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It's been pointed out that there are identical items with very different bids. Maybe someone with knowledge of game theory or mechanism design or whatever can
by abeppu 6y ago
It's been pointed out that there are identical items with very different bids.
Maybe someone with knowledge of game theory or mechanism design or whatever can tell me: What's the "right" way (or ways?) to auction off multiple identical items? Top k bids win?
- renewiltord 6y agoIt's probably something like "each winning bid pays the next highest bid price plus one".
- wmf 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80%93Groves_auction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80%9...
- sbierwagen 6y agoI was going to remark on that ugly URL, only to discover that using en-dashes, which have to be percent-encoded in URLs, is official Wikipedia policy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dash... How unbelivably braindead.
- michaelt 6y agoHacker News and Wikipedia render links containing 毛泽东 correctly, but browsers copy-and-paste them as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%AF%9B%E6%B3%BD%E4%B8%9C https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%AF%9B%E6%B3%B... and somehow it's Wikipedia's fault browsers do that?
- sbierwagen 6y agoIt is most certainly Wikipedia's fault that their style guide requires –, Unicode EN DASH U+2013, rather than -, Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS U+002D out of some misguided desire for typographical "correctness". That is 100% Wikipedia's choice, and it ruins their URLs, for no good reason.