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tvhiggins

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    Comment #8427945

    soo study included amazon 3rd parties or no? thats a huge detail article left out

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    Comment #8423467

    switching cost for the users on all these platforms is essentially nothing, which would scare me off as an investor

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    Comment #8423347

    you can be arrested for 'suspicion of theft?' Am i missing something or is this illegal? Security in casinos have the legal right to detain you?

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    Comment #8421808

    don't understand what this has to do with facebook moving. they'd just hire another bus contractor if the current one got too expensive

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    Comment #8420917

    imo its the fact that we're so reliant on 3-4 big banks as opposed to 100 banks. if it were more decentralized, US could afford less regulation and just let companies succeed/fail …

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    Comment #8420877

    As long as all these new payment platforms like this, apple pay, and square use credit cards, i don't really consider them that innovative. different way to skin the same cat.

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    Comment #8406737

    also citing 4 states that raised min wage and looking at 6 month time window is pretty weak conclusion imo. in the other 9, wage just grew with inflation. more conclusive evidence …

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    Comment #8406642

    raising min wage would price people out of jobs! on another note, most people assume incorrectly that this bottom portion of earners is a fixed group of people year in year out. Si…

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    Comment #8406537

    you must be 12

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    Comment #8406466

    Gov't lets them pay via credit card? ridiculous govt waste

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    Comment #8406418

    The fine was for one location. I imagine it put a dent in their p&l. Likely would've been bigger if they settled on multiple locations.

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    Comment #8384306

    correlation not causation. this flies in the face of econ 101. if a company has $100 budget and pay min wage of $8/hr they can have 12 employees. you raise min wage to $12/hr? they…

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    Comment #8340674

    Yawn--- I'm pretty sure every continent besides Africa has a sub-replacement fertility level currently.

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    Comment #8326943

    Interesting... wondering what other interesting questions the data can answer

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    Comment #8276108

    is the 3-d strike zone incorporated into these calculations? i know the strike zone has width, in addition to length,height. so when you say the strike zone is more of a circle, i …