mactrey

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by mactrey 8y ago
What if the claim is not that my marginal vote is worth 0, but rather that the worth of my marginal vote is very small - so small that the marginal cost of driving to the voting booth and waiting in line is overwhelmingly higher. What mathe
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by mactrey 8y ago
So is the University of Oregon in Portland or Eugene?
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by mactrey 8y ago
Wages depend directly on the supply of and demand for labor, and only indirectly on the amount of value produced in an hour of labor. So if assembly line workers notice that coders are making tons of money, and so the assembly line workers
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by mactrey 8y ago
Are you holding cash? The S&P500 is up something like 200% since 2008 so it's hard to understand how anyone's savings could have lost value in the past decade.
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by mactrey 8y ago
This is answered in the article (pretty far down, I'll admit): >But if all we have is the link, there are two problems here that we haven’t addressed. >The first one is… you go visit this site and it delivers some code to you. Ho
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by mactrey 8y ago
It's not really a sexist construct since an attractive man easily makes more in tips than an unattractive woman... It's more the societal construct that attractive = good, which is pernicious but quite deeply ingrained in human so
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by mactrey 8y ago
From personal experience (as an Oregon resident, not a drug dealer), it will be incredibly difficult for black market sellers to compete with the technology and economies of scale that large companies will bring to bear on the cannabis mark
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Portion sizes are also much smaller.
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by mactrey 8y ago
If a $15/hr wage is apparently a pay decrease for these "peasants" then they were previously making a very livable wage. So what exactly is Amazon doing that every local cafe or retail store isn't?
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Amazon offers the exact same product for the exact same cost, I don't see the problem. Do you have any examples where Amazon is selling a product for "outrageously higher"?
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Bogues is really the exception that proves the rule. He had to be incredibly talented and athletic to make up for his lack of height, but even then he was only a good, not great, NBA player. If you are 1.60m tall and your dream is making th
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by mactrey 8y ago
Now that Microsoft is the underdog they are claiming exactly that. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/technology/microsoft-mora...