dantheman

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by dantheman 3y ago
I'd bet they'd support land value taxes before they allow new construction.
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by dantheman 3y ago
It'd be a good way to drive wealth out of your city, much like the hollowing out of detroit. Only so many people can live at the expense of someone else before they decide to leave.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Just allow people to do what they want with their land. If a neighborhood want's low rises, let them buy the air rights from each land owner. Then the neighborhood can sell them or not, but there's a cost. End minimum parking req
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by dantheman 3y ago
This is completely different, this is an alternative to the traditional payment. The traditional deal is still there.
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by dantheman 3y ago
violating copyright is not stealing - it's a government granted monopoly...
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by dantheman 3y ago
The mafia shakes down people who don't interact with them, apple does not.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Far higher and the cost of goods has gone down while quality has gone up.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Fundraisers should benefit both people, this is extortion.
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by dantheman 3y ago
The term you're looking for is parallel construction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by dantheman 3y ago
Don't sell on Amazon if you want to sell at a lower price, it's not that hard.
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by dantheman 3y ago
I'd say the cost of switching in real life is a lot more expensive than going to a different URL. Amazon is dominant because it fights to provide a good value to its customers. It's easy for them to type in a different URL.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Did the price of milk get higher or did it just stay lower?
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by dantheman 3y ago
Slaves?
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by dantheman 3y ago
It's really simple, have congress create new rules... this isn't hard.
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by dantheman 3y ago
I'd prefer judges to bureaucrats.
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by dantheman 3y ago
She's not pro-startup and pro-innovation - at least not from anyone who's actually in those fields. If you ask anyone, they'd ask her to go away -- if the people you're pro are against you, then maybe you should rethink
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by dantheman 3y ago
What are your thoughts on net neutrality? and how does that differ from a port? Should the ISP decide what they will carry or not?
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by dantheman 3y ago
The 'right to be forgotten' isn't a right.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Prison workers is even worse - their incentive is to have more prisoners.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Unions are not just groups of organized workers they have extensive legal privileges, if they were just groups of people with no special legal rights people would object to them a lot less.
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by dantheman 3y ago
That's not a failure of the market - it's not worth their overhead to deal with someone working 30 hours a week. Quality dropoff and more people quitting takes time to have an effect, and then it takes time to for that effect to b
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by dantheman 3y ago
This is not capitalism - its fraud and government collusion.
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by dantheman 3y ago
I'm surprised that you describe mob rule as something good. Would you like someone to park a bunch of big trucks in front of place because they won't pay you protection money? It's extortion and should not be held as some id
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by dantheman 3y ago
You say that, but patents traditionally hold back progress. If you look at the amount of horse power generated by steam engines - it spiked after the patents expired. There are probably many techniques and processes that would be tried and
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by dantheman 3y ago
Society needs far less money to function than is captured by taxes. There are US states without an income tax - the majority of government spending that is relevant to an individual is provided the state government in the US.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Sounds like they should go to a think tank that can work with all defense contractors instead of favoring the one who will pay them the most.
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by dantheman 3y ago
What incentive does anyone ever to have pass on savings efficiencies? The answer is competition / competing goods.
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by dantheman 3y ago
Booking.com got bought by priceline.
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by dantheman 3y ago
The EU is just shaking down foreign companies because they can't compete.
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by dantheman 3y ago
I mean, I doubt you have any understanding of actual anti-trust cases. But by the time standard oil was broken up it was down to 60% market share and the price of oil continued to fall. The only monopolies that have truly existed in the US

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