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by pdonis 9mo ago
> in the Torrens system, whatever the government records say are final First, it doesn't seem like that's always the case, based on another post upthread talking about a land ownership case that went to the high court because
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> how is ownership established if there is no single source of truth? There is: the county clerk in the county where the land is located.
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> price transparency is another factor Yes, agreed. One obvious place in the US where that is a huge problem is health care.
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> for something like the local pizza place, customer behaviour doesn't match that of a market participant. I'm not sure why you think that. "Market participant" doesn't mean "always takes the lowest priced
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> Why privilege that side of the equation It's not a matter of "privilege". It's simple economics: if the same functionality can be provided more cheaply, that's a gain to everyone . The gain to customers is t
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> owned by everyone There's no such thing. Even if on paper "everyone" has an ownership share, in practice it's going to be a relatively small number of people who actually exercise all the functions of ownership. T
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by pdonis 10mo ago
Your argument as it stands would explain why people with college degrees smoke a lot less than people without them. But that's not what the "place effects" is in the article. "Place effects" is the fact that, if we
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by pdonis 10mo ago
Looks like it, yes.
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> Breaking up the monopoly and the price fixing led to lower prices through the system. Not in the cases I gave. > Oil barrel prices Not sure what you mean by this. If you mean crude oil, Standard Oil was not a seller of crude oi
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> Are you arguing that the workers being significant shareholders of companies is a better alternative to unions? Once the companies start branching out to sell other things besides the service of organized labor, they're no longe
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> antitrust law has had a deep enforcement problem for a long time That's true--in fact early "big name" enforcements hurt consumers, by breaking up Standard Oil and Alcoa Aluminum, whose "antitrust violation"
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> One would need to be careful to stop such a company from fully monopolising the profession though. Antitrust law should take care of that. Indeed, making the unions into actual worker-owned corporations would help in that respect, as
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by pdonis 10mo ago
> they are able to represent labor as a single entity They'd be even more able to do that if they were actual corporations, owned by all the workers, selling organized labor as a service. Then they would only have to negotiate the
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> modern KDE has more-or-less the same taskbar. More or less, yes; Trinity Desktop is basically KDE 3. But KDE has added on a lot of other cruft since then that has no value to me. > Having text next to the icons is great, but it m
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by pdonis 11mo ago
I use Trinity Desktop on Linux because it's basically the same as the Windows 95-XP taskbar interface, and has no plans to change.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
What "loses energy" actually means here depends on what kind of redshift you're talking about. If you're talking about gravitational redshift, because the light is climbing out of the gravity well of a planet or star, th
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by pdonis 11mo ago
The claim I was responding to was that one needs to go to college to get a "well-rounded education". I don't see why: the information is available for free online, and the value add of getting it by paying college professors
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by pdonis 11mo ago
My first PC, bought in late 1986, was a Leading Edge Model D, with two 360K floppy drives and no hard drive. I wrote a script to put COMMAND.COM and some other key files on a RAM disk on boot so I didn't have to keep the DOS floppy in
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by pdonis 11mo ago
If you think those things didn't happen before the Europeans arrived, you need to think again.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> I'm saying we can devise a political system that is incorruptible. Please show your work. All human history says this can't be done.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> a Google AI summary That's not the online material I was referring to. Many universities have their course materials available for free online. Not to mention other online learning sites.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> Teaching is a deliberate act The issue isn't teaching, it's learning. I don't think it's at all obvious that being taught by college professors is the best way to learn that material.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
Why do you need to pay to go to college to learn the basics of all these subjects? The same information is available for free online.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
It started during WW II when the US government put wage and price controls in place so that companies could not compete for employees by offering higher wages. So they competed for employees instead by offering employer-paid healthcare as a
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> an HOA that exists just to provide storm drainage services should be dissolved into the local municipality. The problem in many cases is that it's against state law to do that. Also, once the HOA is in existence, it starts accre
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by pdonis 11mo ago
I submitted a comment.
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> Look at the first two subheadings Which the author says are stages he grew out of. He's not saying that those things are what connecting with people is actually about.
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> Its pricing was scandalous So if the pricing hadn't been "scandalous" by your definition, would it still have been profitable? You do realize that the profits are there because of the pricing, right?
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by pdonis 11mo ago
To not have to go through the polygraph process at all. In the case of Bongino, at least, he was in the Secret Service before, and might well have already gone through the TS clearance process once, including a polygraph, which would be a r
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by pdonis 11mo ago
> these people can't pass TS Where does it say that?

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