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by jasmer 4y ago
", but often causes mid to long term economic damage to the receiving economy by putting local producers/providers out of business." That is something completely different, and has little to do with price discrimination. If t
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The number of 'major red flags' here is shocking, and frankly, you'd think after 2008 that firms would have to hire, you know, an 'accountant'. My god, there are so many things that were there to have been a modicum
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"Such a difference cannot be explained by PPP" ? It's definitely explained in terms of PPP. If you could only have one single measure to use in terms of price discrimination, it would be that. Europeans have less purchasing p
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You're mostly arguing against Adam Smith here, and that war was mostly won long ago. It feels counter intuitive that companies acting in their best interest would be not in the communities best interests, but interestingly, it's d
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Consider this a novel economics lesson, not a marketing lesson. Think of how your valuable NA/European customers will react knowing their peers in country XYZ get the same product for 80% less? How will that affect the perception of yo
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Hong Kong became much, much richer under Colonial rule, without a 'Constitution'. No other nation needed 'school meals' in order to generate wealth, it's a nice program but hard to fathom as a 'root cause'
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We mostly assumed things would be better because we assumed the net would be 'information'. The military, academia, government, business are 'conscientious' culture who assume people act rationally. But go to the drug st
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The premise of the article is a bit more simple: things we can imagine more clearly, have more meaning to us. It's very simply articulated using concept of 'describing' vs. 'seeing' vs. 'doing'. It's
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This is upside down. First - that vulnerabilities are 'known' does not mean any specific instance of vulnerability is 'known'. Second - that 'most attacks occur some other way' isn't hugely relevant. We do
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Your comments make a lot of sense were there material indirection about some material issue, but there isn't. So in this case none of it really applies; notions 'cruelty and harm' are a bit absurd. There is a habit among &#x2
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It's heartening to see a government do something that is technologically progressive and useful. I would rather hope that EU/Anglosphere/Japan/Korea etc. 'team up' on this one and at minimum exchange notes and
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It's not really our business if investors want to pay dividends or do share buybacks. One is a capital gain, the other has it's own taxation regime, there are already established taxation rules there.
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The statement "Lowest unemployment ever!" is definitely 'hedged' in the same manner as this Tweet about benefits. Taking credit for the 'lowest employment' especially using the term 'ever' would requi
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You really are having a hard time with the words 'cruel' and 'harm'. The WH statements are not misleading, and they definitely do not cause 'harm'. You're using the language of post-modern/post-realit
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I think this is a bit hyperbolic language. It's not 'cruel' for any administration to indicate basic realities without some arbitrary historical and legal context. While we should be eternally vigilant and skeptical, the lack
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WhatsApp is not 'vastly more innovative', and they solved different kinds of problems. Twitter is a 'universe of 100M connected people'. WhatsApp mostly connected single entities together. So, for example, 'real tim
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Twitter is not 'SpaceX' in every way. It's 'social' and 'media' which are completely different operating environments. Twitter is long, long established as another company. The 'user base' of Twi
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I share your skepticism, however, it would be more dangerous to try to make predictions. Moreover, I think the worrying is a bit too much: AI isn't replacing any jobs really, mostly enabling. For the most part, AI is 'improving th
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Retail Fintech desperately needs consumer regulation, hopefully with a 'light and enlightened' quality.
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AI is just tech. It will enable things, including automation, just like previous generations of tech. The dawn of the industrial revolution, in which we leveraged machines that were measured in 'horse power' (!) doing far more wor
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I loathe to hint to you that 90% of jobs are 'dead end jobs'. There is no 'promotion' waiting for you arbitrarily. It's a steep hierarchy and most people don't want to perform to compete. Moreover, in a downtur
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Yeah, no, this is a privileged position. Even if I might opt to take that posture myself, it's not a normal position. Most people have a need for an income and also, don't hugely differentiate between their work being BS or not. A
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Shareholders are 100% paying this tax. Shareholders own the company; If the company pays X% tax, it really means the 'shareholders' are paying it. (Edit: For example the company has $200 in assets. They pay out $100 in a buyback,
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So this is probably a bad policy almost irrespective where you are on the socialist/capitalist-disdain agenda. It hardly makes any sense at all. "far too much wealth transfer from companies to investors," It's their mone
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Optimizing for what, and in who's interests? From the perspective of those who are not shareholders, corporations are just a means of providing some service - even those that are 'necessary'. It's odd that so many people
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It's important to understand that growing companies are not laying off because they have 'nothing for staff to do'. This isn't likely a situation of 'Ford Motorcars had a bad 3 quarters, and sales forecasts are way
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This is the part I don't like. Stripe is a hugely successful company and they have no urgent material need to let people go. This is an optimization effort. I actually do believe that 'pruning' is a healthy thing for organiza
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Good point, except neither of those were as centralized as you're implying.
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I agree. But I think it'll be hard to see Rust really make progress until hardware makers worldwide start really doing 'Rust First'. And the problem there, is that Rust is a bit inaccessible to many. Rust trades of absolutely
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I feel this seems reasonable in an economically liberal context, but I would hope there's enough regulatory apparatus to ensure they can't do shenanigans as a result of their holdings. Also, I feel these kinds of things would idea

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