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aprimeon Rejecting industry dogma, Costco backs calls to lift minimum wage

Reductio ad absurdum is a perfectly valid form of argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

aprimeon Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

Doesn't this only prove that there cannot be an efficient market for these special "Turing machine" bonds?

aprimeon Apple Open Source

Is it possible to create an iphone app and put it on just your iphone (i.e. no distribution) using this software ?

Ofcourse I mean without jail-breaking the iphone or without enrolling in the iphone developer program.

Has anyone here tried this?

aprimeon What NYC really needs: A support group for founders

nextNY may be close to what the author envisions: http://www.nextny.org/

aprimeon When work doesn't pay for the middle class

"that said, it's also a common mistake of free marketers to think of a work disincentive as inherently bad"

The article points to work disincentives created as unintended consequences of (a combination of) other apparently unrelated policies. Are you suggesting that since work disincentives are not bad, its okay for them to be created this way?