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If everybody wants to move where the artists are then maybe people should start paying the artists so that they can still afford to live there.

I know it's not as easy as that, but there's something odd about the situation you're describing.

Wouldn't it be a good starting point to work towards a better public transportation system in the Bay Area then?

I see that you're bringing up NIMBY, but that should be the area to focus on instead of somehow trying to control the underlying problem through things like rent control.

I personally see the California High Speed Rail system as an interesting option there. If they offer regular rail service and I can reach my work in Silicon Valley within 1 hour then I would consider moving out of Silicon Valley. Especially so if the city is interesting or becomes interesting through the increasing number of people moving there and if they offer Wifi on the train so that I could even start working there.

When you do something to gain market share then it's not altruistic.

But would it help anyone if those people go back to work? I'm pretty sure that in the future we need to refrain from the notion that everybody can find work. With increasing automation there just won't be enough jobs to fill.

You don't know that and this is the whole point of the "hole in one" argument.

I don't think that would help much. Let's say you have 7$ minimum wage in one state and 10$ minimum wage in a neighboring state. I would think it's very likely that more low end jobs get created in the 7$ state compared to the other.

However, if all states have a 10$ minimum wage then there's no easy substitute, except for going to another country, but that's much more complex.

I'd love to have an Aldi in the Silicon Valley, at least if the concept is similar to the ones in Germany.

Yes, but do you really think you would find the people you need that are willing to move to Modesto or Stockton?

And they can do all of that just because everybody still wants to work at Google. Let's say the have 100 applicants for a position, out of which 10 are qualified for it. Then they can still screw 9 of them and hire the one person that for one reason or the other had the luck of interviewing with the right people and talking to the right recruiters.

Well, maybe someone who got fired because of poor work ethics and then never got a job again and died in poverty said it before.

I assume by this line he meant the "big company".

Couldn't you just leave off the return address? In this case there's not much metadata to collect except for the recipient address.

Being a server is also very repetitive and doesn't require much skill (sorry if that insults any servers, but I don't see how server is a more skilled job than a cook)

her is the new manager

him is the temp who trained her

Well, the market and the customers don't seem to agree on all of this:

The market share of Windows Phone 8 is extremely small and doesn't seem to pick up.

The PC market is shrinking extremely and many analysts now point to Windows 8 as one of the reasons behind that. You can point to a 10 minute learning curve and while I agree that the new Windows interface is not hard to learn I still think it's an extremely bad user experience. The standard apps are just so incredibly bad (e.g. the mail app, the photo app, the video app, even the store itself) that I'm not using them at all. I spend 99.9% of my time on the old Windows desktop.

The market share of the Surface again is extremely small and I don't see any indications of it growing.

I totally agree that competition is good for the customer (and might potentially be bad for competitors), but so far that doesn't help Microsoft.

Did you even read the article? It mentions "Zhukov liked it and asked for its color to resemble vodka so that he would not be seen drinking Coca-Cola in public". So I don't understand why you spin this into some distorted view of "Westerners'"

In many cases that might be true. But in the case of hair growth? Do you think a Placebo really has an effect on the growth of hair?

I don't think Ruby and Perl are a good comparison to Python 2 and 3. Perl 5 and Perl 6 would be a better comparison.

So more than 100 a day? Where do you have that number from?

I think you're missing the point here. The creator of Merida designed here after a real person and didn't follow the standard Disney way of how a princess looks like. Now Disney gives here a makeover and thereby removes some of the attributes that the character and the movie was about. If I were in the position of the Merida creator I would be upset as well.

I also have 2 daughters who are big fans of the Disney princesses, but I would very much like it if they at least had the option to chose a princess that doesn't follow the standard formula of the previous 10 Disney princesses.

The number of endorsements is really just a matter of the number of connections and a persons activity on Linkedin (e.g. if a person endorses many others, then it's likely they will also be endorsed by them).

I don't know the answer to your question, but isn't Instacart free to resell anything they bought at Costco? So would they even need an agreement from them?

"that is playing God with other's lives on the line."

That's the same pseudo-argument that keeps coming up again and again. Whose lives did he play with? Please don't answer with some hypothetical "aiding the enemy" crap.

Wasn't it the U.S. military that originally played with lives aka "collateral damage"?

If they keep ~50% of the coupon price wouldn't that just mean $250mm then? Still a big number.

Why would the French minister respond in English to someone who insulted his Country?

So just because some crazy US CEO states in a letter that French workers have a "3 hour workday" you suddenly believe that? This guy is crazy and I find it amusing that anybody takes anything he writes seriously.

Well, they just released the XPS 13 with a 1920x1080 display: http://www.slashgear.com/dell-xps-13-ultrabook-full-hd-editi...

I got a green card through the diversity visa program. The process itself really wasn't that complicated. Sure, a lot of forms to fill out and the overall process took about 1 year, but I never was at a point where simple internet research didn't answer my questions.

To me that reads as "-40 degrees Celsius" since in Celsius 0 degrees is exactly where water freezes.

Interesting to see that "Other Europe" is so high with 16.7% of respondents, especially since they have the biggest European countries listed out separately. My guess is that this shows the large number of developers in Eastern Europe.