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by bhupy 6y ago
Universities offer preferential pricing (in-state tuition) for state residences. University libraries typically disallow non-students from entering. It's an important example because it raises the question of where we draw the line as
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by bhupy 6y ago
These numbers are from 2019, pre-COVID.
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by bhupy 6y ago
What? America is like the top 3 in median disposable income in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c... US wealth per adult is higher than Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and the Ne
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by bhupy 6y ago
It depends on the library. I guess the real questions is: is it unconstitutional for there to be a public library that only allows entry top library card holders?
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by bhupy 6y ago
Curious what this means for public facilities (like libraries, universities, schools) that are either only available to city/state residents, or offer preferential pricing for residents.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Hindenburg has been pretty upfront about their short position, as has most reporting. OTOH, short sellers actually have skin in the game, they're putting their money where their mouths are. It's an important mechanism in the publi
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by bhupy 6y ago
Had NKLA not been publicly traded, there would have been little financial incentive for an institution with skin in the game to systematically research and report on potential fraud.
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by bhupy 6y ago
But we're not talking about "social media" in broad terms, we're talking specifically about Facebook's pivot towards smaller community and group building, per: > The strategy that Facebook has been pivoting towar
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by bhupy 6y ago
Or that Silicon Valley has no intrinsic advantage, and that they no longer have to factor it in where they are physically situated. Denver probably came out on top because they think it affords a better quality of life for their employees a
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by bhupy 6y ago
In other words, technology that makes our lives easier can be used by people we don't like to make their lives easier also.
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by bhupy 6y ago
This is Apple's strongest argument, particularly from a "consumer welfare" standpoint.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Right, and that's just as easily an argument in favor of loosening the existing restrictions, not tightening them even further. Epistemologically, where you come out on this all depends on which axiom you start from. Also, there&#x27
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by bhupy 6y ago
Yes, and Facebook as a platform is not a place solely reserved for "facts", one can also post "opinions". This isn't even a new thing: Op-Eds (i.e. "opinion" and not necessarily "fact") are a com
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by bhupy 6y ago
I mean, by that logic, the US government allowing anti-vaccination sentiment to proliferate without legal/policy action (read: the First Amendment), is also "unambiguously harmful to society". Except, the issue is way more nu
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by bhupy 6y ago
It begins to matter more when “coastal elites” don’t just view “rugged individualists” a certain way, but also wish to exert power/influence over them via policy.
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by bhupy 6y ago
"States rights" is a phrase that carries a lot of historical baggage, but not only is there nothing inherently wrong with the concept, there's a lot of merit to decentralization/subsidiarity. It's a core principle o
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by bhupy 6y ago
"Starve the Beast" is a bit of a boogeyman, because the actual size and spending of government hasn't changed, only the deficit has.
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by bhupy 6y ago
> As for the tragedy of the commons being only transcended in small homogenous groups, that's stretching the definition of small and you can still have norms for larger groups without introducing tons of authority. I'm not sure
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by bhupy 6y ago
Except infrastructure in most of the US is communally owned, and we had to institute authority and fines for littering. While it's true that there exists some societies that have been able to overcome the tragedy of the commons (it&#x2
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by bhupy 6y ago
The problem I’m having with this is that, while yes you don’t have to worry about the tragedy of the commons in your own home or church or place of work...it isn’t feasible to live your entire life outside the commons. How/where would
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by bhupy 6y ago
> I believe the poll is polluted by the FUD Uber/Lyft have been propagating (including most recently threatening to shut down with little notice if they didn't get their way in court) Honest question: what would convince you t
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by bhupy 6y ago
> You cannot take a poll in isolation like that. No more than you can take a single driver's anecdote in a NYT Op-Ed in isolation. The argument is that the aggregate poll is better than the anecdote, not that it's the platoni
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by bhupy 6y ago
There's a lot of nuance at play here. To what degree are the drivers being "exploited"? There's no doubt that there exist some that rely almost entirely on app-based gig work for their livelihood, but is that true for th
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by bhupy 6y ago
Did you read the poll? The questions were fairly straightforward: "Thinking about your work driving or delivering with app-based rideshare and food delivery companies, do you prefer to be an independent contractor or an employee?"
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by bhupy 6y ago
A reminder that one driver's story, while important and valuable, needs to be contextualized against the aggregate polling data (as imperfect as it is). https://ac32b1ba-8f5b-411f-91ab-b7ae9a046606.usrfiles.com/ug... U
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Yes that why we have CEO's and executives swimming in money. That's totally orthogonal though. Competitive businesses can absolutely have highly paid executives. All you have to do is run the arithmetic of how much you can re
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by bhupy 6y ago
Yup, that's certainly true, especially in uncompetitive markets. On average, though, the empirical evidence ranges from inconclusive to supportive: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,33&qsp=1&
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by bhupy 6y ago
> when wages haven't gone up in 50 years This argument is made time and time again as though it's a self-evident truth...except it's not true at all. The inflation-adjusted median personal income is higher than it's e
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by bhupy 6y ago
That's not how prices work. Eg. if the price of gas increases, then airline ticket prices increase. It's not that the airline companies didn't think that they could increase their prices before, it's just that the cost o
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by bhupy 6y ago
That's not true. If the cost to produce goods & services increases uniformly for every seller, then the price will increase, unless a merchant is able to absorb the increased cost to produce the goods & services while maintaini

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