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by venning 11y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. At 120 workers, that's still under $10k/year. That seems to support the idea that this is more about unionization than raw pay.
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by venning 11y ago
Hmm, that's helpful, thank you.
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by venning 11y ago
Yeah. That's sort of my problem. I know a good deal about Malawi and very little about Mexico. Do you know what a passable wage looks like in Mexico? Exchange rates, which are the implicit basis of this article's concern, is a muc
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by venning 11y ago
I don't mean to imply that minimum wage is a valid measure, it's just one of the only measures provided in the article. Perhaps, in some places, 160% of minimum wage is decent. My interest is: "What is a lot in (that part of
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by venning 11y ago
So, honest question: is that a lot? The workers are asking for the top band to increase by 5.3%, from 114 pesos to 120. They are currently making 163% of the minimum national wage of 70 pesos. I don't have any feel for how livable th
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by venning 11y ago
To be fair, the original tweet references "website weight" which is dependent on generic image formats, as the author here addresses. Being limited to generic image formats does add a lot of weight to sites, but also means al
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by venning 11y ago
If you're interested in this stuff, the author also hosts the excellent Compressor Head video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIJGErt5rrCq...
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by venning 11y ago
There are factors beyond naive weightings, as well. I remember reading somewhere that if a thread becomes too heated or turns into a flamewar, the mods have the ability to suppress it in the rankings artificially to let it cool off. That
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by venning 11y ago
538 breaks this out with more nuance and context here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-americans-arent-mid...
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by venning 11y ago
Why is 538 selecting public research universities? Is that the full, technical name for typical US colleges, or is there a specific distinction here that would imply they are excluding whatever "non-research" universities are?
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by venning 11y ago
Author must be still editing it, I can zoom in now (Android).
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by venning 11y ago
Not available on mobile.
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by venning 11y ago
Professional curiosity: is that because it would be considered prior art or is there some other provision that covers that kind of thing?
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by venning 11y ago
> But another way of thinking about firms is that they are time transformers... This seemed to be the main thrust of the article. Does anyone know if this idea originated elsewhere, or was it an idea of the Economist?
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by venning 11y ago
Fair point. I got a little word-happy.
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by venning 11y ago
Playing devil's advocate: WhatsApp is a $22B investment. It makes sense to try to prevent it from being canabalized from the inside. We've seen something like this before, when AIM allowed MSN Messenger to interoperate. I know t
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by venning 11y ago
What is it about this particular text that makes it not vulnerable? That it is short?
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by venning 11y ago
Polymer and Angular 1.x do come with a lot of bloat. I wouldn't call a MD text entry field "simple". Material Design was released ahead of web technologies really being able to manage it well, at least on mobile.
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by venning 11y ago
> Scroll like a native app without Safari's stupid rubber band scrolling the entire app at very erratic times This is defeatable, either with `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` or other techniques. > Background geolocation,
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by venning 11y ago
Does anyone know what is being displayed in the background of the picture of Seaborg in the article? See [1]. It looks like variations of the periodic table but arranged along something other than atomic weight. I suppose if they were sti
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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 11(techempower.com)
6 points by venning 11y ago|1 comments
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by venning 11y ago
nginx is one of those things that requires its own mentality to really get . Like SQL's set logic or CSS's forward-looking selectors, it's not quite like traditional imperative, control flow-based programming. But once you
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by venning 11y ago
nginx configs can be difficult enough on their own without constraining them to formats that wouldn't allow directives that take arguments preceding a block, not to mention the extra escaping that would come with quoting already-quoted
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by venning 11y ago
For those who are more familiar than I with the Lean Startup mentality: I've been wondering, does Lean Startup (or even Agile) inherit from The Mythical Man-Month consciously or unconsciously? As in, was this mentality developed wit
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by venning 11y ago
http://asdfio.com/aasdf*asdfasdf*asdf asdif http://aosdifjasd.com/adfa*sasdf http://asdofi.com* asdf
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by venning 11y ago
code bar
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by venning 11y ago
Source available on GitHub: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public Unless I'm missing something, the entire codebase is just 102 files (including README and such), no subdirectories, and 12,000 lines. What a fanta
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by venning 11y ago
Thanks. Guess I didn't make the connection. Seems odd to call out yesterday's technology as non-trivial only to imply that it will become trivial tomorrow, or at least that appears to be the author's logic.
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by venning 11y ago
I believe this was on the front page of HN 20 days ago. This time the URL has a hash fragment. See here for 9 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10445461
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by venning 11y ago
Can someone please explain this sentence: > Now, it’s true that yesterday’s technology is tomorrow’s tech. I don't quite grasp the distinction.

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