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by kiba 1y ago
It's all about what works enough according to a rather low bar.
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by kiba 1y ago
Apple can charge you that because they have a platform which is a monopoly. Granted, they did the work that built and maintain the platform, but at some point it's actually the countless developers who contribute value, not Apple.
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by kiba 1y ago
Branding power. Precisely why brand drugs continue to make money over fist for pharmaceutical companies even after patents expire.
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by kiba 1y ago
It's designed to convince their customers which are other countries.
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by kiba 1y ago
Subsidies, lot of subsidies. And probably a lot of monitoring and adjusting by lawmakers to ensure that industries continues to improve their capabilities. There's more to that but rebuilding our industrial capacity is a work of a gene
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by kiba 1y ago
It's perfect for my use case, which is making individual square letters to print. PITA to ensure that the square are uniform when the letters are not uniform in size.
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by kiba 1y ago
Get rid of Musk and keep the rest of the leadership intact.
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by kiba 1y ago
I am not even a rocket scientist but I heard starship was described as a ridiculously hard and super ambitious program. So it's not unexpected that it would take a while for the program to mature. Falcon 9 was SpaceX's second rock
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by kiba 1y ago
Interesting. I don't think it's OK or fine to be fat. It's a health risk. But I also don't think that "fat shaming" is OK either.
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by kiba 1y ago
Anyway, aphorisms shouldn't be treated like mathematical theorems. Their validity isn't as "hard" as that of maths, but in human society, nothing is. Aphorisms are the sort of model which is "wrong, but sometimes u
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by kiba 1y ago
Who to tax and how much is very much a political choice and how accurate assessment are very much political choices. You cannot pretend taxation policy is somehow a neutral proposition. Indeed, bad or good taxation policy have very real e
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by kiba 1y ago
I distrust aphorisms, not without having read the literature on the evidence or lack thereof behind the aphorism. For example: History is written by the winner. Certainly not true on its face. The South managed to convince people that the
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by kiba 1y ago
Uber rich have means of extending their power to the next generation anyway. Look at North Korea. It's stagnant and hardly changed despite changing hand 3 times. Whereas if you live a super long life, you can't afford to be risk a
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by kiba 1y ago
Those assets are typically not counted when counting millionaires, IIRC. Basically, your net worth is total asset minus your primary residence.
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by kiba 1y ago
Hoarding land and land speculation is really the root problem. It's not bad for society if it was used to make building to provide rentable space to industries and business or to provide homes, or quite often both, but it doesn't
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by kiba 1y ago
Most homes in Japan aren't built in the traditional Japanese style at all IIRC.
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by kiba 1y ago
The air outside is constantly sterilized by UV light.
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by kiba 1y ago
What do you mean by monenization scheme? Land are worth something because it's undertaxed. If you tax land high enough, the price of land is zero. This means you don't have to take out a loan to buy the land, but maybe you need to
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by kiba 1y ago
Land value tax would be a good addition to the Japanese model. Raise the tax high enough, land prices are zero, leaving behind only the value of the home. Homes, like cars, will naturally depreciate in value. No weird artificial depreciatio
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by kiba 1y ago
People want to be read and the algorithm is selected over time to promote this. The only problem is that nobody selects the algorithms but the platforms. Maybe in the ends, algorithms will still be selected for virality regardless no matter
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by kiba 1y ago
The whole point of increasing housing supply is to fix the affordability housing. All you're really doing is having rich people chase poorer quality housing in urban core area. You're also discouraging adding housing stocks by dis
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by kiba 1y ago
It's pretty damn clear as to how bad alcohol is. People went to jail, and lives ended because of alcohol. The downside is huge, arguably overwhelmingly not a net positive for humanity. Make of that what you will. Note that I didn'
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by kiba 1y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to be against both drug prohibition and drug abuse.
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by kiba 1y ago
Reasonable? It's still not reasonable from an individual perspective, but good luck enforcing a draconian rule about not drinking alcohol. The harm outweigh the benefit. But at the same time, there's basically no benefit to consum
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by kiba 1y ago
Generally speaking this lead to increase in housing and other amenities in the most demand area, which is exactly what we want. This decreases market pressure on other housing elsewhere in the city. There's no reason not to satisfy the
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by kiba 1y ago
What people describe capitalism is really just monopolies. Capitalism meanwhile is an utterly useless label. People have their own conception of what capitalism mean. Monopolies are connected to the housing crisis as to privileges like cop
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by kiba 1y ago
They have no underlying strategy or vision on how they mitigate harms and improve trust in their product, so of course they roll back on anyone that screams bloody murder as opposed to addressing root causes.
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by kiba 1y ago
Sycophancy is a known flaw in ChatGPT. Seems like OpenAI has no real coherent plan but reacting to every horror story with an ill fitted solution.
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by kiba 1y ago
Everyone wanting to live in a few economically hot cities is also a recent invention. If you price the LVT in those cities appropriately, then only the most income generating projects are going to be viable, and that means the lower class
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by kiba 1y ago
When examining patent and copyright system, it is instructive to examine the history of these systems in question. You say that 20 years is too long, and that five years is more reasonable in today's environment. But you haven't e

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