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by muzz 13y ago
The markets appear to disagree with your hypothesis. Market valuations of the health insurance companies have zoomed to new highs.
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by muzz 13y ago
That might lower the number of visceral responses to the speaker, but I still don't see the relevance of the content, i.e. commentary on the social fabric, to HackerNews.
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by muzz 13y ago
I'm not sure why this submission is on HackerNews? Many of the comments seem to be less about the article, and more about the commenter's opinion of Obama.
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by muzz 13y ago
The general form of this is such an urban legend that there's even a Snopes page: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp
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by muzz 13y ago
> There actually are good charities out there that do good work, but separating them from this kind of self-service is hard to do No it's not. Charities have to report how much money they spend on things like overhead, and sites lik
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by muzz 13y ago
> In the interim, it seems like the best way to capture value is to build companies to flip in talent acquisitions Interesting point, and really indicates that companies are not willing to pay enough for talent when hiring them individua
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by muzz 13y ago
Great, so the market-clearing level should be reached and there is neither shortage nor surplus.
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by muzz 13y ago
It would be interesting if the amounts of the winning bids were made public. It could raise a non-trivial amount of money. If there are only 65,000 H1B visas (there is talk about doubling it, and with exemptions the actual number is almost
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by muzz 13y ago
Enough for them to come to work for you. I really don't understand why this is a difficult concept to grasp.
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by muzz 13y ago
Those people exist. If you pay enough for them, you can hire them.
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by muzz 13y ago
If price is allowed to rise, demand drops.
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by muzz 13y ago
He refers to "open positions for programmers at high tech companies", so I would have to disagree
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by muzz 13y ago
What you call a "stock response" is also known as the role of price in equating supply and demand in free markets
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by muzz 13y ago
I think he's implicitly they are in positions that are paying them more.
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by muzz 13y ago
Isn't that because of the nature of the beast, since the consulting firms serve many other companies? Wipro, Infosys, etc. each have how many clients? Hundreds? Thousands?
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by muzz 13y ago
Why can't they just hire players from another team? In the U.S., the reason why is "salary caps" in professional sports leagues.
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by muzz 13y ago
Indeed. It's Econ 101, essentially.
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by muzz 13y ago
Detroit lost its democracy when the state appointed an Emergency Manager: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/11/michigans-emergency-manager-l...
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by muzz 13y ago
Huge mischaracterization to call The Oil Drum a "peak oil website" It was one of the most thought, informative, evidence-based, and civil sites about fossil fuels. The reason the site closed also had nothing to do with "peak
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by muzz 13y ago
It is indeed a misnomer. Services like AirBNB allow for spare personal consumption to be monetized as business would, yet users of it don't want to pay the costs of operating as a business or follow the same rules. EDIT: "The m
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by muzz 13y ago
Excellent points, although what do you mean by #3? My impression was that the hotel industry is subjected to regulation, as opposed to it wielding power. In addition to regulation, many states and localities impose significant taxes on hote
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by muzz 13y ago
That regulation affects not just Tesla, but all car makers. Tesla is certainly innovative, but these restrictions have nothing to do with that innovation; gas-guzzling SUVs cannot be sold direct-to-consumer either.
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by muzz 13y ago
Agreed. I really don't understand the sense of entitlement that people have when it comes to doing things that are specifically against the lease they signed upon renting and apartment (or against the CC&Rs of the HOA they willi
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by muzz 13y ago
By "institutional inefficiencies" you must be referring to the leases that apartment renters sign that state no subletting, or HOAs that most condo owners willing enter into that have similar restrictions.
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by muzz 13y ago
Hasn't the sharing economy already reached the tipping point? The ideas in the piece clearly aren't new for most of us on HackerNews, but I would contend they're not really new for many in the general public either. There hav
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by muzz 13y ago
What budget deficit? And the crime that's multi-decade lows?
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by muzz 13y ago
I heard it being described like "Buying Playboy for the articles"
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by muzz 13y ago
Delusional thinking is not going to get you to places in life.
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by muzz 13y ago
thanks, yes his data is very useful. figure 3 on page 11 illustrates the point I was making: http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/20...
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by muzz 13y ago
My experience in Silicon Valley is that economic opportunity outweighs cultural liberalism. BTW, which are are you referring to when you mention budget deficits and crime?

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