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by aksss 5y ago
OPEC would be illegal if replicated by a band of American companies, no? I think it's only "legal" because the sovereign entities running it transcend any laws of commerce as we understand them in America. Not dependent upon
902.
by aksss 5y ago
Monopoly is simplified not only in its portrayal of one market, but in the fact that it's only concerned with one market. The reality of capitalism also includes this dynamic of new markets being created organically and deliberately,
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by aksss 5y ago
There's no minimum wage for illegal immigrants. The higher minimum wage gets, the more incentive there is to draw upon illegal labor markets, particularly the more plentiful the illegal labor units become.
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by aksss 5y ago
While not endorsing or rejecting your list completely, I'd just like to point out for others that "innovating regulation" is a thing - to the extent that a large corporation can lobby for new, burdensome regulation that only
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by aksss 5y ago
How is big ag not representing an efficient market compared to thousands of small disconnected farms? In this sense thinking about efficiency being a measure of how open and accessible information is concerning said market. I can think of a
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by aksss 5y ago
>> _Russian intelligence_ has concluded that Klyushin, 41, _has_ access to documents relating to a Russian campaign to hack Democratic Party servers during the 2016 U.S. election. These documents, _they say_, establish the hacking was
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by aksss 5y ago
"YouTube takes down Joe Rogan interview with Dr. Robert Malone for its criticism of healthcare industry and government institutions." FTFY Just this bit hits home: https://youtu.be/HUX9LqA3bGY
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by aksss 5y ago
Empire (which I’d put in the tribal side) brought international commerce, peace, standards, etc, I should think. You’re making many generalizations to rationalize a hopeful faith in globalization, and ignoring many profound negatives. Triba
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by aksss 5y ago
Most fascinating and new (to me) thing in the list: "Starved men, but not women, significantly oriented toward the ambient/modulated magnetic north or east, directions which had been previously food-associated, without any other h
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by aksss 5y ago
Start my new 15-minute body workout routine (like 4-hour body but ain't nobody got time for that).
911.
by aksss 5y ago
Jeez, the error message in safari was below the scroll line. I got annoyed with the spinning circle loading the page for navigator 3 and thought, “oh I get it.. haha it’s being slow like back in the day”. After thinking, “no, it wasn’t _thi
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by aksss 5y ago
Just wait for NFTs on the alphabet.
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by aksss 5y ago
So... did the ridge wallet survive?
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by aksss 5y ago
I think GP is using 'profit' to talk about wealth extraction from the business. Putting surplus cash into an emergency fund, maintaining a cash balance for unforeseen costs, or similar wouldn't be quite the same thing. One wa
915.
by aksss 5y ago
Yeah, people at start of pandemic needed something easy and quick. Many of those people were relatively new to VC as an everyday part of the toolset. Zoom was focused on engaging people over VC quickly and easily, whereas Teams was/is
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by aksss 5y ago
MySQL? I mean, it doesn't have some of the cool features of postgres, but those cool features are perhaps what people indirectly complain about when they gripe about its complexity and footprint. MySQL performs well, is popular (in the
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by aksss 5y ago
I recall Vaclav Smil saying batteries are consistently about 2-3% per year over the long haul. It's not a Moore's law scenario, but a very slow crawl. "Miracles might happen," he says, "but would I bet on a miracle
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by aksss 5y ago
Ordnance survey of Scotland, 1890. Holy crap, the effort represented there.
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by aksss 5y ago
I too am a bit confused about that $2/GB for perpetuity. I'm assuming that's a loaded cost representing maintenance, backups, power. A TCO kind of number. Maybe that's a bad assumption?
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by aksss 5y ago
beowolf cluster
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by aksss 5y ago
I think this is a very appropriate comparison. At risk of forcing the analogy, there's some balance between (dis)trusting society at large with the liberation of attitudes towards psychedelics while maintaining some guardrails against
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by aksss 5y ago
Cool, but what about projector calculation?
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by aksss 5y ago
Hey, don't forget about these bundles of engineering awesomeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive
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by aksss 5y ago
The GSC improvements aren't just about Amazon and trinkets. Other parts of this iceberg may include standard of living increases across the globe, the ability to open markets in a bidirectional way, global competitiveness, and lowering
925.
by aksss 5y ago
People living in periods of high innovation (Han dynasty, 19th century West) didn’t have near the luxury your average person in America enjoys today. Less debt, but also a dramatically lower carbon footprint reflecting a far lower standard
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by aksss 5y ago
Also, you can buy a damned fine projector for <$3000 if you have a room you can house it in (about price of high end laptop with a better amortization schedule). Throw distances are easily doable for a 12’ span. Shorter throws are gettin
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by aksss 5y ago
Well thank God for the pandemic, then. There was a point in time where the theaters had reopened but the majority of people were still afraid to go. Was perfect, 98% of the time we’d have the theater to ourselves. Never a crowd. Those days
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by aksss 5y ago
> $70..none of us have enough money. C’mon - a) none of us likely see $70/yr in personal value in Facebook; b) Facebook thrives on participation. It’s not like ads and PII harvesting are a consequence of people not paying, it’s th
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by aksss 5y ago
This is true, and I’m not sure that culturally we have acknowledged the consequences of involving kids in these apocalyptic concerns. Anxiety seems to be a chronic condition affecting more kids in quantity in my community than I ever recall
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by aksss 5y ago
Remember the ipod not only didn't have expandable storage, they were still using a mechanical disk until at least second gen, I think. Just a shout out to the Frontier Labs NexIIe. Awesome little MP3 player that took compact flash stor

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