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by burroisolator 7y ago
I thought 18 carat just means 75% pure gold. If something has 10x less actual gold does that mean it is 1.8 carats?
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by burroisolator 7y ago
I guess I'm searching for a graph that has time on the x-axis and (real gdp * % of income that went to the bottom z%) on the y-axis for 5 ~ 10 different values of z. And hopefully it trends upwards for all values. I'm just surpris
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by burroisolator 7y ago
Perhaps my argument can be simplified as follows. If everyone had the same models, they would pick the investment with the highest ROI adjusted for risk (ignoring externalities). That same investment is now not available for someone else: t
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by burroisolator 7y ago
> Real GDP per capita grows. Do you know if the share of real GDP for the bottom 10% (or in general, bottom x%) of consumers grown? And is there a well-known term/metric for this?
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by burroisolator 7y ago
There is a zero-sum game in the some sense if you focus on potential buyers. If you buy out all the onions in a grocery store (and continue to do so once they restock), eventually the grocery store is going to start raising onion prices. Th
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by burroisolator 7y ago
Economies of scale and knowledge spillovers cause large labor markets to be more productive than smaller ones, and thus not trying to concentrate jobs will be an uphill battle. Increasing mobility in areas with more unemployment will probab
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by burroisolator 7y ago
I think it helps to understand that only 0.37% of the world's land mass is artificial covering [0]. It makes sense that counteracting the loss of albedo from the melting icecap would be difficult as that would imply drastically increas
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by burroisolator 7y ago
> You generally need borders if you want some from of universal heath coverage for example, that's not disputed. Do you mean that the US can't afford to give universal heath coverage to everyone if the entire world migrated in
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by burroisolator 7y ago
I'm not sure about major complaint(s) of people, but I can see why city planners would be upset. City planners use height restrictions or FARs (floor area ratio) as a bargaining chip to get what they want: usually things like more affo
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by burroisolator 7y ago
Source for 1. above https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
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by burroisolator 8y ago
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529624
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by burroisolator 8y ago
> When someone has money and spends it, other people benefit. Buying that jet employs how many people? Keeping that jet running employs how many people? It is true that one person's spending is another person's income but that
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by burroisolator 8y ago
I apologize for inferring more than you said, but I do think that the average case of Betty finding a gold nugget or more commonly winning a lottery ticket leads to wasteful consumption. And so it spurred me to give the answer I gave.
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by burroisolator 8y ago
> If one person controls all the money in the world, would you consider that to be harmful to society? Probably not since the money would be worthless: why would anyone want to use this money?
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by burroisolator 8y ago
> This suggests that if I find a gold nugget while hiking, somehow that hurts society? Yes, if they sell the gold nugget and purchase wasteful goods and services, assuming they would not have purchased those goods and services otherwise.
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by burroisolator 8y ago
Wow! This is a long article but I believe it is worth a read to the end: in short, don't dismiss this as yet another "top N evil things that Google has done" article. It is a narrative about anti-trust regulation that happens
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by burroisolator 8y ago
I get "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired." when trying to open with Adobe Reader.
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by burroisolator 8y ago
"Amazon has definitely pioneered online commerce and has excelled at providing a very engaging customer experience and executing the complex supply-chain steps of delivery purchases to consumers. But its success is not the result of th
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by burroisolator 8y ago
Don't forget DoubleClick in addition to Trendalyzer for Google Analytics.
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by burroisolator 8y ago
I would be interested to know myself. My guess is that the cost of upgrading libraries isn't that expensive. Library maintainers probably have to change things every couple of years anyways when new countries get added or a country cha
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by burroisolator 8y ago
We basically do that every year, and the results don't look so promising... "Exploiting the discrete nature of DST transitions and a 2007 policy change, I estimate the impact of DST on fatal automobile crashes. My resul
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by burroisolator 8y ago
For starters, your time value cannot be 0. At minimum, your time value is equal to your living expenses.