fsaneq2

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by fsaneq2 9y ago
My point was more that it was surprising to me that someone as vilified as Trump still got almost a third of the votes in CA, but I agree that your point makes that look substantially weaker, so I retract it.
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
Come on, try to make an effort. Your comment is full of straw men.
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
EDIT: Removed comment. See better response below.
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
I find it hard to take a 2.4% difference observed through what seems to be a self reported, necessarily imperfect survey[0] seriously. [0] http://www.payscale.com/about/methodology
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
Read the studies yourself! :)
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
That's not what is meant by wage gap, you have been (intentionally) deceived. The gap only works if you do NOT account for things like "doing the same job".
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
The problem is that the way the issue is (intentionally, I'm sure) presented is with charged phrases like "for every dollar a man makes, a woman only makes X cents". To a reasonable person, that sounds like it implies "f
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
Many people find it more convenient to instead believe the difference is caused by people in charge automatically offering women less than what they would offer a man. Of course, studies controlling for the type of job, credentials, experie
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
That has been proven false, negligible or within noise over and over. The version stubbornly pushed is simply that median_salary(all women) != median_salary(all men).
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
The concept of minimum wage is beneficial to the big players as well, because the small players will eventually have neither the money to pay people more than they're worth nor the upfront capital to develop the machines to replace the
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
You will also never be able to justify hiring more expensively if you can instead use a cheap/free machine, which is of course where we're heading, since people refuse to acknowledge the truth in OP's quote.
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by fsaneq2 9y ago
> Hackers are demanding a payment of $300 per machine, roughly equal to 300 Bitcoins currently worth around 510,000 euros. EDIT: nvm. Apparently they mean to imply they have about ~1759 infected machines.
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Uh, it's their platform, their rules?
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Which is a problem why? Uber is not a charity.
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
How is it Apple's problem to pay for Ireland's mistake?
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
> If successful, the state would collect 75 percent of the penalty, while the rest would be paid out over to the company's 65,000 employees What is the logic for the state somehow being entitled to such a huge cut? Presumably, if an
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Not sure why this type of thing keeps on popping up as "news". The fact that jobs requiring no skill will be driven down to bad conditions/pay/whatever is sort of axiomatically obvious and inevitable given how capitalism
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
This entirely depends on what utility you assign to a given amount of money. For many people who are well-enough off to consider having a good risk floor, the utility of a non-life-changing amount of extra money is nearly zero. It is only o
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Is HN being censored? Why is this not on the front page, with 611 votes as of right now?
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
I agree with you, I'm just disappointed with the article I guess -- it seems to dress up completely banal information as research/news. For instance it basically says that a largely fixed dollar amount that doesn't vary that
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Okay, but what does that have to do with the article? It brings nothing to the table. Of course we should innovate and keep bringing costs of everything down; this will happen with or without city planning.
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
This reads like a huge tautology. If you cut down bills people have to pay, they'll have to pay less. Brilliant..? > The good news is that reducing poverty by cutting monthly expenses would be a big boost for people on the lower end
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Alright, I'll bite, even though I can't vote here, so I suppose my opinion doesn't really matter and I would not say I am a strong supporter of either candidate. There are many issues with your question ("Why would you s
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
As I've said in another comment, I would guess that being pro or anti LGBT is strongly correlated to age. Old generations were told it's bad, young generations are told it's good, and they vote accordingly -- only a few care
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
I doubt it controls for age? (Also what's up with the tiny sample?) To expand a bit on the age thing (and I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this again): for the older generation the default position was to be against gay marria
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
It's more that the whole crowd is cheering than there being one guy.
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
My comment is obviously a simplification and was meant to be somewhat provocative. I also haven't run a survey of all republican voters, so I don't know, perhaps you're right. The crowd's reaction certainly seems to cont
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Well, yes -- but the letter is to Niantic, not carriers.
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
I think the difference is that the French perceive obvious religious clothing similarly to someone wearing a T-shirt saying "I vote republican/democrat" in huge letters -- though I don't know, maybe that'd be consid
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by fsaneq2 10y ago
Having been brought up in a French system and then going to a US college, I must say I strongly prefer the French system. I guess Americans would take offense to this view, but I find wearing religious clothing in a public institution such

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