the firm charged a 3 percent management fee and took 30 percent of the investment gains. What's the justification for ma
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by karzeem 16y ago
I'm a little embarrassed that it took me until the paragraph about uniforms to realize what was going on.
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by karzeem 16y ago
One solution: they record your location data but will delete it on (your) demand.
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Blockbuster’s Former CEO on Sparring with an Activist Shareholder(hbr.org)
1 points by karzeem 16y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 16y ago
1Password was a godsend for this problem.
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by karzeem 16y ago
On education in particular, school choice is common in much of western Europe, and that seems to go some way towards mitigating the effects of government involvement.
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by karzeem 16y ago
It's sad how common these feelings are and how nearly all of them trace back to the government's (arguably) well-intentioned insistence on running schools itself.
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by karzeem 16y ago
Milton Friedman's idea for alleviating poverty was a variation of this idea. It's called the negative income tax and the basic idea is that people below a certain threshold get cash from the government each year. The further below the thres
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by karzeem 16y ago
I know it's called profit, but the money they keep goes back into the business. The ways for it to be profit in the sense of making the shareholders rich(er) are by increasing the value of the stock or by going to shareholders as a dividend
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by karzeem 16y ago
Even when a company pays little to no tax, the government does get itself a pretty good taste of the profits via the dividend tax.
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Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code(wired.com)
334 points by karzeem 16y ago|100 comments
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Weedmart: Meet the cocky entrepreneurs at the vanguard of the pot boom(motherjones.com)
1 points by karzeem 16y ago|0 comments

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