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by mrow84 13y ago
Is there is some sort of timeout after which it gives up, or a reliable upper bound on the time it takes for a network search, and if so, do you know how long either of those two periods are? I presume that if you ring a phone, a search is
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by mrow84 13y ago
So presumably if billionaires reinvest the wealth they have accumulated in new jobs rather than keeping it to themselves then we will live in a better society? (At least in your model)
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> With position I am talking about politcal position, witch is what it is all about. I was originally responding to adventured, who said "The free market has absolutely no position on collusion, except that force may not enter into
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by mrow84 13y ago
> Look at the 2002 Nobel Price by V. Smith for this one. Can you please elaborate? I don't know enough of the details to understand the link you're making. > The existence of market failure is no position. Just for the fact
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by mrow84 13y ago
> The free market has absolutely no position on collusion, except that force may not enter into economic transactions. If two parties choose to collude to set prices, the free market has no opinion on the matter as such; if they set pric
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by mrow84 13y ago
Wouldn't you start by charging $99? (And then start a bidding war, and then...) I don't think it was nkoren's intention to provide a complete model of the economy, but simply to illustrate how markets can underserve segments
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by mrow84 13y ago
On the basis of your comments, I applaud you for your volunteering efforts. It seems to me that an important way of reducing "bad parenting" is helping people to not become bad parents in the first place. May I ask which organisat
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by mrow84 13y ago
To translate the article into your probability of success framework: wealth confers both a higher probability of success at each attempt, and the ability to make more attempts without becoming impoverished. Given that the 'number of at
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by mrow84 13y ago
> And this is the root of the problem I am trying to get at. The demand for labor is pretty low. Blaming the few companies that are hiring workers isn't fair, and forcing them to raise wages doesn't fix the problem. I essential
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by mrow84 13y ago
What is the converse to "luck" in your argument? Is it effort, or work, or something like that? If so, it seems that you are saying that white males just put more effort in than other people. I'm not convinced that that is tr
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by mrow84 13y ago
Your argument seems compelling, but there are several problems I find with it. The first is that it rests on the usual assumptions of a competitive market, and we are discussing situations where this isn't the case: people are looking
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by mrow84 13y ago
Your market-based challenge "share your plan with the world to do better and take them out of business", which seems to be a fairly common retort to anyone who takes issue with the way any particular company is run, is not a valid
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by mrow84 13y ago
Bargaining power is limited both by competition for jobs, and by fundamental necessity, which was more my point. A group of workers who do not have the freedom to engage in competitive tender, because they are forced to address their fundam
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by mrow84 13y ago
In our society it is very difficult (though not entirely impossible) to survive without money. If you are not in a position to withhold your labour, because you have no money, then you have no bargaining power when determining your wages. I
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by mrow84 13y ago
I share your skepticism of a "competent, intentional conspiracy", but I wonder if there might be an analogous, emergent phenomenon. I also find it plausible that this (hypothetical) emergent system has been opportunistically capit
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by mrow84 13y ago
Your claimed proof ignores dalai's point: that Goldman Sachs' predictions affect the system they are making 'predictions' about. If I predict you are going to get a nosebleed, and then punch you in the face, it's a
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by mrow84 13y ago
I agree with this analysis. One way to characterise the problem is as a lack of verifiability, which, interestingly, has been much touted recently as a problem in science more generally. I think that the verifiability problem in economics i
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by mrow84 13y ago
I think your answers match my intuition, they make a lot of sense. Would you agree that, by virtue of the answers you have given, market theory is almost useless? It seems to suffer from two fatal flaws: 1) You might require a very complete
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by mrow84 13y ago
My interpretation of what you have said is that the basic theory of pure free market capitalism is not efficient because of hidden costs. A few follow-up questions, if you'd be so kind: 1) Is my interpretation correct? 2) How signifi
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by mrow84 13y ago
As someone who is being educated in the area, perhaps you can offer me some some answers to a few of questions I have: 1) What are the specific claims of capitalism that actually could be refuted by evidence? 2) Is there any evidence that
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by mrow84 13y ago
I too think that kettling is provocative and unnecessary. There is a balance that we have to strike as a society between, on the one hand, protection of property and freedom from violence, and on the other, freedom of speech and expression.
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by mrow84 13y ago
Could you please add a bit of explanation as to why you are so confident that this interpretation of the role of the police should be regarded as categorical fact? Particularly in the case of UK, if your knowledge allows, given that we oper
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by mrow84 13y ago
> If you believe such courts aren't biased, do tell me if anybody from the US chain of command was ever prosecuted in any international court for anything? It will never happen as long as the US remain what it is. I was under the im
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by mrow84 13y ago
You've said quite a lot, so please forgive me in advance for any lack of coherence. I would be slightly wary of making predictions from historical trends, because we don't have a very large sample size, and there are a lot of conf
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by mrow84 13y ago
Sorry to hijack your actual point, but I think the financial investment model of company control does leave something to be desired. In particular, people invest time as well as money into their economic ventures, but this is rarely reflect
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by mrow84 13y ago
Interesting. Apologies for not taking the time to do the research myself, but do you have any idea why they were so reluctant to take a stake in the companies that (I presume) their members work in?
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by mrow84 13y ago
Markets "decide" what is best by responding to price signals. If you buy a cheap T-shirt then you are saying to the market that you value low price over an ethical supply chain. Buyers from first world countries do not (in general
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by mrow84 13y ago
Thanks for the extra info. As to your point(s) - I get that having two (or more) 'masters' makes things more difficult, but it seems to me to be a pretty desirable state of affairs. After human decision making, the next major mech
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by mrow84 13y ago
Do the American unions eschew financial interests in their employers out of choice?
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From what I have read basic income is often suggested to be combined with a single land value tax. This means the only direct taxes are on the unimproved value of land, which is fairly easy to administer in a country like the United Kingdom

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