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by poke111 6y ago
https://www.mock-server.com/
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by poke111 7y ago
Not exactly. If the market-clearing price for low-skill labor is already above the minimum wage, it will have no effect. If the market price is far below the minimum wage, it will have a large effect - positive for the workers with jobs, ne
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by poke111 7y ago
I hate when people use this metaphor. Not because it's inaccurate to say that speech can cause imminent harm in some circumstances. But because its origin was a Supreme Court opinion that argued against the right to speak out against t
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by poke111 7y ago
uch... what a headache when a user needs to change their email. The mania for "schema-less" KV stores is so puzzling to me. It just takes all the stuff that used to be handled natively and seamlessly by the DB engine and forces yo
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by poke111 8y ago
If you're looking for something on the right - Ricochet has a number of excellent podcasts. They are trying to be like the NPR of the center right.
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by poke111 8y ago
LGBT being a protected class or not was not at issue in the cake shop decision, since they were not denied service in general (they had been regular customers of that shop, and were always served). The issue was whether designing a custom c
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by poke111 8y ago
The problem is that getting the right regulations in place is really difficult. The dynamics that make this so are explained nicely in this piece: https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/01/welcome-machine-kevin...
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by poke111 8y ago
source?
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by poke111 8y ago
Or just abolish the corporate tax altogether. The profit is already taxed once the gains hit individuals in the form of dividends or capital gains. [edit] here is a nice article outlining the argument: https://www.nationalreview.
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by poke111 9y ago
I propose a new law that people with my SSN don't have to pay taxes. It would help me out a lot. Every policy helps some people at the expense of others. Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs. You need to weigh both sides, not just the
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by poke111 9y ago
No. The gambler's fallacy is when we ascribe dependency to independent events. Stock performance tomorrow is very much NOT independent of stock performance today, e.g. "market correction"
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by poke111 9y ago
It's a big deal because it confirms that the Democrats were using the FBI and FISA for political purposes.
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by poke111 9y ago
The central idea of capitalism is that voluntary exchange enriches both parties. So the answer to your first question is yes.
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by poke111 9y ago
I think this is often a dumb complaint and it shows itself in other contexts sometimes. There's a natural floor to income, it's $0. But there is no ceiling. So naturally if you want to give a sampling of scenarios covering most pe
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by poke111 9y ago
For example, the remake of Red Dawn a few years ago was supposed to feature China invading the US. They changed in to North Korea under pressure. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237717/Red-Dawn-rem...
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by poke111 9y ago
Don't forget National Review, which IMO has the best and brightest conservative writers
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by poke111 9y ago
It's true that Eich resigned, under extreme pressure. Is that a good thing? It just underscores my point - that even with legal protections, there still needs to be a cultural shift towards acceptance (or at least tolerance) of people
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by poke111 9y ago
All I'm saying is that a position, which until the day before yesterday was so mainstream that even a fairly liberal politician in a liberal party agreed with it, is today considered so out of bounds that you may face consequences for
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by poke111 9y ago
Kind of like Brendan Eich?
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by poke111 9y ago
"If you say gays shouldn't marry" i.e. If you agree with Barack Obama's stated position on this issue from 4 years ago.
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by poke111 9y ago
See here for one perspective https://fee.org/articles/the-great-depression-according-to-m...
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by poke111 9y ago
It's because of the way the issue has been politicized. In people's mind it's a binary issue: either you agree that warming is happening, we are causing it, it is likely to be catastrophic, we can substantially improve the ou
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by poke111 9y ago
I didn't mean to imply that I knew the answer to your question. I meant that the IQ disparity is a statistical fact, but the cause is a hotly debated area of research without clear answers, and the Wikipedia page is a good primer on th
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by poke111 9y ago
Here is a good start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
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by poke111 9y ago
This is not a controversial opinion. It is a statistical fact of psychometrics.
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by poke111 9y ago
This a bizarre view of virtue. Instead of displaying and modeling virtuous behavior yourself, it's sufficient to tell other people that they should be more virtuous.
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by poke111 9y ago
I don't get why he kept hammering on them for the fact that it was delivered to the wrong address. The bigger problem here, and a better basis for a refund, is the fact that they sent the wrong item. If they sent the wrong item to the
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by poke111 9y ago
I found Black Hat to be unusually realistic https://www.wired.com/2015/01/blackhat-the-best-cyber-movie/
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by poke111 9y ago
Because you create wealth by producing goods and services. Jobs are a cost, not the end goal. Sacrificing production for jobs gets it exactly backwards and makes us, in the aggregate, poorer, even though it makes a few people richer.
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by poke111 9y ago
By putting the "more guns, less crime" argument front and center, gun rights advocates imply that if more evidence comes out that contradicts that, the case for more guns disappears. I'm saying that the argument should always

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