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by xp84 5mo ago
It will likely play out exactly like California’s disastrous special $20/hr fast food minimum wage[1]: a near immediate reduction in the number of people employed. They replaced a couple of $20/hr workers that were present taking
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by xp84 5mo ago
Uber could always find more people to drive cars though - it’s not a rare skill. It’s also the reason you don’t see a lot of fast food unions. If you can train a new employee in a week there’s a limit to the (union) demands it makes sense t
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by xp84 5mo ago
It hurts so much that our system makes that concept as impossible at scale as landing a ship on Venus with 10,000 people and starting a space colony complete with all the amenities of home. Yours is a pretty normal idea for nearly any busin
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by xp84 5mo ago
Unions are great and all, but they cannot solve all problems purely by maximizing their demands. If the resulting business (with the unions and the costs of satisfying them) is no longer able to offer a compelling marketplace offering then
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by xp84 5mo ago
Using third-party browsers on iOS isn’t nearly as annoying as it was a few years ago. I had been driven to switch back to Safari a few years ago after trying to make a go of it. But last year I switched back to a third-party default browser
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by xp84 5mo ago
That’s super cool. I’m actually surprised if you had a PC in 2001 that it didn’t have QBASIC on it though. I think that was being shipped with Windows at least through Windows 98. But of course, your solution to that was twice as good for y
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by xp84 5mo ago
When you’re basically trusting a multi hundred thousand dollar asset to someone basically on faith, you basically are looking for a zero drama situation, so I can see why a lot of “out of the ordinary” activities would raise a red flag for
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by xp84 5mo ago
HIPAA or not, I assume the hospital wouldn’t tell a private citizen anything concerning anyone else, just on general principles. There’s no FOIA or something like that to force them to.
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by xp84 5mo ago
I think that's a great question! I however don't know any youths so I have no idea how what we called "The Scene" operates today -- other than it has to have changed a lot, since we had to discover bands by word of mouth
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by xp84 5mo ago
Land can only be nonviolently settled exactly once. The arrangement of who had what land 400 years ago when many European-Americans' ancestors started to arrive was merely the then-current state shaped by centuries of violent bloodshed
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by xp84 5mo ago
> "You don't try to wall off your entire southern border because you think the problem is a minority of bad actors." I would challenge this. If you do believe that there are violent criminals coming through the porous bord
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by xp84 5mo ago
Go on thinking that, but it really won't help the Democrats win if they persist in this attitude. Voters are just looking at what's on offer from both parties, and one party's platform has been judged to be both hostile to th
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by xp84 5mo ago
I think anyone would agree with the “you’re doing something wrong” part, but if you declare that a property is typed and non-nullable, it would be nice if a constructor that didn’t populate its non-nullable properties would cause an excep
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by xp84 5mo ago
Which ones? Certainly if 8,000[1] years ago a tribe walked across and settled, and then 7,000 years ago another group walked across and set up camp next to the descendants of that first tribe who had been there a thousand years, the second
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by xp84 5mo ago
This is confusing. If someone is already here on a valid visa, it's stupid that they should have to go anywhere else. If they simply showed up or overstayed a visa illegally, then it's actually totally reasonable that before they
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by xp84 5mo ago
Who's currently getting a below-market deal on gold from Africa?
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by xp84 5mo ago
It doesn't need to have anything to do with race. Things happen for incredibly complex reasons. Overall, bad people try to seize power -- that's a constant the world over since bad people will always exist and they have less moral
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by xp84 5mo ago
To me that doesn't sound crazy, it's just about the fact that even being homeless in Amsterdam or something is a much easier life than what's available to a commoner in a good portion of sub-Saharan Africa. If it was incredib
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by xp84 5mo ago
Forgive me, I'm unclear on one thing -- the import tax was added as a goodwill gesture? To whom? I mean, who was this done to placate? Not the US companies, and not the closed factories, right?
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by xp84 5mo ago
> " 2. Avoid Debt Like the Plague" Does anyone else feel like they overindex on this principle? I have on multiple occasions found myself too conservative to take advantage of the leverage available to me. (Example: doing a ref
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by xp84 5mo ago
Sorry, I was generalizing the "typical" pre-1995 system one would find in commercial installations, which in general were character-based. But I'm sure the Amiga solution would have been nice and fast too, since they were pre
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by xp84 5mo ago
I’m very curious to hear your take on this. I started out on PHP for about 4-5 years then moved on to Ruby and JS. I never once had any fond thoughts for PHP’s split-personality array thing. So I’m very curious what it is that other people
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by xp84 5mo ago
I used to really love the dead-simple ease PHP brought to server-side dynamic web stuff too. But when shared cpanel type hosting was orders of magnitude cheaper than anything else, that was a way bigger deal. Today you can deploy a node.js
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by xp84 5mo ago
> objectively > Ruby is dying How exactly do you define these “objective” criteria for such sensationalism?
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by xp84 5mo ago
Funny thing about this is that the character-based systems of that era, whether PC-type or host+terminal type, were most of the time so much faster and more responsive than the laggy, over-animated, touchscreen trash they always replace the
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by xp84 5mo ago
I don’t want to check what year html5 was standardized because I think it may be north of a decade ;)
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by xp84 5mo ago
Two main takeaways: 1. Never underestimate developing countries' governments' willingness to absolutely bend their people over to extract tax revenue (and then their corrupt representatives extract bribes on top of it) 2. Django&#
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by xp84 5mo ago
Yeah, we actually had our own era of “conglomerates” - they were very big from the 1960s through 1980s. Companies like ITT, Cendant, Gulf+Western, GE — formed from tons of acquisitions, sprawling across completely unrelated industries. At o
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by xp84 5mo ago
There was a brief moment around the turn of the millennium where that was what some of us were expecting. I was in college just after that and there were some free Internet kiosks, which combined with the ubiquitous free-to-use computer lab
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by xp84 5mo ago
When it comes to the companies named here, I would argue that they have shown that reporting isn't even a secondary goal or a goal at all. Journalists don't even make that much money, but they've still gutted newsrooms very t

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