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Readit Newspoke111 commented on Ask HN: Best Way to Mock APIs in 2020? · Posted by u/HiddenCanary
The point I think is that the anti-increase people would have predicted that raising the minimum wage would be such a dire threat to business that it would decrease employment regardless of the wider economy.
Not exactly. If the market-clearing price for low-skill labor is already above the minimum wage, it will have no effect. If the market price is far below the minimum wage, it will have a large effect - positive for the workers with jobs, negative for the ones who are priced out or have their hours cut.
> There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous.
Shouting fire in a crowded theatre that could lead to a stampede that puts people in danger. Deliberately misinforming people about the risk of an action they are about to take could be too.
I hate when people use this metaphor. Not because it's inaccurate to say that speech can cause imminent harm in some circumstances. But because its origin was a Supreme Court opinion that argued against the right to speak out against the draft in WW1, which I don't think too many people using this analogy today would agree with. Also, this legal argument has been rejected since then.
Point is, this exact argument could be (and has been) used to justify some pretty bad ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
poke111 commented on Ditch Your Database for a Key-Value DB blog.kvdb.io/2019/10/11/w... · Posted by u/ammmir
uch... what a headache when a user needs to change their email. The mania for "schema-less" KV stores is so puzzling to me. It just takes all the stuff that used to be handled natively and seamlessly by the DB engine and forces you to reimplement it in code, only with more bugs, less efficiency, and less flexibility. I fought this battle on my current team and lost, and we have been paying a steep price ever since.
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I'm an "ETF Guy" so I listen to a lot of the wonky ETF and Finance-related podcasts:
- Behind the Markets with Jeremy Schwartz
- Invest like the Best - with O'Shaughnessy - not just finance stuff. example: Recent podcast on "Tracking" wild animals in the bush was great.
- The Curious Investor - AQR's new Podcast on financial factors and the like
- The Meb Faber Show - Meb Faber runs a fund and has interesting guests
- The Monthly Dirtcast - ex-Lehman guy who started a popular daily financial newsletter. Still OK - needs help editing and more frequency.
- Trillions - ETF-Focused Bloomberg podcast with Eric Balchunas. Trillions refers to the $5tr in ETF assets today
Other Stuff
- 99% Invisible - interesting random stuff - well produced
- Bowery Boys - NYC history
- Desert Island Discs - long running radio interviews on the BBC
- How I Built This - interviews with Entrepreneurs - highly recommended (NPR)
- Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
- Pod Save America - Ex-Obama guys discussing the past week's news
- Real Time with Bill Maher - audio of his HBO show - never actually seen the show - you miss out on some visuals but fun to listen to his ranting.
- Wait Wait Dont Tell Me, This American Life, The Moth - 3 well-produced NPR podcasts. Wait Wait is a game show with the latest week's news - fun background noise for me. This American Life has interesting stories but can get a bit slow.
- Radiolab - the audio formatting bothers me - but they have interesting stories.
- Freakonomics - declined in quality a bit from a few years ago - but still nice to listen to.
- Joe Rogan Experience - Long (1-3 hour) podcasts - But Im always amazed at Joe Rogan's ability to connect with guests. I like his interview style, the cadence of his questions and how he gets people to open up. See Elon Musk's latest interview - also on Youtube.
Edit & Request for Podcasts (RFP): I note that either a lot of podcasts - or at least the ones I get recommended to me - tend to be "left-leaning" politically. I'm on the lookout for more right-leaning podcasts that balance this out a bit. I see one comment below suggesting "Left Right & Centre" may help... Other ideas?
If you're looking for something on the right - Ricochet has a number of excellent podcasts. They are trying to be like the NPR of the center right.
poke111 commented on Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars thedailybeast.com/twitter... · Posted by u/uptown
Discrimination is fine and dandy for any business as long as it isn't part of a protected class (Whether it makes business sense to do so is another argument). The cake shop argument is whether LGBT people fall under a protected class, and the courts have continued to sidestep that issue.
I firmly believe LGBT people should be a protected class like race, and sex, but ultimately we need to have a ruling on that.
LGBT being a protected class or not was not at issue in the cake shop decision, since they were not denied service in general (they had been regular customers of that shop, and were always served). The issue was whether designing a custom cake for their wedding was considered artistic expression, and as such he had a right to refuse under the 1st amendment since you cannot compel speech.
Sad, but hardly surprising. It sometimes seems like every company in this position did similar things. Tobacco, Oil, CFCs, Leaded gasoline etc... I'm sure I could come up with others if I looked.
This is why I don't understand many of the arguments against federal regulation. I know regulation hurts the economy and makes doing business harder. I understand. But most corporations will not self-regulate even when people's lives are at stake.
The problem is that getting the right regulations in place is really difficult. The dynamics that make this so are explained nicely in this piece:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/01/welcome-machine-kevin...
poke111 commented on A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech kapwing.com/blog/a-female... · Posted by u/jenthoven
Here is the politically incorrect view, most people at the high end of the IQ are men. Like it or not, nature is not egalitarian. Why is this so f*ing complicated? Programming as a profession roughly falls under the high IQ spectrum. Ok, now some of you egalitarian nuts reading this _will_ interpret what I wrote as discriminatory, _waits for the backlash_
source?
poke111 commented on Tech Giants Face Hundreds of Millions in New Taxes in Europe wsj.com/articles/tech-gia... · Posted by u/thisisit
I really don't understand why corporations are taxed on profit. It produces weird effects such as where a company is better off paying interest on debt rather than dividends on stock.
Having the tax be payable on revenue of a corporation in that jurisdiction rather than profit would be simpler to understand, easier to administrate and avoid the current tax avoidance we have have.
Or just abolish the corporate tax altogether. The profit is already taxed once the gains hit individuals in the form of dividends or capital gains.
[edit] here is a nice article outlining the argument: https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/09/abolish-corporate-tax...