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by owisd 3y ago
It only creates a shortage in a world where you have the x-shaped supply and demand curve from econ 101, which doesn’t apply here because the shortage already exists because of zoning/planning laws limiting the construction of new hous
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by owisd 3y ago
This is just taking the rational consumer model, forgetting it's just a model and treating it as a fact of life, and then inventing corollaries from it. Plenty of people find intrinsic value in solving problems without there needing to
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by owisd 3y ago
Canada is the fourth largest oil producer in the world, if they have an ideological agenda against climate change they’re going about it all wrong.
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by owisd 3y ago
The pharmaceuticals thing is unique to the US, but every country has seen a simultaneous rise in kids mental health issues, so that rules out pharmaceuticals.
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by owisd 3y ago
Seems like an uncharitable interpretation. Reads more like they were replying to the headline by saying management sent people to prison, not the glitch.
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by owisd 3y ago
It wasn’t actually a private prosecution, the Post Office has the right to prosecute on behalf of The Crown. The CPS can intervene on private prosecutions so it might not have flown under the radar for so long if it had actually been a priv
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by owisd 3y ago
Google had enough 3rd party ad revenue before they bought DoubleClick (2008) to buy YouTube (2006).
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by owisd 3y ago
With moral panics, the kids would never agree that video games or D&D or whatever was causing them any problems, yet with social media use most kids will agree it’s a problem, so can’t be characterised as a moral panic.
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by owisd 3y ago
They just stop late (and early) for the more mundane reason of 'because they can', the service is less frequent at off-peak times so there's enough time to stop at Turnham Green before the train behind catches up.
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by owisd 3y ago
Not necessarily, it could mean the ads get better at tricking you into buying something you never use, or that it adds greater costs to the supply chain for something that you would have found out about via conventional means anyway.
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by owisd 3y ago
It would depend on the extent to which the consumer is a willing participant in the trade offs. It’s unreasonable for every passenger to assess the safety of different airlines in making a decision on who to fly with, but if you’re buying a
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by owisd 3y ago
They're using such a wide definition of censorship that it'd be impossible to create a tech platform without censorship as there's just too much content for a single individual to consume, so one way or another the design dec
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by owisd 3y ago
I lived in a flat where the convention was to write the flat number like 8/5 and would occasionally get mail to the equivalent of 08-May.
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by owisd 3y ago
If you’re a hobbyist sysadmin setting up a personal VPS then the security risk is your own competence in correctly configuring things the better more robust less risky way, but you can’t replace yourself with a more competent sysadmin in th
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by owisd 3y ago
You can be regulated not to do something, for instance if the regulator banned airline loyalty schemes then none of the airlines would have the cost of administering those schemes, or the cost of competing against each other on perks, so
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by owisd 3y ago
Causing car prices to increase post-recession was kind of the point of cash for clunkers, but I don’t see why something more targeted has to have the same effect.
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by owisd 3y ago
You would direct the revenue from the tax into grants for those least able to upgrade to electric on their own. London is doing such a scrappage scheme right now for the latest increase in emissions standards.
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by owisd 3y ago
Not ruled a monopoly only in the market of digital mobile gaming transactions. But it’s not illegal to be a monopoly, the judge still ruled they broke competition law by banning Epic from linking to their own store front.
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by owisd 3y ago
The whole appeal of trading cards comes from some company creating artificial scarcity on the supply of the cards, if you could just go online and order for a flat per card fee any brand new trading cards a la carte from the entire back cat
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by owisd 3y ago
I don’t think the fact that you could potentially invest time in closing the information gap negates the general point, e.g. you could take a course in car mechanics before buying a used car
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by owisd 3y ago
Reads like you’re extrapolating your own experiences, if I do the same you get the opposite answer, my school in the early 2000s had computer rooms you were free to use for coding or other projects at lunchtime. It’s not either/or. A s
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by owisd 3y ago
You’re assuming that the return pharma companies get is the absolute minimum they would be prepared to accept in order to do R&D, but I suspect there’s quite a lot of slack that the regulator could take in. The FCC fixed the price that
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by owisd 3y ago
When you’re manufacturing natural gas from solar the pre-existing network of gas pipelines alleviate the intermittency problem with solar because you can store energy as methane in an existing system that’s already designed for seasonal vol
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by owisd 3y ago
The vast majority of artists make all the money they’re ever going to make off their copyright in the first few years, so seems like a fair trade to end perpetual corporate copyright if an extremely tiny number of bleeding heart edge cases
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by owisd 3y ago
It has precedent as has already been implemented to limit SO2 emissions to prevent acid rain https://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/2022-so2-allowance-auction
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by owisd 3y ago
The rules are already different for humans and machines. If I memorise a copyrighted book then that’s not copyright infringement, but if I store a copy on a hard drive then that is. You ask why distinguishing between humans and machines mat
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by owisd 3y ago
why bother trying to achieve anything if someone might try to cheat.
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by owisd 3y ago
Other countries are implementing carbon taxes on their imports from countries that don’t tax carbon so companies will end up paying it indirectly on import taxes if their own government doesn’t levy it.
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by owisd 3y ago
I meant it more in the sense that (in this case) the RNC weren't proposing that the solution for this is for google to do zero filtering. They're still accepting that spam filtering is important, they just want the rules changed i
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by owisd 3y ago
Nobody complains about spam getting removed yet you could make the same argument against that.

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