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by quadrangle 4y ago
Yes, and I'm aware of that. So, I'm skeptical of recommends ALSO, but I don't reduce the standing of a product in my mind because it's recommended, I'm just wary still. If I know that product X exists, and someone
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by quadrangle 4y ago
Maybe you didn't read me clearly. I get the subconscious thing, sure. I subconsciously find brands REPELLENT if I think they are familiar options likely because they are popular with ad-susceptible people. What happens in practice for
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I probably hate ads more than most people but when I hear or see an ad, it kills my willingness to engage with a business. I mean, this isn't entirely conscious. I was thinking about whether my kid would like those creative boxes
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yeah, but eating lunch always comes with some risks. At some point, that's not within the frame of saying "no free lunch".
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I was NOT doing a literal interp. That would mean getting hung up on what counts as "lunch" and not recognizing that it's a metaphor. That's not what I was doing. Everything I've posted is about critiquing what I se
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Does "no free lunch" mean that if lunch is normally $10 and today it's $0, it's because someone is paying the price some other way (like it's externalized)? Or does "no free lunch" mean the drastically b
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I read that many ancient farming societies used lottery to rotate which farmers used which plots each year. You know, there's an unfair advantage if you get access to the best land and then that grows you the best crops and then profit
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yes, and we can force "no free lunch" to be true if we use enough nuclear bombs to wipe out life on earth or something. But like clean air is/was analogous to the abundant fruit tree in the comic I posted. And it TURNED INTO
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Even though the comic is a comic, it's not about actual fertility goddesses making food, it's about prehistoric people making up ideas like that while they expressed their gratitude for the abundance of nature. Look, I'm a RE
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I think the reason for the semantics comes from the assertion that increasing the money supply always correlates (usually argued as causes) price increases. In one of your quotes "inexorable consequence". Are there examples of peo
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by quadrangle 5y ago
This was not true for almost all of human history. So, are you just saying "there's no LONGER such a thing as a free lunch"?
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by quadrangle 5y ago
If you want to just be contrarian, you'll say that it's not "free" if you have to CHEW your lunch. Either "free" is effectively meaningless or our world is full of free things. Uncompromised free things. Sunl
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Look the world I live in, my reality is one where sorting through stuff is indeed a HUGE problem, but it's not caused strictly by things being free and abundant. We have tons of examples of noise and bulk that needs curation that is th
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Your link doesn't contradict the price-inflation view. > its original meaning - a rise in the general price level caused by an imbalance between the quantity of money and trade needs and in the PDF: > an inflating currency has b
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You're confused here. Price inflation specifically means the same products have a higher price. If you have more money and more productivity so you can buy more with the more money, that's not inflation. Inflation is short f
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Better to just say that you can't make free lunches out of money. The standard can't-eat-money point. There ARE such things as free lunches, and the "no free lunch" quip is a meme that serves as propaganda for the idea t
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Well, I happen to believe that capitalism at its worst does veer on pseudo-totalitarianism. I think the anti-West critics are mostly correct in their criticism even while they are typically wrong in their defenses/apologies for sit
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by quadrangle 5y ago
That all makes sense and is a thoughtful response, thanks. Now, I had the impression that the lack of such laws before was effectively at the whim of Putin in practice. Like, the moment he felt such more-totalitarian laws were in his intere
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I agree that Russia isn't a quintessential example of "totalitarian". At some level, this can be just about clarifying semantics. But when I pointed out the new law criminalizing journalism that criticizes the current war, yo
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by quadrangle 5y ago
What's your point? That because Russia has allowed various freedoms and the severe stifling of them over the past two weeks has a lot farther it could potentially go? And therefore "totalitarian" is an unfair judgment as lo
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yes, block pricing makes sense. Prices are SUPER valuable as are other market dynamics! The same should be used for electricity and gasoline and many other things. But the free-market dogmatists aren't interested in using markets and
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Charities do exist in the free market, yes. They are also a tiny tiny fraction of what's needed to address wider social problems. No charity efforts are comparable to or have the potential to replace something like Social Security and
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I guess you've never bought touch-screen-compatible gloves… they are the norm now, even cheap gloves from a dollar-store as well as higher end ones. It needs to have material that is conductive. Random link I found for you https:&#x2F
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by quadrangle 5y ago
> You can publish news and analysis that denounce the government and call for it to stop the war So you say, but: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084729579/russian-law-bans-j... Oops, so much for bein
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by quadrangle 5y ago
> charge fees for those services based on actual free market supply and demand There's something to be said for this, but it doesn't work to just flip to the opposite extreme. As long as there are wealth inequities, then free-m
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I thought it was obvious that I was saying that governments should eliminate sales tax. It wasn't in the slightest a suggestion for how software deals with the status quo that has sales taxes. I understand it's not going to happen
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by quadrangle 5y ago
The answer is obvious: get rid of sales taxes. They are the stupidest most regressive taxes we have. They are cumbersome, and they screw with price transparency, and they shouldn't exist. Incidentally, I support taxes in general and
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Sounds like a significant-other who is paranoid, and then when you leave them because they are crazy, they use it to justify their paranoia and become a stalker. Okay, not really a good analogy but sorta good
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Well, that doesn't explain why it would stand out as such a hit because that explanation would apply to tons of songs that weren't hits or celebrated like that one.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Down by the Old Mill Stream is nice. I like that one. It's not pretentious or corny, and the harmonies are interesting enough. Let Me Call You Sweetheart is also totally fine. But yeah, I get your point. I was like huh "Woodman, W

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