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by surfmike 9y ago
Jump cuts in UI can be very disorienting however. I think animations are at their best when they're short and help tell the spatial model. Otherwise only used when the UI will take a while anyway such as loading in new content, or as s
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by surfmike 9y ago
Except autonomous vehicles are point-to-point, which makes them way more convenient!
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The Minimum Wage: Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by surfmike 9y ago|0 comments
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by surfmike 9y ago
The studies on that are mixed (see Card/Kreuger). But it's worth noting that the UW study was able to explain the results of previous studies that showed no effect on employment: those studies did not have access to info about hou
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by surfmike 9y ago
It would be interesting to read how many of those criticisms were addressed in the Berkeley study itself.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Hopefully they do a follow up study if they can get better data sets from the big companies. But they estimate based on Washington-wide stats that they cover ~63% of workers with their data.
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by surfmike 9y ago
I think your assumption (1) is incorrect. Quote from article: "They've cut their payrolls, putting off new hiring, reducing hours or letting their workers go, the study found."
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by surfmike 9y ago
Quote from study: "as shown in Table 2, in Washington State as a whole, single-site businesses comprise 89% of firms and employ 62% of the entire workforce (which includes 2.7 million employees in an average quarter)" [2].
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by surfmike 9y ago
Your commment implies they were cherry-picking the data, which isn't true. They only included data that could definitively be marked as within Seattle vs outside Seattle.
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by surfmike 9y ago
The reason they excluded it was because the data they were provided for those companies did not differentiate between workers in Seattle and workers outside. That said the economics of hiring an extra shouldn't be significantly differe
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by surfmike 9y ago
Norwegian has better airport locations too.
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by surfmike 9y ago
The platform they run on (web browser) is written by Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Powerwall would certainly help with storage, wouldn't it? And consumers have an incentive to buy Powerwall to decrease the amount of power they need to buy from the grid.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Having it tied to income definitely makes it less crippling for those who have trouble in the job market after college. Like most grads after 2008 in the US for example, who got unlucky.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Sounds like an ideal market for home solar and Tesla powerwalls.
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by surfmike 9y ago
France is a pretty big country, and their talent seems way over represented compared to that of some of France's neighbors.
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by surfmike 9y ago
I disagree about the comment on French computer science education; I am continually blown away by the technical depth and effectiveness of my French colleagues (here at Google). Though maybe the problem is that a lot of the best ones moved
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by surfmike 9y ago
Even from a self-interest standpoint though it's probably not wise of him to keep the full share, since it is a red flag to investors and decreases the pool of equity available to people who are working at the company.
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by surfmike 9y ago
The recalculating of the old Zestimate value is what really infuriates me.
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by surfmike 9y ago
I would definitely say U of Toronto and Waterloo are strong competitive advantages. Working in Silicon Valley I'm surrounded by Canadian engineers, many from one of those two schools.
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by surfmike 9y ago
For all the faults Le Pen has, it's not fair to smear her with her father's views. She distanced herself from him and expelled him from the National Front.
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by surfmike 9y ago
It discourages people from downsizing as empty nesters. It discourages landlords from remodeling/improving their property. It allows long time landowners to sit on underutilized properties for a long time, as they wait for prices to go
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by surfmike 9y ago
I agree it's a separate issue, but if the reason is "these people aren't paying property taxes" then it's a much lower priority than reforming Prop 13.
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by surfmike 9y ago
> If you do this you are taking advantage of the system supported by tax paying owners and renters. Many people living in California, thanks to Prop 13, are also paying almost nothing to the system because they bought their house early
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by surfmike 10y ago
Those jobs get created incredibly quickly, and often the only factor in preventing them from being living wage jobs is accommodation costs. So cities should be prepared for allowing accommodation to be built quickly too instead of adding to
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by surfmike 10y ago
It's one thing if your community is dying economically. It's a different story if your area is doing great economically, but housing is so restricted that only a narrow subset of people can live there. Especially since government
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by surfmike 10y ago
This is a real usability issue but author's solution isn't really simple or correct. Your computer/Google calendar cannot definitely know your current time zone. (Imagine traveling but not having switched your computer'
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by surfmike 10y ago
YC HARC ( https://harc.ycr.org ) has a lot of talented people working on PARC-like problems. Alan Kay has close contact with a lot of the team as well.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Some Canadians fantasized about this too with Turks and Caicos. It's not going to happen.
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by surfmike 10y ago
He does mention that signals are still necessary for pedestrians, but yes hopefully self driving cars allow us to reclaim more of the city for pedestrians. That would improve cities and our lives, even if it means less lanes could be reclai

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