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According to wikipedia: "Activities in the service sector include retail, banks, hotels, real estate, education, health, social work, computer services, recreation, media, communications, electricity, gas and water supply."

Retail, banking (loans), education, healthcare, energy, all very large portions of the average persons expenses.

This isn't directed at you specifically, but this cliche is self perpetuated by sociopaths who like to repeat it with pride. It then creates an environment where because many of those at the top are sociopaths, it becomes more strategic to act that way yourself in order to get ahead.

Being a bad person doesn't have to be a requirement to succeed in corporate America, we've just made it that way.

Your comment actually presents an idea that many choose to ignore, that healthcare is actually two markets in one.

For routine primary care like regular checkups or an appointment for some symptom bothering you, you absolutely are not under duress. You won't die because you took 5 minutes to choose a doctor on ZocDoc. With more transparency in costs of service, this could definitely become a market, ie "for $XX per month, get unlimited visits to our partner doctors' offices".

For emergency situations, surgeries, and things that require expensive ongoing care like cancer, you're correct in that you're under duress and can't really shop around. This is the market in which the usage of insurance makes sense, as it's a rare occurrence that would be catastrophic to pay for out of pocket for the majority of people.

I think we can do a great deal to lower cost of healthcare to Americans if we think of it in this two market approach, and handle each accordingly.

Couldn't they simply charge more for their product/service to enable them to offer the higher salaries needed to attract workers?

I get the feeling that when they say they're struggling to fill jobs, what they really mean is "our current employees are overworked, and it would be nice to hire more and eek out some productivity, but no one wants the salaries we're offering so oh well".

If their struggle to hire was truly affecting their ability to produce, they would quickly offer more money, just as tech companies do to attract engineers.

If anything, we need to update the definition of the existing term to include the new manifestations of monopolies that tech companies can form.

While Google and Facebook don't control a finite resource in the traditional sense, they do in the sense of mindshare, which is absolutely a finite resource.

haha would you look at that!

My money's on DC area and NYC area. DC for the gov contracts, NYC for the talent pool (Columbia, Cornell Tech, and NYU) and transit network.

If Apple is getting this kind of performance out of their CPU/GPUs, especially the "Xbox One X level performance" they mentioned about their iPad Pro, curious if they'll turn Apple TV into a gaming console.

This isn't /r/trees, you can't expect to make a claim like that without backing it up.

If anything, legalization will greatly increase the sample size of users that are comfortable with taking part in studies that could confirm the effects of marijuana on cognitive performance.

China's going to have a hell of a time maintaining all this infrastructure they're building in a few decades. Maintaining things currently in use is a lot harder than building new, just ask the US.

There will always be a percentage of homeless that are as you say, usually because of mental illness. To say "most" of them fall into that category is a huge assumption to make without data to back it up.

While I don't doubt billionaires hoard money, I think trying to solve this with taxes is misguided. They should look at the stats showing how many homeless ended up in that situation because of rising rents.

I'd be willing to bet NIMBY antics are a large cause of this problem. SF metro area has the 4th highest rate of homeless people per capita, I have to imagine absurdly high rents is a part of it.

SF politicians don't want to admit this because of the donations/support they receive from NIMBY groups, but they are very clearly the cause of many problems in the bay area, whether its housing or slow transit expansion. It's especially ironic that such a "progressive" area would be so rife with elitism and gate keeping.

Or you could use your critical thinking skills and keep in mind that they're not going to catch everything. This falls in line with the mentality of "don't let perfectionism get in the way of progress".

We need to focus more on teaching critical thinking in schools, it will lead to people who can call out bullshit way more reliably.

What'll end up happening is that when they run out of wealthier clientele to buy/rent those, those apartments will sit vacant and they'll have to lower prices, thereby opening them up to the middle class.

Companies will always chase the higher margin luxury market first before hitting the mid range and budget audience.

What happened around 2000 that caused the accelerated growth in tuition?

Whenever this debate comes up, I find it interesting that it's rarely discussed the theological ramifications of this.

God is generally described as a being who is outside the plane of our existence, and created our existence.

It's intriguing to me that those who argue we're in a simulation have much less trouble having faith in that premise despite the difficulty in proving it being exactly the same as proving the existence of God.

If you think about it, the vast majority of the world which believes in a God essentially believes we're in a simulation.

This is the logical conclusion of companies giving in to shareholders frothing at the mouth for increased profitability by any means necessary. Manufacturing crucial components like motherboards in China is just absurd.

Because employers often have more power than employees in that negotiation. they'll pay as little as possible/legal, with working conditions skirting what's allowed by law.

On top of that, taxpayers will have to foot the bill by funding welfare to all these people whose labor is being exploited. Especially since they increasingly don't have the negotiating power of a union to make this idealistic vision you have of the job market fair to both sides.

Techies like to believe they're enlightened when they lean libertarian, when in reality all that amounts to is privatized gains, socialized losses.

I mean couldn't you just solve all this by tying a ticket purchase to a name, and make them non-transferable? Can't sell a ticket if the buyer will have to provide your ID.

All the gov would need to do is mandate that colleges charge tuition as a percentage of post-graduation salary, and you'd see half of these low quality colleges peddling worthless degrees go bankrupt overnight.

At the end of the day, this country needs to decide whether the role of universities is to train students for career paths, or purely to provide higher education. It's very difficult to orient the structure around both without the incentive's being misaligned towards one of them.

At least the taxi thing was meant to curb road congestion. SFs scooter regulation seems like the intent is "how dare you run a business without our oversight?".

Equal rights is not the same thing as equal outcomes. This law seems very ham fisted.

Between NIMBY antics with housing development and absurd levels of gov overreach in situations like this, SF is going to end up cannibalizing its tech industry.

So many cities would kill to be the center of such a fast growing and high paying industry, and they're squandering it because their old guard is a bunch of gate-keeping snobs.

Oh well. NYC, LA, Austin, and other cities will gladly grab the fruits of tech talent.

They'll collapse into a 3rd world country unless they modernize and diversify their economy.

i guess save up cash so you can buy housing when it bottoms out?

The amount of people downplaying Russia in this thread is absurd.

Am I going crazy, or is every comment hidden in here?

It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant some tech startups can be with their pricing. Plume is one of many that seem to target consumers that simultaneously have a lot of disposable income and are stupid with their money.

A subscription fee for a router that I still need to pay for, on top of the internet that I'm ALREADY paying for? Get outta here. How does it make any sense to charge subscription pricing for hardware that you have to pay upfront for?

If so, this could allow front facing cameras and webcams to be placed dead center of the screen, allowing 0 bezels without awkward camera placement like Dell XPS has.