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by anamax 4y ago
> For instance, if you buy groceries from Amazon-owned Whole Foods then maybe you should switch. Whole Foods is almost never the only option in a given area, even if you want delivery.
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by anamax 4y ago
Who had Ministry of Truth on their 2022 bingo card?
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by anamax 4y ago
> if the bank owns the land as in a mortgage In the US at least, mortgages are on both the land and the buildings. Getting easy details like this wrong suggest that you don't actually understand how property works. I get that you ha
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by anamax 4y ago
A shopping center without parking is almost always less valuable than one with parking. Yet, Georgists think that a shopping center without parking, one with parking, and a parking lot should all be taxed the same.
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by anamax 4y ago
Iceland's population is less than the population of Anaheim, which is #56 in the US by population, and just a little more than Honolulu.
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by anamax 4y ago
The question is not whether the executives are paid in stock, it's whether they're paid at all. Executives who don't worry about share price get to work somewhere else.
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by anamax 4y ago
Cycles can happen in lots of ways. For example, heap allocated closures for functions with non-local references create a cycle when a pointer to the closure is stored in a non-local environment.
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by anamax 4y ago
> I have a dumb question. Most publicly traded companies rarely issue new shares. Why does a company care about its share price? If a company doesn't care about share price, the shareholders will elect a board of directors who will
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by anamax 4y ago
> might be if a fish has been gathering Tritium it’s whole life Unless fish have some mechanism for selectively keeping tritium (which might be very useful) or don't replace their water, there's no way for a fish to "[gath
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by anamax 5y ago
The "if you were covered, it's not a pre-existing condition" rule when switching providers was the law in various states, including CA, before ACA. Did those states see the predicted effects?
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by anamax 5y ago
I'm having trouble seeing why encouraging women to maintain health insurance throughout pregnancy is a bad thing. Same with chronic problems.
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by anamax 5y ago
It may be a two-fer - Sri Lanka also went organic which cost them a huge fraction of their food production. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi...
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by anamax 5y ago
Yes, and we're talking about whether it's an actual problem. First of all, the vast majority of people live blocks, if not miles, from bodegas or their equivalent. Why are these people special? Note that they could have bodegas -
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by anamax 5y ago
Yes, they're disappointed. The thing is, they can fix the problem. If they don't care enough to fix the problem when it is well within their means to do so, why should I? That's not a class thing - it's a "take care
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by anamax 5y ago
> With a competent manager there should be no hard feelings when framed as a market adjustment. It's not "hard feelings", it's "Chris is more likely to leave than Pat."
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by anamax 5y ago
Why should I have sympathy for someone who rents at premium prices but doesn't get premium services? They can, wait for it, MOVE. (One benefit of being rich is the ability to respond when things are not as you'd like.)
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by anamax 5y ago
> I do have sympathy for a lack of services especially when paying to live in a premium desired area, services that remain available to people not paying a premium in a less desired area. Umm, that's like having sympathy for folks
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by anamax 5y ago
> make it possible for board members to strengthen their ownership by issuing new shares to existing owners This poison pill does not strengthen Twitter board members' ownership because they don't own much Twitter stock.
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by anamax 5y ago
Yes, Spain lost Gibraltar in a war. Pretty much every border was decided by war, so why is that border different? ("we had it a long time" isn't a difference.) Yes, Gibraltar is dependent on Spain for services. As I pointe
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by anamax 5y ago
Those are the options that have significant data. No one knows how other models work. However, note that "stable" comes from the data. Maybe other models are stable, maybe they're not. Without data, it's simply unknow
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by anamax 5y ago
> Disney would face a higher tax liability, however, the Florida Legislature passed a law several years ago that limits the amount that counties could raise their property taxes to no more than 10% per year. That would not be enough to c
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by anamax 5y ago
Hmm. W1 uses 1/N of the free formula and sells the remainder to W2-N. Next month, she's still lactating AND has enough money to buy 1/N for N-1 months. Note that the prices in this scheme are independent of Nestle's pric
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by anamax 5y ago
Another advantage of DC over AC is that DC doesn't have to be synchronized wrt frequency, phase, or power-factor.
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by anamax 5y ago
Sharing a border isn't a claim. (France and Spain share a border - which one has a claim as a result?) Every border is a result of "taken from them at gunpoint." (It's not hard to find folks who had large pieces of Spa
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by anamax 5y ago
I'm sure that that is a wonderful paper, behind a paywall.
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by anamax 5y ago
An example helps. Suppose that you're offered an opportunity to bet $10 with a 90% chance of $0 return and 10% chance of $1,000. That's a good bet, especially if you can keep making it. Put $100 at risk and you've got a rea
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by anamax 5y ago
TL;DR Is this sort of like "I forgot my password"? If I put 100 $20 bills into a paper shredder, will someone make me whole? Of course not, yet when the analogous thing happens in crypto, that's somehow an argument crypto is
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by anamax 5y ago
And then there's the question of whether suicide is necessarily bad. The assisted-suicide folks argue that some suicide is arguably better than the alternatives. 20-30 years ago, Time Magazine did a "here's a picture of every
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by anamax 5y ago
And between the two was HEP, by Burton Smith.
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by anamax 5y ago
> there are lots of gun suicides, and lower gun ownership rates brings those down. That's not sophistry, that's saving lives. You mean like in Japan...

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