owen_griffiths

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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
This is more than outliers. There are way more middle / high income people over-extended to call them outliers. Also, there are pretty much whole countries of people who we would consider to have "poor" incomes who manage the
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
but the example in this article required more workers hired, so output per worker clearly wasn't maintained.
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
right, so the drug that was getting sales of 600k per year was probably not worth the hassle of maintaining a compliant manufacturing line. does that not suggest a price rise was valid?
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
no wind is not a requirement, but the variability wind adds is so strong this may never happen in practice without wind power. if there was a general move to lower power use, the market would adjust to the lower level. it is the unpredictab
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
And those guys learning to fly the planes without the landing, why can't that just be an interest! With terrorism, if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives. NB I totally agree it would be a d
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
This was my 'favourite' http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/03/06/6-year-old-finge...
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
That example makes sense, but if you want to impose a rule you have to worry about the cases where it doesn't make sense. What about a plumbing business which dispatches jobs within a 5 mile radius. If the employee moves 2 hours away,
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
Japan's CO2 emissions are up 11% relative to 1990, when they are supposedly planning to go down 21% by 2030. “They’re aware that Japan has fared perfectly well without nuclear power for almost two years.” is not really accurate CO2 int
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
"one country's overreaction of 9/11" There is not any evidence that 9/11 has anything to do with this - this sounds more like a regular limitation of work rights issue. Hacker news regularly has stories about the di
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
He is definitely not serious - the reason they sell the car at 32k is that is the best price to get the required sales. If people don't buy at that price, they'll have to go even lower, and lose more money.
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
Nissan leaf has 24 KWhr pack, so a 5 KW solar system getting 5 hours of sun could charge it. However, the cost of having 2 full batteries (ie panel - powerwall - car battery) would be massive in today's world, where batteries are alrea
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
"almost all of them said they liked the work itself, but cited discriminatory environments as their main reason for leaving" If the work environment is not to women' liking and has no bearing on outcome, where are all the suc
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
The incessantly being asked if you are lost is the most unrealistic part of this story. My wife and I were looking for a room in Stanford last year - we really were lost. No-one gave a s..t.
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
Google doesn't hire for specific projects like this - they want people who can work all over the company.
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
but the rules don't work with people working for 10 years, and retiring for 60. of course this is not illegal, but such a life style choice would not be scalable.
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
I'm left puzzled after reading this. So riots can be effective, but the response to the last riots sowed the seeds that led to these riots. Doesn't that imply rioting is indeed a bad way of making positive change?
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by owen_griffiths 11y ago
"Germany has vastly expanded their economy since 1970, while adding zero additional people" It's a different kettle of fish when more of the people are retired and living on generous tax-payer pensions, and less are working.
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
"are sustainable due to taxation that is closer to the rates that the US had during its economic rise" European taxation takes far more from low income people than taxes in the US. The US gets the highest proportion of it's
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
"Negative rates are a signal, and effect all base load (coal, nuclear, hydro, etc) equally. I don't see how sending proper market signals are a bad thing." But those market signals are not sent to the solar installations. i.
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
This is about a team of 4 people, so pair programming is 50% of the team writing all code. I don't think there is a problem with visibility. Whether this has many lessons for teams 10x the size is another matter of course.
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
We don't need to shut down universities. Just, enough aspiring professors need to find something else that pays more how they'd like. Then, there will be more demand and better conditions for those left.
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
OK, so there are benefits to the job beyond salary. You can't mix and match - oh I'll have the conditions of job A, with the pay of job B.
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
"well, then someone would pay their workers better and make more money, and those firms would come to dominate." Not only would they, they do. Google, Apple, Facebook, Wall St etc pay people well, and are very profitable. However
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
Layoffs are not generally considered good the stock - plenty of stocks have gone up plenty of times without layoffs. However, it is usually the case that management only does layoffs when really necessary, and in that case the stock should
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
Yes, because the "minimum living standard" has risen due to the extra income. If everyone's income doubled (adjusted for inflation), that then so would what society considers a minimum living. This sentiment also seems to gl
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
Seems to me, if the artists being present was the real source of the "cool", then pricing them out would cause the "cool" to reduce, and a balance would form.
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by owen_griffiths 12y ago
RE Deficit spending, not sure what country you're in, but the US Government has done $5 trillion dollars of deficit spending over the last 5 years (per year it is ranged from 500bn - 1.3 Tn). I guess you can always do more, but it hasn