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by scoofy 6mo ago
It sort of doesn't matter. The point is that if the goods are being sold below market value then you will either have shortages, rationing, or accelerating losses. This has always been a problem in non-market socialism.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
It's a question of volume. If they're really going to sell things at a loss, then it should create real demand. If you have that demand, then you're going to start running out of groceries mid-day. At that point, the business
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Anything that doesn’t break even suffers from its own success. If you have a public transportation system that loses money on every rider, then more people using it means everyone has to pay more (in taxes). This can all work out when the e
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I mean, there are still philosophers metaphorically fist fighting about this stuff. Last time I stepped into the fray on this topic I got clapped back by someone from an area of philosophy of mind from after I graduated. It was an interesti
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Why do articles like this get written that pretend that governments are dumb? Iran knew what an oil disruption would do, that’s why they did it. China knows what a semiconductor blockade would do. That’s why they’ve done a dozen practice ru
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by scoofy 6mo ago
>Just want to reiterate that prediction markets are beneficial, because they are the most accurate way to provide us with a dynamic mechanism to predict future outcomes from complicated systems. I'm sorry, but no, this is just absol
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I mean, whenever I read these types of articles and responses, my reaction is almost always the same: what is this ideal world people are hoping for? The future of everything is lies... sure, well so was the past, what's your point? Wh
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Yea, I think that's fair.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
When I say organized crime, I don’t just mean intelligent criminals. I mean a culture of loyalty. For organized crime to function, all of the members need to have a system of justice underpinning their actions in order to keep the organizat
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by scoofy 7mo ago
One of the most interesting aspects of the policing power in the premodern era was the existence and split of a powerful church. Religious institutions had some access to legitimate violence in a way that the state couldn’t control. Once au
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Spoiler alert for the film. The film ends, not with any kind of officially sanctioned justice, but with a completely extrajudicial killing, for which audiences are expected to cheer. This is exactly the point of an untrustworthy executive b
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by scoofy 7mo ago
This is exactly the point of part one of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence , by Geoffrey Canada. Unequal or lack of access to the executive branch of government will create a culture of vigilantism and lends itself to or
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by scoofy 7mo ago
“Please don’t gamble except for entertainment purposes.” – Las Vegas
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by scoofy 7mo ago
It’s not mad… it’s the same damn thing as taking Wikipedia articles as Truth without looking at the citations and verifying them. AI research is for research, not for blindly accepting. If you’re looking for Truth you need to institute a ga
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I’ve talked about it many times here, but I’m slowly building golfcourse.wiki, a golf wiki, because the golf world focuses all it’s attention on “the best” golf course, and the vast, vast, vast majority of interesting courses get zero atten
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I mean, just look at what happened with Foxconn in Racine, WI: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-happened-to-foxco... The community is a heck of a lot poorer now because they were convinced to offer incen
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by scoofy 7mo ago
If you read Anti-Semite and Jew , one of Sartre’s main points about the rise of anti-semitism is the intentional adoption of a “nothing matters, lol” attitude of its adopters. The entire point is to invite/allow otherwise “good” peopl
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Obviously the solution is to tax them instead of ban them so they end up dispersing income to the surrounding areas. The entire point though is that they won't get built where they are taxed, and eventually, through regulatory capture
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Then get rid of it. Make it illegal or tax it to death. My point is that the entire premise of "why it's ackchyually good though" is wrong. The thesis is that the markets let intelligent agents flourish, adding value to the r
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by scoofy 7mo ago
People want very smart people to wager on future events to make public the best information possible. Okay, so when these super-predictors get fleece by insiders, then what? Having any uncertainty market where insider information is not c
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by scoofy 7mo ago
> hitting civilian infrastructure with rockets (or otherwise) is a war crime, and we aren't doing it. I mean there is no world policeman that’s going to stop Trump. While I agree with you on the practicality of the situation, we hav
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Until they are able to rebuild their country, they are actually in a very, very bad position. Saving face is great and all, but rockets are still hitting much of their infrastructure anyway. My point is that their demands are not realistic.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Honestly? I presume Trump and Iran both gain the ability to kick the can... which they both want. That ten-point plan is 'unrealistic' but he gets to beat his cheats and it looks like both sides are 'claiming' victory he
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by scoofy 7mo ago
As someone who voted for Dean Phillips in the primary because I knew we were heading down a road where we would lose, I don't know what we're supposed to do here. I would obviously leave if it were feasible at this point, but gett
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Your idealism is fine, and I think regulation of this is completely reasonable, but this isn't much different than private automobile or bicycle companies for transportation. The biggest issue here is an anti-trust concern about two ap
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by scoofy 7mo ago
>Maybe it's not about the money. Maybe he does not want the negative consequences that come along with having a smartphone. Maybe he doesn't then get any of the benefits of having a smartphone. I don't understand why we ne
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I realize this thread is already doomed [flagged], but we've gotten to the point where the frog is boiled. Everyone knows this type of behavior is completely unhinged, but nobody is willing to do anything about it. Aside from the most
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Anyone that thinks Markdown is bad is crazy. People need to be able to quickly and easily markup their text.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
That’s entirely irrelevant to my point.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I actually really like the NextDoor solution. Want an account? Cool, it'll cost you the price of a postcard to your location. When you receive it, you can open your account. More than 10 accounts at your residence? Hrmm... looks like y

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