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by YokoZar 10y ago
The Something Awful forums have charged 10 dollars for an account (and a few other features) for a long time now, and as a result there are basically no bots and higher quality posts. It's comedy focused, but there's topical areas
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by YokoZar 10y ago
You can get most of the way there by just mandating the fines go to a different layer of government. If it's cities deciding fine levels and enforcing them with city police, but revenues go to the state, then there is not nearly as mu
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by YokoZar 10y ago
These are property tax returns. Property tax returns come from property prices. Making a neighborhood nicer raises property values, and thus prices. The article is making the observation that it's much easier and cheaper to improve b
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by YokoZar 10y ago
A plumber who is also a carpenter is usually known as a "handyman". There's a reason apartment complexes big enough to have maintenance staff tend to hire that sort of person over a dedicated specialist. If you're a larg
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by YokoZar 10y ago
If you have a 401k benefit, you have a portable pension that you can take with you from job to job -- roll it into an individual retirement account when you're done. If you don't have a 401k benefit, you can fund an IRA yourself.
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by YokoZar 10y ago
"In the past year, were you a victim of murder?"
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by YokoZar 10y ago
You can't just assume a famine starts and then look what happens. The whole point of pricing signals is that it changes what gets produced, making shortages less likely to occur in the first place.
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by YokoZar 10y ago
And the cause of rising rents and harder to get loans is a rise in home prices. Yet when we hear news reports about rising housing costs, we say that the housing market is "recovering" as though it's somehow a good thing. Pe
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by YokoZar 10y ago
This idea is actually in the article: > Fumigation: Another theory posits that the fires were used for sanitary reasons to smoke or fumigate a building, in order to get rid of pests, disease, insects, and/or witches. However, the e
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by YokoZar 10y ago
The same way you pay for any "perpetual" project -- you fund an investment endowment and spend the proceeds.
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by YokoZar 10y ago
Clicking the same button twice in a row in rapid succession is much easier for a human to do than clicking two small buttons on different parts of the screen. A naive counter of "actions per minute" would count both things as exa
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by YokoZar 10y ago
Yes, that's a literal textbook example of regulatory capture. There are many other examples of rent-seeking. One of the most common ways of using government to eliminate competition is what is referred to as "regulatory capture.&
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by YokoZar 10y ago
It's only suboptimal if "ordering last" is a thing. The article notes a better strategy of reaching consensus before ordering, and then ordering all the items together. That way by placing an order first you don't impl
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by YokoZar 10y ago
Imagine you were ordering for yourself and the restaurant served half portions. Would you really order two copies of the same thing? Diminishing returns in food enjoyment are real, we also enjoy variety for it's own sake. You get les
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by YokoZar 10y ago
If you have a very long history with a bank, however, that might factor into that bank's decision in giving you a credit card. Nothing stops banks from combining credit score data with other sources. As a personal anecdote, I avoided
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by YokoZar 10y ago
I believe the entire handle, head, and connector bits. Probably also parts of the manufacturing process. When I bought a Mach 3 handle about 10 years ago there were at least 12 patent numbers printed on it. There's a reason you haven
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by YokoZar 10y ago
The real threat to Gillette isn't new business models, it's the Mach 3 coming out of patent in the next two years. Soon after that you'll see off-brand Mach 3 compatible blades flooding discount retail outlets, and the whole
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by YokoZar 10y ago
There's some fraction of people who put up a listing and then temporarily stay elsewhere when it gets booked. This tends to happen in cities with plenty of rental inventory, as otherwise they just get booked all the time. The "fr
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by YokoZar 10y ago
They'd probably be better off with cash and gambling in some other fashion.
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Tourists are seen as a way to generate revenue for a city while not incurring the sorts of costs in services that residents do. Similar motivations cause cities to build office buildings without corresponding homes. Empirically it seems li
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by YokoZar 10y ago
Canonical owns the -buntu suffix too, so this isn't quite enough.
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Because these countries are made up of humans who are not freely choosing to waste scarce resources on such waste.
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by YokoZar 10y ago
A mere 6 hours of sleep is a little amount.
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by YokoZar 10y ago
I disagree, because I believe human rights exist.
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Her "district" is the entire state of California. What are you talking about?
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by YokoZar 11y ago
You can keep a company and most of its staff running while still wiping out shareholders and current high-level management. That's basically how the GM bailout worked.
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by YokoZar 11y ago
Hopefully you use your in-game gun a lot more than your real one!
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by YokoZar 11y ago
How is vehicle pollution "negligible"? The effects of pollution are quite measurable and we have pretty good estimates of how many people it kills in aggregate. It's entirely possible for pollution to kill vastly more peop
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by YokoZar 11y ago
The chancellor was hired with an enormous salary under the theory that she would be net more donors and be worth it. Donors who gave so much money they have buildings named after them wanted her to resign. They didn't get their way. A
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by YokoZar 11y ago
This absolutely stinks of seller's agents shirking their fiduciary duty so they can move more properties faster and claim access to an "exclusive" club when they take buyer clients.

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