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by mtviewdave 15y ago
Yes, but someone who is paying in euros doesn't care what the price in dollars is, only what the cost in euros is. If yesterday $100 == 100 euros, but today $110 == 95 euros, then your $110 exported good now looks more attractive to people
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
I'm curious: you are aware that a universal health care law passed in the U.S. last year, right? Its goal was to make this statement no longer true in the U.S.: >If you have the wrong medical profile, you could be simply uninsurable.
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
Silicon Valley has always had boom/bust cycles. What's happening now is part of the same pattern that has been going on in the Valley since the '50s. Yes, we're in a boom. But because the last boom created a stock market bubble, it's tempin
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
A compelling article when it was written, and I think many of his potential solutions to problem have promise. But the article really suffers from not having been revised in the intervening years. For example, the view of oil is very '90s:
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
Whether or not a trip to the SF Bay Area would be helpful or you is hard to say. But two weeks strikes me as a very long time just for the Bay Area. A day at Berkeley, a day at Stanford, a day or two hanging out at some startups, maybe go
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
To contrast with the $500 i386 Unix: if you had a non-UX Amiga 3000 and wanted to get a copy of Amiga Unix for it, the price was $1,000. But this was for a version that would only allow two users to be logged in simultaneously. This include
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
One major difference between Caltech and many other schools is that Caltech is a technical school, and doesn't provide a liberal arts education. An underlying assumption of the article is the superiority of the technical education vs. liber
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
It's not just a question of prices rising. Failure of prices to drop to the level they would otherwise in a competitive environment is also damaging. AT&T is one example of such a situation. After the breakup of AT&T, long-distanc
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
>When my parents visited us earlier this year the very first thing my mother asked about on the way in from the airport was why so many of the houses looked like they were built out of cheap wood. Every place I've ever lived in Europe f
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
IMHO, the biggest reason why Lisp never won out over imperative programming languages is exactly this attitude. Advocates of imperative programming languages took critiques of those languages seriously, while Lisp advocates wouldn't. Take t
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
"Do 100% of people deserve positive feedback?" Yes. If someone is working for you, and you have the ability to fire them, but don't, then they must be doing something right. That something deserves positive feedback.
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
In the state of California, Google does not have an absolute right to ownership on all work done in your spare time. From California Labor Code Section 2870: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#3... They can claim o
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
The point Schneier is making is not that we shouldn't have any fear, or ignore threats. Rather, that living in a free society means that sometimes we choose to live with fear, because trying to stamp it out would force us to give up too muc
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
Keep in mind that you've learned some important lessons only for yourself. Extrapolations you make to other people--the minutia of how their bodies work, what sort of impulses and urges they have, how easy or difficult those urges are to c
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
What struck me about the article was how the author assumed that John (the 8-5 guy) would get a raise if he would only work longer hours. But it doesn't seem that John's employer told him that. In my experience, if you've worked for a tech
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
Nonsense. The basis of "civilization" is the just rule of law, and protection from external threats. Which are paid for by your taxes. Without these things, it would be impossible to create technology startups.
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
"How about a visa for anybody who wants to come start a business here, period." How about removing the employer sponsorship from H-1B and L-1 visas and converting them into general right-to-work visas? Then an H-1B/L-1 visa holder could sta
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
As someone who grew up in San Jose, the map on the right is definitely wrong. In Bay Area geography, "The Peninsula" starts at the SF city limits, but ends with Mountain View and Los Altos (inclusive). Basically, the 650 area code. I also w
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
Look at a map of the Bay Area using Google Maps in "terrain" mode. Everything between I-280 and the Pacific Ocean is basically mountains.
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
>Rent control and Private property restrictions. San Francisco isn't expensive because of rent control. San Francisco is expensive because the entire SF Bay Area is expensive. Rent control doesn't help, but there are plenty of places i
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by mtviewdave 16y ago
DDT has never been banned for vector control. It's been banned for agricultural use, but only after it was so overused that most agricultural pests had already become resistant to it. The idea that there exists a worldwide ban on DDT for ve