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by giaour 7mo ago
> Do you believe that small drop is a result of new development or just a blip in the market? I don't know, and I don't believe it's possible to know in a specific instance. Like I said above, I believe that in the long te
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by giaour 7mo ago
The article we are commenting on is literally about this happening in Austin.
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by giaour 7mo ago
Yeah, I live in Falls Church, which has seen more build-up than other areas in Northern Virginia because the city has never had the kind of restrictive zoning that the anti-"Missing Middle" campaign is still fighting in Arlingto
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by giaour 7mo ago
> I've never understood this: If I replace a single home with 20 apartment homes, I've raised the value of the whole property at purchase time no? It's a commons problem. In your scenario, you have absolutely increased the
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by giaour 7mo ago
Are you saying there is no difference between the aggressiveness shown by the Department of War since it was renamed vs the years prior to the renaming? Because it sure looked to me like they renamed the department and immediately started b
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by giaour 7mo ago
Yes, but there is protocol-level support for "commenting" on a friend's post via a post of your own.
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by giaour 7mo ago
In the FAQ at the bottom of the post, the author mentions that this proposal is just the AT protocol (BlueSky) without the active, "firehose" component. I don't think this is a real proposal, but more a thought experiment abo
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by giaour 7mo ago
Perhaps CZ's prosecution was generally regarded as political among the people you talk to regularly, but the contemporaneous media consensus (at least to my recollection) was that Binance had openly flouted US law for years and was fin
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by giaour 8mo ago
> What is a border when crossing it without permission is not illegal? There aren't good statistics on how many undocumented immigrants overstayed a visa (and therefore legally crossed the border) vs how many entered without a vis
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by giaour 8mo ago
Beyond the reasonable suspicion of a threat to their life, the officer must believe that: a) the threat is imminent, and b) the threat will reasonably be mitigated by the application of force. An officer cannot, for example, immediately sho
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by giaour 8mo ago
Just because some people who say "no one is illegal" also say "no more borders," that does not automatically mean that the former implies the latter. If that were the case, we could paint everyone who agrees with Nick
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by giaour 8mo ago
Yeah, it is theoretically possible to have a marketplace where "predatory pricing" is an accepted though aggressive business strategy, and I'd say that we are roughly there in the US. But the original intent behind the law on
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by giaour 8mo ago
Yes, but the monopoly seller has already demonstrated that they will operate at a loss until their competitors go out of business, which is a pretty big deterrent to any new market entrants. They've also demonstrated that no one will
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by giaour 8mo ago
The predatory pricing pattern the FTC would in theory sure over would be: selling items at an artificially low price until the competition goes out of business, then raising prices once you are the only seller left standing. It's the s
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by giaour 8mo ago
I don't think Amazon was producing anything they sold in their grocery stores. They were probably buying the same white label items as everyone else for their store brand.
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by giaour 8mo ago
Standard grocery margins are usually lower, in the 30%-40% range, and are often much lower for promotional items. Rotating "loss leaders" to get people in the door are standard practice. IMHO that would make it hard to bring an an
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by giaour 8mo ago
It depends on where you lived. NYC had a large number of "black car" livery services where you would call, arrange a ride, and typically get a price up front. It wasn't legal to hail them on the street, but in practice it was
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by giaour 8mo ago
Selling items for less than they cost to produce is known as "dumping" in international trade (where it is generally disallowed by trade organizations) and can be illegal in the US if the intent is to eliminate competition [0]. Th
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by giaour 10mo ago
I would probably go for natural resources management or population biology. Masters degrees are (from my experience in the US workforce) generally only professionally useful when there is an explicit requirement for one set by a professio
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by giaour 10mo ago
I don't think the percentage has changed since I moved here, though the dollar amount I pay has gone up significantly as the assessed value of my house has risen. Like with any tax, I'm guessing the rate would change if the county
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by giaour 10mo ago
I don't know what point you're trying to make. Are you saying that wealth should be taxed but only at the county/municipal level? Or are you saying wealth can't be taxed because of federalism?
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by giaour 10mo ago
You owe tax based on your percentage of ownership. The taxing authority doesn't care about equity because you own 100% of your house (albeit with a lien) even if your outstanding mortgage obligations exceed the value of the house. Gene
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by giaour 10mo ago
I'm sure it depends on the jurisdiction, but all the property taxes I have ever paid (which, to be fair, has been in one county) have been a fixed percentage of the value of the property.
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by giaour 10mo ago
Huh, I could have sworn the goalposts were over here in the "tax it" debate, not the "ensure it is taxed by a specific entity" debate.
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by giaour 10mo ago
Yes, I pay property taxes every year that are based on the current assessed values of my home and car. Only special classes of assets are subject to property taxes. "Wealth tax" proposals are a generalization of the idea of real p
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by giaour 10mo ago
Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine is a good overall history of the Luddite movement (though be aware it does not strive to be ideologically neutral).
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by giaour 10mo ago
Genuinely curious: what did you see in GrapheneOS history that indicates that the OS is specifically designed to defeat law enforcement (as opposed to their stated goals of defeating ad surveillance and stalkerware)?
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by giaour 1y ago
I get it, but I still wish I could use a non-realistic skin tone to match my mood instead of my body. Sometimes I'm really into your suggestion of Taco Bell for lunch and want to give it a rainbow sparkle thumbs up.
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by giaour 1y ago
Also known as Hyrum's Law ( https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ ), but more people know the XKCD at this point :)
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by giaour 1y ago
How much do you pay per month for substacks?

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