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by daniel-s 6y ago
You have provided no definition. "Unacceptable amount of market control" defines nothing at all. In fact, it only supports what I said. "Unacceptable" will be what the bureaucrat/politician has decided he wants to g
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by daniel-s 6y ago
I will confess to not making it to the end of the introduction, but this is a general comment about anti-trust and monopoly laws. They're made up and arbitrary. The best definition I have seen is that someone is a monopoly if they have
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Here the fault is not the buyer or seller but the government. If you didn't financially penalise the smoker for smoking, he would have a disincentive to smoke. However, the government might decide to subsidise healthcare, thereby takin
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Not true. Your trading provides a secondary market for companies. It encourages people to create new companies to later sell to investors. Further, you get rewarded to the degree that you correctly speculate on the future prices of stocks (
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Regarding Tobacco: they're providing a product that people want to consume. I'm classifying fraud with violence. So if a tobacco company lies, pretending that their products are healthy or whatever, that's evil. But a rationa
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by daniel-s 6y ago
That's pretty absurd. You just said that most companies are on net a burden on our society. Let me check. Yep, can confirm that we do not live in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. If what you said were true, we would probably not live in a
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by daniel-s 6y ago
First, those are two different things. The first is a business selling a product for profit, the second is a charity: giving or subsidising food to a kid. It's impossible to know how much benefit anyone gets from food. Maybe the rich k
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by daniel-s 6y ago
The way that you know that you're making a social impact or benefiting society then you're making money. Social benefit and making profits are the same thing. There are exceptions of course, like if you made money by cheating via
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Is this a useful strategy that banks can or do employ? Filling a phisher's catch with spammed fake credentials may pollute their database enough that it's not worth selling.
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by daniel-s 6y ago
I think that there are a lot of use cases of Pis for which online cloud providers might be a better option. Where does it become a better idea to just rent a few instances in Azure/EC2/Google Cloud?
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by daniel-s 6y ago
There is no definition of monopoly. People complain about monopolies when they lose or don't get what they want so resort to the government to cheat their way to competitiveness/success.
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Meh, I think this whole argument is wrong. Software "bloat" is fine. I'm reminded of this [1] article comparing Bruguet and Carson numbers. You have ever cheaper hardware. The marginal utility of any given unit of new, equall
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Feel free to disagree with me, but I believe I very well understand what "social democracy" is supposed to mean.
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Your list is a list of countries that also happen to be at the top of this one [1]. They are the countries with the most freedom and capitalism. People are generally happy when they're free to own property and become prosperous. [1] h
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Aren't fund managers on average slightly less successful than the index? Throwing darts at a board or using a capuchin monkey to decide (random allocation) is a better strategy than investing in a managed fund. Not a joke, an actual
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by daniel-s 6y ago
Wait, so his bug has a bug in it and if tested would bug-out by working properly?
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by daniel-s 6y ago
That period in the 70s also corresponds with the moment that US dollars lost any ties to gold. There is a natural rate of interest in an economy. When the central bank artificially lowers interest rates you get malinvestments. This is only
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by daniel-s 7y ago
> I’ll brush up on Scheme myself just so I can give you a Scheme programming question. That's when I realised the author was quite obviously lying.
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by daniel-s 7y ago
Fraud is a crime. It has no place in a free (i.e. libertarian) society. I believe fraud is seen by libertarians as a type of theft and theft is a crime in any society or body of thought that values property rights. Nonaggression towards oth
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by daniel-s 8y ago
Nobody cares about the coursework at uni and what you learn. They're selling the accreditation (piece of paper). That's where the value is and they're not giving that away.
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by daniel-s 8y ago
I'm guessing digg.
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by daniel-s 8y ago
Why is SQRL [1] not more popular? [1] https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm