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Price elasticity of demand (=sensitivity to price changes). If the seller is afraid that higher prices will significantly impact sales (people won't buy the product or buy alternat…

Only for incoming email unfortunately

I would like to be able to just send an email from anywhere, eg my mail client on the phone, without any extra steps

I have an email account, provided by a mobile/internet provider, which can only be used when connected to the said operator, either via mobile or from a fixed connection. Use = rec…

This does not make sense. TSMC is from Taiwan, which is to all practical extent independent from China, politically and economically.

Look at hotels.com, which in many ways is comparable. It has around 1000 employees (one thousand). From wikipedia: Hotels.com has 85 websites in 34 languages, and lists over 325,00…

Had the some doubts for our first hire - he wanted to work 4 days a week. He seemed committed and enthusiastic about our mission, so we went ahead. Best choice we ever made: any do…

Other European countries are moving in the same direction. The Netherlands is the one in which such a law seems likelier to be passed, also because of significantly less lobbying f…

Care to motivate? I am curious, I don't know ATS

Would you care to motivate?

He is spot on, but I find (and always found) his wording way too aggressive. Makes it kind of hard to have a constructive discussion on the topic, which by the way really needs suc…

From my experience, that seems to be the policy in Amsterdam. I am en EU citizen, but live in the Netherlands. If I fly to the US I can reliably expect lengthy and silly questions.…

The arxiv is not refereed. I usually read those pre-prints with (extra) extra caution, especially if they are outside my area of competence.

You're implying that fora is the only acceptable way of writing the plural of "forum". That's nonsense, forums is perfectly valid English. My point was: why forum/fora? Why not cre…

By the way who really uses fora as the plural of forum? To me it seems at best arbitrary, at worst pretentious.

Thanks for the tip!