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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
To me, it looks like he's doing the exact opposite and is agreeing with Stripe. "Companies like Square and Stripe would be taxed at a significantly larger total contribution than much larger companies like Salesforce."
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
I think the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg is really good: tractionbook.com
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
For example: assume in China that people in cities generally have more opportunities to get educated. That'd mean if you live in a city and have not had much education, it might be because you are less intelligent (on average). While
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
I'd be interested in how reading more about how they're controlling for non-air pollution factors, particularly since they say the effects are most pronounced among the non educated.
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
A lot of people here are skeptical, saying basically "if people don't want to be addicted to technology they should just stop using it", but I think that's simplistic. You could say the same thing about eating, "if
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
Exactly, so what if a company/product's source of profit was helping people get off their phones?
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
This is a good point (about #'s of comparable products), but I disagree that anti-addiction products are inherently unsellable. I think you could make the argument that weight loss products could fall into this category. There are a t
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in the corrections themselves." - Peter Lynch
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On little discoveries(econlib.org)
1 points by peacetreefrog 8y ago|0 comments
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
I feel like there should be a link to a demo application more easily accessible. I'm interested in what type of things I could build with it, is the only way to check that out forking the tutorial repo and building it etc?
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
Well for one, it's not just the price -- I can't slap a million dollar price tag on my house and call it the value -- it's the price in a well functioning, liquid market. I.e. someone has to be willing to pay it. Historicall
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
For a lot of economists price == value, so it doesn't really make sense to say something like a house is overvalued. This is particularly true with liquid, well traded securities like US equities. That's not to say the current pr
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
When did you learn rails? Would you recommend learning it today?
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Show HN: Elm app to check the prob you win in fantasy football Monday night(fantasymath.com)
2 points by peacetreefrog 8y ago|0 comments
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
This is cool, seems like getting this article on HN should be helpful for you. I like the total net revenue figure, $710 and low expenses. I'm in a similar range for my side project, a few thousands of dollars (prob a similar net reven
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
This is my first app built with Elm - happy to discuss my experiences with Elm, which have been > 95% positive so far. Originally built it in React-redux, which was nice and worked decent, however when I came back to update a few things
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Show HN: Fantasy Math – fantasy football matchup analyzer built in Elm(fantasymath.com)
5 points by peacetreefrog 8y ago|1 comments
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
what are your websites?
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
With respect, "this shit" and "drove ME crazy" don't sound all that empathetic. This is a disorder that people can't help, and are often very embarrassed by. I think the right way to handle it is to be suppor
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
Awesome!
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
Can I run pandas in it?
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
No worries, not suggesting you think it's slavery. I think that would be a pretty extreme position to take. I do agree people aren't always rational, and there are certainly other costs in terms of wear and tear etc. But I think
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
And is your argument that driving for Uber is de facto slavery?
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
"Regular" employees don't have universal health care. It's just that employers get a tax deduction for employer provided group insurance. Most economists believe this is hugely inefficient and a big policy mistake. If
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
It has to be mutually beneficial, otherwise drivers would be doing something else. We don't have slavery in this country anymore. One of the biggest benefits is working whenever you want. A paper by the NBER found drivers get twice the
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
I really think one of the biggest blindspots of the (generally well-intentioned, smart) crowd at HN is lack of appreciation of economics and markets, and the belief that tinkering with these markets for the better is as simple as turning a
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
Deciding to drive for Uber is a mutually beneficial transaction between consenting adults (or an adult and a company). If the driver wasn't benefiting, they'd do something else. Well-intentioned (by some people, prob most people o
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
I appreciate the spirit of this comment too. I do think though that where many well-intentioned people go wrong is that they think wages are just like a dial that "we" (or gov or whomever) can easily turn. I think this essay get
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
No one said anything about dehumanization. It's your prerogative to disagree to what extent that line of thinking is based in reality. It shouldn't be your prerogative to see comments like that deleted because you disagree with
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by peacetreefrog 8y ago
Really disagree with these comments (not as much this one as the other one in this thread) being flagged and removed. IIRC the line was basically, "many people have much more to invest then they claim, but they spend it on netflix, br

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