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by savanaly 9y ago
I agree with this for the most part. There is a real human need though, and not one that makes a lot of rational sense, but a need nonetheless, to be needed . And for a lot of people in that world you described it wouldn't be met. It&
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by savanaly 9y ago
But it will come back to bite me in a psychological way. I don't want to feel like the sort of person who doesn't tip when tipping is expected, I want to use a service where I don't have to think about tipping and can feel li
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by savanaly 9y ago
It's not like they're fooling anyone though...regular users of uber will know the average outlay from using an uber is $X, whether it's through the fares charged or a lower fare plus expected tip. I would much rather have a h
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by savanaly 9y ago
Alright, I can see how it would be unacceptably cruel to ask a girl to do it. I still think I'd make a boy do it though...
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by savanaly 9y ago
Not a parent, as the following suggestion will probably make obvious, but why don't people just shave their kids' head when it happens? It's what I would do if it happened to me rather than do that nonsense every morning for
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by savanaly 9y ago
Realistically though, how many twenty dollar bills do you find lying around on the ground? Zero so far for me in this life... Maybe a quarter here or there.
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by savanaly 9y ago
I did App Academy in New York two-three years ago (10-week bootcamp). I'm now a front-end dev and work from home making about 80k per year. I believe most of my cohort are in the same situation (App Academy appears to be above average
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by savanaly 9y ago
I've just had to get into the habit of appending mdn to all my web development queries to make it show up at the top. Can't count the number of time's I've done the search "[some new array method] mdn". Invalua
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by savanaly 9y ago
I have no idea and for all I know, dropping it wasn't a choice of the moderators but a mistake or an unforeseen outcome of some algorithm, but if they did drop it on purpose I support the decision. There are countless other websites to
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by savanaly 9y ago
That is a good point and I am somewhat concerned about that. If the decision were put to me I would personally have to think long and hard about whether it's actually good for society to let people sell their body parts. But it's
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by savanaly 9y ago
To the extent it's a competitive market (and it seems like it would be-- a lot of potential buyers and sellers), the price should be determined by the minimum average cost, not by the willingness/ability of the buyer to pay. This
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by savanaly 9y ago
There's a concept in economics whereby the gains from trade tend to accumulate to the owners of "fixed resources" in a system. In this case that would be the people selling the blood. So I would expect that in the long run th
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by savanaly 9y ago
If the explanation is some fundamental law of economics/politics as you seem to be suggesting, what is the reason the USA is afflicted more by the problem than other first world nations, or than the USA of a century ago?
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by savanaly 9y ago
It's not so bad in dead tree form if you use two bookmarks (one for the main text, one for the endnotes).
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by savanaly 9y ago
I got through it by treating it like a mystery novel. I really did want to find out what the heck was going on both on a plot level as well as where these character arcs were headed. In a superficial way, none of that really gets a good con
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by savanaly 9y ago
He's describing how it feels to be a good vim user, not how it works in reality. A great tennis player might say "I don't think about how to hit the ball, I just think about where I want it to go and it goes there", and
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by savanaly 9y ago
I have to admit that self driving cars are not better in all circumstances. They don't have to reach that bar for me to prefer them though. If they do better in enough situations to outweigh the situations where they do worse, they sho
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by savanaly 9y ago
Not having to drive is a very small part of the reason I use Uber in lieu of owning a car. Main reason is expense of owning a car and the time I avoid having to research which car is best for me to buy, how to keep up in its maintenance, wh
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by savanaly 9y ago
It would be better for the employer if the employee paid for the oil checks on the trucks, or worked for the minimum wage. So why isn't that the case? "Because it's better for the employer" is simultaneously the explanat
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by savanaly 9y ago
I'm trying to think of reasons why it would be this way and what I can come up with is that if you were to pay by the hour instead of by the mile it would be an incentive to the drivers to take longer to complete routes. A classic prin
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by savanaly 9y ago
One thing to consider (and I swear I'm not (a) claiming this is necessarily in reality the case or (b) implying that if it were we shouldn't have a "Ryan's Place") is that there is homelessness due to different caus
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by savanaly 9y ago
As others said, UBI doesn't necessitate increasing the stock of money, it's a system of redistribution. The types of goods being consumed by the economy as a whole would change, you correctly predict (if they didn't, UBI coul
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by savanaly 9y ago
The new school frameworks' purpose is pretty much entirely orthogonal to that of jQuery's, although their features do overlap, which is I think why people mistakenly say what you just said so often. Angular, Ember, etc. are framew
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by savanaly 9y ago
Have you been using outside libraries that were written in javascript on these projects? I always anticipated that would be a downside of using Elm. I know there must be hooks to let you integrate pure javascript (jQuery-type) libraries and
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by savanaly 9y ago
I wasn't making commentary about Puerto Rico, except in taking exception to the poster above me who was pushing the line that not only should Puerto Rico default on their debt, they shouldn't even regard it as a bad thing that the
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by savanaly 9y ago
That's true in any individual case. But if we make it our social norm that bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of and to be taken lightly, won't it change the equilibrium for future generations of lenders and borrowers such that a
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by savanaly 9y ago
A couple of standout points from this article: * the data itself hasn't been released so no one outside of Facebook has in any way analyzed it, we're relying on their analysis and reportage of that analysis to be correct * the rej
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by savanaly 9y ago
Because the share of people using the internet who understand the distinction is probably about 1%, and of that 1% the share that care is certainly less than half, and of that group the share that would go go to the trouble of trying to ide
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by savanaly 9y ago
Probably the kid just learned through cultural osmosis that juice is a good treat for kids and so naturally the kid wants it.
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by savanaly 10y ago
>anonymized It would be much bigger news if they were selling data that could be used against the consumers on an individual basis.

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