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by trendia 9y ago
This is my disagreement with the article as well. I agree with the author that Amazon Fulfillment should need to give employees adequate breaks, but I don't agree that the rules make Amazon a government: they don't have law enforc
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This is the origin of the terms "white meat" and "dark meat" -- the words breast and thigh were too inappropriate!
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> The system includes a function that detects which type of CPU it is running on and chooses the optimal code path for that CPU. This is called a CPU dispatcher. However, the Intel CPU dispatcher does not only check which instruction s
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You're missing their point. Suppose you are an engineer in India making $10k / year. You have the same skills and ability as American citizens in San Francisco. So, a startup comes to you and offers you a $60k / year job. You
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They're saying: NYTimes is quality journalism. People used to pay for the NYTimes. Now Google and Facebook offer the news from NYTimes for free.
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TL;DR: MS Paint [0] [0] http://imgur.com/a/YrlD7
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That passport photo wouldn't be accepted today. (light blue background and shadows)
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I'm not sure the comparison between CS and law is totally appropriate. Law protects existing wealth, while CS can create new wealth. That implies that there is not some "fixed" number of CS jobs for which everyone is competin
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It seems a better analogy would be business debt rather than household debt. Business debt is used for productivity and not just consumption. However, in both the case of business debt and sovereign debt, the return on the extra capital wou
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John Micklethwait, the old editor, left for Bloomberg. Zanny Minton Beddoes, the new editor, is nowhere near as good.
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Can you provide an example of a policy decision that is (1) correct using sovereign debt analysis but (2) incorrect when using household debt analysis?
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> 50% of scientists not being able to reproduce their own paper In the case of the psychology replication crisis (note that I'm NOT talking about climate science here), the problem was the result of a few factors: 1. the lack of inc
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Still better than 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 https://youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
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The paper itself is much more nuanced. Their model predicts the results of Dube, especially in industries where few of the employees receive salaries near min wage. It also predicts the minimal disemployment effects (or non-existent disempl
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The article is a summary of the paper. The full paper is available here: https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/working-pape...
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There are studies that avoid assuming perfect, instantaneous markets. They, too, show nuanced but negative long term effects of min wages. http://voxeu.org/article/long-run-employment-effects-minimum...
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Factory worker? Maybe... but there are a whole lot of conplex social interactions and relationships in the breakroom, far more than people expect.
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There are a lot of people who have more credentials than skill, which isn't easily detected by looking at a resume.
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They took care of him after the incident that caused brain damage, but is there any proof the incident itself was botulism?
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Does that price include oxygen? Not all of them do [0]. [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/13/f35_pilots_report_h...
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Listen to recordings here: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/great-tits-s...
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Consider the following contradiction: Supposedly, fake Facebook accounts (which appear real) engage with "fake news" in order to fool real Facebook users. Then, the engagement of such articles is measured. That is, these article
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This article really only focuses on organized fake news campaigns directed by a larger organization. But that's not the only source: sometimes fake news comes from a single individual looking to score fake internet points, such as the
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What's the deal with recommending iPhone over Android?
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Or UUID...
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The minimum pressure of a perfect vacuum is 0 atm, not -1 atm as you say [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#Measurement
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That's really cool! Does that mean that my bank records will be sent in plaintext over those series of tubes?
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I've spoken to people like this moderator and they just ramble over any topic they get excited about. What specifically makes you think he rambled because she was a woman?
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Are you saying we should fix when people geek out about a topic and ramble? If so, I agree. But good luck making progress on that!
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I don't think he was doing that because he was sexist, I think he was doing that because he was really excited about the duality. The only way to improve society is to recognize when things are really done with ill intent and when they

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