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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Although I admire the intent here, my opinion is that it's focused on the wrong variable. Lack of "enough" income is not the root of the problem for why people get sucked into poverty and stuck there. The problem is that wo
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
Since the real economy (manufacturing / information) isn't growing, the money flows into assets (eg real estate or stock bubbles) When there's zero interest, it exacerbates the problem, because if you've got capital, it
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Plastic bags might kickstart the carbon-capture industry(energy.gov)
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
At The Times, we realised that converting customers who paid £8/week for the printed newspaper into customers paying £2/week for the digital edition (often after paying Apple £500 for an iPad on which to read the edition) wasn’t
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by shawnee_ 10y ago
The processor connecting you to a LAN doesn't actually care what "cloud" you decide to connect to. My guess is that the point of this infrastructure option is to optimize for the worker bees, in which case a super-reliable ne
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Yep, I tend to agree with the author. For software documentation with complex APIs, something more robust than markdown is necessary. For the same reason that writing extensive in-line HTML+CSS markup is bad, relying too heavily on HTML as
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
... there is no "not" operator, which is desperately needed Not true. It can be achieved by simply adding the - Operator to a search. For example, to get Google Search results about Tesla, minus all the stuff on the in
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FAA deadline to register drones is today(inverse.com)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
I’m reminded that all too often our culture judges people by their actions in the worst moments of their life ... We don’t seem to have a cultural construct for good people who made mistakes. As the author stated, we don't know what
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The siege of Miami(newyorker.com)
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For-profit charter schools are failing and fading(slate.com)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
The root cause of the need to unionize is a constant: unfair allocation of profit/dividends, equity, benefits, perks, etc. AKA entitlements the executives / managers / office people feel entitled to as office people. They
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Einstein presented his General Theory of Relativity 100 years ago today(economist.com)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Correct. People with only the basic gist of "Economics 101" fail to understand that supply and demand economics do not apply to the housing market the way they do for consumer goods. In a nutshell, hyper-inflation of rents in a
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Education Management Corp settles $95.5M whistleblower case(latimes.com)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
This particular policy is aimed at people accused of bank fraud, insider trading and other high-finance crimes. There is indeed an entire group of self-proclaimed professionals that uses asset-shifting tactics to (1) avoid detection by sy
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
The findings discussed in this study make an interesting side note to this (older HN) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424241 The generation of "middle-aged whites" (which the article describes a
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CISA provision “protects” breached companies from private lawsuits(wnyc.org)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
If you rented from a "professionally managed" apartment company, it's not always so easy to tell that you're dealing with a broker when you are. The company name in the fine print of the lease is probably something gener
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Disagree with his last point here: (One thing this illustrates is that the downside risk of owning is much higher than with renting.) Financial risk, yes; health risk, no. Only a homeowner who owns and lives in the dwelling would care
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Q: Where can I deliver with Amazon Flex? A: Amazon Flex is available now in Seattle. It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. Smart move by Amazon to refrain fro
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Tax code isn't really a problem for companies that have little to no profit -- which is most "small upstarts". The great fallacy of most political debate on economics is that taxes hurt small business. Extortionate rents hur
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One Japanese company makes half the world's zippers(smithsonianmag.com)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
This is such a big win for the temporary / contingent workforce. The reality of the industry perpetuated by companies like Manpower, Kelly Services (Aerotek), Robert Half, Randstad, Adecco, etc. is rapacious and financially harmful to
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Show HN: Launching my side project(ecosteader.com)
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
There are two parallel tracks here: on one is all the awesome stuff that Tesla is doing as a company to make better batteries and electric cars. On the other is all the fluff that TSLA day traders do increase volatility of the stock /
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Docker will likely be more prevalent in a few years with startups who have built their infrastructure form the ground up. The opposite seems likely ... Docker will fade and become deprecated as building infrastructure from the ground up
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
3taps built a data exchange that aggregated user-generated data housed on various websites and then made that data available through an API to developers, including PadMapper and Lovely. Craigslist discovered that it had become (has becom
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
The brokerage model failed because the brokerage model itself is inherently flawed as a business model. Nowhere does this become more apparent than in the real estate industry. Its natural inclination is toward Bernie Madoff-like pyramid,
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Docker is a cute little tool that gives people who aren't that great at Linux the illusion that they know what they're doing. Throw in the use of some "Container" semantics and people become convinced it's that e

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