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by shingen 15y ago
$20 / hour is a nice thought, but unfortunately what that would do is create massive unemployment and much larger welfare abuse. There's a fine line on just how high you can set a minimum wage (in relation to the economy in question) before
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by shingen 15y ago
Federal minimum wage is $7.25 / hour. So it's slightly below minimum wage.
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by shingen 15y ago
I don't disagree with the difficulty involved, I think that's prominent in any attempt at starting a business. I believe the odds / luck factor can be substantially altered in a favorable way by having at least an above average product to s
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by shingen 15y ago
What this article is effectively advocating, but can't or won't say outright, is that America needs the ability to pay people less than the minimum wage. Someone working all day at mechanical turk, is likely to fall below the federal minimu
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by shingen 15y ago
Depends on how much you believe in what you're building. If you think it's really that great, you should jump in, slash your expenses to the floor, and work 100 hours per week. Particularly if you have no family / kids to take care of; you
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by shingen 15y ago
The general statements go too far. You can absolutely raise a strong seed round from high profile investors without either traction or a strong track record. I know because I've done it. You have to compensate with either a great product th
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by shingen 15y ago
It's a nice thought, but the only thing you'll get from large scale group editing & group think is mediocrity, endless confusion and endless debate. There has never been an amazing piece of 'legislation' drafted by a huge group of peopl
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by shingen 15y ago
I believe there is overwhelming proof of causation. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h... http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sitting-down-... There have been countless studies done at this point, sp
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by shingen 15y ago
I'd counter argue that the common negative health effects of sitting down far outweigh the common health effects of varicose veins (from that wiki): "Most varicose veins are relatively benign, but severe varicosities can lead to major compl
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by shingen 15y ago
Perhaps, but there are only two possibilities (that I see). 1) Standing is radically more healthy than sitting, or 2) Being upright and walking / moving, is what is radically more healthy than sitting I think that part of the problem with s
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by shingen 15y ago
The evidence is that sitting down for hours per day is extraordinarily destructive to various aspects of your body, including your metabolism, circulation, oxygen distribution, and that it increases the risk of diabetes (and cancer due to c
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by shingen 15y ago
It's fascinating to me how software companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and others have had to push the hardware industry forward, because they often feel so loathe to eat their own children. I suspect there's a huge correlation in ther
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by shingen 15y ago
I like the stand-up desks. The first time I remember reading about such a thing was Michael Dell having a custom built stand-up desk in the early 1990s. I up vote the expansion of life expectancy.
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by shingen 15y ago
Yes, it'd be contempt of court if you disobeyed a court order to decrypt a drive. The contempt would very likely be preferable. It's not a felony after all. It'd have to be better than what is on the drive - assuming you've got anything on
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by shingen 15y ago
I just asked a lawyer friend this that does trials; he says: in cases where there is a sealed safe (the police / govt didn't breach it for whatever reason) a court will usually ask you to open it if the prosecution can provide enough eviden
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by shingen 15y ago
Imagine if you stored a murder weapon in a safe. A search warrant will almost always open a safe (either by voluntary capitulation or by force). There has been a lot of debate over whether a court should have to issue a specific search warr
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by shingen 15y ago
I guess it's better late than never. A critical finding.
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by shingen 15y ago
First of all, inflation is not exceptionally low. Calculated using the 1980 CPI, inflation is off the charts at about 9% right now. When it was last that high, Volcker was taking extreme actions to crush inflation with high interest rates.
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by shingen 15y ago
You'll note I'm not in any way making an argument against food stamps; that's an unnecessary argument. I'm arguing in favor of a fiscally responsible government - we had one of those 12 to 13 years ago, and for most of US history we've had
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by shingen 15y ago
People mostly don't want the truth, and they certainly don't want to talk about consequences or necessary pain from decades of irresponsibility. Allow a natural recession instead of monetizing a fake recovery? Outrageous! Live within your m
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by shingen 15y ago
Mainstream economic analysis of inflation has been wrong for at least 40 years. That is to say, Keynesian economics is wrong. Which is why America is collapsing into a hovel of debt, extreme spending, deficits, and poverty: modern economic
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by shingen 15y ago
That's understood. In this case, I particularly referenced a trillion dollars, which isn't a gigantic sum in our economy any longer. It's a mere rounding error on our liabilities. You also can't print magic dollars to continue to fake econo
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by shingen 15y ago
If that were true, obviously the government would merely need to 'print' a trillion each year in free food stamps to be distributed to the populace. All food costs could be Fed funded through magic dollars. Magically it would generate a 'pr
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by shingen 15y ago
It'll never catch on.
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by shingen 15y ago
It's amazing how when you focus on proven (but supposedly boring or old) technology that just works, and works very well, you can devote a lot of other resources to the actual product and usability. Maybe it's the 30 year old in me showing,
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by shingen 15y ago
Would it be so bad if Pinterest were feminine? Why? It seems perfectly reasonable that women would have a big social network that appeals distinctly to them.
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by shingen 15y ago
300 million years... now that's an impressive timeline
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by shingen 15y ago
He's spot on. The removal of the plus to create a new tab in Chrome is bad design, period. I hadn't noticed the lack of the logo link until someone else pointed it out. Why would anyone reduce ease of navigation, particularly from an object
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by shingen 15y ago
Ever since they made this possible I've had web history turned off / paused. If I don't need that data, they sure as hell don't need it.
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by shingen 15y ago
People often like to make things like this about the Internet. It's not, it's about human behavior and probability. Saying anything through a broadcast medium has a calculation involved in regards to the likelihood you're going to get attac

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