TomMckenny

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by TomMckenny 7y ago
True, I put the point bluntly. If the market produces bad outcomes for years on end, which it in some narrow cases it does, do we 1) keep with it regardless or 2) do something else. I think you will find there are quite a few people who wil
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Food, water distribution, internet, building construction are all things people produce and must be paid for to exist and out of fairness. Land ownership is and always has been an arbitrary claim inevitably traceable to a murdered Indian or
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There also seem to be differences in underlying assumptions: whether humans exist to serve markets or whether markets exist only because they happen benefit humanity. And a similar question for property itself.
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City or village, you'll need one where store clerks don't come in to work when sick due to lack of sick days and no one avoids testing and doctors for lack of insurance.
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Don't even get me started on "epicenter"
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The term "post-modern" has become immensely overloaded so is hard to use clearly. Obviously, the notion that "everything is relative" is even self contradictory but is not what is meant when the term is used seriously. I
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Unfortunately, the cheapest legal product will dominate almost any market. Slave made products are de-facto legal on the world market so the market takes advantage of that. And not to diminish the horror of China's practice here, but I
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
You can not even buy a house built on the 1950s on 70k a year. And while most quality claims (which usually lack actual numbers) certainly look subjective, the quality of a dirt lot or vial of insulin has obviously not changed while their
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
This is a government using implicit, extra legal threats to silence it's critics. As opposed to mass pro-democracy, human rights moments to counter pro-regime propaganda. People used to be able to tell the difference. For example, that
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Thief's last name is just an initial. I say "thief" because that's how it looks to me. But how can I or Amazon be confident given the evidence I've only just read about? What would help is posting up front a list of
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
As you say, the problem is not 8chan or "the daily stormer" for that matter. But it _is_ Facebook. Anything goes sites like 8chan have so much reality free and bizarre content that they have only the tiniest impact. Yet they provi
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Most likey we've done all the low hanging fruit: supersonic flight is categorically more difficult than subsonic yet is a diminishing return given that so much time is just spent preparing for the flight. And, Peter's opinion not
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The cargo container: it has changed the entire planet culturally, economically and geopolitically. It would be hard to count the percentage of every day objects most people use world wide that owe their availability or existence to that sta
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
That is a good question. I wonder if maybe no judgement has even been entered, just the contempt ruling. And if so, could this trick could be used to prevent an appeal and keep him under arrest indefinitely? IANAL obviously, but very curiou
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
I was listing barriers namely debt and market research. The market research barrier is solved in such a way that it produces a de-facto cartel. But indeed, "Never" is to strong a term. "Typically in the US" would be more
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The barriers include psychological refusal and debt on the building. But the main barrier, at least for residential property, is researching competing prices. This is solved by using a service. The same service all land lords use. This is w
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
This theory is simply not correct, the market is broken. Even flint Michigan has lost 1/5 of it's population since 2000 and rent has still risen. Just show me some towns where the market works. The use of that software has exactly
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Prices are set by the Property Management Software SaaS that all landlords use. So it is a Cartel. That is why prices rise even in places where population drops and vacancies rise. This can't be a surprise, vast swathes of the economy
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
I think the article's claim is that bigotry against appearances is so strong that it uses up people's ability to keep an open mind on any other topic of discussion. Which is to say, we live in a world at the moment where when some
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
True, one should always avoid the word "always". But given that the world just saw a Senate trial of a nations highest ranking member occur with no witness and no evidence allowed, the claim remains pretty strong.
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Many people calling for free speech are undisturbed by a leader that calls the press "the enemy of the people" and leads rally where the press is screamed at and intimidated and where chants to lock up political opponents are comm
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Since higher position in a social structure always means better treatment by the judicial system, it should be expected that the reduced deterrent would result in more bad behavior.
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
>silencing everyone who disagrees with you That is not remotely what is being suggested. Toxicity is when a site devoted to people mourning a synagogue massacre is overwhelmed by spamming neo-nazis. Toxicity is annihilating a site's
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Does free speech include yelling down other speakers? In the physical world this rarely happens. But spamming and vandalizing an intelligent conversation with sock-puppets and intentionally disingenuous posts is trivial and universal on the
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It would also be interesting to know how many dollars per man hour.
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Could be the whole thing is faked by an other country. Could be all the logs were misread. Could be the west trying to make Erdogan look bad, or a plot by Gulen or maybe UFOS. But more likely is a regime spewing conspiracy theories so the p
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Reading the article, it seems the conclusion was inferred from the fact that Cyprus, Greece, Albania and Turkish Masons were targets. That those targets are not a good way to steal but are all disliked by the current regime. That several we
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
This effect can not be over stated. Plantation owners never invented the cotton gin in spite of the vast numbers of them and decades of cotton raising. I suspect there were additional social issues at play as well. For example, plantation o
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
I can't claim expertise comparing particular funds. But for example, hasn't Vanguard's Real Estate EFT outperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin? And beside serious investors, for the typical individual, a home loan allow
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
It will not crash. There maybe a temporary double digit dip in prices described in hyperbolic "end of the world crash" terms to demand government intervention to prop up prices. But without large social-economic change, land/

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