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For those in the SF Bay Area, you can have significant impact by sharing your time: https://prisonuniversityproject.org/get-involved/volunteer/ http://asi.sfsu.edu/asprograms/proje…

This. How does one tell whether this affects a particular brand or not?

Even more obviously absurd: 15 million animals saved is how many per employee?

Decreasing the company's cost of equity capital...

Also, the city allows buyers to take what used to be a family home (e.g. 4-5 bedrooms), tear it down and put up a 1-2 bedroom house (more modern, more amenities, e.g. garage, sauna…

The issue is that the same argument made for programmers can be made for back office & middle office as well, which when added up are much more than 1000 programmers. I agree that …

It makes sense when you think about their business - because banks are extremely pro-cyclical, they need an 'out' to reduce compensation when their profits blowup or economy turns.…

Isn't this effectively what, e.g., San Francisco is doing - once you rent out for X days, you face more burdensome requirements?

Yeah, I'd imagine the founding fathers would see today's voting populace as quite educated, relative to theirs...

Any tax on wealth would have similar effects: You own a business with notional value $2M? Pay X% of that each year, whether or not the business generates that amount in cash. You a…

How about starting by taxing many people's main part of wealth, their house, at market value (i.e. no Prop 13)? Let's not let perfect get in the way of good..

https://www.barackobama.com/climate-change-deniers/darrell-i...

How so? I understand that doing research on regulation is by its nature political, but that doesn't mean 'ideology driven'. For instance, you may argue from this data that Obama is…

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

This doesn't seem that unreasonable - weren't/aren't medallions over $1M in NYC, which is a factor more expensive than labor, fuel, or maintenance of a vehicle...

"Solving Problem X" is not an exciting headline if the community is aware that Problem X has already been solved. The point is that the community may not be aware that tool/approac…

My understanding was that employers have fiduciary obligations to their employees when they setup a 401k plan - does offloading 401k administration remove those obligations or tran…

Really? Someone who worked at GS probably wouldn't refer to it as "Goldman's"... just sayin'

1. RRSP & TFSAs have limits much lower than the assumed contributions, so there are tax differences between the two alternatives. 2. Even slight tweaks to your assumptions (e.g. re…

The assumptions made by the author are ridiculous, namely: - In the 10-year comparison, rents paid are not factored in at all. - In the forward-looking comparison, condo prices are…

The problem with this reasoning is that while new buildings / tenants may be marginally beneficial to the city, if the rate new condos pay is significantly lower than existing buil…

> City's deal with their homeless populations in different ways, but if any city is overly generous it quickly gets swamped. Further, cities can export their homeless by being over…

Is there a way to track & regulate these? e.g. if drone operators are breaking the law by flying too low, then do police have the means to cite violators? If so, I don't see what t…

Even if true, I don't know what to make of such a statement - needless interventions for ALL diseases/causes may kill a lot more than any ONE single, narrowly defined disease/cause…

This is an area of research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving