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Not exactly. If the market-clearing price for low-skill labor is already above the minimum wage, it will have no effect. If the market price is far below the minimum wage, it will …

I hate when people use this metaphor. Not because it's inaccurate to say that speech can cause imminent harm in some circumstances. But because its origin was a Supreme Court opini…

uch... what a headache when a user needs to change their email. The mania for "schema-less" KV stores is so puzzling to me. It just takes all the stuff that used to be handled nati…

If you're looking for something on the right - Ricochet has a number of excellent podcasts. They are trying to be like the NPR of the center right.

LGBT being a protected class or not was not at issue in the cake shop decision, since they were not denied service in general (they had been regular customers of that shop, and wer…

The problem is that getting the right regulations in place is really difficult. The dynamics that make this so are explained nicely in this piece: https://www.nationalreview.com/20…

source?

Or just abolish the corporate tax altogether. The profit is already taxed once the gains hit individuals in the form of dividends or capital gains. [edit] here is a nice article ou…

I propose a new law that people with my SSN don't have to pay taxes. It would help me out a lot. Every policy helps some people at the expense of others. Concentrated benefits, dif…

No. The gambler's fallacy is when we ascribe dependency to independent events. Stock performance tomorrow is very much NOT independent of stock performance today, e.g. "market corr…

It's a big deal because it confirms that the Democrats were using the FBI and FISA for political purposes.

The central idea of capitalism is that voluntary exchange enriches both parties. So the answer to your first question is yes.

I think this is often a dumb complaint and it shows itself in other contexts sometimes. There's a natural floor to income, it's $0. But there is no ceiling. So naturally if you wan…

For example, the remake of Red Dawn a few years ago was supposed to feature China invading the US. They changed in to North Korea under pressure. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar…

Don't forget National Review, which IMO has the best and brightest conservative writers

It's true that Eich resigned, under extreme pressure. Is that a good thing? It just underscores my point - that even with legal protections, there still needs to be a cultural shif…

All I'm saying is that a position, which until the day before yesterday was so mainstream that even a fairly liberal politician in a liberal party agreed with it, is today consider…

Kind of like Brendan Eich?

"If you say gays shouldn't marry" i.e. If you agree with Barack Obama's stated position on this issue from 4 years ago.

See here for one perspective https://fee.org/articles/the-great-depression-according-to-m...

It's because of the way the issue has been politicized. In people's mind it's a binary issue: either you agree that warming is happening, we are causing it, it is likely to be cata…

I didn't mean to imply that I knew the answer to your question. I meant that the IQ disparity is a statistical fact, but the cause is a hotly debated area of research without clear…