ABCLAW

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by ABCLAW 8y ago
If an ad network wants to put restrictions on the volume of ad space in comparison with content on the page, they can do so, but requiring exclusivity isn't the same thing as that.
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Because the reality of racial restriction covenants and redlining practices is that they weren't used to develop great locales; they were used to systemically exclude people of undesired races who otherwise had the means to live in sa
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Not to excuse outlook for its failures, but G-suite email searching also breaks once you hit a certain inbox size. As for shared document editing, most places develop intra-office file system-level habits that avoid the problem, or use spec
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No, these records will remain discoverable through Vault, unless I'm reading things wrong. In fact, these records will be even more discoverable than the standard inbox dumps because they're pre-curated with messages that the send
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_allocation_scheme Only that you don't need an agreement to make it happen. Tacit understanding works just as well.
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I feel like it's an extension of the "Love is evil" rant that Slavoj Zizek put together [1]. The structure is similar, the conclusions are the same. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls
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I had a big issue with glaring contradictions in your position until I re-read your series of posts. I've come to recognize you're conflating multiple related 'responsibility' concepts, swapping into the different modes
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There's a lot in here that I don't really have the time to address because I'm wrapping up my day, but I don't really feel the need to litigate reasons why radical unfettered libertarianism doesn't work. But hey, I&
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Am I the only one looking at this announcement and going "holy shit"? If we ignore the very well deserved Zuck skepticism for a moment, this kills Snapchat, almost immediately demolishes the wave of negative PR that Facebook is st
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>The fact that WBC finalists are using coffee that the roaster haven't sorted based in size tells a lot. Perhaps the farmer does it to some degree. I'm not sure if you've looked at espresso chemical papers (mostly the Illy
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I don't think you know what a tautology is. Me making an argument you don't like isn't tautological. Basic contract theory requires A. A is not always true. Accordingly, we modulate applying basic contract theory on the basis
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>If there's a power difference to the point of coercion, it's coercion and one party is not consenting. [...] Of course, there's a point at which informational asymmetry turns to outright fraud. Yes, coercion and fraud are
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>A fair price is one that both parties agree to. There's this lovely fiction in law that contracts should be upheld because two consenting parties both get ahead by reaching a bargain. All transactions are positive, so we should uph
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Slaves. He's talking about slaves.
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They're more than welcome to buy the air rights to the lots between them and the river.
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>Alphabet is a Deleware corporation, where executives that leave money on the table for moral reasons have to at least claim that it was their business judgment that the action would ultimately increase profits for shareholder value in t
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I think it might have had to do more with being the logistics hub of the largest empire in the world, with an influx of that empire's capital for a century. Capital favouring policies seem to work great for capital - if you have capita
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Are we assuming that margins don't exist and returns on invested capital are fixed for this thought experiment?
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>I'm not sure this qualifies as "shady" when everything is displayed within the same viewport. It seems concerning that outright dishonesty in consumer-facing material for large purchases might reasonably be considered par
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>I think it's still a bit annoying that Stripe Atlas only authorized 10 million shares for me, and I already issued 8 million to myself. It sounds like I will have to do some legal work to authorize additional shares for investors i
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The point is, those 10% aren't better able to capture the value they create. They're just in a more favourable position from the perspective of the labour market. It doesn't mean that the fact that they are 'knowledge wo
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>I'm sorry that you do not believe I stopped there. Re-read your posts. An insincere half apology isn't good soil to grow a strong conversation from. Good luck in the future and thank you for your interest in the field.
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I don't have an issue with consumer reports. I used to browse their material occasionally. However, most of the time, I spend very little and make few purchases. The ones that are low-value - lets say vegetable peelers and compressed a
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I don't mind the affiliate links, but I mind dishonest or low quality churned reviews. When TV shopping, I used the reviews from https://www.rtings.com/ They pointed me to issues and concerns with TV quality, provided
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>I would actually be interested in taking this exchange to email. Sure. I would like to, but only if you treat my points charitably (you haven't :(.) - the objective is to learn. If that's not an issue, though, would the btilly
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If you want to get plastered, you can buy absurd amounts of alcohol by volume by purchasing cheap vodka and making it palatable by running it through a water filter to remove the bitter contaminants, then soak fruit in it to give it some fl
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This isn't a competition between 10% of the workers and 90% of the workers. There isn't a fixed amount of money allocated to 'labour'. It's a competition between the capital/investment cycle of the economy and
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There are plenty of million dollar teachers, but they work in private tutoring or corporate education positions. The million dollar teachers will do things like actively manage the student's home life or business trajectory, give them
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>They want mindless binge drinkers, not talkers. I'm friends with a lot of bar owners, and have had a few bars in the family in the past. Owners don't want someone getting plastered. We want the high functioning alcoholic who o
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Maybe not in the individual instance, but in the aggregate, sure you will. Humans eat foods that reward them, because that's how dopamine works. We've figured out how to optimize the rewards, too: Salt. Fat. Sugar. https:/&#

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