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New comment by sstrudeau in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)"

sstrudeau — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:19:16 +0000

I'm hiring for my team at AT Media (ApartmentTherapy.com & TheKitchn.com). We are a REMOTE team and largely remote company.

* Senior Web Engineer (Rails) * Graphic Designer * Product Manager

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jobs

New comment by sstrudeau in "Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?"

sstrudeau — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:10:40 +0000

The example of exactly this happening at Niagara Falls was part of the impetus for the National Park System in the first place.

Dying from Exposure

sstrudeau — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:17:48 +0000

Article URL: http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/dying-from-exposure/#.U_zJboTU7bc.facebook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228628

Points: 1

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New comment by sstrudeau in "Dear Marc Andreessen"

sstrudeau — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 02:36:14 +0000

Right now we tax workers in NYC to subsidize people on in Alabama. (NYC gets < $0.60 for every $1 of federal taxes collected; Alabama gets > $2).

New comment by sstrudeau in "A Tipless Restaurant is a Well-Run Restaurant?"

sstrudeau — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:44:55 +0000

I are at the Linkery once, as well, and had an excellent meal & service.

New comment by sstrudeau in "It Is Time For Basic Income"

sstrudeau — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:49:32 +0000

The market doesn't capture and represent all value created by labor. When I call a tow truck to jump start my car, that transaction is captured by the market, but when I call my friend with cables to do the same thing, it is not represented in the GDP. The same thing goes for a lot of "work" that is not done for compensation but adds a great deal of value to community. Basic income recognizes this fact that merely existing as part of a community you are providing some basic value even if you're not paid for that work. I think the critics are right that there are potential cultural problems around entitlement and an unwillingness to contribute in any form, but I'm more optimistic about human nature.

New comment by sstrudeau in "It Is Time For Basic Income"

sstrudeau — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:43:52 +0000

The EITC and a basic income are actually very similar in effect. The difference is largely in the mechanism of distribution. With a basic income, every citizen gets a check every month. With an EITC you get it in a lump with your tax refund, if you qualify for it.

New comment by sstrudeau in "How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help"

sstrudeau — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:44:35 +0000

Yeah, I got a red light ticket there. My court date got postponed to more than a year after the original infraction. The cops like to pick off cyclists along the north side of Flushing because cyclists will (quite rationally) run those lights -- there is no crossing auto traffic (bike lanes run along the top of T intersections) and very low volume (and easy to see) pedestrian traffic. Sucks.

New comment by sstrudeau in "Why we should give free money to everyone"

sstrudeau — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:07:53 +0000

There is plenty of "work" that happens outside of the labor market. Some days I pay a babysitter to take care of my daughter; other days my wife has off instead and does the same job.

Once, my battery died and a paid a tow truck for a jumpstart. Another time, I was able to call a friend to get a jump instead. Both times the same service was provided.

The last time I moved, I paid movers to haul boxes. The time before that, my brother and I did the work.

Money in exchange for labor isn't the only way useful work gets done and counted. Some things will still get done even when people aren't paid to do them.

New comment by sstrudeau in "Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua"

sstrudeau — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:37:39 +0000

Because when your design requirements change, you need to reprocess your entire corpus, among other reasons.

New comment by sstrudeau in "We Need a Basic Income Guarantee"

sstrudeau — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:48:55 +0000

Yes, there are a number of voluntary, tax-privileged retirement savings options, some of which may only be provided by employers, but not all employers provide (e.g. 401k/403b).

New comment by sstrudeau in "We Need a Basic Income Guarantee"

sstrudeau — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:44:17 +0000

Why except land taxes? Replacing property taxes with land taxes makes a lot of sense to me...

New comment by sstrudeau in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)"

sstrudeau — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Here's a link to the live listing: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/job-senior-web-engineer-1917...

New comment by sstrudeau in "Girl buys water, spends night in jail"

sstrudeau — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:55:54 +0000

Yes, but MADD and other interests have pressured the federal government to set the age to 21 via highway funding, so states are constrained from deviating.

New comment by sstrudeau in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)"

sstrudeau — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:20:32 +0000

Anywhere USA

Haven't posted a formal listing yet (will edit later) since this just opened up today.

We're for a strong back-end web engineer to join our small, distributed tech team building two large (combined audience > 15 million uniques/month) consumer-facing web sites. Ideally:

* strong ruby experience

* interest in image processing and/or "community" tech (comments, forums, contests, etc)

Nice-to-haves:

* strong front-end skills (e.g., with a framework like Backbone; w/ responsive design techniques)

* experience w/ search tech (e.g., elasticsearch)

* a design sense (not a designer role but good to have an instinct for what is good/bad visually and in UI)

Full-time, work from anywhere. Must be a strong communicator via email/chat; team-oriented. Strict "no assholes" hiring filter.

email scott@apartmenttherapy.com for more info.

edit: formatting

New comment by sstrudeau in "We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster"

sstrudeau — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:22:37 +0000

Can major hub airports handle 4x the traffic of smaller planes vs large planes (I honestly don't know)? In the NYC area, in particular, air traffic congestion is a huge problem so "adding more flights" is not a practical option (unless those flights can be stacked more densely).

There have been many solutions proposed to this problem (usually expanding smaller, "nearby" airports) but it seems to me a better option would be to expand and improve regional passenger rail to reduce demand for short and medium-leg flights thus freeing capacity for longer distance flights.

New comment by sstrudeau in "Breeze is closing on August 1"

sstrudeau — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:21:38 +0000

So why not offer a free service that doesn't support attachments and offer attachment support as a paid upgrade?

New comment by sstrudeau in "Angry young Indians: What a waste"

sstrudeau — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:57:56 +0000

Actually, yes. Just like advances in agricultural technology lead to job destruction in agriculture. We went from a majority of the global human population working in agriculture to a tiny minority in a few centuries. That labor was largely absorbed into industrial manufacturing. Manufacturing jobs have also been destroyed by automation (e.g., why a growing manufacturing sector in the US is not adding new net manufacturing jobs). The service sector has absorbed much of that labor, but on the low end, those jobs tend to be much more poorly paid and stable (which explains no income growth for the bottom 80% of the US population in 30+ years, despite a growing economy). Computers and automation are starting to eliminate service sector jobs as well (and not just on the low end). It isn't clear which "sector" will absorb this new labor unlocked by growing productivity, but it is clear to see how these change can create a growing economy but also growing inequality which can lead to a less pleasant society overall...

New comment by sstrudeau in "After 25 years in jail, the Internet blew my mind "

sstrudeau — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:50:13 +0000

> so a legal drug like alcohol is actually causing havoc in society, as you so vehemently point out... and you are advocation MORE drugs be made legal?

Yes, because making alcohol illegal actually made things worse in the very same ways strict drug prohibition creates vast revenue streams for organized crime and incurs a great deal of violence.

New comment by sstrudeau in "The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions"

sstrudeau — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:09:59 +0000

The medallion system is certainly far from optimal and a different regulatory regime that allows for innovation while still addressing concerns around impact on traffic (public roads=classic tragedy of the commons case) and passenger safety would be widely welcome. It could certainly improve the customer experience on many axes (quality, availability, timeliness, cost, etc) though I'm skeptical it would do much to improve the lot of the average driver. Taxi driving is a relatively low skill field, so there wouldn't be much incentive for these new ride sharing companies to treat drivers any more fairly than they are currently treated, since drivers will need to work for whichever companies have the largest market share of potential fares.