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by payne92 9y ago
TL;DR The Econ textbook model of rising prices —> lower demand is incorrect for minimum wage labor. Areas that have raised minimum wages have not reduced employment. I believe many economists (including this author) are missing the stru
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by payne92 9y ago
IEX has an official, documented, supported, relatively clean, and entirely free API for their market data: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/ It's just US stocks, and quote data is just for their exchange
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by payne92 9y ago
Direct link: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/index.html
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by payne92 9y ago
For all intents and purposes, they've already converged: the underlying GPU microarchitectures have been fairly general purpose SIMD-ish for a long time now. And (as one example), CUDA happily runs on any gamer "consumer" GP
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by payne92 9y ago
It’s very very very tough to compete with the economies of scale and ecosystem with modern GPU computing. Vector supercomputing doesn’t need to be “revived”, it is already here.
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by payne92 9y ago
Investments generally have some reasonable “safety“ of principal, which typically means they’re based on something with an intrinsic value. A stock gives you a claim to future profits, a loan/bond: legal claim on underlying collater
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by payne92 9y ago
Bingo, I’m so glad you clarified this. Something “didn’t smell right“ here. Even beyond the family physician, there are many specialists that are affiliated with hospitals but see patients in their offices, outside of the hospital registrat
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by payne92 9y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371102 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371111
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by payne92 9y ago
We have to reserve judgment before he has his day in court, but there are a LOT of alleged irregularities. For starters: having management and decision authority at company A & acquiring technology from Company B, that you own. And, wh
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by payne92 9y ago
This is not at all true in the US: it is not "technically illegal" to own transmit-capable equipment without a license. It is true that transmissions are regulated by law in every country, and the particular license you need will
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by payne92 9y ago
For a device that can transmit as well as receive, consider HackRF: https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki It's been out for a while. The newer option is LimeSDR, which just shipped: https://www
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by payne92 9y ago
I love it when folks do new/crazy stuff, but I wonder if this idea preys on a typical but flawed mindset: "if I can just find someone to build my idea, it will be great!" While there are rare cases where you get a lottery ti
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by payne92 9y ago
Youtube would not replace the ad model with a patron model, they would ADD the patron model. Patreon has shown there is clear demand for that feature.
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by payne92 9y ago
For next time: consider sharing a link to a release notes/announcement/update page with all of that information, instead of reposting the main project page URL. (Great project, BTW!)
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by payne92 9y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14629414
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by payne92 9y ago
I'm still wondering why Youtube isn't ALL OVER this model. Given that many are getting paid for publishing videos of what they do, it would be a great feature.
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by payne92 9y ago
But self-driving cars never need to circle looking for a parking spot, and can head off to the dense "autopark" to hang out until you need a ride home. That will alleviate congestion.
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by payne92 9y ago
Note: this book has been in print for a while, since March, 2017. I love bunnie's work and I got this book as soon as I could. It's good, but a little uneven: it felt like stitched-together blog posts (which much of it is), with
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by payne92 9y ago
TL;DR The tech monopoly problem is because Silicon Valley has convinced regulators these firms are entirely new things, not subject to existing rules. Google+Facebook+Amazon+Uber+etc should (a) pay their full corporate taxes and (b) be tr
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by payne92 9y ago
I like'd PG's tweet about this: "Possible explanation: papers are becoming less how you communicate ideas, and more how you register work to get credit for it." https://twitter.com/i/web/status
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by payne92 9y ago
Demand for sand (for concrete) is killing rivers... in Africa In the US, dredging rivers or land near a waterway is pretty restricted. Sand is typically mined from open pits, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_
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by payne92 9y ago
An important point of clarity: according to the article, 2/3rds of those men taking opiods (and not in the labor force) are taking prescription pain medicine. That seems consistent, since severe pain generally prevents or limits wor
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by payne92 9y ago
What's the date on this paper? Pet peeve: research papers with no dates.
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by payne92 9y ago
TL;DR Don't chase the latest tech stack to attract developers. Hot today, dated next year. "Access to developer talent" is a reasonable factor in selecting a tech stack (e.g. there's a reason few use COBOL, etc.) But i
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by payne92 9y ago
I'm not sure it's "blinding" them (after all, the links are shared TO those platforms), but standardizing the sharing mechanism would give Google the future option to track shares (if they aren't already doing it).
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by payne92 9y ago
I do not think the threat is overblown, but like many tech estimates, we're overestimating the short term and underestimating the long term. The more present threat is "AI-lite": we're hacking ourselves collectively, mo
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by payne92 9y ago
This article rehashes the well-known challenges and missteps that have made Windows much less relevant. It totally misses the scale and intertia around Windows in the enterprise. It may not show up as the hot platform for new applications
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by payne92 9y ago
OP's note and my comment are about considering the option of no framework. Instead of choosing JQuery (on inertia) or the current fad, consider just using current base language features and best practices. It might be a better choi
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by payne92 9y ago
TL;DR OP chose Ember for a small project, found himself [1] "fighting with Ember a lot", and felt that it would have been easier/quicker to build just a Rails CRUD app in the first place. This is a standard challenge with any
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by payne92 9y ago
tl;dr: A SF supervisor 'launched the "Jobs of the Future Fund", a crowdfunding effort to raise money to nudge the state to study the issue of what will happen to human workers in the age of automation.' Related article:

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