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by tc 17y ago
A good part of market efficiency is the simple mechanism it provides to punish those who make wealth-destroying choices. Markets can't guarantee perfect decision-making (what can?), but free markets can provide that people who make poor
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by tc 17y ago
You may take it for granted, but a major trait that employers look for is simple employability : someone that can show up on time, not cause problems, not throw attitude, and not steal from the company. I'll take someone who spent three s
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by tc 17y ago
There are times when it is enough to simply point in the right direction. Surely you've had an experience where you realized the truth in something simply by seeing it pointed out in clear terms. In any case, passing by pointers is more ti
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by tc 17y ago
I don't dismiss that there are other large forces at work; I simply mean that the AFL-CIO, through the policies they've promoted and their massive lobbying, has done as much as any one other person or group. And while the impact of privat
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by tc 17y ago
I personally delineate between politically-charged statements that are designed to promote clear thinking and those that are designed to sow muddled thinking through clever semantic games or misplaced emotion.
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by tc 17y ago
You're not going back far enough. The problem with minimum wage laws is that they precludes marginal young workers from getting job experience that would help them build the skills and references needed to get better jobs. There is plenty
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by tc 17y ago
It's ironic that this report was put out by the AFL-CIO, an organization who has done as much as anyone to preclude the movement of younger workers into the workforce (via union seniority policies, minimum wage laws, etc.).
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by tc 17y ago
Maybe you would like phone://j.mp/jenae better.
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by tc 17y ago
The correct syntax is: sip:yourname@yourdomain.com This is already a solved problem. SIP and DNS SRV/NAPTR records are the relevant (IETF) standards. The "sip:" part above is actually optional. Using NAPTR records, I can simply request yo
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by tc 17y ago
History also suggests that Jobs would have been better off not asking him that question.
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by tc 17y ago
His thought experiment had the opposite of its intended effect on me. He describes a bug in a framework that could very plausibly have been used as a vector for a XSS attack. If browsers implemented strict parsing it is far more likely th
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by tc 17y ago
If it was important, then I would buy the roast, thermometer, and stopwatch (#2). While the thing was cooking, I would work out a formula or simulation for the process as in #3. Then when finished with both, I would make a series of calls
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by tc 17y ago
If you don't have any other streams of income, you might want to think about ways you could get $1k/mo flowing into your bank account to keep you afloat while you flesh this out. $1500 isn't a lot of money, but perhaps that constraint will
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by tc 17y ago
FTA: But when folks like Alex spend their later years trying to "do good" with the millions they were paid for actually doing good, they usually end up pissing it away. I think he's missing the critical point that they enjoy pissing it
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by tc 17y ago
very sad indeed Hyperbole is the pepper of interesting conversation, and I think the randomness of mentioning Velcro made that intention pretty clear. For what it's worth, I'm a proponent of space as well. I just think the Burt Rutan / R
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by tc 17y ago
As far as I can tell, your argument boils down to: $125B+ (inflation adjusted) was worthwhile for inspiring people about what was possible. Listen, I don't disagree that there were some benefits of the space program. But $125B+ is a lot
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by tc 17y ago
moon visit would have never happened This is my favorite example of this type of argument, because the moon visits should not have happened when they did. A handful of government employees spent a few days on the moon (at an enormous
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by tc 17y ago
This is akin to companies that claim you should judge them by their EBITDA on an ongoing basis, as if capital expenses aren't real expenses . To justify the capital cost, it isn't enough to show that you'll make something cheaper than it i
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by tc 17y ago
If you can make a 1GW energy plant for about 1.5 billion terristrially then to pay a 14 fold premium to put the same thing in space... is a pretty brave thing to do. If Richard Branson (to pick a random spacefaring billionaire) was fronti
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by tc 17y ago
People often don't consider how regulation decreases the number of new entrants into a field. In the present case, we tend to spend all our time talking about how this will impact current VC firms. Existing VC firms have the advantage.
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by tc 17y ago
The obvious solution is to simply allow gifted children to advance more quickly , which would be the natural course of things. Of course, the institutional and political hurdles are considerable.
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by tc 17y ago
If may be a bias, but when I think of what characterizes the word American , I think of something more like Unix than Multics. (Even though America itself certainly contains plenty of both models.)
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by tc 17y ago
The reason that broad discretionary powers over many should not be granted to a few has little to do with the intentions of those pushing for the law to be passed (which are presumably honest, if misguided). Once the law is on the books, th
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by tc 17y ago
You may not be aware, but John Mackey founded Whole Foods (in his garage, no less) in 1978. His identity is naturally rather intertwined with his company.
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by tc 17y ago
The talk claims to be about motivation , but his main piece of evidence only points to a link with spontaneous creativity. If you reran the candle experiment but gave the participants the problem statement 24 hours in advance, I would wag
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by tc 17y ago
Because you need asynchronous messages to implement common telephony protocols.
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by tc 17y ago
This is the kicker: I got to write half of it in Scheme, which probably means that I deployed more Scheme runtime than anybody else on the planet.
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by tc 17y ago
You might be amazed how many corporations have a dial by name directory accessible from their auto attendant.
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by tc 17y ago
Absolutely not. Bastiat articulated the Broken Window Fallacy in 1850, and here we are 159 years later shredding perfectly good cars to 'create jobs.' It certainly seems like some good ideas can't be repeated often enough.
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by tc 17y ago
Maybe he intends to keep rehashing it until people understand . Good ideas, it seems, need to be repeated.

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