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by imgabe 4y ago
It's not like the elevation of the sun in the sky at any given date and time could be predicted or anything.
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by imgabe 4y ago
> Haven Realty Capital and JPMorgan Chase's asset management arm said they will invest up to $1 billion to develop build-to-rent single-family homes across the country, according to a November 15 announcement. It sounds like this wi
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by imgabe 4y ago
Never in my life have I been in a situation where there wasn’t an ad and thought “Gee I wish someone would show me an ad right now” Uber doesn’t need to be dirt cheap, it just needs to be cheaper than taxis and/or a better experience.
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by imgabe 4y ago
> but you can't just claim "this effect must go away" without articulating a clear reason that it would. If the effect is that, all else being equal, people with a lot of money can make more money in an absolute sense than
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by imgabe 4y ago
The cost of production is irrelevant. The sale price is determined by the supply and demand on both sides (supply of the product, and supply of money available to pay for it). A market like ISPs is subject to natural monopoly because of the
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by imgabe 4y ago
But TFA article is completely unrelated to the real world. There is not a finite amount of wealth. People create new wealth through innovation. People do not mindlessly continue the same investing strategy when incentives change. If you red
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by imgabe 4y ago
> What it demonstrates is that people with equal investing skills will see radically unequal outcomes, based entirely on their pre-existing wealth. Well, duh. Did anyone think otherwise? Obviously a great investor with $1,000,000 will ma
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by imgabe 4y ago
That’s not the point. If this post is trying to argue that high prices are all just caused by greedy capitalists, then pointing out the three most heavily government-manipulated markets does not exactly support the hypothesis.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Those are all industries that are heavily regulated and/or subsidized by the government. I’m not saying the free market is the perfect answer to everything, but none of those are a free market.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Yes? The vast majority of people are able to buy Internet service and it is not a significant percentage of income, even for people with a low income. Do you know of people taking out second mortgages on their house or drowning in debt to a
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by imgabe 4y ago
There is no “this” to solve because this is a wildly inaccurate simulation and not the real economy.
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by imgabe 4y ago
It does not demonstrate that at all. It assumes everyone, rich and poor, is exactly equal at allocating capital because they all have a flat 50% chance to make money on every investment. In reality some poor people are savvy investors and
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by imgabe 4y ago
In the real world, there is more than one sandwich seller and they compete with each other. When was the last time you non-consensually bought a sandwich? Even homeless people on the street will sometimes refuse free food, so the idea that
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by imgabe 4y ago
> So, your guess is as good as mine, because that video certainly is not some kind of school policy position, as the article implies. The person in the video is the superintendent of the Fairfax County Public schools who stated that &quo
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by imgabe 4y ago
"Equal outcomes for every student" I'm genuinely curious what this is supposed to mean. Every student gets into the same university? They all get the same job at the exact same salary upon graduation? What is the real-world c
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The next frontier after remote work is async(levels.io)
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by imgabe 4y ago
> imagine if the only online profile where you could express yourself was through your old "Ancient Greek Literature Forum" account. that would be quite limiting, wouldn't it? I remember the days of small forums dedicated
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by imgabe 4y ago
Have you ever seen a little kid fall down? And they start bawling uncontrollably? So you go over and check them out, make sure nothing is broken, and maybe you say something like "it's all right buddy, you're ok", becaus
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by imgabe 4y ago
"My emotional response is your responsibility" is incredibly similar to what abusers tell their victims. "This is your fault, you made me angry".
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by imgabe 4y ago
Yeah I still don’t think that’s harm. Feeling offended is not harm. It’s just information about the world. Learning that someone has prejudices or is rude or just careless about their speech does not harm you.
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by imgabe 4y ago
For the vast majority of words on this list, they would not be used to try to insult anyone. You would have to deliberately misinterpret them to find an insult. Why would anyone do that? They wouldn't, and they don't. The insult i
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by imgabe 4y ago
> And who cares about broken bones if you could just will the pain away? Even if you could ignore the pain, you wouldn't physically be able to move your arm well if the bone is broken, which would be an inconvenience for most people
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by imgabe 4y ago
It oddly doesn't have a lot of other slurs, like the n-word, etc. Does that mean they are acceptable? I don't think most people need to be told that "jewed" or "retard" are not appropriate professional words.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Words have an effect, but you can choose how to react to them. You cannot be harmed by them unless you choose to allow yourself to feel that way. Your internal mental state is under your control. If someone hits me with a bat with sufficien
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by imgabe 4y ago
I reject the notion that anyone hearing or reading a word from this list could possibly experience anything properly categorized as "harm". This is what's known in the sports world as "flopping" - feigning an injury
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by imgabe 4y ago
"mad" in the US English sense of angry, not in the UK English sense of crazy.
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by imgabe 4y ago
They are more or less stating that the problem is overzealous responses from police, rather than police receiving a fake call for which a SWAT team would be an appropriate response. Do police in other countries simply not have the capacity
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by imgabe 4y ago
Do you actually think the police send a SWAT team to every single call? 99% of calls in the US would be the exact normal response you said - police knock on the door and ask questions. The problem is the swatters know the exact type of call
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by imgabe 4y ago
It's the first sentence in the linked article.
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TikTok’s Chinese owner denied setting up a subsidiary company in Taiwan(hongkongfp.com)
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