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Oh, thanks for correcting me! Now that you mention it, I'm confused by a memory I have. Wired speakers seem to be less common these days but I remember being told about two decades…

This is very, very cool; it's a thing I've been looking for on my backburner for several years. It's a very interesting problem. There are a ton of directions I can think about you…

reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

Coverage isn't great, but these two have managed to get in to my bookmarks: http://thecontext.net/ https://legiblenews.com/ I seem to recall a similar weekly service for HN but I c…

> Also, scary that SSH appears to be partially affected(?) Yeah. Is it sufficient to set ServerKeyBits to 2048?

See my reply to zo1 on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838800

Actually, San Francisco and San Jose both have laws increasing the minimum wage. Richmond also just passed an ordinance in March to raise it to $12.30 by 2017, which will be the hi…

"A larger body of economic research investigates the effects of state and federal minimum wage increases. These studies compare employment trends for states or counties that have d…

This isn't the first time we've seen an artificial increase in the minimum wage in the US - it's just the highest artificially increased minimum wage. There are nine other localiti…

"University of California, Berkeley study: Who Would be Affected by an Increase in Seattle’s Minimum Wage?" is a more comprehensive study on the empirical effects of raising minimu…

It would be an interesting and compelling secret if there was evidence for this occurring. Research indicates that it's simply untrue. "A larger body of economic research investiga…

Well, the primary goal is, of course, to raise the income of minimum-wage earners. Failure criteria probably include things like a) a marked increase in businesses that rely on min…

• Studies of the impact of minimum wage increases on restaurants’ operating costs find that an increase of 10 percent in the minimum wage increases operating costs by about 1 to 2 …

Ohoho, you think all minimum wage positions are full-time? This is simply false.

"Scrivere" is Latin (I think) for "to write," as in "scrivener."

On the other hand, now their wages are entirely disposable income, right?

Just like most PHP projects.

What software are you using to screencast?

Uh, doesn't b. preclude your conclusion?

This is a large thread. "Remote" is the keyword you want to include to advertise to people who are using ctrl-F.

Huh. That's an interesting discovery; thanks for sharing it. That's going on my reading list.

I know how ants stop going to a food source (e.g. the pheremone trail stops getting refreshed on the return trip) but how do bees stop? I know they transmit pathfinding information…

The link to their petition is broken. =\