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by strlen 13y ago
I have to agree with you here. The problem with insurance for routine care (the system we have in US) is that it makes the information asymmetry problem worse: since it's someone else's job to negotiate the price of routine day-to
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by strlen 13y ago
I made many of the same points recently (albeit in a cheesy Facebook post -- https://www.facebook.com/alex.feinberg/posts/101002165710317... ), but I had a different take on this: I saw this as a hearkening to Vall
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> Why it is hard to view working "just for healthcare" as positive? Is it hard to view working "just for money" as positive? I.e. suppose that one works only because one needs money and otherwise he would spend his t
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I think there's several separate issues: Krugman correctly points out that work disincentives are different from job destruction. However there are different kind of work disincentives: it is certainly hard to view people working _just
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There are two unmentioned issues in regards to stock grants and hiring: 1) Information asymmetry or just plain symmetric lack of information in regards to stock grants. 2) The price of a home in a decent school district within a "reaso
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I agree that building a product for customers is the end goal -- and that using every shiny new thing under the roof would be a distraction (with usual caveats/nuances of not being afraid to adapt new and promising technology when ther
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by strlen 13y ago
That's not exactly a relevant comparison. We're not talking about a Prop 8 or DOMA supporter lecturing Russia. We're talking about a Google using their enormous soapboax to do so in a fresh, defiant, and powerful way. Google
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense actually: basic income + no minimum wage (or if politically impossible, not raising minimum wage) -- since the basic income will continue even if someone is employed, it's a great incentive to stay to in
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They seem to be aiming this at the server market: the volumes will be lower than tablet and phone chips.
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First, it's a form of redistribution of wealth: assuming it's used with a progressive system of taxation. I completely agree that we can't know how it will turn out in the long term (but why not try it and scrape it if it doe
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The catch is we already have several terrible systems of poorly and expensively providing basic income: abuse of SSDI and using food-stamps to buy goods to use as a de-facto currency (in West Virginia, it happens to be soda bottles, for exa
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by strlen 13y ago
Oops, fixed! "Just desserts" would be a great cafe to have in an econ department building :-)
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Friedman did have some role in pushing EITC forward, although it still falls short of his negative income tax idea.
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Basic income or negative income tax are great ideas: they're cheaper to administer than the current welfare state, are more humane (people are treated as adults and allowed to spend the basic income on whatever they wish), and avoid p
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by strlen 13y ago
I think gold's real utility is that it's useful for things other than currency: jewelry, electronics, alloys, etc...
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Neither a six figure salary nor a sports car require winning the startup lottery or overwork. Nor do sports cars require six figure salaries: case-in-point, a good condition used Honda S2000 can be had for under $10,000 if not under $5,000
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> I have absolutely no problem with big salaries for people with a balanced mindset and life. First, saying that Silicon Valley's housing and inequality is caused by technologists "getting rich or dying trying" seems grave
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Indeed. What I see happening is young and liberal Ukrainians (whethers Russian, Ukranian, Tatar, and others) simply want their state to be like many other European countries: free, prosperous, democratic, but still multi-ethnic. In fact, th
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by strlen 13y ago
It is definitely one sided and propaganda, but it's better than absolute lack of information I am seeing in the West. I think scenario you mention here will happen only if the rest of Europe chooses to ignore and waive their hands.
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Thanks, I'll tell this to my friends in Ukraine! This will make them feel very warm and fuzzy and reassured, that indeed, is US launching missiles from drones (which is a completely new fact to them and something they've never hea
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Politics of foreign drone strikes (which I oppose, but don't equate to whole-sale domestic political repression) aside, this is a logical fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque In other words, it's n
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> I think this misconception stems from the fact that Ukrainian speakers often reply in Ukrainian when spoken to in Russian, because they assume you know both languages, but they will switch to Russian if necessary. This freaks out Russi
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For the same reason David Duke winning the Republican primary would be in Democrats' interest and for the same interest Russia's Duma includes very few liberals but lots of communists and "red-browns". Given a choice bet
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The politics here, however, is far older than two months. Participation by my Russian-speaking Jewish friend is current as of today and the Russian language message I mentioned is from January 23rd (four day old).
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I see what you're you're trying to say, but as a man (who was introduced to this term by a girlfriend who caught me 'splaining myself) I personally find the term to be both hilarious and -- most importantly to -- somewhat mor
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Not to mention Yuschenko (the former Yanukovich opponent) himself spoke Russian at home and was Orthodox.
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> No, I am not Ukranian, nor Russian. Also I don't support either side. I think either regime is equally corrupted. I am sorry, but as an ethnically Jewish, Belarusian-born, Russian-speaker residing in US, I have to say what you&#x2
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> about how computers and the Internet catalyze harm, by shielding people who cause harm from the impact of their action In general distance from a victim shields people from experiencing the impact of their actions. My late grandfather
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First, we already have such 'free income' in forms of various welfare programs and SSDI. This creates a whole number of issues, however. The problem to the perverse incentive problem, however, is not to remove the income when they
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Problem is demand is increasing at a far greater rate than the supply. In fact, I think this is -- among several other factors -- one of the primary causes of this migration. The money an individual or a family has to spend is limited. For

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