jegutman

I'm skeptical this will end up doing enough, but any move in the right direction in this issue is a big deal.

We're all part of the sharing economy. You share your labor with your employer. /s

So you're right there's a lot of low quality stuffy on Buzzfeed, but also some amazing pieces of journalism. Business Insider is at NY Post levels most of the time. I can't even think of something I read on Business Insider that was both accurate (and I don't mean technically accurate, I mean addressed the main issue of the story) and more than 500 words long. That being said it's been so bad that I actively avoid BI links, it's possible that the ones I don't click are better.

Buzzfeed, for all the flack they take, makes it quite obvious that that the article is going to be of a certain quality from the title. "7 tricks..." is actually great because I know I don't need to click.

The costs and benefits of things change over time and hence the stable outcomes can change a lot over time. It's only in the last few 100 years that anything resembling a "job" where you sit at a desk all day existed. 1000s of year so of human evolution is people moving around, people who didn't "simply went extinct under the stress to survive and reproduce that they couldn't compete". Obviously the claim that this means we can't modify this at all is completely ridiculous.

N is an integer multiple of N. The integer multiples of N are ... -3N -2N -1N 0 1N 2N 3N... much like the integers are ... -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 ...

Depends on the company. PR is a proportional thing. If the CEO of a company is caught on video killing kittens that can kill 50% of a $100,000,000 company or 50% of $1,000,000 company. Public relations / branding is proportional in that way. Money on the other hand is slightly more constant, so in the two cases above it might be a 2 million dollar hit to each. A possible gamble to the 100 million dollar company but not to the 1 million dollar company.

Yea, and why not just look at the actual history of FB where they were quite easily able to pay for server costs at an early point with ads. It's possible they hit a point where they were losing money, but 100% at any point past the very beginning if they wanted they could've invested less and been a profitable business. Possibly not a business that would've existed for the long run and it might have opened the door for a competitor, but they could have drawn down money out of the business they had built. Many of the companies people complain about actually couldn't do that because they don't have any ability to raise their prices without losing all of their customers.

I think 0.4% was just for the weekend worth of work. Like just think of it as everybody vested that much over the weekend so the company still had 96.4% unvested equity with very unclear ownership. That makes it seem a little more reasonable although not any less confusing.

"None of those provide any real safeguards". Don't you feel like this is an overstatement? Like if Microsoft commits a fraud I can sue Microsoft. Like yes it's possible that in the future these safeguards wont' be available, but having real legal entities with known individuals you can have a trust based relationship in society is of tremendous value. Knowing that your counter-party in a transaction has repetitional risk is definitely beneficial.

So first the fed cut rates and many people called them unprincipled and we would have run away inflation "just around the corner" and they were shown to be quite wrong. Now these same people are calling for raising rates what traditionally used forms of data suggest is at least a little too early and there seems to be a possibility that the fed is going to raise rates.

Also the waste of talent argument is a red herring. People who say that assume the alternative is no financial system in their heads. It takes many fewer people to run many HFT firms than to run one JPM prop trading floor which is the actual alternative.

You don't even need to tag faces. It finds all the faces that have been in your photos and picks one for each to be the search "face" for that person.

Can we just have a giant open-source religion with a mission like: "Really useful software should be open source if possible" and then have various "chapters" that individually manage the projects? So we could have the Mozilla chapter and the the Apache chapter? The various licenses would be like religious differences.

Or they have high fixed costs.

But I can't get "waze" directions in google maps (where it has me taking awesomely crazy routes). I also don't get notifications about cars on the side of the road which can be quite useful in certain areas.

It will be so obvious when big bird has an iPhone 3g and a nexus 5.

Have they really done that though?

So I think this is a good model for consumers, but probably not great from a sales perspective. Think of the broadcasters as charging for "selling" their companies. I hate cable companies, but still worth thinking about why they don't do this presuming intelligence instead of stupidity (referencing good recent AHarris post).

Reminds me of this from Dave Chapelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdim8hWR44

Yea, I saw some of the runs during Summer Games Done Quickly that involved some attempts at RNG manipulation although it was not obvious what was happening at all to me watching at home.

I'll buy it from you for $20 if you want to get out while the market is tanking.

I don't know, seems like access is a big deal. I'm sure Buffett could get a meeting with any presidential candidate he wanted to because of his celebrity. Me? Probably not for good reason.

However, if I had a super PAC with $5 million in the bank "trying to figure out what to spend it on" I bet I could get a lot of politicians trying to meet with me. Let's even say I said I was going to spend $1 million on each of the next 5 elections in my local district. So the first meeting we talk about some "ideas" I have and they just nod their head. If they don't think that would help in the next election, maybe they just ignore me, but if maybe they didn't have strong opinions on my important policy points to begin with, or are even against them but "have other things they want to prioritize first" then maybe I'll tilt the odds in my favor. Let's say they even want to pass their pet project, but need votes from other congresspeople they know that they can influence their colleagues if they can "sell" access to me as a "donor".

None of this is hard corruption, but it's access and influence all indirectly acquired through money.

Also, failed campaigns often just end up paying out the candidate indirectly by buying a book written by the candidate and giving it to donors as a "gift". While it might be hard for a politician to sell 1 million copies of their book, if they can buy it with campaign funds it's a lot easier.

This was the example I can remember. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sarah-palin-pac-buy-book/story...

I know it's crazy that companies with 10k+ employees want some agree of conformity (read: predictability) out of their workforce. It's not the CEO of these organizations saying "we can't hire you because of this piece of paper" it's a hiring manager saying that. Many large companies are working harder for alternative methods of identifying talent, but it's hardly and easy problem and if you need to screen 2x as many employees to find 10% more good hires that may or may not be worth the tradeoff depending on how productive your employees are in general.

Also this seems to suggest that honolulu is the 5th most expensive city in north america: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/honolulu

I imagine smaller parts of hawaii are even more expensive because they're probably more touristy.

Okay, but if you're only talking about SF then that's pretty silly. Because there are parts of the bay area that are much cheaper although I get that even they are expensive. But if you're paying to live in SF proper or Palo Alto proper you're paying a premium for either a low commute or to be around other tech people or both. You can find places that are affordable in plenty of parts of the east bay.

Housing maybe, although not the stuff I have imagined in my head. Everything else is really expensive in hawaii though because of shipping costs and lack of scale.

AOL seems to think they're on version 9.7: https://help.aol.com/articles/upgrade-to-the-latest-version-...

My dad is from Bogotá so I probably notice it more. I do remember one time he was looking for some world cup gear and we went into a sports store and he thought they had misspelled "Colombia" because a hat had "Columbia" written on it.

Be careful with spelling here. You get it right once and wrong the other time.

Columbia - University in NYC Colombia - Country in South America

I make so many spelling mistakes I hate to correct, but when I ready your first sentence I thought you might have meant the university.

I don't know, being in that demo, seems like the main issue is that I don't meet many people through normal activities. And some of the hobby-like activities where I go to meetups are things aren't really filed with people I'd like to be friends with as a "couple" with my wife.

Probably widely varies by profession / lifestyle though.