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by tosseraccount 15y ago
No, the article underscores that laissez-faire economic states allow illegal immigrants to work so that's where they migrate. You do see bizarre coalitions on immigration issues: right wing "open border" types allied with left wing "poor s
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Adios flash ads! Hello html5 ads. sigh
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Perhaps the MPAA/RIAA/China/Iran should set up their own internet and regulate however they want.
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Time to clean my html and flash cookies. Again. I think there's going to be big money in "the anti-social network" when the backlash comes down.
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Linux expert "technologists" are making $84K/year. With that kind of Jack, they could afford an efficiency apartment in Palo Alto. There must be a "shortage".
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
It's not about supply and demand? It's about transparency? It's about "funding stage" ? I don't get it.
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
There is no shortage of workers. This is a myth. Always has been. In economics, supply = demand. There's never a surplus. there's never a shortage. If you want more engineers, raise wages. They will come. If you don't want to raise
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Difference between US and rest of world. US has free speech. Rest of world doesn't. (yeah yeah .. "we have free speech except for obectional material" ... right. American develop an "idiot filter" and get good at using it: "dude's an idiot
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
The resolution is finally getting good. I just wish they could make a fold-out, large real estate screen so I could get real work done.
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
The NYTimes and the WashPost are probably gearing up to get Congress to raise the guest worker quotas again, after the election. They need a lot of "supply and demand and capital mobility don't work anymore" stories. Just raise wages and
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Peak social ? Like AOL's "diversifying" in 2000 signaled the peak of the original internet bubble? Zuckerberg is smart and knows when to stick the average Joe's retirement fund with the downside. I know, I know. Mod me down. Somebody's
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
"We chose to look at this figure instead of the compounded return because individual investors often move from one fund to another." Comparing returns over 10 years without re-investing dividends is just not right.
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Capital always complains about labor supply. Not big news, really. Raise wages and supply of labor will increase. Economists noted long ago that people respond rationally to price incentives.
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Does this mean that Facebook, Google and Apple need a warrant to track people? Or just the police?
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
Of course, beware of the correlation therefore causation fallacy. It could be that people that chow on "processed meats" eating a lot of ... lets say ... sweets and it's sugar that's really causing pancreas problems. Maybe Steve Jobs' "f
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
No. H1-B is just a subsidy to the wealthiest Americans. Besides, it turned out that the biggest abusers of the guest workers was Indian outsourcing companies. go figur. Sure, lots of fly by night venture caps think "If I could just hire
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by tosseraccount 15y ago
"Apple views touch events as a proprietary interaction that they pioneered." That's the problem. The marketing that "Apple invented the PC, Apple invented the GUI, Apple invented music players, apple invented pads" is one thing. But to ac