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by socalnate1 7y ago
Why is Hacker news so obsessed with sending people to jail? Literally every time any sort of corporation get's fined (for nearly anything), there is a loud call to send people to prison. It's like there is this undercurrent of blo
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by socalnate1 7y ago
Then a bunch of unfilled jobs would do the opposite (it would raise wages).
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by socalnate1 7y ago
Because it is a useful framework to discuss your personality and social preferences. That's it. This obsession with everything in life having to be either total nonsense or perfectly predictive scientific theory is silly.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
This felt like a purely semantic argument to me; as he is actually suggesting we do something rather similar to UBI: "Besides, a more sensible policy is already on offer: a negative income tax, or what is sometimes called “guaranteed b
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by socalnate1 7y ago
What do you propose they do? Shut down?
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by socalnate1 7y ago
So basically they just kicked the can down the road a bit.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
My guess is that they just want to be paid more for them. (i.e. They sold the rights to sell the audiobook alone; if audible wants to also include a text version of the book, they want more money).
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by socalnate1 7y ago
This is just a classic price discrimination strategy; nearly all retailers do it in some way. Starbucks drinks have a nearly identical marginal cost to them; but have wildly different prices. Software companies disable certain features (t
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by socalnate1 7y ago
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
I think you just proved the OP's point. It was nowhere near 20% of your business, so you could walk away.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
"Businesses are made of people, and people have ethics. If you're running one, consider the way you advertise. Are you aiming at making mutually beneficial transactions, or are you just trying to milk you users out of their hard-e
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by socalnate1 7y ago
C'mon - pretending that marketing materials from the British Soft Drink Association is equivalent just because they are "both on the internet" is just silly.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
60% of what was billed to the client; so probably the equivalent of 3x or 4x their normal salary rate.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
Only tangentially related; but if you want to understand the Enron scandal; Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools is a better treatment of the topic.
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by socalnate1 7y ago
I feel like being "weeks away from defending my phd at ucsd in computational neuro" is maybe the most important variable in your story and how you feel about life right now :)
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by socalnate1 7y ago
This is just a anecdote; here is some data: https://lao.ca.gov/laoecontax/article/detail/265 "Although California has had net out-migration among most demographic groups, it has gained among those with h
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by socalnate1 7y ago
"Migration among certain demographic groups also differs from the state’s general pattern. Although California has had net out-migration among most demographic groups, it has gained among those with higher incomes ($110,000 per year or
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LemonStand Is Shutting Down(lemonstand.com)
1 points by socalnate1 8y ago|0 comments
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by socalnate1 8y ago
Everything about this story is heartbreaking.
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by socalnate1 8y ago
While everything you said here is correct; I hope you've found a way to communicate a bit more gently than what you wrote above.
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by socalnate1 8y ago
I would hope that the richest country in the world could endeavor to be better run than Somalia.
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by socalnate1 8y ago
Same; I have several pairs from them and they have always been fine.
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by socalnate1 8y ago
I've read several articles about this and I can't for the life of me understand why: "McDonald’s had not proven genuine use of Big Mac, which it trademarked in 1996, as a burger or restaurant name." The dispute with Supe
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How real is Los Angeles' notoriety for rainy weather driving?(scpr.org)
1 points by socalnate1 8y ago|0 comments
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by socalnate1 8y ago
This is actually what the study you are referencing said: "Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging fr
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by socalnate1 8y ago
The actual study is here: http://www.econpol.eu/sites/default/files/2018-11/EconPol_Po... It seems that they completely omitted analyzing the impact of the retaliatory tariff's; which is odd - as th
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by socalnate1 8y ago
Does anyone else find it fascinating the Patrick Collison (the co-founder and current CEO of Stripe) co-wrote this article? The dude makes me feel inadequate like no other.
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by socalnate1 8y ago
You are reading this too literally. It doesn't need to be all 9 justices impeached; the point is justices being impeached en masse for largely partisan reasons. That would/could destroy the courts legitimacy and undermine the rul
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by socalnate1 8y ago
This is terrifying in that it's not all that hard to imagine this happening at the federal level in coming years.
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by socalnate1 8y ago
These all seem to be fairly benign, small scale changes that codify things most airlines do already.

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