runako

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by runako 5d ago
I hesitated before linking that specific statute because I suspected someone would parse it as you have. Not a bad thing, just distracts from the larger point that the US government currently has tools (of which Robinson-Patman is only one)
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by runako 6d ago
> We’ve allowed Amazon and Ticketmaster and Walmart to exist and they shouldn’t exist in their present form. Unpopular knowledge is that these businesses are generally illegal in their current forms under existing US law. The relevant la
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by runako 6d ago
Was aiming for more pithy but the crux is > “Died of a COVID linked complication with COVID and other issue that is also linked to that complication.” Where people refused to acknowledge the "linked complication" part of it at
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by runako 8d ago
It's not the clicks, it's the cognitive load of discovering & remembering which sites break due to an adblocker. (This set of sites changes as the sites themselves evolve.) The main point is you were writing advice to someone
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by runako 8d ago
"With Covid, not of Covid," but for military casualties. One does see something new every day.
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by runako 9d ago
That is true, but does not help a person who is not building a given website. I have had financial websites impacted by adblockers, which is why I stopped using them. (I do not work on all of the teams building the financial websites I use.
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by runako 11d ago
Google has in excess of $121 billion of cash (& equivalents), net of total debt. Big rich companies take on debt for reasons that are sometimes inscrutable from the outside. Recently, they have been borrowing for ~5%, about a half point
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by runako 15d ago
> Water vapor? The stuff we drink? This is really obnoxious coming as people are still missing after historic flooding in Asia (via lots of concentrated water vapor, I guess).
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by runako 19d ago
There are a couple of statistical errors in your argument here. First is frequency. Even using Pangram's claimed numbers, the University of Georgia should expect to see several false positives every week. Remember that the metric is #
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by runako 19d ago
> ~98% of students flagged by pangram actually cheated That 2% is a large number! Of people who will have their integrity impugned for no good reason! That's not okay! Your calculations also are mixing assignments and students. The
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by runako 20d ago
Disclaimer: I do not like to read LLM-generated text any more than anyone else. IMHO a big problem with Pangram in particular is that they market it as a reliable tool that can be used to catch students cheating. This can obviously have dis
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by runako 22d ago
This seems like it would be an altogether different experience than the common experience of using an LLM, which is characterized by the person spending a lot of time waiting on the machine.
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by runako 23d ago
> If it's cheaper they should say I think you would be pleased at the very first selling points on their website, as well as on the product page. It seems they have at least considered the most obvious issue in their product space.
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by runako 23d ago
> 500 miles with hybrid system > the grueling two hour drives What country are you in, and perhaps more importantly, what roads are you driving on?
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by runako 24d ago
Taxes are not just money taken from people in the abstract. They are, quite concretely, used for specific purposes. In the US (because the OP is about the US), property taxes in particular are used to fund local services like schools. So if
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by runako 24d ago
> stay-at-home wives that do nothing but watch TV all day > include pensioners, kids The word "unemployment" has academic and colloquial meanings that overlap in places and diverge in other places. Neither of those include a
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by runako 24d ago
> from about 1945 until around 2000 in the USA there really wasn't such a thing as "a job that doesn't pay enough to live on". Also, this is flatly wrong in that the wage laws were crafted specifically to enforce cert
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by runako 24d ago
I'm saying that the "low paying jobs" have never been included in "unemployment." That is not how academics define "unemployment" nor how the term is colloquially used. The OP is trying to change the defin
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by runako 24d ago
> That may be the case in the US The subhead from the post: "The percentage of the U.S. labor force that is functionally unemployed"
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by runako 24d ago
A popular comedy skit in the '90s was around the notion that people had more jobs than they wanted. 1999 was basically ~full employment in the US. Most people who wanted to work had a job.
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by runako 24d ago
> How do you tax wealth on unrealised gains? The US does this in most jurisdictions. Homeowners pay tax on the current assessed value of the property, even if that property was purchased when the property was much less valuable. It would
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by runako 24d ago
> If I bought $100K of stock in 1999 and sold it in 2026 for $200K This is because you invested incredibly poorly. The S&P is up ~500% over that period, plus decades of dividends. Long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rate bec
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by runako 24d ago
Anybody who believes ~30% of the workforce was functionally unemployed in 1999 does not know what those words mean, or was not an adult in 1999. I get what they are trying to convey, but the stronger message is the more straightforward: the
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by runako 28d ago
> Binance, FTX, BitMex, Silk Road founders all went to jail BitMex didn't go to jail, they all got probation/ankle tag, for not running a clean money org (allegedly no KYC, registering US accounts from offshore, etc.). CZ got c
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by runako 29d ago
> Kalshi is just hoping to be treated like Uber was. This is not a bad strategy for a company in our asymmetric regulatory environment. Fortunes were made in crypto on exactly this one-way bet. Go on breaking the law until you get a favo
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by runako 1mo ago
> Most of us are only citizens because someone up the chain was born under this rule. This understates the situation. All of us who are not naturalized citizens are citizens only because of the birthright clause in the Constitution. The
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by runako 1mo ago
A hypothetical operational space data center will cost a multiple over a similar terrestrial facility. It would be cheaper/more efficient to offer a municipality or its citizens a fraction of that multiple to secure approvals, now that
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New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro(apple.com)
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by runako 1mo ago
Isn't it true that Euro 7 starts taking effect in a few months, but doesn't cover most cars until late next year?
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by runako 1mo ago
It's really not. No serious analysis reduces the complexity of markets to a single number in a single sector. In particular, it takes willful blindness to look at subsidies in the EV market and ignore other energy markets. You're

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