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by malchow 11y ago
Tl;dr: The Boston Globe website tries to get people to subscribe. Also, the locution "dark patterns" in the headline is a weird term that is, frankly, more deceptive than anything the writer purports to reveal the Globe does.
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by malchow 11y ago
There are many people–social scientists and economists among them–who would suggest to you exactly that. The U.S. has spent (i.e. transferred) trillions fighting poverty. The result? Not much. The good stuff that has happened to poor people
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by malchow 11y ago
ISP idea == very interesting !
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WSJ has floors of smart, trained, inquisitive journalists who assemble real original data and break real original stories, and who try hard–through single, double, and triple verification–to ensure the accuracy of every single figure and fa
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by malchow 11y ago
Am I the only person for whom the answer to this question is "almost none?" I'm serious: about 80% of my day is meeting with real people in the real world. Mobile phones haven't changed that. The other 20% of my day is s
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by malchow 11y ago
Cf. http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/charts/2015/where-did-...
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Obscene, isn't it? He could have sent a kid to college for the amount of tax he paid.
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by malchow 11y ago
Simplify? The only ones working to simplify the inane and uncompetitive U.S. tax code, which largely hurts working families and enables the politically well connected, are those rare and few politicians working toward complete structural ov
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by malchow 11y ago
The only thing I fear with this (Brave) is that it is gameable. Whenever you create a pot of money, it will be gamed. Someone will come up with the Brave equivalent of a "One weird trick slideshow!" to extract maximum dollars. Sub
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by malchow 11y ago
A company I founded, Publir, is working on a new model here -- well behaved ads for anonymous users, microsubscriptions via Stripe to eliminate ads client-side for devoted readers. Turns out that eliminating ads in the client upon payment i
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by malchow 11y ago
Yeah -- you're right. I was making a different point involving how wealth is built. It takes creative capital. It isn't just money. So stick with an uncompetitive tax system, and eventually the brightest won't end up on your
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by malchow 11y ago
Rents are where they are because of state and local governmental policy. I beg you to go out and find a real estate investor to talk to. In any city in the world with a functioning open market for land use, there are compelling profit oppor
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by malchow 11y ago
Capital is fully mobile because people are fully mobile.
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by malchow 11y ago
Yes. AAPL has averred to the judge that they in fact accessed the phone. I was skeptical over the last 72 hrs whether that was a ruse or not. I now think it is not. "The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Faroo
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by malchow 11y ago
Yes! And while we're on the subject, how about the unfair dominance of Internet Explorer?
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by malchow 11y ago
J.D. here. The SCOTUS becoming more conservative would have helped your limited-government view (and mine). Not more liberal. On balance the group most likely to find hard limitations on the power of the government to control people, capi
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by malchow 11y ago
Great example of first-order thinking that animates so much seemingly progressive policy. College graduates earn more == produce hordes more college graduates!
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Does Trump Possess Superior Skill, or Is He a Market Underperformer?(texasenterprise.utexas.edu)
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This. Apple is going to lose this, and it should, under the law. It should also be free to develop a Secure Enclave that prevents iOS updates in lock, which sounds as though it is already in development.
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by malchow 11y ago
All of what you say is well taken. But there's absolutely a place for what amounts to a "data REIT." Investors prize dividends, and they prize having diverse sources for those dividends. Nothing new about that. If Dropbox is
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I fully concede your point. I think the private financing markets need to become more sophisticated out here, such that they enable the type of company I described -- which I reckon is the type of company Dropbox should be -- to thrive. The
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What if -- hold your breath! -- Dropbox is simply a medium-sized, privately held, profit-generating company that will end up satisfying a certain customer segment and paying dividends to investors? The horror!
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by malchow 11y ago
I think he is suggesting that it is possible to drive growth in paid clicks by misdirecting organic click intenders to paid clicks. Of course, one imagines there are many other explanations for growth, too.
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by malchow 11y ago
I share your general optimism on sky-based broadband, but I have to admit that I do not follow your argument about rent-seekers. All physical space, even space in the sky, is in limited supply. So why does the rent-seeking nature of cell to
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by malchow 11y ago
I think we have the potential to have the best period of structural reform in the postwar period. The Speaker of the House is one reason why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwv5EbxXSmE
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by malchow 11y ago
There is a pretty tight formal argument that, whether one is for or against unions, public unions are clearly bad. Here is the latest thing I have read on this: http://www.amazon.com/Government-against-Itself-Public-Conse.
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by malchow 11y ago
Speaking as a taxpayer, it does not seem to me at all clear why collective bargaining agreements between public servants and city governments should be able to be private documents at all. We pay the bills, after all.
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by malchow 11y ago
The U.S. is no longer so important that it can have uncompetitive policies and still come out on top. We should be the tax haven.
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It isn't a race to the bottom. The U.S. can have a 0% business tax rate and still have plenty of tax receipts.
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"a shorter work-week, more holidays, and more leisure" You do see that there is a price to pay for that, right? Future generations pay the cost, not you. So you are deciding to imperil people who are children, or who do not yet ex

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