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by ebog 7y ago
If you just want a sleep tracker I would recommend looking at Oura ring
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by ebog 7y ago
The bubble is bursting from Softbank* Tech as a sector is still doing very well, even though there are some high publicity mega failures like WeWork
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by ebog 7y ago
I would recommend you take a look at Sococo then (disclaimer -- I don't work for them but know people that do): https://www.sococo.com/ Much more upfront about their pricing structure.
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by ebog 7y ago
Probably a lack of good marketing.
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by ebog 7y ago
White collar crimes (like this should be) are all about making value calculations. Take the famous Ford Pinto memo. They decided the risk to their customers' lives was smaller (in terms of pure dollar amount, after potential litigation
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by ebog 7y ago
That's true. I'm sure that the perverse incentive could be resolved with some system for self-reporting and fixing.
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by ebog 7y ago
It's the implication you and the headline are making. I have yet to see any evidence that Uber and Lyft are against public transport. They are competing with it, which is their right. That's massively different from attempting reg
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by ebog 7y ago
But Uber/Lyft are not lobbying against public transit. In fact, in Denver, you can buy RTD tickets through the Uber app. There are plenty of reasons from a labor perspective to dislike rideshare companies but this ain't it.
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by ebog 7y ago
Don't know why you're comment is grayed, we absolutely need heavy monetary penalties for the worst kinds of data breaches. The abstract idea of a class action lawsuit isn't enough, even after the Equifax breach.
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by ebog 7y ago
It seems like an ok reading of the history on first glance but it is the Marxist perspective. I suppose necessary to understand the heterodox viewpoint. > So central to capitalist reality is this motor of growth that it lies behind both
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by ebog 7y ago
Spoken like someone who truly doesn't know the history of the economic field.
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by ebog 7y ago
It works
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by ebog 7y ago
> I don't see this OS succeeding beyond China though. I wouldn't be so sure. Obviously it would be an uphill battle for the OS to compete in the US or Europe, but anywhere that doesn't have clear smartphone dominance yet (
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by ebog 7y ago
Scalability is a big problem, but it's not the only problem. Money accomplishes 3 things: 1) Store of value 2) Unit of account 3) Medium of exchange It's not really very good at any these 3 things. The scalability significantly hu
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by ebog 7y ago
In the US at least, press freedom is greater than simply freedom of speech (according to case law), and this is by design. Information of significant public interest shouldn't be censored.
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by ebog 7y ago
That's not entirely true. The US is good at capital intensive or high skilled manufacturing like most other countries aren't. That's why it's viable for a lot of car companies to open plants in the US. It's just tha
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by ebog 7y ago
Having a multinational agreement between several economies that the Chinese economy is hugely dependent on would have been a great trade chip for getting China on board with Western IP laws. That was the whole point of the deal in the first
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by ebog 7y ago
Maybe I don't get your point but a tariff is a tax, and US consumers pay for a lot of that tax. So this is effectively a super inefficient redistribution of wealth to farmers from everyone else in the country.
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by ebog 7y ago
Presumably Google still has a massive Bay Area presence because it's more profitable for them to stay there than move, at least that's what is implied. Maybe they should be pushing hard for the city to build more housing. But it s
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by ebog 7y ago
It looks like the main problems were problems with HVAC (which wouldn't be a problem in California and probably could be more easily solved with modern building materials) and the ugliness of it. Everybody in the Bay Area would surely
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by ebog 7y ago
Would you rather people, jobs, and an economic powerhouse of an industry move away or just build more housing? It's not like the software industry is a monolith, it's a collection of people and companies who have decided the netwo
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by ebog 7y ago
In this case it seems more like someone in charge, man or woman, thought they were making things better by letting all people access any restroom. Maybe they didn't think it through, or maybe it was a man trying to do the right thing b
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by ebog 7y ago
It's interesting because the argument these NIMBYs use against studying rent control is the exact same as the one gun rights activists and the NRA used against allowing the CDC to study the effects of gun ownership rates. These privile
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by ebog 7y ago
People should be able to move easily because it's good for all of us. The less friction there is in the labor market, the better off the economy is. It's also very good for the sellers of labor who now have better ability to move
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by ebog 8y ago
This is a prime example of the Lump of Labor fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy Our best studies have shown immigration increases overall welfare. The Mariel Boatlift studies are a good examp
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by ebog 8y ago
This is probably a better explanation for how wages have grown. The biggest problem is healthcare costs have grown too. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...
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by ebog 8y ago
The person pays for the good in US dollars. Where do those dollars go? The Chinese people who now have USD either spend or invest them back in the US.