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by netcan 6y ago
Are you asking "why is a monopoly bad?" or " why do acquisitions representing large market share promote monopoly? " The 2nd one is quite obvious. Afterwards, there is less competition and the aquire has increased their
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by netcan 6y ago
Small countries can ban facebook from doing certain things. Ultimately, some sovereignty exists even in global commerce. If New Zealand made (eg) political advertising, targeted advertising, or such ilegal, Facebook would stop doing it in N
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by netcan 6y ago
How is that different, besides being less informative? They didn't call it europe.
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by netcan 6y ago
Like you say, I think we've reached an end point on most of this. FWIW, I think we're using the term "theory" in exactly the same way, given that we've discussed half a dozen examples. I'll just respond to the
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by netcan 6y ago
I think we may be talking past each other somewhat. By "marxist theory" I meant the timeline and cause-effect chains that are generally in the textbooks, history books what your likely to be taught in college, etc. Marxist interpr
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by netcan 6y ago
SEO everywhere. This is all getting to be too much.
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by netcan 6y ago
OK. Undisputed is an overstatement, unfair even. There's actually quite a lot of action in this space, and the publications/excavations are recent. You do see my point though, no? I think many/most history teachers don't
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by netcan 6y ago
It's an expression, generally used to convey exactly what you said.
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by netcan 6y ago
>> Advances in computing, data collection, and statistical methods have enabled levels of quantitative analysis around natural experiments that nobody thought possible even a few years ago. I have to say I'm skeptical. What'
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by netcan 6y ago
I am absolutely sure of it! Babies think farts are funny.
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by netcan 6y ago
Maybe I'm just old, but my 101 econ texbooks made no mention of behavioral economics and very little of welfare economics. Those were in the wishy washy electives bucket. I'd actually like to try this experiment, irl. My guess is
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by netcan 6y ago
Because "Paleolithic people living in the place now known as France" is longer, clunkier and conveys the same meaning. It's also not really "inaccurate." We say "Irish prehistory," native americans, etc.
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by netcan 6y ago
There's some theory that pornography is a primary driver of historical progress. Art, technology etc. I can't remember what it's called. It is hard to deny all the pioneering work done by pornography. Arguably, the oldest kno
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by netcan 6y ago
I totally disagree. 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
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by netcan 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "actual scientific articles," but I mean stuff that's generally published in economics, policy, psychology or other "social science" related journals. I'm not commenting on wh
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by netcan 6y ago
The goalposts of social science always seems to be moved to where the ball goes. But, I think if we're being honest, than yes. Not the only goal obviously. But, there are countless economists & policy researchers publishing on simi
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by netcan 6y ago
My favourite spot was a little later, early & mid 2000s. The barriers had been lowered, but publishing still required some motivation. There was a ton of content to discover, a lot of discovery channels and "information wants to be
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by netcan 6y ago
The lesson to learn here is that these organisational values are mostly the result of market positions, not morals.
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by netcan 6y ago
As a european, I don't understand why the european response is seen as significantly better on this front than the US', especially in the context of Andreeson's criticism. I mean, Europe has had some of the worst outbreaks, m
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by netcan 6y ago
I think you're both right. To the meta-point made by the OP... We are now sitting on 200 years of social "science" failure to gain an understanding of this stuff. Theories fall in and out of favour, but they never seem to be
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by netcan 6y ago
Graves, I think, will be the the key to a lot of future paleolithic discoveries. They're basically intentional time capsules. A meaningful amount of archeological knowledge about vikings (for example) comes from graves. Gobekli Tepeh,
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by netcan 6y ago
I agree about the naive free pass buddhism gets from those critical of christianity. Ultimately though, religions tend to develop similar memes regardless of differences in philosophy or theology. " Accept your misery, peasant " i
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by netcan 6y ago
Tangential but... "Analytics" is rarely useful or unuseful because of the tool. These tools need to be treated as data collection, not reporting. If your goal is to inform certain decisions, track success or identify problems... a
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by netcan 6y ago
Just go for it. Sounds like you want to. Worst case: you don't like it.
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by netcan 6y ago
why not
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by netcan 6y ago
Who's a good sudoku streamer?
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by netcan 6y ago
This is the point, I think. That's great content. It's a grandmaster vs world champion match. It's silly and fun. "Feats of chess" like simultaneous or blindfolded matches have always been popular. All that packed i
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by netcan 6y ago
There's some interesting shifting going re: social media & politics. Twitter made their decision about political ads. I guess it was a hard call... revenue potential. Meanwhile, Twitter is coming under more pressure and scrutiny. P
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by netcan 6y ago
What makes you say that? Google report Youtube's revenue as $15bn, and profits to be really high. Maybe they underaccount infrastructure costs, but it's definitely not billions. Google could be broken up into very logical units.
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by netcan 6y ago
First, I think that once a strong monopoly exists monopolistic dynamics persist throughout the integrated layers. This is a premise of anti monopoly legislation. Search, mobile, adwords, "advertiser tools" like google analytics, p

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