Retric

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1711.
by Retric 2y ago
The less choices you the more random noise you get from rounding. A reviewer might round up a 7/10 to a 3 as it’s better than average, while someone else might round down a 8/10 because it’s not at that top tier. Both systems are
1712.
by Retric 2y ago
All rating systems are relative to other ratings on the platform. So it doesn’t matter if you dumb things down or not. The trick is collecting enough ratings to average out the underlying issues and keeping context. IE: You want rankings
1713.
by Retric 2y ago
Unfortunately that’s not a useful heuristic. Most radical new ideas are wildly incorrect, only a minuscule fraction are actually real advances.
1714.
by Retric 2y ago
2k wasn’t a top end PC in 1998 either, just the high end of normal and you can get a high end of normal system for well under 4k today.
1715.
by Retric 2y ago
Peak performance has always been pricy. Chasing the 4k dragon is not worth it for most people, but inflation adjusted a 2,000$ gaming PC from 1998 would be $3,900 today. I’ve got a 4k monitor, but only use that resolution on old games as i
1716.
by Retric 2y ago
Ever increasing number of gamers is what’s been supporting the system. 1997 GTA I 3,000,000 1999 GTA II 2,000,000 2001 GTA III 14,500,000 2008 GTA IV 25,000,000 2013 GTA V 205,000,000 https://vgsales.fandom.com&#x
1717.
by Retric 2y ago
If it pisses you off take them to arbitration. You’ll claw back the 100$ they tried to steal from you and likely feel better about the whole deal while disincentivizing this kind of behavior.
1718.
by Retric 2y ago
> vary within and without metro areas Even more distortion. When you look land value tax and start thinking ahh but this impact needs to be mitigated that’s a sign there’s an inherent problem with the approach. There’s an endless list o
1719.
by Retric 2y ago
> How is this relevant to land value tax? It’s an example of distortion. > Why would earned income taxes not have unpleasant side effects if land value taxes have unpleasant side effects? Distortion requires some way to optimize for t
1720.
by Retric 2y ago
Again it’s a question of scale. There’s a bunch of countries with higher levels of wealth inequality than the US like Zambia and Russia so it’s the result of lots of forces. Wealth inequality can increase from trends which are net positive
1721.
by Retric 2y ago
Not anymore, the Republican party flip flopped on that issue declaring “deficits don’t matter” and been wildly reckless with spending for decades.
1722.
by Retric 2y ago
Because market distortion harms society? Tax homes based on the number of rooms and people suffer without closets even though total revenue remains the same. Income taxes have this wonderful property where factory workers can’t game the sys
1723.
by Retric 2y ago
The goal is to mitigate inequality not eliminate it. Someone making 10x as much as the average person has minimal impact, 100x isn’t a big deal, but you keep adding zeros especially with passive income and there’s significant repercussions
1724.
by Retric 2y ago
Depends on the business model, cater to high end clients and having a ~1M$/year doctor be the once answering the phone can be a major selling point. Further you optimize around costs, when having people answer phones is expensive you t
1725.
by Retric 2y ago
To be clear, I agree the costs of work caps maximum tax rates well below 100%. However, I was dumping government into that same cost of work category as commuting costs. It just makes more sense to work in a country where you make 100x as
1726.
by Retric 2y ago
There’s a few investigations into why Talk Radio became such a Republican dominated market, but I don’t have a good link. They also ignored how NPR fills a similar niche and leans left. But overall I setup a spreadsheet and ran the numbers
1727.
by Retric 2y ago
Functioning governments drastically increase worker productivity through several means such as enforcing the rule of law, sanitation, infrastructure etc. This is also why people want to immigrate to countries with such high tax rates and m
1728.
by Retric 2y ago
I’m not arguing about the existence of bias or the numbers of L/R leaning media. There’s simply more left leaning Americans vs the stance of the Republican Party who’s specifically engineered their message to appeal to voters with more
1729.
by Retric 2y ago
That’s true up until the point of budget deficit.
1730.
by Retric 2y ago
I agree it’s a terrible strategy on average, but Money has diminishing marginal utility. Having 1/10th as much money is far worse than having 10x as much is better. As such once people can lock in a reasonable retirement they often ge
1731.
by Retric 2y ago
Not when you look at objective metrics of bias such as sentiment analysis or track time spent on positive vs neutral vs negative coverage of various issues. Of course that’s in relation to US political parties, pick a different ‘center’ an
1732.
by Retric 2y ago
> I thought a majority of Chinese businesses are state owned. That’s not how things work, they care about control not micromanaging everything. There are rules favoring majority Chinese owned companies, but that doesn’t need to be govern
1733.
by Retric 2y ago
The underlying issue is MS software is running on customer machines so it’s not part of their bottom line. They have little incentive to care as long as it’s not so slow their monopoly breaks.
1734.
by Retric 2y ago
> whatever it is beyond your control that makes it more difficult or impossible o afford what you once could. For the US you are really describing income inequality. Most individuals got fucked over a few are doing wildly better than eve
1735.
by Retric 2y ago
A neutral stance isn’t an uncritical stance. It’s undeserved praise vs undeserved damnation that signifies a non neutral position.
1736.
by Retric 2y ago
You can’t ignore scale of bias here. CNN and Fox don’t come close to canceling each other out because Fox is way to the right and CNN is more subtle. -2 + 4 is not zero. Similarity Fox viewership is 3 million viewers in primetime vs CNN
1737.
by Retric 2y ago
Past inflation, wealth inequality, and/or economic collapse depending on what you’re talking about? It doesn’t really make sense to say that “nobody has it left” overall because money gets transferred in a transaction. So most people
1738.
by Retric 2y ago
Aggregate media bias across TV/Radio/Newspapers is interesting because both the direction and scale matters. Of course bias is only part of the story, do an objectively terrible job and you get more negative stories overall. As a
1739.
by Retric 2y ago
To get consistent inflation you need to consistently create money. The inflation rate fell all the way down to 3% at the end of 2024. All that created money had already been sucked up by prior inflation and current higher prices. The veloci
1740.
by Retric 2y ago
There isn’t a non hybrid version of the Prius with all its weight and aerodynamic features. But there’s ~45 MPG all gas cars that have been built. Currently the best option is 39MPG combined, but that car’s aerodynamics aren’t great becaus

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