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by asr 11y ago
I am not sure why this comment (and all Udik's comments) is being downvoted into oblivion. This is the view of the US government and quite likely a vast majority of citizens here (and, I would guess, in many countries). This morning I
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by asr 11y ago
This. Did you know Texas and Oklahoma fought a "battle"? http://dbpedia.org/page/Red_River_Bridge_War
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by asr 11y ago
This distinction is generally made when economists think about advertising too -- for example: http://economics.virginia.edu/sites/economics.virginia.edu/f... Though I've never heard "advertising" a
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by asr 11y ago
"A sample of 250 kids isn't that accurate... And anecdotally..." A sample of 250 could be wrong but at least it's a study, and so much better than an anecdote. It's also much better than the original article, whic
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by asr 11y ago
Not sure I understand your question. Are you saying the fed is wrong here and raising rates into the teeth of a likely recession? If that's your question, good luck finding someone who knows the answer, but I will note that when the e
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by asr 11y ago
http://www.keurig.com/kold
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by asr 11y ago
google search - some claim The Algorithm didn't make that much difference How old are you? The algorithm made a difference :)
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by asr 11y ago
I upvoted you as you make a good point. But a quick note: you can't be a convicted monopolist. "Monopolization" is illegal, but that requires both monopoly power and anticompetitive conduct. Monopoly power on its own is no
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by asr 12y ago
The opposite, actually. With those sorts of assets you have to start getting worried about algorithms front-running your trades and things like that. Also, "the market" is big .
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by asr 12y ago
linkbait title. from the article: [The researcher's] theory is that people who sleep for more than eight hours sometimes have an underlying health problem that is not yet showing in other symptoms. So, it's not the long sleep th
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by asr 12y ago
I don't care about how the war in Iraq is going.... I don't care how many people are dying in a genocide on the other side of the world. I am sure this is not quite how you mean it, but to me this comes across as saying "if
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by asr 12y ago
The entire point of decades of research, and the above article, is that next to nobody can reliably tell you in advance which stocks are "the dogs." I'm glad for you, but if you want to convince me your active funds can reli
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by asr 12y ago
That is the implicit exchange between employee and employer. I will provide you with the opportunity to profit from my labour; you will provide me with security. Interesting, but I can't say I agree. Some jobs are compensated in ris
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by asr 13y ago
Agreed. For anyone else who routinely reads comments without reading the article, if this is still the top comment, I'd suggest you just go skim the article. (Aside: I'd guess it's because there are people like me, who often read comments b
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by asr 14y ago
As a law student, I think both of these are defensible positions, and neither approach bothers me. I like the result as a policy matter, but don't know enough about the precedents or the Copyright Act to comment on the result as a legal mat
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Interview with TripAdvisor co-founder Stephen Kaufer(nytimes.com)
1 points by asr 14y ago|0 comments
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by asr 14y ago
To answer your question: yes, you can sue the politicians for spending your money in a way you don't think is Constitutional. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flast_v._Cohen and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)#Taxpayer_standi
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by asr 14y ago
Definitely illegal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_of_loyalty Thought I'd doubt it would be litigated, unless the founders are particularly stupid in addition to being immoral.
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by asr 14y ago
Al Roth is basically a computer scientist masquerading as an economist (or the other way around?) -- he does a lot of work on stable matching algorithms, including involvement in designing the medical residency match, kidney-donation match
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Market Design Economists win Nobel Prize(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by asr 14y ago|3 comments
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by asr 14y ago
Both examples from the article (maps, Google's iOS app) are examples where the author claims/implies Apple is at fault. So I don't think the title slip is particularly misleading. Also, who cares who started it? Usually, competition is good
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by asr 14y ago
Agree with your larger point, but your tone is a bit argumentative. Also, civil disobedience doesn't mean what you think it means: much like civil disobedience, you have no right to complain once you are found to be breaking the law/p
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by asr 14y ago
Seriously, does this guy not have any parents/siblings/super close friends who can tell him it's time to move on? This is a great happy hour story, but not such a great epitaph. On the bright side, at least he's thematically consistent! "I
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by asr 14y ago
I think the point of the article (which wasn't very clear; maybe Adam Davidson should stick to radio) was that even at a price most of us would consider expensive, this guy doesn't make much money. And the reason is that, as the modern econ
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by asr 14y ago
No offense, but this could be really bad advice. Maybe the customers who'd pay 10k for a suit won't go to some guy's living room for fittings. Or maybe the price of top bespoke tailors in town is comparable, because they make better use of
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by asr 14y ago
Just like the sesame-seed hamburger bun: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/11.html (Though, personally, in this case, I don't think Google's getting enough credit. The added space for search tools is designed to make search bett
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by asr 14y ago
Not to derail, but the regulatory capture in this article is mostly an absence of enforcement of laws. Retractable Technologies had to file their own antitrust suit because the DOJ and FTC wouldn't investigate GPOs. The next time someone
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by asr 14y ago
Given that Patrick's tentative conclusion was that the new version makes a similar amount of money, but allows more people to get value from his software, leaving up the old design would seem a bit... hard-hearted.
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by asr 14y ago
So, in your doomsday scenario, I get books for $5 and authors make more money? I'll take it. The crux of Stross's argument for why we should fear Amazon's low prices is that it's "predatory pricing"--that Amazon was selling e-books below co
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by asr 15y ago
This debate is very interesting, and you've both made some great points. But I lost you entirely with this post: I didn't mean professional in the sense of "money-earning," as you would use the term applied to participants in a certain fie

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