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by mfringel 8y ago
Precisely. "Living paycheck-to-paycheck, but with bigger numbers." is not wealth.
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by mfringel 8y ago
I typically thought of "wealthy" as discernible through a single question: "Is the vast majority of the money you spend on a daily basis from capital, or wages?" If capital, you're wealthy. If wages, you're not
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by mfringel 8y ago
The problem I have with the "blame the consumer" trope is that there's the implicit "and if consumers had full pricing knowledge, The Market(tm) would correct all of the other issues, and healthcare in the US would be fi
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by mfringel 8y ago
What will you give in exchange for that evidence? A differing opinion with sufficient evidence to back it, or merely a less-wrongian meta-comment on styles of discussion? The former is valuable. The latter is worse than uninteresting.
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by mfringel 8y ago
<Looks at the current state of social media.> Come again?
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by mfringel 8y ago
Very nice! I didn't see it on the image, but maybe it got cropped out. Did you give credit to the original author for the code/idea?
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by mfringel 8y ago
...or on top of an existing building.
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by mfringel 8y ago
I'm inclined to agree, but can you say more about that?
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by mfringel 8y ago
"Just wear headphones" is the "Just hit delete" of the new millennium.
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by mfringel 8y ago
I'm not shy about calling people out on self-serving narratives. If that article pointed at "startups should be more pliant to VC narratives", I'd be throwing down the rhetorical penalty flag, calling Projection on the
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by mfringel 8y ago
That's a fair point. The next question is "What do better options look like, and how do we get there?" High interest-rate loans are one thing. Forcing payment for the company's lawyer is another. Broad-spectrum mailin
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by mfringel 8y ago
"Correlation's not causation" Is not some magical incantation With just a word or two of proof We all get closer to the truth - mfringel the rhetorical safety officer
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by mfringel 8y ago
[IANAL] Indeed, the California WARN Act[0] explicitly says "layoffs"[1] instead of "employment loss", which would cover termination. However, it's also true that courts don't like it when you try to get cute.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Why is retail flow specifically profitable? Nearly entirely market orders? Something else?
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by mfringel 8y ago
If you have no service level requirements, you definitionally have 100% uptime.
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by mfringel 8y ago
That's not my interpretation of that comment. To wit: There are only a few things you can know about someone clicking 'buy' as the result of an ad: 1. The ad platform booked top-line revenue 2. The seller booked top-line rev
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by mfringel 8y ago
It's not a norm in the states, no. Typical restroom stalls in the US have about 10" (25 cm) of clearance between the bottom of the door and the floor.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Your anecdote on notification use cases has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for your participation.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Thank you for posting this. I was running low on middlebrow dismissals today, and I'm full up now.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Yes, and distribution of the benefits from deadweight loss reduction has also been a matter of study, and that's the topic on the table.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Two things: 1. That's a non-sequitur. Drug rehab programs that are part of prison diversion schemes are implicitly a matter of public policy. A single individual writing a single check is meaningless in that context. 2. "Saint or
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by mfringel 8y ago
I suspect that total involuntary surveillance is not something the majority of the (United States) populace signed up for. The legal Expectation of Privacy[0] continues to be important, even if there are people who think that it was a legal
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by mfringel 8y ago
Vacuous truths are still vacuous.
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by mfringel 8y ago
And that, in a nutshell, is why corporations are their own moral entities, and not just "made of people".
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by mfringel 8y ago
If they're discreetly seeking other employment, you have now blown their cover. A couple of things about that: 1. "If they're looking for another job, they can have no guarantee of secrecy." -- Sure, but is it your job
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by mfringel 8y ago
Using a literalist expansion of YIMBY doesn't seem constructive. Do you demand the same locality standard for people who block building housing and/or upzoning in places that aren't their domicile or directly adjacent to it?
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by mfringel 8y ago
It appears you're saying that "A YIMBY's only valid political stance is to advocate for the destruction of the building they live in, otherwise they can be safely ignored." I'm assuming I'm wrong, and I sincere
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by mfringel 8y ago
Not everything legal is moral, and not everything moral is legal.
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by mfringel 8y ago
There are a couple of things mentioned in that sentence. Can you say which one you think is the "ultimate first-world problem?"
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by mfringel 8y ago
That's a novel interpretation. Can you walk us through how you got there?

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