alexeisadeski3

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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Relevant number is percent of food not percent of farms .
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>So in order to keep food cheap, we have to throw half of it away. Wut
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Tyler Cowen on Inequality and What Really Ails America(nytimes.com)
2 points by alexeisadeski3 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Culture.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
More or less. http://b-i.forbesimg.com/richardgreen/files/2013/12/Income-d...
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Does any other jurisdiction ban one's company from leaving ? None that I'm aware of. Just losing that future option value is sufficient to deem such a move insane regardless of original jurisdiction - unless for some reason the
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>moving our business there That would be genuinely insane.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
If poverty were relevant, Colorado would have zero gangs.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
I suppose many of them would.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The US is a police state...
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Absolutely.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Why downvoted?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>I don't even have a guess as to why white females might be arrested at a higher rate than black females. Have you spent any time around white American females?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Ancaps simply have more efficient ways of keeping the polluting factories away from homes than existing zoning processes can achieve.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>I think almost everyone agrees that governments shouldn't allow factories to be created in residential areas, or allow drivers to drive without liability insurance. Zoning is not needed for the former.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
No, that is not the root of the problem at all. The root of the problem is that humans have evolved anti-market biases that served us well when living in tribal communes but which are Pareto inefficient when living in large billion person s
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The amount of economic ignorance on display in here is not only astounding but deeply depressing.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Price Gouging and the Poor - relevant http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2013/10/price-gouging-a...
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Yes, yes it does. If Uber could help usher in the end of some of the other government monopolies, we'd be looking at some huge steps forward.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>Why do people think the latter is "more fair"? I have no idea what unfortunate psychological characteristic of the human brain leads so many to oppose price gouging and markets, but here is some tangential discussion: http:&#
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Richer people can afford more stuff, more news at 11.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Wow.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
What's "glib" about replacing food stamps with cash?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
"Food stamps" are so obnoxious. Just cut them a check or better yet hand out cash.
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How big a deal is replication failure?(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by alexeisadeski3 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Funny thing. Everyone here compares climate denial to other left wing bugaboos: 'creationism' 'ancient science' 'earth is the center of the universe' So why not compare to things where the left wing is wrong? W
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
SarBox? FATCA?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Give it time.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Agreed :)

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