dmwallin

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by dmwallin 6y ago
The center of the democratic party has been pro-business for decades now (see neo-liberal), albeit with republicans using stronger rhetoric. Another way of looking at it, the center of both parties have been extremelly pro-business, with bo
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by dmwallin 6y ago
Yes, we don’t let our government, with the tools of state violence and the exclusive right to imprison us, ban speech. However, groups of private citizens, whose powers over the marketplace are/can be heavily limited through existing l
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by dmwallin 6y ago
This is hard to do in a one-size-fits-all fashion because there's a wide range of 2d techniques, tools, and processes available, depending on a multitude of factors, some example ones being: - Game genre / mechanics - Your team si
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by dmwallin 6y ago
Some theories: - User base overlap with the new SE. It's possible potential buyers had already upgraded to the new SE several months earlier before the mini was announced. (anecdotally I know a couple of these) - Not having the ability
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by dmwallin 6y ago
It’s also abundantly clear that the men that founded our government believed that some powers are reserved for individuals and not for governments. The ability to restrict speech is one of these. > “ Congress shall make no law respecting
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by dmwallin 6y ago
The government of the United States itself is based on a separation of powers, with limited and specific ways for one branch to affect the other. You can see this in multiple ways, legislative, executive and judicial divisions, but also sta
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by dmwallin 6y ago
Having the government govern free speech doesn't get you free speech. If the problem is social media companies that are so large they suck up all the air in the room then solve THAT problem and enforce existing anti-monopoly laws.
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by dmwallin 6y ago
This is a badly reasoned and well articulated piece that seeks a presupposed conclusion. This becomes painfully obviously when he realizes that the “blue tribe” he defines is actually engaged in a massive quantity of self-critical behavior
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by dmwallin 6y ago
These two situations couldn’t be more vastly different. The rally was organized by Trump, the mob that marched on the capital was there for Trump, marching with flags for Trump, encouraged and incited by Trump, and aimed at overthrowing a l
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by dmwallin 6y ago
This legislation is the opposite of freedom of speech and is actually a perfect example of FOSIMO. It is shifting the control of speech from the public sphere into governmental control. Now they will have a court of law and legislative bodi
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by dmwallin 6y ago
You tell me the rules and I’ll show you how your free market can be manipulated from within the rules. How do you propose to prevent things such as collusion (free association) and price manipulation. All systems of economics are also syste
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by dmwallin 6y ago
We don't universally praise hand-crafted objects in the real world. We only praise it in situations where the resulting object is significantly aesthetically or functionally unique. In all other cases hand crafting is absolutely consid
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by dmwallin 6y ago
Revenue tells you roughly how much value you are creating for other actors in the economy.
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by dmwallin 6y ago
You are making several false comparisons. Home ownership rate is not the same as housing costs. A lack of transit options is not the same thing as the length of commute. In both these cases they are likely barely correlated. Also why would
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by dmwallin 6y ago
If you are worried about a private company "censoring" your speech, you should take this as a sign that you've allowed said company to get far too big. Restricting private speech by increasing the reach of government to limit
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by dmwallin 6y ago
You are just wrong on this. The government of the United States is set up so states have supremacy over the Federal Government in many/most areas of domestic policy. I recommend reading up more on this. https://www.nationalr
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by dmwallin 7y ago
A second (simpler?) way is to prevent credit cards from forced bundling of variable fees to the merchant. Credit cards companies are in a very strong oligopoly and are able to essentially demand bundling of all their cards, regardless of th
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by dmwallin 7y ago
Because the Department of Education has a ton of currently unused high capacity kitchens and access to supplies. In addition the DOE runs similar programs, such as a free summer lunch for kids, and so has the organizational know-how to run
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by dmwallin 7y ago
>>> e.g. adding a line break in the middle of a heading because you want a two word brand name to appear at the start of a line However using a   in your brand name would likely be a better way to handle this, and makes ac
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by dmwallin 7y ago
While an unencumbered free market can exist it's not a stable equilibrium. Without strong external forces keeping it in that state a free market will quickly centralize power and enact artificial market barriers.
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by dmwallin 7y ago
I think the social signal part has second order effects that make it work out not as you would expect. If ONLY sick people tend to wear masks then masks will make you a more visible target of fear and hate, which would lead people who are s
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by dmwallin 7y ago
That’s exactly how tools like WhoisGuard operate. They are registering the domain name and then subleasing (licensing) it to the entity who doesn’t want their information out there. By not sharing their client’s information upon a reasonabl
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by dmwallin 7y ago
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-20... 3.7.7.3 Any Registered Name Holder that intends to license use of a domain name to a third party is nonetheless the Registered Name Holder of record
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by dmwallin 7y ago
Your assessment assumes a perfectly rational, 100% transparent market. The market obviously has a distribution of rationality and transparency. The most efficient parts of the market are going to be the parts that are largely rational and&#
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by dmwallin 7y ago
There are significant demographic issues to account for, especially when looking at such high level statistics. Your breakdown also doesn't take into account the inverse land-use factor. High density in one location allows for lower de
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by dmwallin 7y ago
It’s the equivalent of running an experiment and then looking for correlations. The likelihood of it being chance is drastically increased. There’s an important reason why you are supposed to come up with your hypothesis before. Social scie
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by dmwallin 7y ago
> I know the second the stores realize that every person now has 'x' amount of dollars to spend, they will raise the prices to match the most they can extract. That's not how economics works. The prices most stores charge
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by dmwallin 7y ago
From a purely macro-economic capitalistic viewpoint, there's a lot of evidence that a high level of inequality actually depresses economic growth. This means a very strong argument can be made that addressing inequality is likely to in
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by dmwallin 7y ago
No worries! I appreciated the opportunity to clarify my thoughts. Yeah, it doesn't help that my theory is a tough one to validate, since by definition the conditions don't exist to experimentally test it, so you are left with most
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by dmwallin 7y ago
I made/make no claim about the relative moral merits of capitalism or a hierarchal society at all. However you only need to look closely at your stated claim to see why Conway's Law is relevant here: your claim about "technol

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