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

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

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?

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

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 on their own. can't do that in the current climate

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.

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 with whole countries (looking at you europe) over longer periods of time to dispute this articles claims.

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. Simply not true. look at us bureau census data. Over half of people earning minimum wage are under 24. If you don't have skills for a job, you work for min wage, gain skills and experience so you can get better jobs. When the government makes companies pay more for these teenagers they will hire less. these would-be workers will have more difficulty gaining skills/experience.

you must be 12

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

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.

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 can only hire 8 people. you make human capital more expensive? more incentive to automate

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

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

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 would contend it's a horizontal cylinder.