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by mhh__ 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act
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by mhh__ 5d ago
Because in a fair market they would be competed away - prices of food, computers, bonds, etc are not transparent because of regulation - it's largely because of the tax incentive as far as I've read from healthcare economists.
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by mhh__ 5d ago
> reimbursement between major healthcare chains and insurers And why is this so prevalent? It's subject to huge subsidy and regulatory capture
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by mhh__ 5d ago
Is Apple Inc run for consumer good or value extraction?
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by mhh__ 5d ago
You may have liabilities or income that exist outside of financial markets e.g. if I have 500t of wheat due to be harvested I might want to hedge enough to guarantee I can pay my staff - ive locked in the price of wheat, I might make less m
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by mhh__ 5d ago
Well they're considerably better paid and in a business that allows economies of scale. It's a steelman argument to be clear I'm not entirely convinced by it.
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by mhh__ 5d ago
yes. It's completely insane that health insurance A) does all price discovery B) is tied to your employer. Ask an American hospital how much something costs - you will get a completely fake price back, this is a sign of a totally broke
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by mhh__ 5d ago
PE staff are more intelligent and more shrewd than the people running the businesses they buy. Being a good doctor doesn't make you a good businessman. I'm not a huge fan of PE but the point of economics to deliver cheap and quali
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by mhh__ 5d ago
You know what american healthcare really needs is more regulation!
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by mhh__ 7d ago
All you need to do is quite a price that isn't vulnerable to arbitrage. As a dealer you should then charge a spread atop of that to cover make a profit after costs and adverse selection (even if trading was free you should charge a spr
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by mhh__ 7d ago
many users of derivatives willingly lose money on them because the purpose of these contracts is to transfer risk to those willing to hold it.
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by mhh__ 7d ago
Other than the name of the business
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by mhh__ 7d ago
> Treasury futures are far too big that no single person could ever corner it. Well, you'd think, but squeezing the CTD bond was completely accepted practice well into the noughties until PIMCO flew too close to the sun and faced re
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by mhh__ 7d ago
Is the price of onions really that seasonal? Shall have to check
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by mhh__ 8d ago
frankly i think most of these "tools" are the result of people being addicted to watching the agent shit code out and as such quietly abolishing review.
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by mhh__ 12d ago
> brainwash You have been brainwashed. Or was it Russia as well? Everything started much longer ago. You can't go along in life just assuming everything will converge to some whig paradise.
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by mhh__ 14d ago
Quite a cool concept. Seems that things are finally on the edge of moving again in database land (e.g. postgres is great but it's quite old)
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by mhh__ 16d ago
I think it seems sensible to _assume_ anything the LLM reads (if you aren't inferencing it) has a chance of ending up in some database somewhere. Regardless of whether you trust the other party its a sensible thing to plan around.
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by mhh__ 17d ago
The folding phones are genuinely interesting although all the cool demos I've seen people do irl have been quite reliant on android being quite liberal as to what software you can run
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by mhh__ 19d ago
small behaviours are fine, yes, what i was referring to was people making "foobar api skill" with just a bad compression of the foobar docs in a .md
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by mhh__ 19d ago
They're literally just documentation with a hat on. I don't mind a skill saying where the docs are but an overreliance on skills is simply proof someone isn't able to reason about the gestalt
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by mhh__ 20d ago
They already do, you need permission from local government to build almost anything in Britain.
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by mhh__ 20d ago
The renters rights act is already seemingly leading to distortion in the market - it's not really the price controls as per se but the inability to do things when the tenant is in place.
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by mhh__ 20d ago
Why are these cases only happening now? The article is clearly talking about the wider principle anywwy
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by mhh__ 20d ago
Rent controls are great if you already have a place
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by mhh__ 20d ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0817jd9dqo The judge decided that, despite prices suggesting otherwise, the two types of labour here were the same.
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by mhh__ 20d ago
> British state to ignore any possible volume of petitions Do you live under a rock?
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by mhh__ 20d ago
> Is the Economist seriously suggesting we should roll back workers and renters rights because AI makes it too easy for the average Joe to actually get those rights? Yes, both of these pieces of legislation are extremely badly designed f
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WireGuard Protocol Implementation in D(github.com)
4 points by mhh__ 22d ago|0 comments
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by mhh__ 23d ago
I would expect, although have no evidence, that any obviously high entropy crap like base64 and so on probably would get removed whether it's a secret or not.

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