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This is more than outliers. There are way more middle / high income people over-extended to call them outliers. Also, there are pretty much whole countries of people who we would c…

but the example in this article required more workers hired, so output per worker clearly wasn't maintained.

right, so the drug that was getting sales of 600k per year was probably not worth the hassle of maintaining a compliant manufacturing line. does that not suggest a price rise was v…

no wind is not a requirement, but the variability wind adds is so strong this may never happen in practice without wind power. if there was a general move to lower power use, the m…

And those guys learning to fly the planes without the landing, why can't that just be an interest! With terrorism, if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot…

This was my 'favourite' http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/03/06/6-year-old-finge...

That example makes sense, but if you want to impose a rule you have to worry about the cases where it doesn't make sense. What about a plumbing business which dispatches jobs withi…

Japan's CO2 emissions are up 11% relative to 1990, when they are supposedly planning to go down 21% by 2030. “They’re aware that Japan has fared perfectly well without nuclear powe…

"one country's overreaction of 9/11" There is not any evidence that 9/11 has anything to do with this - this sounds more like a regular limitation of work rights issue. Hacker news…

He is definitely not serious - the reason they sell the car at 32k is that is the best price to get the required sales. If people don't buy at that price, they'll have to go even l…

Nissan leaf has 24 KWhr pack, so a 5 KW solar system getting 5 hours of sun could charge it. However, the cost of having 2 full batteries (ie panel - powerwall - car battery) would…

"almost all of them said they liked the work itself, but cited discriminatory environments as their main reason for leaving" If the work environment is not to women' liking and has…

The incessantly being asked if you are lost is the most unrealistic part of this story. My wife and I were looking for a room in Stanford last year - we really were lost. No-one ga…

Google doesn't hire for specific projects like this - they want people who can work all over the company.

but the rules don't work with people working for 10 years, and retiring for 60. of course this is not illegal, but such a life style choice would not be scalable.

I'm left puzzled after reading this. So riots can be effective, but the response to the last riots sowed the seeds that led to these riots. Doesn't that imply rioting is indeed a b…

"Germany has vastly expanded their economy since 1970, while adding zero additional people" It's a different kettle of fish when more of the people are retired and living on genero…

"are sustainable due to taxation that is closer to the rates that the US had during its economic rise" European taxation takes far more from low income people than taxes in the US.…

"Negative rates are a signal, and effect all base load (coal, nuclear, hydro, etc) equally. I don't see how sending proper market signals are a bad thing." But those market signals…

This is about a team of 4 people, so pair programming is 50% of the team writing all code. I don't think there is a problem with visibility. Whether this has many lessons for teams…

We don't need to shut down universities. Just, enough aspiring professors need to find something else that pays more how they'd like. Then, there will be more demand and better con…

OK, so there are benefits to the job beyond salary. You can't mix and match - oh I'll have the conditions of job A, with the pay of job B.

"well, then someone would pay their workers better and make more money, and those firms would come to dominate." Not only would they, they do. Google, Apple, Facebook, Wall St etc …

Layoffs are not generally considered good the stock - plenty of stocks have gone up plenty of times without layoffs. However, it is usually the case that management only does layof…

Yes, because the "minimum living standard" has risen due to the extra income. If everyone's income doubled (adjusted for inflation), that then so would what society considers a min…