MiroF

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by MiroF 6y ago
> In other sectors, yes. Not even. But it's not worth arguing about this, it's basic macro and if s/he doesn't want to educate themselves, that's up to them.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Are most uber eats drivers buying cars in order to drive uber? That was not my understanding.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I think the bike delivery labor market is super different from the delivery driver market. You are much more likely to find people "gamifying" it as bikers than as drivers.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Or, some people are just assholes. I find it very odd to read a comment here basically defending the driver - they were obviously going to call the police as soon as you started committing property damage to their store.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> "you should not have control over your body" That's not the part of the syllogism most people take issue with, you're being disingenuous. If fair and reasonable taxes are okay, then it seems like you aren't int
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by MiroF 6y ago
The central bank exists to ensure that your fears here are misplaced.
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by MiroF 6y ago
So.. loans, but with way shittier terms for the borrower?
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by MiroF 6y ago
Basic macro says this policy would increase AD, which would increase inflation in a vacuum. What would really happen is that the Fed would raise rates, which would increase the barrier to market participation and we would be back to where w
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by MiroF 6y ago
I don't feel like spending my time debating libertarians, but just know that the little old "my body is my own means I have complete control over all wealth and taxation is never justified" syllogism is far from unassailable
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by MiroF 6y ago
But if everyone has more liquidity access, that drives prices up. You don't have to do something like distinguish UBI money for this to be true.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> That's a common urban legend. Try foundational macroeconomic principle. But it wouldn't even get that far, the Fed would just raise rates to offset the would-be increase in aggregate demand.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> opposite of my money my choice you cite this as if it's some commonly accepted moral principle
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by MiroF 6y ago
I agree that code generation of complex functions is hard. But I think the example given of unit testing - ie. natural language description of specific behavior of function -> code is extremely useful.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> No. Well your comment isn’t particularly coherent then.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Costco I'm almost certain you meant to say Walmart here.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Why do people use it? I can understand blocking ads with e.g. ublock, but I cannot understand wanting a browser that shows you desktop ads for internet points. Does it actually do this? When I had Brave, I never noticed that.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I think C++ is a quite good language in its modern form that gets such a bad rap.
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by MiroF 6y ago
something something book something something cover
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Benefits of starting a company in a recession: lower rents, cheaper salaries. This recession is potentially so short and wages are so sticky that I'm not sure that this actually will pan out.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> On the Gmail page, a pink alert bar appeared at the top, reading, “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. Protect yourself now.” Fascinating that Google does this. How do
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by MiroF 6y ago
The average townhouse is worth more than the average detached home because of where you find each type.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I agree that betting on publicly traded indices does not represented a targeted bet on the economy. I disagree that bankruptcy is a big risk to index fund investors.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> exploited by bad faith actors What? How?
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by MiroF 6y ago
Yes, but focusing on the interest rates is reasoning from a price change. Interest rates are going down due to central bank action to combat deflationary pressure, so you can’t just look at interest rates in a vacuum and say that the rate o
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by MiroF 6y ago
Sure, but presumably if some people are using downvotes for a different reason, there's no reason it would be restricted to just one comment.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Edit: funny, I am getting downvoted also, for agreeing with you If the parent was being downvoted for a certain view, why is this at all surprising?
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by MiroF 6y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r... It does not seem at all clear to me that most economic activity is in services and not in resources/monopoly ownership. > farming economicall
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by MiroF 6y ago
And you can't farm without farmland. Selling other goods and services is a very imperfect substitute for farming. Other burgers are a pretty good substitute for McDonald's burgers.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> How do you determine the value of intellectual property if not by looking at how much income is actually being derived from said IP? I agree that determining the value of IP is difficult. Georgists would probably advocate that there is
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Profit (or even just total corporate spending) is a better measure of economic activity than revenue. Profit is a terrible measure of economic activity because it is unrelated to the amount of goods changing hands. Indeed, in industrie

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