naravara

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by naravara 6y ago
> Theories have enormous effect on reality. Coase Theorem^ dictated how radio spectrum was managed in the US, with disastrous results. Monetarism dictates most decisions made by central banks. Unionisation and later union-busting were ve
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by naravara 6y ago
It is a consideration in the field of political economy or development economics. Development economists rarely get invited to talk about domestic politics in OECD countries though so the focus is all on developing ones.
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by naravara 6y ago
>Theories fall in and out of favour, but they never seem to be affected by reality very much either way. It's the opposite. Theories happen, but reality isn't affected by them in any way. Part of the reason is because there is
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by naravara 6y ago
I think your point is correct in general, but I’d like to nitpick in a specific part here: > it's hard for Australia to build, for Germany to build, for Turkey to build, for Japan to build. Just looking at the cost of rail infrastru
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by naravara 6y ago
> then there's been a massive failure in enforcement I think basically everyone who works on anti-trust issues would agree that this has indeed been the case. Not just with Apple, but with anti-trust law in general.
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by naravara 6y ago
>At least the Unabomber wrote his own deranged manifesto To be fair he was given an elite education and was, by many accounts, an actual genius and math prodigy. Most people don't clear that bar.
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by naravara 6y ago
> Even if one were to concede your premise that it's somehow valuable to classify American politics through another political entity's spectrum of discourse, the left-right spectrum is an extremely lossy way of encoding both so
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by naravara 6y ago
> it seems society is reverting back to a sort of tribalism "Reverting" implies it ever left. Is it not possible that our media system, in the past, just enforced uniformity to effectively create one tribe of people who consume
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by naravara 6y ago
>The "echo chambers" explanation, in particular, seems wrong. Echo chambers always existed. Echo chambers always did, but I think the bubble-forming dynamic we have now is a bit different. It's not that I have my own views
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by naravara 6y ago
While the article itself is kind of an exercise in dumb self-pity, and I don't think it hits the mark at all when talking about the Times, I will say I am noticing a pattern of "mind closing" in Leftist spaces over the past y
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by naravara 6y ago
Either an element zapper or a one click sticky-header killer should honestly be standard issue features in browsers nowadays. The web would be a miserable without them, especially on mobile.
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> "Even I could have done that" about one of the pieces and my friend replied, "But you didn't" They actually sell a poster that says this at the Guggenheim gift shop.
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I think it's hard to encompass massive ideologies into something like this without seeming reductive. Communism might have rules and be ruthless, but it's also a utopian ideology that motivated heavily by a desire for "freedo
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by naravara 6y ago
Magic has terms for that too. Most decks aren’t mono-colored, people blend colors and those decks take a character and personality of their own. A Green/Blue hybrid deck is called “Simic” and does encompass both sides. It refers to a k
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by naravara 6y ago
>If anything, they should explicitly not be given the benefit of the doubt and should be treated much more strictly under the law. How many of your tax dollars are you willing to pour into addressing the volume of nuisance cases then?
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by naravara 6y ago
>Also, it redistributes wealth to the less well off; obviously, with the potential to earn a higher payout. If the net effect is to outcompete small businesses with unprofitable schemes it seems like what we're actually doing is shr
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by naravara 6y ago
>At the risk of sounding ignorant, isn't it just a website? A website with a gigantic sales and account management apparatus behind it. The costs are centered around acquiring and retaining users/customers, including a big cust
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by naravara 6y ago
> The rise in price is the result of the market thinking there will be future rise in organic demand. In a disaster situation there won’t be a future rise in organic demand so the market has no incentive to actually adjust. Price gouging
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by naravara 6y ago
> If your baby needs formula, and the supply is disrupted, the choices are generally, with price gouging, you wouldn't be able to feed your baby because the formula is too expensive, and without price gouging, you wouldn't be a
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>n practice, as has been seen with Covid PPE, the price "gouging" threshold is sometimes set below the cost of production (due to fixed startup capital costs), preventing production. If it was actually socially important you co
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by naravara 6y ago
>But when a retailer knows they can't raise prices during any emergency, they can't justify investment to prepare for the next emergency. None of the preparations for an emergency involve allowing front-line retailers to hoard
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>I still don't understand why price gouging is not accepted. Only high prices are an incentive for new producers to enter a market. Or rather: high prices promise huge return on investments so that investors allocate money for produ
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>Since ads are the primary way sites stay in business, they are obligated to fight against user agents or other intermediary systems. Not all users hate ads in principle, just in practice. In theory, you'd be making the users select
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by naravara 6y ago
For everyday user computing tasks, it’s not that Moore’s law is dead so much as just irrelevant. We’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on CPUs getting faster. Many users have flipped to prioritize power efficiency and quiet operation o
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by naravara 6y ago
Walmart's brand is pretty toxic in certain corners, so I could see Jet being an "alternative" to dodge the association. Kind of like Tab/Diet Coke. But I think basically anyone using Jet pretty much knew it was WalMart a
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by naravara 6y ago
>Google has annoyed me for ten years but I'm close to claiming they must have scammed a bunch of dating sites (or maybe just one company with a lot of fronts?) I seem to remember an article a long time ago that pulled back the curta
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>Individual voters don't have to be rational as long as their errors cancel out. This, incidentally, is the function of propaganda. You introduce an influence that biases the system to encourage certain classes or error and discoura
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It only works if you have an easy path to monopoly once you price your competitors out. A company like WalMart or Amazon can leverage their returns to scale on logistics to actually price out Mom&Pops. That way, even after the drive the
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by naravara 6y ago
You would probably want to include some tax advantaged incentives to maintain a bit of public space, public art, parks, or just green spaces. Giving over some portion of your land for public benefit, even if limited use, should be encourage
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by naravara 6y ago
>I'm actually working on something with that spirit. Sincere question, not trying to be snarky. Since much (though not all) of the bullshit in Medium is their weak attempts at monetization, what's the bullshit-free alternative

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