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by asift 11y ago
Norms are not static and based on your experiences as a child. It's labeled "free range parenting" because it is no longer the norm. Edit: I should have been more careful in my wording. Whether it is "the norm" is o
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by asift 11y ago
100% speculation on my part...but what would some type of radio communication have went out giving the license plate and make/model for the car associated with a missing person? If so, Colburn could have wrote these down and was simply
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by asift 11y ago
More severe penalties for reneging would seem to make sense too. This could potentially be problematic in cases of scalping (e.g., the seller scalps a ticket right before someone else makes a purchase on SH), but this is simply another case
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by asift 11y ago
Or SH can work with other stakeholders in the industry to develop alternative systems of digital transfer and record keeping of ticket ownership. Paper tickets have some benefits, but there should be a way to void a paper ticket and convert
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by asift 11y ago
I want people in India to have a choice. They can choose to accept Zuckerburg's free internet or they can wait for something else to come along. It's Zuckerburg's critics that want to deny Indians their right to choose by tak
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by asift 11y ago
I'm talking about right at this immediate moment. You're correct they can lobby, but while they take the time to engage in that process, they will either have Zuckerburg's free internet or they will have nothing. The dichotom
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by asift 11y ago
It's not that they don't see other alternatives. This is true, but the reality is that other realistic alternatives don't even exist. Their realistic option set is: (a) free access to an incredibly valuable set of resources
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by asift 11y ago
>you can't really create a government around it You say that as if it's a bug and not a feature... In all seriousness, I'm not sure I understand your claim that it's an impossible form of society. I understand the arg
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by asift 11y ago
>would prefer the world to be sorted on raw power alone Regardless of whether such libertarians are right or wrong in their beliefs about private governance, this is completely inaccurate depiction of their views. Peter Stringham's
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by asift 11y ago
You're correct. Using swipe to type on my phone can lead to some dumb mistakes...
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by asift 11y ago
He accepts that this is true through various forms of rent seeking behavior. He even explicitly condones such forms of wealth creation.
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by asift 11y ago
Reducing economic inequality is merely a lesser form of eliminating it. I think the tough question people should consider here is whether relative inequality or absolute standard of living is the more important metric. If absolute standard
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by asift 11y ago
>The wealth generated by this astounding leap of productivity went entirely to the shareholders of the John Deere corporation. Nonsense. The fact that people can buy food for an insignificant portion of their annual income and were freed
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by asift 11y ago
This is just an all around terrible article. The fact that they cite the claim that women are paid 79% of what men make (a statistic which is only true when you don't account for other important factors such as occupation, experience,
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by asift 11y ago
There are legitimate health risks associated with shunning modern technology in favor of organic food: >"Contrary to popular wisdom, organic produce is not pesticide-free. Instead, it’s grown with primitive pesticides that can be si
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by asift 11y ago
Yes, but how does that apply to the sharing economy? Uber has added immense value to my life and the lives of it's millions of satisfied customers.
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by asift 11y ago
I know you're not OP and I understand this is the definition of rent-seeking behavior, but your examples are empirically and theoretically invalid. Landlords (renters of capital) and middlemen provide huge benefits to society. Of cou
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by asift 11y ago
Due you suppose consumers are only unable to determine pilot skill due to a lack of prior incentive to develop systems for disseminating this information or because it is technologically impossible?
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by asift 11y ago
Empirically that isn't always the case. Often rent-seekers who stand to profit from various regulations have far more influence on public policy than "safety" does.
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by asift 11y ago
What if I find 1.1 deaths per 100,000 flight hours to be a perfectly reasonable risk relative to the benefits I receive from using such a service? I can't make that decision for myself?
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by asift 11y ago
What do you mean by rent-seeking behavior?
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by asift 11y ago
It's too bad the game doesn't include an option to adopt Houston-style regulation and create a better institutional framework for regulating housing in the first place.
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by asift 11y ago
Right...because before the state department came along companies had no interest in feeding their patrons safe food... People are incredibly unscientific when attributing success to governmental regulatory bodies.
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by asift 11y ago
>they don't know enough to even know when it would be dangerous to fly 1. You do realize these pilots can already fly passengers, correct? 2. This is the type of problem companies help solve all of the time. The minimum wage worker
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by asift 11y ago
Actually there is a tremendous amount of research on the importance of genetics (particularly twin and adoption studies). My quick summary here is going to be overly simplistic, but at a very high level, so long as a child wasn't raise
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by asift 11y ago
There are a myriad of ways companies could develop and implement internal controls. I have no particular knowledge that would make qualified to proclaim the single best way for handling these problems, but from a historical and empirical st
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by asift 11y ago
Those aren't the types of safeguards I was referring to...but you know what also already exists? Pilots flying the exact same flights the FAA has decided must be banned (solely because of the commercial element). My comment was narrowl
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by asift 11y ago
I was referring to the comment I quoted: >Wealth, or relative wealth...
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by asift 11y ago
The problems you described seem fairly easy to remedy through means other than an FAA ban. As a customer, I have zero interest in taking an excessively risky flight. I would seek companies that provide internal safeguards, such as weather r
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by asift 11y ago
>Seventy per cent of people born into the bottom quintile of income distribution never make it into the middle class, and fewer than ten per cent get into the top quintile. Forty per cent are still poor as adults. I'm unconvinced th

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