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by CPLX 2y ago
> Again, you're conflating "how people feel about the economy" and "how the economy is actually doing". Indeed. And you're suffering from the delusion that there's some kind of distinction here that mat
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by CPLX 2y ago
Do they get a reward for being "right" in the eyes of the survey company or something? They are being asked how the economy is doing and they are saying fuck this. I'm guessing people have a basic sense that when they answer
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by CPLX 2y ago
> you should still be able to correctly answer whether it went up or not Why? Who fucking cares? Some guy calls my phone during dinner with some survey about the economy. I answer every question with a variation on “fuck you and your eco
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by CPLX 2y ago
Guys this isn’t that complicated. Basically every commercial interaction you have these days involves someone trying to cheat you, with basically no way to find recourse to human understanding or help. It’s every day, every time you interac
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by CPLX 2y ago
And there’s some reason I should believe the assessment of some random LLM algorithm is more reliable than my own in trusting that I am reading a guy who I’ve met and talked to a couple times, who writes in a specific style and responds to
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by CPLX 2y ago
Maybe but when you see seemingly irrational behavior by "the underclass" it's always worth spending a little more time trying to understand what kinds of issues they may be facing that you're not intuitively aware of. If
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by CPLX 2y ago
> Despite the botfly score of an 83% LLM poorly auto-generated article Can you explain what this comment means? This article is the personal writing of Matt Stoller, the most prominent writer on issues of monopoly and anti-trust. What do
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by CPLX 2y ago
Anti-competitive pricing. This shouldn't really be confusing this is first hour first day stuff if you study how and why monopolies exist and can persist. Here's an instant example. Let's say I own every single gas station in
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by CPLX 2y ago
The FTC is doing that too all the time now. For obvious reasons they don't draw the same headlines.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Disputing with banks isn't particularly reliable. These larger companies have a script now for responding for one, and the other thing that happens is they'll kill your account and permanently ban you. Neither of those accomplishe
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by CPLX 2y ago
Unless there is market power and exploitation by monopolists. Which just so happens to be the overarching principal of Matt Stoller's life's work.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Yes that’s one factor. But there’s also a “going bust” factor which is kind of a fundamental dynamic as well. Think of it in terms of life. Once you are dead you’re dead, it’s the end. If the variance in your life outcomes “crosses the zero
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by CPLX 2y ago
A simpler way of explaining it is that both activities have a negative expected value but insurance usually reduces variance while gambling increases it. In the context of money variance is usually synonymous with instability and unpredict
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by CPLX 2y ago
Right. And the argument is that the minute Facebook actually reads your post and makes a decision about how much exposure it will get based on its content then it is Facebook posting things.
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by CPLX 2y ago
There’s probably better writing on this by Matt Stoller that’s just the first thing I found. A core premise of this argument is that 230 is bizzare exception to pretty clear core rules that we typically have on things like libel and product
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by CPLX 2y ago
This argument is wrong. Matt Stoller has written extensively on this: https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/icymi-scotus-... In short, the law’s intent has been perverted. The idea that these providers are si
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by CPLX 2y ago
So an insane and soon to be dead generation of reactionary former hippie Bay Area boomers. I’ll give you that. Who else though?
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by CPLX 2y ago
Almost none of that population lives in the mountains. Colorado is half Switzerland and half Kansas. Literally everyone minus a rounding error lives on the flat part.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> We used to have the right > That all went away in 1790 Interesting use of the word “we” here. Also there’s a few other “rights” that have changed since then, not sure this argument has the power you think it does.
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by CPLX 2y ago
In fairness, the United States is a breakaway region of Great Britain.
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by CPLX 2y ago
1. As I’m sure you well know the estate tax exemption is measured in 8 figures at this point, so no, you don’t “pay 40%” to the federal government. And that’s leaving aside the fact that the dead person can make billions in capital gains,
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by CPLX 2y ago
I would have thought the pandemic would have woken people up a little bit. No you can’t just consider “owning stuff” and “moving assets around on spreadsheets” to be the same thing as international power. China isn’t confused about this a
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by CPLX 2y ago
Sure, and we also didn't have the fucking insanity of step-up-basis and our current approach of literally not taxing the accumulation of wealth, ever, for those at the top of the pyramid. We also had unions. We can trade examples all d
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by CPLX 2y ago
Abso-fucking-lutely we should be producing those things domestically. Being able to produce the core technology we need for the future is the only way to have a future. The power and stability of the country is fundamentally based on its pr
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by CPLX 2y ago
Industrial policy, predatory trade practices, pandemics, supply chain disruptions, and real-live violent wars are also features of this world. I have a degree in economics, no need for remedial training on comparative advantage and stories
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by CPLX 2y ago
Not being able to produce the core technology we depend has hamstrung us.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> Unfortunately, history provides us with examples of societies that confiscated the wealth of the wealthy Get out of here with this melodrama. We’re in a society that had higher more progressive tax rates as recently as the 1960’s. This
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by CPLX 2y ago
As someone who produces large scale events in major cities I can tell you it's still not a solved problem. In places like Times Square there's just so much RF going on from similar devices that you can see bizarre intermittent pro
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by CPLX 2y ago
Every large scale production event relies heavily on standard wireless microphones, which would be fairly trivial to disrupt from the parking lot.
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by CPLX 2y ago
If you watch the video at the top of the article it looks like they actually have a couple options. Infared is one, but there's also bluetooth and RF control as well, and there's video of a feature where people are entering their

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