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by sclarisse 4y ago
Moreover, it’s generally accepted as a standard part of economics that the market only ever begins to fix things (be efficient) when property rights are enforced, barriers to entry are few, and transaction costs are low. It’s not clear t
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Well, that and the general impact of rent control.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
I feel like there’s probably a more meaningful counterpoint to be presented here than a legal document which describes the purpose of J&J as, quote, “to engage in any activity within the purposes for which corporations may be organized
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Returning money to investors is great, whether it’s buybacks or dividends. It’s the core purpose of a company. The primary alternative is growing the bigcorps ever bigger, more powerful, and dangerous. Ever-expanding bloated conglomerates.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Tell that to Chief Justice John Marshall ( McCulloch v Maryland , 1819.)
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by sclarisse 4y ago
1. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and, 2. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. If you want to amend the Constitution that’s another matter.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
The thing that protects them is limited liability, as it does many corporations. They can only lose everything the company has, and not more. If you, random HNer, have some holdings of this railroad in your stock portfolio, they cannot come
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Was going to post this. There are reasons we have brains with selective attention instead of constant mindfulness, and a whole spectrum of disorders that arises when that sort of a filter breaks down. (I am lucky. I don’t have it bad.) Unfi
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by sclarisse 4y ago
The problem with bananas specifically is that if you don’t have a seedless product, you don’t have a product to sell at all. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banana_cross_secti... And that means monocultures p
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by sclarisse 4y ago
PSR is worth some controversy but the big problem here was ordering the train to proceed after a hot-box detector found a hot axle (saying that if it’s really a problem the next one will detect it, which it did, but it was too late to stop)
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Not sure if adding sovereign immunity to the situation would help. Managers take shortcuts to get ahead in a lot of situations; consider, for instance, Chernobyl. It’s one of the reasons I think the “prioritizing profits” narrative rings ho
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Admittedly it’s harder in Manhattan but take the aerial tram and it works out. (Yes, that’s legally Manhattan still. And a reasonable walk from the UN.)
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by sclarisse 4y ago
I lived next door to Tuvalu once, in New York City. Quiet little apartment building in Manhattan, west-facing views of the East River. We hung out with Vanatu once or twice. Doesn’t quite seem the type.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
You are either talking about something unrelated to the original fairness doctrine (somewhat misleading) or you are flat out wrong about extant jurisprudence regarding the highest law of the land… or both. In either case you seem oblivious
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by sclarisse 4y ago
There’s also the little matter of this thing called the first amendment. The reason the government could get away with having a Fairness Doctrine on broadcast TV was that there were only a few airwaves to be had, and only a few providers in
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by sclarisse 4y ago
I mean, on some level, yes, but if all of the complexity people wrote with Java was merely collections of versioned strategy-patterns with average-level organization, it wouldn’t be sufficient for the language to have the AbstractEnterprise
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Having seen actual sprawling Java codebases at banks and elsewhere, they tend to end up sprawling as they deal with (a) some specific old computer, or (b) the complexity of some dumb framework in the language itself. The business logic only
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Postscript — a surprise good part of schemas was validating all the data our code produced before sending it out. The code would return 500 rather than going out of spec. It made things easier to find and fix.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
I had a similar experience evaluating the state of the ecosystem and finding it not ideal. The schema format is great and schemas are great ways to validate your input / make your programs easier to reason about — but with the state of
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by sclarisse 4y ago
There’s a device for that called the Norelco Genius 2D. It is suitable for permanent installation in your car on the premise you have access to an outlet. It costs $50. If you have street parking only it is questionable whether you will be
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Does it often happen that the typical driver of a car is somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with no cell reception? If not, it seems of limited usefulness.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
No.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
You missed the non-disparagement clause.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
You refer to the Futurist Manifesto: http://bactra.org/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
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by sclarisse 4y ago
I am modestly underwhelmed by the scope here. They basically picked one symmetrical floor plan to simulate, sent a blast wave straight at it, and noted that in some areas, the forces involved could still fling people against walls hard enou
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by sclarisse 4y ago
This feeling is grossly at odds with the reality: hostility between host railroads and Amtrak is well known as the order of the day. Amtrak pays a well-below-market sweetheart rate, for trains that often miss their slots and snarl operation
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by sclarisse 4y ago
On the highways, the government has taxed motor vehicle fuels at the federal and state level (supplying occasional infusions from the general fund) and occasionally set up tolls for specific projects, generally setting higher for more inten
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Yeah. They gave railroads the initial land — in 1872. There’s been a lot that’s happened since then, like the bankruptcy and near-complete collapse of functional passenger rail transportation in most areas in the 1970s-1980s, as it faced st
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by sclarisse 4y ago
There’s a reason for that. Freight has priority because the freight companies actually own the rails, and actually use them, and it’s a significant contributor to the US economy. Amtrak is an unwelcome guest that they are required by law to