I don't tip more than a few dollars unless the server did something well or was especially nice. Seems like many servers these days just expect the 20% bonus just for taking an order and carrying food around, regardless of attitude

Oh that's interesting, like an energy economy.

I think... it's a little tenuous because the price would based on like, math, algorithms and ASICs more than scarcity of fuel (or pollution, or what have you), but definitely an interesting idea.

That's only for big time criminals, terrorist organizations and human rights abusing corporations and their Ilk. Small timers gotta get creative

That's fair. I was mostly operating under the impression banks care primarily about problems at scale (where they are invested in being part of the problem), but perhaps that was naive.

Reminds me of The Octopus episode of the Swindled podcast. I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually came out that pesticides/herbicides/etc are the cause.

Look at the bitcoin CME futures. The all time open was 20650, and went straight down from there. Closing over that is key for sustained upside

I think the local guide system google set up is the only reason I bother to read Google reviews. It's nice to have the guarantee of "here's a review by what is probably a real person who lives near this business and reviewed this out of kindness/boredom"

unless somebody hates on the business, not for their food or whatever, just hating the owner or a person there or whatever. than he makes a negative review and it's impossible to actually remove it. even if the comment just says "i don't like person XYZ". heck most people don't read reviews so they see this 3-3.5 star business and think it sucks (when it only has like 3 reviews)

basically google review is like the opposite of yelp. if somebody posts trash it will be their forever. even after the business died.

I had a bad review from someone I interviewed and didn't hire. Disputed and it's still there, 2 years later.

Georgism? On my Hacker news? What a time to be alive.

Have you tried paying higher than the market rate ( like what you would pay a travelling nurse/CNA) instead of signing bonuses? CNAs make less than amazon warehouse workers in my area. If I'm a nurse, it's only natural I'm going to seek a less demanding patient population asap unless there is a significant incentive not to do that, especially given that every hospital in the country is hiring nurses at all times.

We do offer higher than market rates; people just don't want to do the work. CNAs and nurses are very well compensated at my hospital -- however, we are a regional hospital for a fairly rural area, so it's hard to attract talent. The majority of our staff has a 30 minute drive to get to work - if it's any further than that, they'll tend to go to the large city in the opposite direction and get a job there for less money but more amenities. Finding nurses and CNAs that are passionate about geriatric and particularly dementia care is difficult in the best of circumstances.

And then you get the $10k/month/person nursing home cost.

Sounds like an interesting idea for a VR/AR game. I'm picturing somewhere between fruit ninja and a vana white simulator

After they just let 2 out of the only 4 National cell networks merge, this looks a bit like shutting the barn door after the horse has left

Have you heard the argument that the cell network industry is so capital intensive, it's more competitive to have a combined Sprint & T-Mobile take on AT&T and Verizon, as opposed to AT&T and Verizon severely outcompeting Sprint and T-Mobile into bankruptcy, leaving a duopoly?