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by savanaly 8y ago
Impossible to judge the effect until someone investigates the relative sizes of the lost bonuses and the increased hourly wage. I did read Amazon's claim in the article that the increase outweighs the decrease. But I would like to see
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by savanaly 8y ago
Fair enough. s/go to sleep at a time/have sleeping habits/ Although I somehow doubt the parents' issue is their kids go to bed promptly at eleven but then insist on getting up at five in the morning.
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by savanaly 8y ago
Another way of wording the finding is "students who engage in activities that adults don't approve of found to also go to sleep at a time adults don't approve of."
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by savanaly 8y ago
I think you're putting too much stock in the steam reviews. Just because a game has the same % positive rating as another doesn't mean it's of the same quality or even that people like it the same amount. It's like rotte
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by savanaly 8y ago
On the other hand, sometimes it's very much not chance. Take stardew valley. It's not like Barone hit some sort of jackpot with his game. It really is head and shoulders above the competition, and that appears to be entirely due t
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by savanaly 8y ago
Yep, and this makes perfect economic sense. In general, a given job pays roughly just enough to equal the costs of doing it (after all, if it paid more then why wouldn't new people be joining the market for this job and driving the wag
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by savanaly 8y ago
Certainly, that was depicted in the movie Casino for example. Not that I would take a Hollywood movie as any sort of history lesson, but it is demonstrative of that point of view. Taking it as the true explanation for the sake of argument,
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by savanaly 8y ago
I was assuming they were concerned about you being charged more than the cost of providing the insurance. If the supposed dystopia is indeed merely the reality where everyone gets charged the cost of providing the service I have to ask how
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by savanaly 8y ago
Lack of ability for companies to advertise to you seems like a distinct concern from that of how much information they have about you, let's take it one at a time!
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by savanaly 8y ago
Information about what you're willing to pay isn't sufficient to lead to you paying a higher price, like in your example. There has to be no competition in the given market (probably not the case in your particular example-- car i
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by savanaly 8y ago
Well it's simply an alternative to entering code via the keyboard. If you can't code using a keyboard already this won't help in that regard.
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by savanaly 8y ago
The wonders of evolution (of the cold virus, that is). I'm not sure we'll ever beat it.
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by savanaly 8y ago
Wouldn't it be weird if a direct wealth transfer to group A was preferable to group B where group A is the better-off of the two? That's what you are suggesting, as far as I can tell, where group A is people with jobs at Amazon an
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by savanaly 8y ago
This isn't a study, but as far as the science of philanthropy goes I know of no one better to look to than GiveWell and they did write a blog post about it: https://blog.givewell.org/2011/12/20/give-now-o
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by savanaly 8y ago
I'm a programmer who well knows what a server is to a programmer, but I'm also a gamer and Discord calling its servers servers never seemed weird to me. From the perspective of the user, the term makes sense. The servers have user
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by savanaly 8y ago
See I disagreed with the poster you're responding to but now you've gone too far in the other direction. Can't people just live and let live? Some people want cartoon-style explanations and others don't, simple as that.
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by savanaly 8y ago
I feel this way at first glance too. Then I remember that one could substitute Ninja for me, and his income for mine, and from the comparison of, say, a third-world trash-heap scavenger, I have similarly little reason to ever utter a peep o
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by savanaly 8y ago
>We don't measure well performance of a company in terms of hiring people. I feel like you're implying we should. But people having to work is a cost, both to the company and to society as a whole. It's like suggesting we
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by savanaly 8y ago
Slack/discord.
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by savanaly 8y ago
Maybe it's that it's more expensive to do a startup as an older person (your time is more valuable since you've built up more skills, for example), so as a result startups that are founded by older people are the ones with un
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by savanaly 8y ago
I think it's that everyone can see the odds of something happened that are indicated by the bettors in the market, and that's valuable information that can be considered the absolute best prediction that can be made based on avail
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by savanaly 8y ago
Can we not let the market sort it out? If we don't interfere in the free trade of helium and plausibly commit to never do so, the current price will always be the best estimate of the future price that we have, discounted by the expect
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by savanaly 8y ago
But what about moral hazard! Interestingly, this quote is less and less applicable the more it spreads.
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by savanaly 8y ago
Is it fair to say we never had much to worry about when it comes to preserving the aspects of the environment over which property rights can be doled out? e.g. Forests, to some degree, fish in the oceans. Because once the environment can be
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Because plastic is so cheap, producers will pay the tax, continue using plastic, and pass the costs onto consumers. This is not how it works. To what degree the tax gets "passed on to consumers" is based on relative elasticity
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by savanaly 8y ago
If there are good reasons why one ethnicity would prefer housing over another (or, equivalently, if the housing provider would prefer them) then it's just like the beauty products thing and discrimination in advertising should be allow
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by savanaly 8y ago
The writer of the article really couldn't be bothered to look into the details at all and find out the reason behind the discrepancy in valuations? A lot of people are probably curious, it's the whole hook of the headline...
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by savanaly 8y ago
I got interested in V.S. Naipaul after reading this essay-- well technically a book review of a Naipaul biography-- by Christopher Hitchens-- Cruel and Unusual [0]. It explains and summarizes Naipaul's literary significance as well as
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by savanaly 8y ago
I think what he was trying to say was that if you knew for a fact yesterday that your static site didn't have malicious code on it, then you know it for a fact today, assuming you didn't rebuild the site in the interim. You can&#x
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by savanaly 8y ago
This is one flavor of these types of algorithms that you can viably implement yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system

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