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by bhelkey 7y ago
If the two people involved in the two people involved in the trade are exactly x better off and the, lets say, two people not involved in the trade are exactly x worse off, that transaction is still zero-sum. Zero-sum games are not limited
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by bhelkey 7y ago
I think that you might be disappointed with the response. Postcards are a thing for example.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
I posted the following comment on that thread: I would call this article deliberately misleading. It tries to make the point that new luxury apartment construction is bad for rent prices: >And ideally, developers say, building more units
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by bhelkey 7y ago
I would call this article deliberately misleading. It tries to make the point that new luxury apartment construction is bad for rent prices: >And ideally, developers say, building more units for wealthy tenants means they’ll move out of
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by bhelkey 7y ago
There are two 18s, the 19 should instead say 20 ... old -> fixed 17 -> 17 18 -> 18 18 -> 19 19 -> 20 20 -> 21 ...
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by bhelkey 7y ago
> I’d be perfectly happy to experiment with policies that are way outside the Overton window I am curious, what are some examples?
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by bhelkey 7y ago
That's a shame.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
> Not that anybody cares I think you would be surprised at the number people interested in something like this. When I read this, I saw a little of myself in you. I am fairly into bouldering, hiking and have tried, unsuccessfully, to ge
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by bhelkey 7y ago
By 'couldn't sell it' do you mean that your kids were uninterested?
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by bhelkey 7y ago
> "Mid-aughts" refers to the first decade of a century. > https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/1300361 In case anyone else is unfamiliar with this term.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
I believe the point is who pays if it breaks.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
The point of studding something like this is to make sure that common sense is correct. A lot of things sound right but are dead wrong.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
The local government is incentivised to catch the reporter quickly to showcase their capabilities. The reporter is incentivised to be caught quickly to make a more compelling story.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
As others have mentioned, there is a fear that if RSS users aren't viewing ads and RSS users keep decreasing in number, eventually, content producers will stop supporting it.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
Just because you have kept using RSS doesn't mean that the community has grown or even that it has stayed constant in size. Interest in RSS (or at least the best proxy I could find, Google searches for "RSS") has been steadil
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by bhelkey 7y ago
It seems to me that the core of this post is that the tweet was left up for nine years and then the account was suspended. If someone made this tweet now and had their account suspended or the tweet in question was deleted but the account w
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by bhelkey 7y ago
From elsewhere in this thread, here is an article from a year ago that dismisses using GDPR to access emails about you. https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/05/03/no-gdpr-wont-let-you-re...
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by bhelkey 7y ago
> However, European case law clearly states that data such as emails your boss has sent about you is exempt from this. > “The reason behind this exemption is that those internal messages contain the personal thoughts of your boss. The
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by bhelkey 7y ago
> If a hospital can't charge more than the median value that in network patients are charged, why would you buy insurance? You would buy health insurance for the same reason anyone buys any kind of insurance (above legal minimums).
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by bhelkey 7y ago
Tourism represented 42.0% of the export of goods and services in Iceland [1]. I suspect that if the number of tourists fell significantly, they would be greatly missed by the locals. [1] https://www.ferdamalastofa.is/en&#x2
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by bhelkey 7y ago
If a policy helps 94% of the time and is no better or worse 6% of the time, should we enact it?
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by bhelkey 7y ago
The site appears to support 7 languages in the rather hard to see dropdown near the youglish logo.
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by bhelkey 7y ago
Several commenters in this thread missed the language drop down. In addition to being rather small, the drop down has an awful color contrast ratio of 2.75 : 1 between the dark grey text (#7f98ad) and the light grey background (#f5f5f5)[1].
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by bhelkey 7y ago
Should it be legal to create a drive-in that plays movies off of Netflix?
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by bhelkey 7y ago
> assuming a dictionary size of 50,000 words
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by bhelkey 8y ago
I wasn't aware of this. I updated my comment to reflect this.
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by bhelkey 8y ago
I wasn't aware of this. I updated my comment to reflect this.
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by bhelkey 8y ago
Edit: The following is correct but misleading. The Muller report was reported to be released before the Facebook security update. Facebook announced this before the Muller report was released. The Facebook security post was updated April
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by bhelkey 8y ago
> At Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday he [Assange] was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court. >The indictment against Assange, issued last year in the state of Virginia, alleges that he conspired in 2010 wit
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by bhelkey 8y ago
> Scotland Yard said it was invited into the embassy on Thursday by the ambassador, following the Ecuadorian government's withdrawal of asylum. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47891737

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