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EU anti-trust takes harm to competing business into account, but American anti-trust is totally focused on consumer harm, and specifically harm from higher prices. So unsurprisingly, American tech monopolies are usually middleman-monopolies
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States and cities competing to undercut each other in offering sweet deals for Amazon HQs and sports team stadiums had always felt extremely wrong to me. If anything has a natural right to behave like a cartel when negotiating against busin
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What happens when the party you borrowed the stock from, seeing the new high price, wants to sell it to cash in on the fever? Can they not force close the position if the price moved up by some threshold?
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Actually, that’s pretty much what Douglas Hofstadter has been trying to explain in GEB and I am a Strange Loop.
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You’re talking about rising purchasing power, which is better achieved through rising income than deflating currency.
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The “the percent of protests that are peaceful” largely depends on what you decide to include in that category. Suppose the peaceful portion of BLM protests didn’t happen, would the violent riots go from being justified to unjust? Why would
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The difference between the "kill" taboo and "rape" taboo is: We have a narrative where killing is justified–Good guys killing bad guys–but we do not have a narrative where rape is justified. Remember the controversy arou
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If a landowner is having trouble making a profit on rent due to high mortgage costs, that just means that the wealth was captured by the previous owner via a high sale price. So the point still stands that a disproportionate amount of wealt
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Taxation to pay 1. “your fair share of the public commons”, which all big businesses benefit from, is very different from 2. taxation to reduce poverty, which is also different from 3. taxation to eliminate rich people. Am I wrong in sensin
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What if the warehouse workers outnumber the tech and managers 100:1? With >1 million employees, that ratio is likely pretty steep, in which case, even if all managers and tech workers were paid zero, it still wouldn’t move the needle for
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Say an engineer is working on Google’s ad platform. In an alternate universe, he is working at Bing, producing code of identical quality. The economic outcome of this identical unit of labor output is dramatically different. That difference
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Through foster children, and measuring whether their IQs are ultimately more correlated with their foster family or genetic family.
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Communities are not monoliths. Otherwise, it would be incredibly easy to charge any sufficiently large community of blatant hypocrisy.
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...and their silence about it only FURTHER proves there exists a mass conspiracy to muffle the voices for -some unpopular cause-
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That presumes your view of fair will ultimately end up on the right side of history, just like the eventual abolition of slavery was. However that is not yet knowable at the present. While you are focused on how your political view is the “
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by notSupplied 6y ago
I have a theory about why turf wars like this happens: the more successful and wealthy an entity, the greater opportunity there is for a manager to take wealth instead of make it. When you’re scrappy and broke, the only path to success is t
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Maybe they really really don't want professionals to buy the 1st gen M1 Macs, because we have the toughest use cases and will shit on it the hardest if something goes wrong. Lack of 32GB seems like a pretty clear signal. The Mac has tu
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It pains me to see that well-meaning people fail to do a basic pass on 2nd order effects of this tax: - Since "high CEO pay" is defined as 100x multiple of average pay, the first unintended incentive is for companies to cut back o
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Score voting results in tactical voting where only the most extreme scores are given, instead of revealing their "true preferences" on a grayscale. In fact, those who provide honest scores are disadvantaged, because the deciding-p
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The remaining point of having states would be that local state law can still vary. This is true even if we got rid of the senate, the EC, and every federal body had purely population-proportional representation (which I am in favor of).
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As Apple makes their chips faster and more efficient and as phone batteries get bigger and bigger, app developers rise to meet the challenge by producing increasingly sloppy software that can afford to be incredibly wasteful because raw spe
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I am operating on an underlying principle that others may not share, but this could help elucidate why I disagree with many fellow liberals on this front: I'm trying to solve for how decision making power is allocated without making a
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I certainly agree that the mission of a company can (and preferably) be more than just for profit. However, "to be political" is still a pretty wide range of possible missions. Who calls the shots about what you're going to b
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When a group of employees demand that their employers engage in political activism, what they are asking for is the ability to commandeer the resources of the company, whether it be its reputation, money, or labor to advance their political
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Notion does a great job balancing the two. There is immense power hidden behind the slash commands. For everyone else, it's just a great note taking tool.
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Therein lies the difference between "This is what I believe." vs "This is what I believe, and anyone who isn't actively fighting for my cause must be evil." None of us here can really know what Brian has done as a p
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There could already be a majority agitated, disgruntled employees--those agitated and disgruntled by the political discord at the company caused by the activism.
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The employees have a voice: as private citizens. The workplace is not a democratic community, and the employees are not its constituency. It a place where employer-employee come together to complete a mission that both sides consent to, oth
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You actually try to dodge things in these games? The control scheme is so horrible for that, I always presumed the correct way to play is “if you’re not nuking everything on the screen with ease, your build is wrong and you’re not strong en
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Given that the Doom Reboot is all about juggling an insane number of tasks at once you’re better off playing it on PC anyway. In fact I suspect this series is limiting its potential audience because the core play style of fast weapon switch

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