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I'm hiring for my team at AT Media (ApartmentTherapy.com & TheKitchn.com). We are a REMOTE team and largely remote company. * Senior Web Engineer (Rails) * Graphic Designer * Produ…

The example of exactly this happening at Niagara Falls was part of the impetus for the National Park System in the first place.

Right now we tax workers in NYC to subsidize people on in Alabama. (NYC gets $2).

I are at the Linkery once, as well, and had an excellent meal & service.

The market doesn't capture and represent all value created by labor. When I call a tow truck to jump start my car, that transaction is captured by the market, but when I call my fr…

The EITC and a basic income are actually very similar in effect. The difference is largely in the mechanism of distribution. With a basic income, every citizen gets a check every m…

Yeah, I got a red light ticket there. My court date got postponed to more than a year after the original infraction. The cops like to pick off cyclists along the north side of Flus…

There is plenty of "work" that happens outside of the labor market. Some days I pay a babysitter to take care of my daughter; other days my wife has off instead and does the same j…

Because when your design requirements change, you need to reprocess your entire corpus, among other reasons.

Yes, there are a number of voluntary, tax-privileged retirement savings options, some of which may only be provided by employers, but not all employers provide (e.g. 401k/403b).

Why except land taxes? Replacing property taxes with land taxes makes a lot of sense to me...

Here's a link to the live listing: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/job-senior-web-engineer-1917...

Yes, but MADD and other interests have pressured the federal government to set the age to 21 via highway funding, so states are constrained from deviating.

Anywhere USA Haven't posted a formal listing yet (will edit later) since this just opened up today. We're for a strong back-end web engineer to join our small, distributed tech tea…

Can major hub airports handle 4x the traffic of smaller planes vs large planes (I honestly don't know)? In the NYC area, in particular, air traffic congestion is a huge problem so …

So why not offer a free service that doesn't support attachments and offer attachment support as a paid upgrade?

Actually, yes. Just like advances in agricultural technology lead to job destruction in agriculture. We went from a majority of the global human population working in agriculture t…

> so a legal drug like alcohol is actually causing havoc in society, as you so vehemently point out... and you are advocation MORE drugs be made legal? Yes, because making alcohol …

The medallion system is certainly far from optimal and a different regulatory regime that allows for innovation while still addressing concerns around impact on traffic (public roa…

This is my only complaint about Linode. We run our one stack that requires a lot of storage on EC2 and use EBS (and we might consider moving to just leasing real hardware in the fu…

We've been running many nodes (in the Dallas DC) in production on linode for years and have only seen one significant network issue like you described that we "fixed" by rebuilding…

From the article: "[The study] demonstrated that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup ... gain significantly more weight than those with access to water sweetened with tabl…

If you think you might buy a car in the next few years and are currently without, having a ZipCar membership, even if you never use it, could easily pay for itself with this benefi…

A few years ago in NYC I had problems #1 and #2 (never #3) but in the last few years, in my neighborhood, availability & condition of cars has been excellent. That said, I get a lo…