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Comment Two things that destroyed contract work (Score -1) 229

1. The government crackdown on independent contractors working under 1099s. The government was worried that too many people were not paying into SS which would undermine its solvency. They then put out a whole bunch of restrictions which companies did not put in the effort to enforce.

The result was that companies stopped using 1099s and started doing this staffing through agencies. Since the agencies can take up to half the pay a contractor may receive that resulted in substantial less money being taken home by the independent contractors.

2. Affordable Care Act (ACA). The government decided that all people with pre-existing conditions need to have access to health insurance. How did they achieve this? By forcing only the people in the individual market to subsidize them. I remember when I got a quote for a policy that would take affect after the passage. It was more than twice what I was paying. I decided then to get a full time job.

Comment Simple workaround (Score -1) 144

If states want to ban the use of fast lanes then the ISP can change their pricing to allow data caps. You want the unlimited data cap then its ~$120/month. 300 GB will cost ~$80/month, etc.

The ISP can then exempt their own services and the services of preferred partners from the data caps. This will achieve the same results for the ISP without violating Net Neutrality.

Comment Not very much money in Alexa apparently (Score -1) 101

So according to the summary there are 25,000 apps (skills) available on Alexa. The market is expected to be worth 50 million next year. So that comes out to an average of $2000 per skill. Obviously that won't be distributed evenly so the median payoff for each skill will likely be less than $500.

This is the smartphone economy repeating itself. At least with smartphones there are some business use cases but this stuff is all consumer based. The only money you get is what Amazon considers your product to be worth. I think most good developers can find a better use for their time.

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