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by opendna 14y ago
"Any travel guides welcome." You might try reading up on the Heckscher–Ohlin model and Stolper-Samuelson theorem. There are a great number of criticisms of each but, to over-simplify, the counter-intuitive take-away is that returns will be
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by opendna 14y ago
I'm glad you caught that line because I thought it was confusing Who are we supposed to understand is under-educated? The employers? Or was this a vain attempt to pull a fast one and shift blame to public schools for...? What? Pumping out k
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by opendna 14y ago
Classic: according to the article, the definition of a qualified new hire is one with the qualifications to get accepted into university engineering programs. Ya'll have probably read some of Prof Peter Cappelli's editorials (he's been maki
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by opendna 14y ago
Many cities regulate taxis as public utilities, in a similar fashion and logic to the regulation of telephone, power, water and public transit companies. We don't see much discussion of it anymore, but if you look to the early-20th century,
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by opendna 14y ago
Vancouver taxi drivers have as little power to change BC's vehicle hire laws as Walmart greeters have to change the company's sourcing policies. The taxi drivers are victims of the taxi license cartels: the only power they have is to stop d
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by opendna 14y ago
Translink is completely and totally irrelevant to this story. You'd as accurately blame the New York Yankees for Uber's problems in Vancouver.
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by opendna 14y ago
For those still following, it turns out that Uber has nothing to appeal because they never submitted an application to the PTB. The PTB did not reject a request by Uber. It now appears that the PTB barely knew that Uber existed until they s