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by pgsimp 6y ago
Could you elaborate? I'd really like to understand why you don't have any spare money, despite of two good earners in the household? "A joke" is also incorrect, the guy is trying to make money. Nevertheless, if you refra
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by pgsimp 6y ago
There is a difference between trying to determine the highest price somebody may be willing to pay and auctioning off to the highest bidder (with an AI trying to guess the auction prices also being a kind of auction). The point is exactly t
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by pgsimp 6y ago
If the places are already zoned for housing, NIMBYs are unlikely to be able to prevent it.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Of course people have more than property rights. Like access to clean drinking water, infrastructure, and so on. It's wrong to assume their rights should stop at the border of their property. Like if they have a water pipe to their hou
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I get that scenario, just trying to gauge the maximum price a customer might be willing to pay. But that wouldn't be surge pricing, or would it? I suppose a "nice" company would not try to do that "price maximization&quo
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by pgsimp 6y ago
"we would never build a system that might “learn” that people whose destination is a hospital tend to be willing to pay higher fares" I'm sorry, but wouldn't that exactly be the point of "surge pricing"? To all
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by pgsimp 6y ago
So if people make babies, they are entitled to take your stuff away? I think that is too simplistic.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I think it makes sense to give people some rights. For example if you build a highway right in front of their house, it devalues their investment, and they could deserve compensation. Or make it a garbage dump. Are you really of the opinion
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by pgsimp 6y ago
"research supports that conclusion" - from some marxist think tank perhaps. Definitely bullshit. People are not better off without property rights. And with your attitude, I guess you celebrate colonialism. After all, those were p
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Why should people living at some place even be concerned about diversity? I find your comment almost surreal - after relentless media campaigns, people really believe "diversity" should be their top priority in life?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I think it is understandable if people don't want the surroundings of their property cluttered with buildings.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
So you root for people based on their technical expertise, not for their cause? Interesting. I guess I don't feel sorry for poor people anymore. They have poor skills, so they don't deserve to earn a lot of money. (Same logic).
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Then why don't the universal health care people advocate for the abolishment of such laws?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Why, what would have happened if they hadn't? Say they promised it for some time, and then don't deliver on time. Then what?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
They would have had to survive long enough, though. Profits in the future don't help you to pay your bills in the present.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
"routinely hired armed security services to threaten and ultimately murder people organizing to get their share of what wealth they created" To be honest that sounds to me as if those people "organized" to take by force
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by pgsimp 6y ago
It just seems too simplistic to me. Sometimes there is struggle. Taking an extreme example, soldiers at war. Are they generally being treated well? I'm not sure they are, and I don't necessarily mean deliberately. I don't thi
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Wait, what - you say it is "regulation" that there is no universal health care? How so? It seems to me "universal health care" would be the regulation. What is stopping people from getting together and forming their own
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Presumably companies that don't pay you well are already struggling, so their problems (that you were put to work on) were also more of a struggle. Of course companies who are doing well can also afford to pay more and give all sorts o
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by pgsimp 6y ago
What is an equal opportunity?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
It's nice if you can create opportunities for less able people, but I also think it should be people's right to employ the best person for a job. I don't think you should be able to demand from anybody to hire the less able p
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by pgsimp 6y ago
The article seems to confuse several things. For example, companies not having a universal test for talent does not imply talent does not exist. The Polgar sisters are interesting. However, their parents were very intelligent, so it is unkn
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by pgsimp 6y ago
So far, people seem to be benefitting from Amazon.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Well no, she didn't have to. It just was most convenient for her.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I don't understand what you mean? Somebody offers to sell the stock for X, somebody else (with the money stored on the stock exchange) offers the buy for the price X. Person A gets the money, person B gets the stock. That probably happ
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I think we are here because of PG and YCombinator, not because we don't want to run our own servers. Many HN users probably do run their own servers, even discussion servers. The real problem is how to attract the right people. YC is a