stefan_kendall

It's like you didn't even think through your example at all. If minimum wage is suddenly $50/hr, businesses begin to collapse.

The Fed, seeing this collapse, would massively inflate the dollar. Anyone with savings would have their savings destroyed, and the churn would make everyone poorer than before, quite specifically the same people you were trying to help.

The pedigree required to work at Starbucks goes up, indeed. Half of my friends with degrees do not have jobs in their respective fields.

Easy federal loans got them into an upside down situation from which they may never recover.

I got paid to go to a public university through scholarship, with money on top of free housing and tuition. I could have paid for college, or probably convinced someone to give me a loan given my career track.

There's way too many people who are destroying value by attending college right now, and the bubble will pop. 12 years to get an art history PHD and manage a gas station is not an efficient use of time or work energy.

When I was a kid, Windows ME would hang on startup unless I kept moving the mouse.

My friend's dad, a Math/CS teacher, did not believe me until I showed him.

iMessages is completely broken for me across devices. Group chats just miss messages entirely on my mac. I need my phone around to use iMessage on my mac, in case I get a message that doesn't make it to the mac somehow somehow.

Smaller companies would fold, larger companies would pay more in the short term, and become much more capital efficient in the long-term. When the minimum wage increases, the ROI of replacing people with machines changes, and yields higher R per I.

If just the "companies that can bear it" bear it, you'll get less of those stores, as the expected profit yield per store decreases. Less stores is less competition, which will yield higher prices.

All of the website's sample images show a man running up stairs and traffic in shoes that would destroy your foot if you attempted to seriously run in them.

This feels a lot like bringing a burrito to your keyboard. You're not doing anything useful while you slop food into your face, and now you have a mess on your keyboard.

I will never need to transition from just-got-out-of-a-formal-dinner to running a marathon. Won't happen. And if it was going to happen, I have specialized clothing that works better for both purposes.

SSDs have the exception that they make me more effective at building product, which pays for the investment. I can't say the same for a pair of pants.

This is only useful in wide-net fishing attacks, most of which I'm guessing no one here would fall for.

Anyone interested in you particularly will quickly get your phone number, email address, facebook profile, social security number, or whatever they want if they're determined enough.

Even then, I'm not sure what information this database really provides that could be used to gain some fraudulent or exploitive benefit.

I grew up in Chicago. It was so cold. Never again.

StackOverflow seems to have devolved into a bunch of shit questions. Anything too technical doesn't get answered, since the real veterans have left, and anything not technical enough (like an approach to a problem) gets closed.

I loved SO in the beginning. Now it's a cesspool.

Capitalism does not exist "for the benefit of the consumer" no more so than apples exist for the benefit of human consumption.

Free markets need not have capitalism, and vice versa, but capitalism will likely arise in any free market.

If Bob produces X, and he wants to sell X for Y dollars, how is it immoral or bad to allow others to sell X for Y dollars, but no less?

This is like saying it's "price fixing" when an app developer charges the same for his product on the play store and the App Store.

Apple did not collude with HTC; they set the price for their product.

All of the usable phones already use lightning. I don't see the issue.

I've literally handled hundreds of second-hand iPads (I traded them for a while), and none of the lightning cables had issues. I'd venture to guess there's something wrong in your house rather than the with the cables.

I've seen tons of dock connector issues with broken ports, but none with lightning so far.

December 25th, santa flies across the sky at midnight. I loved this game.

The U.S countryside is strewn with men and women fitting this description. I bet it would be even more true if foreign soldiers were occupying america and routinely bombing its citizens.

The question is not whether the US military is murdering on a consistent, timely basis. It's a question of why the murdering is happening in the first place.

I have no power to change any aspect of the US military, but that doesn't mean I can't decry it as evil.

I no longer believe in A/B/C players. It's an excuse, as many have mentioned, of poorly managing a dysfunctional team.

Are there people at companies that shouldn't have been hired, or should be fired? Sure, but that doesn't mean you can't take a team of differing skill-set individuals and make great products.

When your product is iterating rapidly, you may suddenly find that your crack team of javascript developers suddenly needs to analyze an sql execution plan. The best guy on the team for the job probably isn't the smartest guy, it's the one whose dealt with these sorts of issues before.

A team learns from each other.

Author's statement: "Censorship is bad!" Author's point 1: "Some censorship is okay! But this is more censorship than I personally agree with!"

If you hold the premise that minors must be protected against media by the government, then you can't possibly argue that this move is radical or illogical.

Stop thinking about programming and start thinking about products. Perhaps there's another company in your area, or remote, that's solving a problem or providing a service you'd like to help build.

I don't give a rat's ass about technology, or which hot javascript framework or build tool I should be using. That stuff is boring.

I care about building products.

Yes!

LibreOffice is one of the biggest pieces of trash I have ever used. You must be joking.

I use it as a canonical example of unusable software.

I don't know anyone who lives in the city. Anyone with a family lives in the burbs off the train line, with house and rent prices increasing geometrically as you approach distance to the train stops.

I took the train from SF to mountain view. 50 minutes of train time with large sections of no 3G/LTE.

Chicago is a 40 minute train ride preceded and followed by 15 minutes of getting to and from the train.

If I had to design hell, it would look something like 2 and a half hours commuting each day.

Elephant.

I'll take my $2k now.

So we're armchairing how this should have gone, right?

1.) Buy a burner laptop on the street, in cash, then wait a while.

2.) From an open wireless connection, where you're far enough away to not be on any security cameras, use Tor, then VPN tunnel through a high traffic public server in China or Russia. You want to make sure you're not driving out of your way to be at a place at a time, in case the IP gets traced back for whatever reason.

3.) Prepare an elaborate email. Make it good.

3.) Setup an online meeting with someone. Play a video game online, start a skype chat, or otherwise create an alibi for how you couldn't be writing emails.

4.) Send the email through an anonymous email service.

5.) Destroy the laptop as far from campus as possible.

Did I miss anything?

In the end "Chinese hackers" get blamed for the email, and the media attention fizzles.

Don't bury the lede. You've rediscovered Bitcoin!

Auto-playing user videos are almost certainly worse than whatever targeted ads I'm going to see.

I tried google plus once. It was a barrage of information, so I closed the tab never to return. The software ain't good.

Play a cash game with cards for a while. Dollar bets, dollar return.

Play 50 games every time you see him until he gets it.