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by pdonis 6mo ago
This isn't government setting prices. It's just government outlawing a certain form of price discrimination. It's forbidding sellers from transferring consumer surplus to themselves by charging a higher price to customers tha
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by pdonis 6mo ago
If by this you mean that standard supply-demand economics can't model price discrimination, which is what's going on here, that's not correct. See, for example, Chapter 10 of David Friedman's Price Theory , where he mod
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Ten is right out!
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So how long before an AI requests the verified badge and gets it?
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Thanks!
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> His post is a response to Mitchell's, from just a few hours ago. Is there a link to Mitchell's post somewhere? I can't find one in the article.
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Which is pretty much every Android phone. Again, is there any version of Android that doesn't have that service automatically installed and running?
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by pdonis 6mo ago
Is anyone considering a fork of Android that would not have this, um, "feature"?
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> Now list something what that's actually held its value. Gee, I dunno, anything whose value as measured in dollars increases by more than 3.45% a year? Like, just off the top of my head, stocks, bonds, real estate, and yes, gold.
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> I suppose that's a degree removed from printed bills or minted coinage Yes, because the "value" of those assets is just a guess until you try to sell them. It might be a highly educated guess, but it's still a gue
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> USD seems to hold its value pretty well. The Consumer Price Index has inflated by a factor of more than 15 from January 1947 through March 2026 [1]. That's an annual rate of inflation of about 3.45 percent. That's an indica
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> the numbers in your account are still backed by something that tangibly exists Only if you consider fiat money that can be printed in arbitrary amounts by Mr. Bernanke's famous printing press to be "something that tangibly
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The really fun part is that the couple who read those lines in the movie Airplane actually had been announcers at, IIRC, LAX airport. They must have had a great time doing the movie.
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> It's not a comparison Trying to set a threshold for what counts as "really rich" is the reason for the comparison I was asking about. My sense is that the average employee of an investment bank or hedge fund is a lot r
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> I imagine those three companies have minted quite a few IC millionaires How would that compare with, say, the average IC (not management) employee of an investment bank or a hedge fund?
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How many people got really rich as a result of Apple, Facebook, and Google doing things that created actual value? I get that all those companies are really rich, but most of the people involved aren't.
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In what I quoted, she wasn't talking about passive income; she was talking about making money by actually creating value. I'm saying it's a shame that our system is set up so people who actually create value don't end up
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One thing in the article struck me as way too optimistic: > What actually makes money hasn't changed. You find something people need. You get good at providing it. You charge a fair price and you keep showing up even when it's
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by pdonis 6mo ago
People who can't afford to buy a house need a place to live too. Believe it or not, there are people who buy houses with the intent of renting them out to those people, to actually help them.
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The party that wants the precedent reversed loses in the lower court (because the lower court is bound by current Supreme Court precedent) and appeals to the Supreme Court. The canonical historical example is Brown v. Board of Education,
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That's been going on for a long, long time.
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In Wickard v. Filburn, back in 1942, they said the same thing for wheat .
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> The goal was to improve the quality of living for all people in society and educated workers, engineers and burocrats were needed That was the claimed goal, yes. It didn't actually work out that way. Which is an example of the p
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> It's possible that the villagers were suspicious of Luria. It's also possible that the collective farm workers were suspicious of Luria. Don't you think it's possible for both of those to be true? Sure. But that d
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> These were previously peasants still under feudal lords. What feudal lords? From the article's description it seems like they were basically on their own before the Soviet Union came in. > Before somebody came to teach them
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> Why didn't the villagers come to the same conclusion Because they hadn't had the same experience--yet. > you're suggesting that the villagers were fearful of this person Not fearful, suspicious. > that's
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> the villagers who were not forced to change their lives They were--they just hadn't been yet when Luria ran his experiments. > Why wouldn't the farm workers be even more suspicious, having already been victimized? Th
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> The correct thing to do if someone asks you a question with obviously false premises is to push back! More generally, Luria completely ignores a key psychological dynamic that's in play as he tries to quiz these villagers: they&
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> Waiting on a source!! I have no idea what you mean by this. > It should be SO EASY for you to prove me wrong! As I said, I've already explained upthread the limitations of the "source" you gave. Not sure what else
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by pdonis 6mo ago
I'm sorry that you disagree with the correct things I've said. Your "source" is a YouTube video--hardly a rigorous scientific or engineering treatment. And I posted upthread in another response about the limitations of t

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