mirajshah

you forgot:

  Amazon, 1,528

> How it works in general is that the business visionary has a close relationship with one bank, and the ability to sponsor a lot of friends and family in the old country.

in both this article about donut shops and the article about Bay Area motels, the "business visionary" grants personal loans to other immigrants who were already settled in the U.S. to bootstrap their own _separate_ businesses.

definitely exists in India to a large degree. I personally find it annoying that actual refusals don't carry much weight, because they are most often interpreted as rituals of politeness towards an eventual "yes". sometimes, I actually just want to say "no".

the same reason you trust external companies to do all sorts of other stuff for you: specialization. in the average case, they can probably do it better than your developers because it's their primary business.

Not sure if you read the linked article:

> The 70 kilogram remote sensing satellite is to be used for agricultural, climate, mining and environmental observations, allowing the Horn of Africa to collect data and improve its ability to plan for changing weather patterns for example.

Your friends are probably not the best source on the matter. Go on YouTube and listen to interviews with actual sex workers in places where it is institutionalized (e.g. Amsterdam, New Zealand). There are plenty of Vice documentaries e.g. https://youtu.be/Q8_UGthO3CM

Yes, I think you haven't been following Linux closely enough. Ubuntu, at least, has been very aware of this problem for years now. Their "software center"/package management is probably close to as seamless and mature as the Mac "App Store". The caveat remains that many common paid apps (e.g. video games, Microsoft Office) are not compatible with Linux, but that doesn't seem to affect you.

mods (@dang) can you do something about this unsubstantiated and inflammatory comment

I think you assume that the insurance market is competitive. In the U.S. it is not.

Yep, also I think the barriers to entry for the insurance market are extremely high. Not only is there a huge fixed cost of actually negotiating rates with every individual doctor/hospital, there's also the fixed cost of getting individual employers to consider you for their business. These and some other factors leave the insurance market with just a few insurance providers, who can let prices run away and simply charge higher premiums/deductibles without fear of competition from a "start-up" insurance provider.

Don't you have to adjust Amazon's 2.8 billion for inflation?

Dry pasta likely cannot be made to hold up to a hot beverage though, can it?

If you or anyone else are not generalizing how are WiFi SSIDs relevant to anything?

The paper assumes that innovation is incentivized by the "top" income received through it by the innovator. Under this assumption, since taxation reduces "top" income, it thus disincentivizes innovation.

The introduction further clarifies the author's definition of the type of innovation that gets disincentivized. "Basic research", i.e. innovations in our understanding of our world, are readily funded by the redistributed tax revenue. "Applied innovation", that which applies the outputs of basic research, includes the creation of Amazon.com or the latest improvements to Google search. This applied innovation is what gets disincentivized.

I personally agree with you that this is a shaky, unsubstantiated foundation for an argument about optimal tax policy.

Check out my comment below about Dobbie and Fryer 2011 (AEJ Applied Economics)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878703

I think you need to source the claim "There is no educational / societal intervention that can reverse its impact on Black kids' education"

Consider, just as one example, the paper "Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children’s Zone" (Dobbie and Fryer 2011) https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/are-high-qual...

Here is the abstract:

"Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines community programs with charter schools. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ charters on educational outcomes. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies suggest that the effects of attending an HCZ middle school are enough to close the black-white achievement gap in mathematics. The effects in elementary school are large enough to close the racial achievement gap in both mathematics and ELA. We conclude with evidence that suggests high-quality schools are enough to significantly increase academic achievement among the poor. Community programs appear neither necessary nor sufficient."

previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17761104

Would you consume news from the BBC, a government news network?

Interesting! But it seems like gentrifying the area around the school is probably not in line with his vision of having at-risk children benefit from the school.

A difficult technical problem, for example, is Google search. It's not just managing the completely of PageRank, it involves creating fundamentally new algorithms to deliver better search results.

Another way to think about it is that Google wants SWEs who can also act like researchers (e.g. PhD students).

Breathe, it may seem like the world is falling apart, but you will be OK. You should be able to start a low-skill job to make ends meet. If you're in a city, start driving Uber and Lyft! The hours are flexible so as to give you time to apply. Also, do you have any friends or family you can stay with instead of staying in a shelter or your car? Now is the time to call in any favors.

Good luck!

If you are in RI, MA, or NY state, the website https://www.zencare.co/ might work for you. It comprehensively listed all of the mental health professionals near me that were on my insurance provider's search portal, with much richer profile information. I liked it because I could very easily find a professional who specialized in the types of things that I sought care for and who I would likely feel comfortable with based on my reading of their background information.

Ethiopia seemingly has an incredibly good relationship with China. The lion's share of FDI in Ethiopia is from China, and much of it goes towards large infrastructure projects. Flying through the airport in Addis recently I was surprised to see multiple Chinese restaurants, a special lounge for Chinese travelers, and signs everywhere in Chinese.

It's great to see economic cooperation working out so well on so many levels!

thanks for sharing... It's crazy that Berkeley (such an awesome institution) has come to this... The US/CA govt's owe it to the university to increase funding.

Check out the demos by Gamalon: https://gamalon.com/technology/

(I have no affiliation to Gamalon)

You probably shouldn't use the service, simple as that.

Inflammatory troll commenter spotted...

It runs Android Go, a highly-optimized version of Android that is built by Google.

There is what I believe to be a common misconception about the economic term "rationality" - it is actually devoid of morality. In economic theory, rationality is defined only as: when faced with a decision over many choices, the actor always chooses the choice they value most, according to their own "utility function". Self-interest is a misleading term for this because it could be selfish for a person to give away their all their wealth since altruism gives themselves the most internal "utility" /happiness. Regardless, if a billionaire maximizes their wealth, conditional on the billionaire getting more utility from more wealth than more of other things, then they are a rational economic actor.

What you are describing is a moral judgement about what people should "value", not how they make choices conditional on what they value. Rationality is not a technically correct term here.

Here is the link to the paper: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2017....