jbotttt | 10 years ago | on: Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate
Would be genuinely interested in methods for making an area appear less safe
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jbotttt | 10 years ago | on: Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
This already exists in the EB-5 visa[0] assuming you start with .5 million funding. You get to stay forever too.
jbotttt | 10 years ago | on: How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared?
Implying the past is worse and the future better is a misstep[0].
As others have been saying the problem goes away when you have viable careers in X. At some point it will better value to train someone, though I imagine that point is further away then training yourself.
jbotttt | 10 years ago | on: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)
To summarise your first paragraph #notallmanagers
jbotttt | 10 years ago | on: Economics Simulation
There was some slight of hand on my part, the ratios are plotted, not the absolute numbers. The wealth inequality is more interesting than absolute country wealth in the context of the simulation I feel.
I agree regarding the debt, that's why net and gross values are included in the chart. For the top 3 it makes no difference. Iceland as an outlier isn't something I would have expected though
Edit: Also the mean probably isn't defined for whatever power law is generating wealth distribution in each country anyway
jbotttt | 10 years ago | on: Economics Simulation
It's more interesting in chart form:
http://imgur.com/GZxm0hD
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