It's a bit baffling how "some economists" weren't fully cognisant of what would happen when the minimum wage was raised. I mean it's not as though it's the first time it has happened, the effects should be well known by now.
The problem is that it's not clear what happens when the minimum wage increases. It's also not clear whether something different happens when a city or state does it versus a national change.
Case in point: thirteen states increase the minimum wage and employment increases faster (on average) in those states than in those that do not increase the minimum wage. The presumption in the post is that the causality is that increasing the minimum wage causes employment increases. What if the causality goes the other way? Increasing employment could make states more willing to raise the minimum wage. Correlation does not indicate causality, so economists can't differentiate between the two explanations.
There's actually been quite a bit of study of the effects of raising the minimum wage. The problem is that it's impossible to produce a real double blind study. Without that, there will always be reasonable doubt. In one study, they won't be able to eliminate the possibility that employment would have gone up faster without the change. In another study, they won't be able to tell if people are moving from the comparison area to the change area for the higher wage jobs. In another study, perhaps employment increases occur because kids drop out of school to take jobs.
Economics isn't anywhere near as mature a science as physics or chemistry. It doesn't lend itself to repeatable experiments. Without objective data, subjective opinions take a far greater role.
I can see this tech also being used on Europa (and bombing doesn't count as "landing").
making another Weekend at Bernie's sequel? This time, Bernie "drives himself" around!
Can someone who has tried this tell me whether two particular bugs that were present throughout the life of Plasma 4 have been fixed (OK, you may not think these are bugs, but I sure do: I can't imagine how they were ever allowed to persist, since to me they seem to violate pretty basic requirements of GUI behaviour):
1. If one has a menu present (for example, by pressing the K-Menu button), does an incoming notification still cause the menu to disappear, so you get the delightfully random experience of clicking on whatever happened to be under the item you were about to click on?
2. Can a single misbehaving plasmoid still cause the entire desktop to freeze? (This typically happens to me if the network connectivity is lost: poorly-written plasmoids that need network access can block and cause everything -- not just the plasmoid in question -- to freeze.)
All you have to do is change the legal definition of "ordnance" to that of "fireworks"
But those phones that do make it to a person in jail is shockful of bacteria, and not all of it from the final user.
for avoiding eavesdroppers. And is this a direction that non-criminal organizations are going towards?
Tylenol is in high demand in Cuba. I always buy some as gifts to the hotel staff whenever I visit.
Let's wake up Godzilla!
Don't hunters use activated charcoal liners to prevent being sniffed out by the animals they are hunting? It could also work with dogs.
all the way through.
What if the hardware contains information that is classified at a level above that of the police's security clearance?
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
