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I'm undecided on wage increases, but we do need to be careful of logical fallacies here.

The first is the appeal to motive fallacy. The identity of who is funding the ad is irrelevant to deciding the truthfulness their claim. We need to look at the issue itself and see what the merits are on either side, regardless of who is presenting what side, because as Jamie Whyte put it in Crimes Against Logic:

>It is perfectly possible to have some interest in holding or expressing an opinion and for that opinion to be true.

The second is the Card & Kreuger example you cited. We have to be careful of making a hasty generalization. The Card & Kreuger findings by no means settled the issue. In fact, the very next section to the page you linked, which discusses the responses to that study, begins:

>In subsequent research, David Neumark and William Wascher attempted to verify Card and Krueger's results by using administrative payroll records from a sample of large fast food restaurant chains in order to verify employment. They found that the minimum wage increases were followed by decreases in employment.

So the effect of minimum wage increases on employment is still not definitively known, at least based on what I can gather from that Wiki page.

TL;DR: This issue, like most, is much more complicated than it may seem at first and we need to look at it carefully without resorting to hasty and fallacious thinking.

This has been a respectful back and forth, and I appreciate that. This will be my concluding comment.

> Religion has been the single greatest force limiting advancement in human history
>


This is the claim of the likes of Sam Harris. And this was the point that Nassim Taleb tried to make to him, although quite clumsily- religious thought has greatly contributed to building the Western world. For example, much of science has it's foundations in the presumptions produced by a religious worldview. Religion provides answers to existential questions that need to addressed before any scientific inquiry can be made. For example, one must have the presumption that the world is intelligible and comprehensible before engaging in scientific inquiry. If you don't start with that presumption, you cannot do science.

If you're interested in learning more about the philosophical presumptions that form the basis for scientific inquiry, check out The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn


Peace.

The ultimate bathroom book is the New Hacker's Dictionary, based on the famous jargon file. It is a list of old computing slang and terminology up to, mostly, the 1980s.

Where known, the origin of the term is listed (this is edited by Eric Raymond), and you'll see a lot of schools you expect - MIT, Stanford (SAIL), etc.

You'll also see Rutgers pop up a surprising amount of times.

I used to study over on Busch in a basement in...I forget the building. This was the early 90s when they still had PLATO terminals set up and working. The whole building seemed to hum with technology.

I wasn't majoring in anything technical but even then Rutgers had a surprisingly high-tech groove. There are Usenet posts out there that I made in 1993 from the Livingston library. Thanks to Rutgers, I got on the Internet via shell (for free) in 1991. Maybe a lot of Universities offered those accounts universally to students but I remember actually staying up all night to get into the library when it opened in the morning, just to screw around on FTP sites.

If you've got a larger car, a telescoping scraper is great. If you've got a smaller car, though, a circular snow scraper can work wonders, quickly.

John McPhee's "The Pine Barrens" is history+culture+geology and it's fascinating. (It was written in the 1960s tho)
https://www.amazon.com/Pine-Barrens-John-McPhee/dp/0374514429#customerReviews

yeah we lived way down at the bottom of the Prospect street hill, in what was called the "Highlands Community Assosiation" a.k.a. the H.C.A.. The Saddle River Valley was our playground. the old Villa fields for sleigh riding are now the site of several McMansions. My old Buddy Mike Brunkhorst published a book of Old Waldwick Pictures...Older than my time in Waldwick: http://www.amazon.com/Waldwick-Images-America-Michael-Brunk/dp/0738513075. He's still in town i think.

New York City was Tory central, and some of that bled into NJ (and New Brunswick was a major British garrison city).

From David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing it seems that most of NJ did want to just be left alone (switching sides with whoever was winning at the time) but there were fierce partisans on both sides.

I'd highly recommend Fischer's book, and also recommend Tories by Thomas Allen on the subject. Tories is not as good though, possibly due to covering a broader subject.

The civil war in NJ wasn't as cruel as it was down South though.

I don't know much about the plans, but I do know this: I enrolled in TIAA/CREF back when I worked for a few years at a public university decades ago. I can't roll it over into an IRA without risk. If I did roll it over, NJ would consider me permanently retired and ineligible for any full-time state or municipal jobs.

It is not that I plan to ever work for the state again, but, hey, you never know.

So now I'm sorta stuck with the TIAA/CREF plans until I retire, which is just more paperwork (and less investment options) with which I have to deal. I've mostly consolidated all of my other ex-employer plans into a single IRA.

For some investment advice: read A Random Walk Down Wall Street, 10th edition. I have an MBA in Finance and highly endorse this book for all investors. WIth the options you have from your employer, I'd bet you'd be able to apply what you learn from the book to your portfolio.

http://www.amazon.com/Speeders-Guide-Avoiding-Tickets/dp/0380717336/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464874305&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=Speeders+guide+to+speeding

Here is a worthwhile read. It was written by a former NY state trooper and explains how to talk your way out or at least get a reduced ticket next time you are pulled over.

It's Mass. There's even a book about it (does any other state/city have a book?).

https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Drivers-Handbook-Streets-Almost/dp/0306813262

My intro to Boston driving was in a buckets rainstorm on Mass Pike - driving cautiously in right lane - and a guy passes me at 70+ MPH on the shoulder (aka "breakdown lane").

my ex's dad wrote a children's book featuring it

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-Mankiws/dp/0538453052

I was at the Vernon library in sussex county a few months ago and they had the same thing, a bunch of older childrens books. Managed to find https://www.amazon.com/Stinky-Cheese-Other-Fairly-Stupid/dp/067084487X.

Here, friend

But seriously, here's a comparison site. I've seen plenty of coyotes and foxes in person and this one is a coyote.

You post this all the time. Read Traffic, by Tom Vanderbelt.

Half your solutions to the problem are not that effective.

The Trumps

And since I'm not as lazy as you are, I'll tell you that it is a book about Donald Trump and his family's three generations in this country. Now, in return give me real proof that Drumpf can do anything good for this country besides set up his own Hunger Games or become the next Hitler. I've done a fair amount of my own research and all I've seen is a man who has more waffles than IHOP and is a racist and bigot who is wiping his ass with the Constitution and everything it stands for.

if you want to be simultaneously amazed, and extraordinarily pissed at a government read The Soprano State.
I actually couldn't finish it because as Jersey resident I was beyond pissed.