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This sounds like you're advocating a free market approach in this case, where BART employee wages should rise until their employer can no longer operate.

As in other markets, the sticky part is switching costs; one big reason employees have leverage in situations like this is that the employer can't practically fire everyone and have equally trained workers the next day. The employer then has to weigh the cost of increased wages vs. the economic harm that would be done if the business were to shut down while they found and trained new workers.

For unspecialized positions, a worker's leverage is proportional to that economic harm, not that worker's skill, or length of service, or particular suitability to the job vs. someone else. The economic harm is proportional to the economic value which was created by others, often including the public at large (e.g., power plants and transportation systems exist by laws and permits that essentially divide up natural resources owned by everyone). A moral opposition to leveraging the efforts and resources of others to enrich your own bargaining position ('hostage-taking' in anti-union parlance) is the counterargument to 'perhaps they should get paid more if the BART is so important'.

Obviously there's some middle ground here between abusive behavior on either side of a labor dispute. One idea to reach it is for both sides to have more alternatives/lower switching costs (make it more socially acceptable for workers to look for contingency jobs while already employed, and for employers to train backup workers while the positions are already nominally filled).
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It's a really amazing mobile phone company concept, but there is a long way to go in terms of executing the vision.
Do you not find massive pushback from employers who require that CVs be in Word format so that they can be uploaded to whatever applicant tracking system is being used?

And I think it's naive to think that startups aren't using ATS when there's lots of free or open source systems available.
The Tandy CoCo was fairly popular in its day; The Commodore and Apple II were more popular, but before the IBM PC became the dominant platform there were lots of different microcomputers that competed, and required porting of games.
Turn off the menu and toolbar. They're crutches when learning, and once you are fluent without them you'll appreciate the extra vertical code space.
Used to do a similar thing with old Archimedes games (the first computer to use an ARM chip, in 1988). The original ARM had 16 x 32 bit registers, and a single assembler command could write some or all of them to memory in one go. In practice you could use about 12 of the registers for graphics data (the others being program counters and stack pointers etc). Each pixel was 2 bytes, so with 12 registers you could do 1 row of 24 pixels - all in one instruction. Fetch some new data into the registers and write them again 24 times and you had a 24x24 sprite drawn very fast. To really use this technique you had to draw at word boundaries, thus the movement had to be 4 pixels per frame. But you could do a good full-screen scroll with this at around 12-15 fps (Archimedes could also do double-buffered screen memory so you draw one while displaying the other) and still plenty of time to do all the other work for each frame.
> workers' rights in these countries will never regress to those of a third world country.

Except if enough people follow those "It's fine here, you are protected by the law and it's much much worse elsewhere, be happy with what get"-argumentation. Then the will probably regress because companies have a strong interest to produce cheaper than those in places where there are less regulations but they loose any interest in workers rights if there's no protesting working class. And companies interest, trough lobbying and so on, quickly becomes the governments interest.
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I can't talk to gumroad specifically but I run a shopify store that offers both shopify's built in payment CC processor and paypal as payment options. 56% of people checkout with paypal vs pulling out their credit card.

My guess is if you have a paypal account with your credit card on file it's much easier to just checkout with paypal than manually type in your card info.
When I was living in Gdansk, Poland a few years ago this was a standard service offered by a few grocery chains. I ordered in the morning from my office and scheduled delivery in the evening. The groceries were delivered by the courier on the same day.

Then I moved to Germany and was shocked that such service doesn't exist here. I miss it. :(
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Anyone building a web front-end needs to have a lot of security-related knowledge (implement https correctly, cross site scripting and other js vulnerabilities, sql injection, buffer overflows in your apps, etc.)
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Construction (at least with public institutions) tends to come from different a completely separate place than general operating budgets. I'd argue that this is an issue in of itself (that it's so comparatively easy to spend money in such a manner), but I think from the college's perspective its generally rational, as they aren't allowed the luxury of weighing rebuilding a nine-year-old science lab (as is occurring at my alma mater) against smarter ways to spend that money.
Uruguayan here, totally agree.
Slava @ rethink here. There are hundreds of really cool production use cases of RethinkDB that we know of. We'll be publishing a "who's using it" page soon (we have tons of work and haven't gotten around to this bit yet, but will soon).

Note that Rethink is still in beta. Lots of companies already use it in production, but we advise people to test carefully until we ship a long term support (LTS) release. We'll also offer commercial support options then.
I feel it doesn't really hurt the candidate in my mind to use a service like this—provided I also get a very personalized email / cover letter.

The execution here really looks pretty good. However, as a business, I have two concerns:

1. I am generally wary of "life event businesses": things like job searching, weddings, etc. Why? Because the already hard prospect of customer acquisition is now even harder: Not only do you have to reach your target market, you have to catch them right at the point of need. It's a rapidly closing window. I think you'll hear a lot of: "Looks great, I'll take a further look when I start to think about changing jobs".

2. All the money to be made in the jobs industry is paid by the employers. I think you might be trying to target the wrong party. It's really tough to find good candidates, and employers are ready and willing to pay $1,000 to recruiting firms for the right candidate. Plus, larger companies are almost ALWAYS hiring, so there's no "event window" like described above. I'm not sure what your revenue model is, but I'd certainly look to be earning revenue from the employers and keep the service free to the job seekers.
We haven't decided to specifically focus on mobile, although one neat use case we had in mind was that an Accredible narrative might be a great thing to take into an in-person interview with you on a mobile or tablet and then using that to illustrate the points that you'd like to make once they ask you to elaborate on your skills, projects, experience and interest. Our primary intended use case however is more on desktop-focused job applications.
Reminds me of this: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...

College presidents act as a face of an institution, paying someone extra 100,000 could mean bringing in millions extra in donations/tuitions/fees etc. Big money attracts talent.
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Ugh, here we go again. I can see that modern government struggles with many complex issues for which there are no foolproof or easy timely solutions, but really, bicycles seem to bring out a specific kind of stupid.

It really is not rocket science. If you want to make cycling safe you need:

1) Physically separated bike lanes, also on junctions

2) Traffic laws that protect the weaker participant

Contrast this little video from New Zealand showing a car hitting a cyclist and the police response [1], with a car right hooking 4 cyclists and causing a "bruised knee" in the Netherlands [2].

This video shows some infrastructure considerations in Groningen, a major city in the north [3] where incidentally I have yet to spot a single helmet or highvis vest.

Not that helmets are without merit. There is quit a bit of scientific proof that wearing leathers, helmets, neck restraints and 5 point seatbelt will reduce the number of fatalities of car passengers.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgXQIAyGF8

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeJ-d86pKsw

[3]: http://youtu.be/cWf5fbSUNAg
That's a solid option if you have:

* The money to pay a junior developer who won't be productive until they're trained (probably a few months).
* The money to pay a more experienced developer to train someone rather than working on your app.
* The wiggle room on your deadlines to be able to slow things down for training.
* The stomach to live with the fact that an experienced developer may become available two weeks after you've hired a junior dev.

Depending on your requirements it could be the right call.

A bootstrapped startup is almost never going to have the capital to make this feasible, but a big company might.

Java developers are easy enough to find, so it rarely makes sense to spend months training someone. Ruby developers are a bit harder, and the training is almost mandatory if you're looking for Haskell developers.

That said, I would like to see big companies take a leadership role in this stuff. My company is always complaining about how hard it is to find qualified people. We've got the time and resources to run a bootcamp-style training course. We could bring in 30 people and train them for a few weeks and offer junior positions to the people who performed best. The people who were passed over still have valuable skills they can use to be hired by other companies.
I'm not sure which media you are referring to as "friendly", but unless its the Guardian or some independent journalist, basically the entirely of establishment journalism is incredibly hostile towards Snowden and is siding completely with the USG. If they had dirt, they would release it immediately (notice how they parrot all the unsubstantiated claims of unnamed USG officals, for example).
Airships would be harder to make work on Mars, but once you have it working you would almost certainly be in a better position.

Also, Wolfram Alpha peggs the air pressure at 39km on earth, the height Felix Baumgartner jumped from, as 330 Pa. It has the atmospheric pressure on Mars (presumably the average at the surface) as 650 Pa. So balloons that will float in that, at least at a low altitude, are not beyond our engineering grasp. (and unmanned balloons on earth have gone down to as few as 55 Pa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon).
Why the hurry? Let's explore it for 100 years before terraforming it. I am not tired of it all, it is much more valuable to figure out what is there first before changing it.

EDIT. Terraforming it in a hurry feels like building a shopping mall on top of the remains of an ancient civilization before it has been properly researched
Here's what 60 Minutes didn't tell you about the NSA Data collection program.
I would wager you have no idea what it means to be in a situation where the employer has all the cards and they will offer you a wage that is just high enough to keep you alive so you can come in the next day.

Amazon is a great business but a shitty employer. Not to mention it's almost impossible for a unskilled worker to learn some skills that would make him a more valuable employee. They are reluctant to even hire them permanently not to mention giving them a chance to progress.

It's easy to say that in your position, you have options, not everybody does and may or may not have anything to do with the skill that person has.

I come from a place where it's impossible to get a decent wage whatever your skill level the only way to survive is to do shady stuff or open your own business which more likely then not will have to do some shady accounting in order to survive.
That also means IE is the primary browser they're using.
https://hipcv.com/ - written by a co-worker of mine is free and worth trying out. Does LinkedIn import and PDF export if you need something that you can print out and bring to an interview.

There's also http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ which I really like, esp. if you have rep on SO. Also does LinkedIn import. If you're interested in this and need an invite (is it still invite-only?) I can hook you up. Includes places to post your links to academic papers, blog posts, books written, etc.

As for the integration with university transcript systems...there's your big feature to bite off. It seems like this would be an awesome feature, but I have no clue what it would take to do this integration, or which universities might be interested in connecting with you there.

Finally, there's always the, "Build your own website," option, which isn't an option for everyone, I understand. But still the most flexible option around if you need something that's just perfect. It of course comes with its own maintenance time costs and such.
Not everyone are meant to start a business and while education is important, it's not always the answer either.

Currently someone has to pick stuff of the shelves for Amazon. Regardless of how highly educated a society is or how many new companies we start, there's still someone who has to do the manual picking in the warehouse. Someday that job may be automated away, but until then, we need to ensure that the people taking these jobs are treated decently and paid a wage that will sustain them.

Amazon can move their warehouse to Poland, and pay a little less and still provide a decent salary. The behavior however should be the same regardless of which country they operate in.

We often forget that there are bad/boring/hard/dirty jobs and that they actually need to be done. Education won't make these jobs go away. Just as often we forget that there are people who enjoy them and have no desire to educate themselves further. Regardless of our feeling towards the lack of education or dislike of the job fulfilled by the people "at the bottom of society", we should be respectful of their choices in life and help them should they feel exploited.

Just for the record I work for a online shop and are on occasion asked to help in the warehouse. It's physical hard work, boring and you're on a strict schedule to ensure that everything is ready then the delivery companies arrive to pick up orders. We pay a lot better than Amazon, almost double it seems and your not given a fixed time in which to complete the picking of an order, so there's hopefully less stress. So I have no reason to believe that Amazon couldn't a nice place to work as well, and still make a profit.
>> "Growing up I spent most of my time involved in risky activities: skating, snowboarding, exploring the woods, cliff jumping, swimming in rivers and even riding my bike without a helmet. Learning my limits from an early age allowed me to push myself in relative safety."

Wearing a helmet wouldn't have stopped you from doing these activities. I've seen several people saved from severe head injuries (one of them potentially deadly) by helmets.

>> "You can't protect people behind bubble wrap."

This doesn't mean you shouldn't take proper precautions. I could try climbing a rock face without a harness and helmet but that would be stupid. They don't inhibit me, they only make it a bit safer.

That bubble wrap phrase doesn't mean don't take precautions I think it means don't decide against doing anything just because there is a safety risk.
You must have been very busy ignoring a lot of evidence then. Not that that's unusual.
They are useless, until the angry cars start hitting us in the head. We're pretty good at it, most of us learned to ride as kids and have never fallen off.
Why is this logically wrong? I think it's a given that people/corporations follow economic incentives. We even have a legally binding phrase for that to protect shareholders. No one is making explicit accusations, just pointing out that privatizing certain industries (prisons, military, etc) can lead to perverse incentives.
Yes, this cracks me up. He was joining an organization of cheats and snitches and they got mad when he cheated.
"Finding really good [X] developers who know their stuff is hard! ([Y])"

where X - any mainstream technology, Y - market level rate
It's a really amazing concept for a mobile phone company, but a lot to improve in the near term. Happy to discuss.
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A couple datapoints, my home town charges $10/yr for a bike license sticker which is legally required to ride a bike in town (although rarely enforced against white people and/or kids)

Also the DNR maintains a network of state wide bike trails and charges something near $30/yr for an annual trail pass.

Also you'd have to discount the $5/mile by the effect of exercise. Perhaps its net effect is only 50 cents per mile for adults. In that case we may already be taxing bikes nearly that much, at least on average.

People laugh at me when I say bicycles are probably going to be outlawed for children soon. I'm cool with that; they laughed when I said smoking would be outlawed too. It is probably safer to buy a kid a lawn dart set or some packs of matches than a bicycle, and I'm just being honest about a minor hobby of mine. You can stack their little bodies like cordwood every year across the country, seems like a lot of death for fundamentally not accomplishing too much.
The problem with this article is the author has no idea what is actually a genius security/cryto/computery act. Lazy reporting.
How do you think murdering civilians indiscriminately on the off-chance that there may be a terrorist amongst them advances your national interests?

How well did that approach work in Vietnam?
Any specific driver in your mind?
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Thanks!

Out of curiosity, what's the technical explanation?
Unfortunately that's a neccessity of the nature of these policies. Are you saying the US should have nothing that isn't publically known?
Driving, even with a seatbelt, strikes me as an irresponsibly risky activity.

Even a minor collision can cause significant neurological dysfunction, and most seat belts do nothing to protect against the sub-lethal variety.
> Military contractors, drone maintenance, promotions, bonuses, career advancements, no more completed missions, medals, no job to go to.

You forgot the one group of people who could actually stop this, literally overnight: Politicians.
If the government wasn't paying for tuitions like they are now, these prices formed by "supply and demand" would be much lower.
I suggest googling "how to make points in a less irritating and confrontational way than telling people that you suggest googling something".

In any case, I remember it fairly well, no need to look it up. Which current likely target is a heavily-armed state with a strong air defense system?

(North Korea is a possibility, although I have to wonder just how good their air defenses are these days. It also strikes me as a target where drones would be a great idea if it ever comes down to a shooting war.)

I'd also like to note that the F-117 shootdown didn't involve the pilot being captured, much less paraded in front of a camera, although he certainly could have been.
Does anyone know at what percentage equity was this raised?
I totally feel your pain. I'm in the same boat, day-jobbing while trying to bootstrap a startup. What I hate are the weeks where life interferes and suddenly I've gotten almost nothing done for a week.

But keep your eye on the prize. Work toward liberating yourself from the day job. You may not work any less, but at least you'll be working entirely for yourself.
Do you actually use R# then? There is no point if you are using it at VS level.
"Nobody is being forced to work there"

That might not be entirely in accord with actual facts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/technology/foxconn-said-to...
http://kotaku.com/report-college-students-forced-to-make-pla...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/15/forced-student-labor-i...
That's not what an externality is. The article suggests that people already have an internalised value of around $5/mile.

Since cyclists rarely kill others, an externality tax based on micromorts would hardly hit them at all. Compare that to motor travel, though…
They had a mission to do so, but it was cancelled. http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/

The video of the drop test is pretty neat.
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