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by klipt 4y ago
Maybe if you ignore the effects of competition. If you're paying someone you no longer need and your competitors (who have access to the same automation) aren't, they'll outcompete you.
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by klipt 4y ago
Paying someone to idle is certainly harmful to society if you could pay them the same to do something productive.
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by klipt 4y ago
In the short run, people can act against their own evolutionary fitness, but in the long run, evolutionary pressures should push those people to the wayside.
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by klipt 4y ago
Due to stickiness prices almost never drop, but they can grow slower than inflation, which in the limit has the same effect.
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by klipt 4y ago
Don't worry it doesn't zombify, it just kills.
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by klipt 4y ago
Well not exactly, the limit encourages diversification which always reduces risk.
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by klipt 4y ago
Right, entropy can decrease, just with low probability, which you can calculate using the Fluctuation Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuation_theorem Perhaps given infinite time, we will randomly get back to
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by klipt 4y ago
I assume ChatGPT can spell the UK way if carefully prompted. Its training corpus surely includes both spellings.
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by klipt 4y ago
> And follow the financial results of all of those banks in order to find signs of weakness? Well no, if all your deposits are below the 250k fully insured limit, then you don't have to worry about the banks collapsing.
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by klipt 4y ago
The Wells Fargo Active Cash card is 2% cash back on everything which is nice for lazy people like me who don't want to remember rotating categories.
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by klipt 4y ago
"Issuing a loan" and "buying debt" are the same thing in different words. Issuing a loan is still, in effect, buying an asset.
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by klipt 4y ago
> Being bad at anticipating the needs of a woman is an integral feature of being a man. No more than being bad at anticipating the needs of a man is an integral feature of being a woman.
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by klipt 4y ago
It's still casual sexism though, because being bad at market research and design isn't an integral feature of being a man. It's like if you said Theranos failed "because it was led by a woman". Which is not to say y
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by klipt 4y ago
Who live nearby. If you're an immigrant and your parents live another continent, hard to live on their sofa and then get a new visa to come back.
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> The behavior of the market is complicated and new buildings with an increase in supply doesn't guarantee a price reduction. In practice, that should be sought through market regulation and policy - controlling of airbnb units, or
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by klipt 4y ago
> outsiders moving in That's just the demand side of "supply and demand". You can lower housing prices by either: Increasing supply Or Decreasing demand For example Detroit decreased demand by having all their automobile m
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by klipt 4y ago
Look if the government offers to give me a free house I wouldn't say no, but the NIMBYs who oppose free market construction because it will cause a shadow on their zucchini garden will equally oppose government construction for the sam
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by klipt 4y ago
> "if you add more supply, the price goes down" drum, it doesn't seem to hold true in reality. Plenty of empirical, academic studies show it does hold true. See: https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/06&#x2
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by klipt 4y ago
That's sad to hear. Suggests they don't really have it all figured out though. Being able to defend yourself from invaders is an important thing to figure out, too.
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by klipt 4y ago
I assume those groups are now protected and effectively have some government granted monopoly on their hunting and gathering land. Always easier to have a good life with extra help from the government :)
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by klipt 4y ago
Seems much simpler to just ban tinder than to rework the whole of society to encourage single motherhood. It's already harder to raise kids with a nuclear family than the extended families of the past, atomizing further into single par
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by klipt 4y ago
> single parenthood is completely normalised How? Would the government pay for surrogates for single men? Unless by "single parenthood" you actually just mean "single motherhood", which hardly seems like the way to ru
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by klipt 4y ago
That sounds plausible, but almost everywhere in the world, wealth and fertility seem to be negatively correlated. Poor people have kids early and have more, while rich people delay and have few or none.
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by klipt 4y ago
With their much higher fertility rate, Amish society will probably outlast ours.
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by klipt 4y ago
The American Time Use Survey data suggests that when you add up hours spent on jobs and household chores, men and women work basically the same hours: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/
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by klipt 4y ago
> One afternoon, Nasruddin and his friend were sitting in a cafe, drinking tea, and talking about life and love. > “How come you never got married, Nasruddin?” asked his friend. > “Well,” said Nasruddin, “to tell you the truth, I s
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by klipt 4y ago
"Your friends have been bad friends. I have been a good Bing."
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by klipt 4y ago
Some families have bootstrapped their way out of poverty, but it usually takes multiple generations. Hence "families" rather than "individuals".
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by klipt 4y ago
I assume if you have a good excuse, like being Amish, they let it slide, but you'd probably need to make up for it with support letters from your Amish community leaders attesting to the realness of your marriage.
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by klipt 4y ago
So they can't put you in prison directly. But they can levy a tax that's impossible to pay, and then put you in prison for failing to pay taxes...

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