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Pre-regulation gambling was often for much higher stakes. Gambling in modern times is for fairly low stakes in comparison. Legalized casinos are supposed to control the amount that…

Yes, but right-to-work is generally a reaction to involuntary unionization, as in it came after the involuntary unionization phase.

It's generally to prevent free-riding. Let's say the union negotiates benefit X, and the company then provides benefit X to all employees including non-union employees. An example …

What would you want your boss to do? Let's say this is a perfect, magical world where your boss will do everything possible to help you. What actions would she take? Would she swit…

I bet a modern common space would be filled by people looking at their cellphones. Perhaps it would have worked before smartphones, but I don't think it will any longer.

Failure to understand Non-Profit 101. If you rely on unpaid volunteers, you can't afford to enrage them. It doesn't really matter if those volunteers are right or wrong.

Consider that each line in a conversation is a separate text. So if you have a 5 min conversation with a friend, each of you spends 15s on a reply, then you have 10 texts in that c…

I wonder if Amazon actually A/B tested this, or just dropped it because of pressure from activists. If they did A/B test it, and found it increased sales or search efficiency, they…

> So where does the obvious gender bias in the industry come from? It's actually gotten worse since the 1980s, not better. There are only two explanations for the obvious reality. …

I wonder if this is a way to get around backwards compatibility issues. If it's a new brand with a new name, maybe there won't be expectations that it will work like previous versi…

Is that true though? Take a look at this: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/ The number of tickets sold seems to be on a steady decline since the early 2000s. It's only because t…

Not really, because db is not static. In my example, that Database.write() method would itself be static, and thus you can't pass it in as an argument. Basically, this concept mean…

He's assuming that the static method has a dependency on something. That it's not purely functional. For example, public static doSomething() { Database.write("Did something") } Ma…

You're right, my mistake. That "five higher" should have been "four higher". The thing is that your solution is the algebraic solution. You're simplifying an equation by balancing …

You'd probably see something similar when looking at a C/C++ project. I would expect significant coupling between header and source files. The solution there was for future languag…

Are you saying that if the word problem was "2 consecutive numbers and a third number that was five higher than the second number" you'd be unable to solve it? "Tricks" work for si…

So Ubisoft is also paying off the French politicians complaining about this? There are numerous links in the article. (If they are, that's pretty impressive work by the Ubisoft PR …

Let's say we have a small town of 1000 people. How exactly will "the technology behind Bitcoin" run this town? Deal with garbage, water, police?

I would guess that it's to keep underage girls out of the stripping business. Probably previously the onus was on the owner to avoid hiring underage girls. But a couple scandals la…

I saw this title and immediately thought of the Alpha Centauri wonder, The Self-Aware Colony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0 Probably not the connotations the author w…

Looking at the raw data, there's a boom in computer science degrees in the mid-80s, for both men and women. Then there's a significant drop-off, again for both men and women. Howev…

Mathematically, isn't this a guaranteed result? The article said that the share of women in other programs kept rising. So doesn't the share of women in different programs need fal…

I think they should put a 10-20 year waiting limit on the Peace price. Give history some time to see what actually happened. Not to denigrate Malala, she sounds like an amazing you…

The problem here is that the first 40 hours of work--which the author believes has low utility--are the hours which generate the money to pay for the author's job. The author place…

5 days ago Paul Krugman said the problem was that our rich were flaunting their wealth.[1] Barely a week later, the problem is that the rich are invisible. [1] http://krugman.blogs…