lukas099

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by lukas099 3y ago
That's a lot of nice kitchen gadgets you got there.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I'm glad people are resisting these somewhere in the world. Wish it would happen where I live.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Maybe an offset, not an exception imo.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I do the same except remove all the nonnatives, not just invasives. But invasives are the most important to remove.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's a cause, but not the cause. Monetary policy also matters.
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by lukas099 3y ago
A stable money supply chasing fewer goods (shortage) would also cause inflation.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Increase in cost makes more sense. Increase in currency supply is only one possible cause of costs rising.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> knowingly gimp the hardware to upsell the more expensive versions. I'm skeptical. A ton of money is dumped into optimizing everything and then they just throw it down the drain? That would drive more people to the competition than
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by lukas099 3y ago
So basically while more sportiness can make you safer in theory, in practice you have a human in the mix who is all but guaranteed to drive less safely. I agree.
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by lukas099 3y ago
We use a basket of goods to measure inflation. There is endless debate about whether the basket is representative, but it is almost certainly more representative than just "eggs and meat".
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by lukas099 3y ago
After years of prices being 'high' yet continuing to rise, they night just accept it.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's interesting that you decry the free market, but explicitly agree that regulations (market distortions) are what's preventing abundant housing.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's a pipe dream to expect public housing to meet the demand for shelter in a political climate like that of the USA. That said, I'll still take as much public housing as I can get in my city.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Except the problem is we haven't been letting the free market sort it out. The market is highly distorted by laws which prevent development, which is why prices are so high.
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by lukas099 3y ago
How is the allocation of resources determined? If I want 30 pairs of underwear and only 2 pairs of socks, how do I make that happen?
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by lukas099 3y ago
I wonder if there is upward pressure on housing prices due to Zillow's Zestimate feature? Or on used car prices due to Kelley Blue Book?
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by lukas099 3y ago
I don't think ever. If the rich and poor could afford the same things, money would have lost all meaning.
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by lukas099 3y ago
This is very interesting to me. Even if landlords had no interest in colluding, if they all use the same software to decide on prices, it seems like it could amount to the same thing. In reality, the case against the landlords and RealPage
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by lukas099 3y ago
C-SPAN's Bookshelf feed for long author interviews of new nonfiction books. I find this a good way to get the distilled essence of a book without the time commitment. [1] https://www.c-span.org/podcasts/subpage&#x2
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by lukas099 3y ago
Valsalva maneuver against a closed glottis. As someone prone to blacking out when standing up or after a set of heavy squats, figuring this out has been very useful to me.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Couldn't there be a scheme by which parents could reduce their taxes by privately educating their children, but only up to some portion of the public schools' savings from not having to educate those children?
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Despite claims that the home-schooling boom is a result of failing public schools, The Post found no correlation between school district quality, as measured by standardized test scores, and home-schooling growth. In fact, high-scoring
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by lukas099 3y ago
I'd even wager that the number of people posting content anonymously has only grown in absolute terms.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Is it a recent model year? If so, what make and model if you don't mind me asking?
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Dementia isn't an if for me, it's a when. This seems like an unbeneficial belief to harbor in oneself.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Maybe you should just not worry about it so much.
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by lukas099 3y ago
There's no incentive for them to even show it.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Oh gotcha, you’re right.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Do you mean higher real interest rates? They have been positive almost all of the last 10 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
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by lukas099 3y ago
Was there any kind of barrier within the circle besides flowers?

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