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by enoch_r 13y ago
Others have focused on how "pay it forward" chains actually do produce surplus, of a particular kind. But what jumped out at me was the idea that you must have redistribution to get a cooperative structure: > To get a cooperati
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It's extremely implausible for everyone to know that the value of ${commodity} will rise steadily, with no risk, for the foreseeable future. Why? Think of the second-order effects of what you're saying--I expect the value of ${com
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This is simply not true. People are risk averse, and buy insurance to protect them from unlikely negative outcomes, not because they believe that the insurance company will, on average, pay out more than they pay in premiums. I can invest $
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by enoch_r 13y ago
I have serious reservations about our changing cultural attitudes towards privacy too. But let's be honest here--this would make insurance cheaper for a lot of people, and more expensive for the subset of people who are currently g
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Capital is stuff people want. It's a warehouse full of couches, or a truck full of iPads. Or, on a desert island, a pile of hand-carved tools. We can trade this "stuff people want" for "stuff we want." Over time, we
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> ... which isn't 'functional' in any sense. Functional programming is very closely tied to the notion of immutable data. "Don't modify data in place" is one of the pillars of the functional model. > It s
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Is three ok? Using my limited experience playing with Datomic: A functional DB replaces a "row" that only holds the current state of the world with a list of timestamped "facts" that can represent either the present or
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It's similar to the sentence "Bob got a new girlfriend, but she is awful." "It" refers to "the Federal side."
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What would default look like?(marginalrevolution.com)
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Many gangs are the black-market equivalent of corporations. They are economic and social entities that have evolved to profit in illegal markets. Unlike ordinary corporations, they cannot resolve disputes with courts--so they use violence.
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by enoch_r 13y ago
You may have misunderstood me. I wasn't talking about ideal prisons. I said that, in order to be more vindictive than prison (meaning, the prison system as it exists in the US today), corporal punishment would have to be pretty awful.
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For context, rape is so common in prison that the majority of US rape victims are male. [0] Corporal punishment would have to be pretty awful to be more brutal, humiliating, violent, or vindictive than prison. [0] http://npluson
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Note that VIX--market predictions of volatility in the S&P 500--has remained largely unaffected by the shutdown[0], suggesting that Wall St is putting its money where its mouth is--the market either "believes" that a prolonged
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It's also free here[0], though maybe in less convenient a form (PDF or postscript). :) On the other hand, if you'd prefer a physical copy, I used Lulu.com to print a book for just $22.42 including shipping. I used the PDF and inst
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In what way, exactly, does this product reduce safety? The fact that you can silence it more easily than a regular alarm? Do you think that "ease of silencing the alarm" is a large factor in whether or not an alarm is taken seriou
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http://support.nest.com/article/What-types-of-alarms-can-I-s...
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Being able to consistently beat the market--for example, to be able to easily and confidently identify times when "stocks now are totally over priced"--is an enormously valuable skill. I mean, plenty of people say that stocks ar
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Uh, yes they are. The coercive basis of government power is why most libertarians are skeptical of the state.
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Sorry about my imprecise wording. I wasn't intending to criticize your study, which did acknowledge potential misclassifications (and was very interesting and deserves attention on its own merits). I'm criticizing MW's interp
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Argh, I am so sick of seeing this article. From the study , 16% of all Yelp posts are identified by Yelp as fake , hidden from view , and not counted into a business's average score . This tells us nothing about the percentage of
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I agree pretty much entirely. It's entirely possible that no one was at fault, or even that the bicyclist was, say, looking down and didn't notice the van until too late. And please don't think I'm "calling for th
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When it comes to personal decisions, 100% of the responsibility lies with me . When I'm driving, 100% of the responsibility to avoid hitting a bicyclist lies with me ; when I'm biking, 100% of the responsibility to avoid being h
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The problem with this theory is that the speed limit on that road is 40. If she was traveling well under the speed limit but did not have time to stop for a turning car, then it seems to me that either a) the intersection is designed such t
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Er, I might be going crazy, but the only speed limit sign I see there says 40. Am I missing something here?
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While I agree with you that we shouldn't prematurely absolve anyone of responsibility, the speed limit on that road is 40mph. It's possible that Covey reached this speed or above heading downhill, but very unlikely that she was tr
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Different things work for different people, I guess. I think the clocks have two points, both aimed at simulating the conditions we evolved in--one, they turn on gradually, and two, they wake you up with light rather than noise. I personall
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There's no need to spend hundreds of dollars on a sunrise alarm clock. Just buy some super-bright, flat white bulbs[1] and a timer[2]. (And a lamp if you need one, of course.) Sure, it doesn't get gradually light, but the main t
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So, I think that rape brings up some pretty unusual feelings and behaviors. For a while, I was in a relationship with a girl who had been raped by a friend several years before. What happened next was: essentially all of her friends told he
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Libertarians agree with you: practicing medicine isn't my right unless I can find someone willing to pay me to do it. Customers determine whether I get the privilege to sell any good or service. The question is who else should have t
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The (female) author's point isn't that "Wal-Mart can't do what Costco does because it has more SKUs and thus a higher density of employees." It's that Wal-Mart, Costco, and TJ's have so many differences

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