tvhiggins

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by tvhiggins 12y ago
soo study included amazon 3rd parties or no? thats a huge detail article left out
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
switching cost for the users on all these platforms is essentially nothing, which would scare me off as an investor
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
you can be arrested for 'suspicion of theft?' Am i missing something or is this illegal? Security in casinos have the legal right to detain you?
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
don't understand what this has to do with facebook moving. they'd just hire another bus contractor if the current one got too expensive
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
imo its the fact that we're so reliant on 3-4 big banks as opposed to 100 banks. if it were more decentralized, US could afford less regulation and just let companies succeed/fail on their own. can't do that in the current cl
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
As long as all these new payment platforms like this, apple pay, and square use credit cards, i don't really consider them that innovative. different way to skin the same cat.
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
also citing 4 states that raised min wage and looking at 6 month time window is pretty weak conclusion imo. in the other 9, wage just grew with inflation. more conclusive evidence with whole countries (looking at you europe) over longer per
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
raising min wage would price people out of jobs! on another note, most people assume incorrectly that this bottom portion of earners is a fixed group of people year in year out. Simply not true. look at us bureau census data. Over half of p
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
you must be 12
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
Gov't lets them pay via credit card? ridiculous govt waste
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
The fine was for one location. I imagine it put a dent in their p&l. Likely would've been bigger if they settled on multiple locations.
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
correlation not causation. this flies in the face of econ 101. if a company has $100 budget and pay min wage of $8/hr they can have 12 employees. you raise min wage to $12/hr? they can only hire 8 people. you make human capital mo
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
Yawn--- I'm pretty sure every continent besides Africa has a sub-replacement fertility level currently.
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
Interesting... wondering what other interesting questions the data can answer
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by tvhiggins 12y ago
is the 3-d strike zone incorporated into these calculations? i know the strike zone has width, in addition to length,height. so when you say the strike zone is more of a circle, i would contend it's a horizontal cylinder.