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by scoofy 3mo ago
Many if not most of the founding fathers owned human beings, and the vast majority of people (94% of the population) weren't allowed to vote because they didn't own property or they happened to be female. What are you even talking
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by scoofy 3mo ago
https://theonion.com/congested-values-1819590506/
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by scoofy 3mo ago
https://theonion.com/congested-values-1819590506/
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by scoofy 3mo ago
And we just elected the most openly corrupt president since Teapot Dome.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
>Golfnow is for booking This is the misunderstanding. Golfnow is for advertising . The people booking tee times are not the customer , the course advertising their tee times on Golfnow are the real customers of Golfnow. My concern is
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by scoofy 3mo ago
Ehh… I honestly believe that you should either be a market, and resale other products, or you should be a boutique, and sell your own. Mixing in branded items in a market with special treatment is very obviously anticompetitive. We see amaz
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by scoofy 3mo ago
With respect, I don’t think you understand what you’re talking about. They are far and away the leading tee time advertiser. The golf courses are the “customers” I’m worried about. They are operated by the parent company of the Golf Chann
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by scoofy 3mo ago
Networks are natural monopolies. It’s no more complicated than that.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
>Golfnow offers a service that courses must value Yes, obviously, they have monopsony power because networks are natural monopolies. The problem is that they can extract rents because of that monopsony power... and they do. Because it&#x
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by scoofy 3mo ago
Which course?
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by scoofy 3mo ago
Sounds good, and it would make sense that OSM and I have some crossover at this point. Now that I've had more time, I can see that the extremely obscure courses are not in your dataset (Like Ulukhaktok GC: https://golfcour
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by scoofy 3mo ago
So, I started https://golfcourse.wiki in 2020, and I see courses that basically only I’ve mapped. It’s cool, I want it to be public, if you want to work together, do reach out. I would also say what you are doing is almost certa
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by scoofy 3mo ago
I'd much rather have Vance right now. I don't like the guy, but he's clearly got a good education and isn't literally selling crypto-as-bribe tokens openly.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
Trump made $1.5B off TrumpCoin. Literally a vehicle for bribery, and we know he made over a billion dollars . The hell are you talking about. There's "corruption" which is pointing fingers, and then there is "we literal
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by scoofy 3mo ago
Maybe... maybe... if this were a discussion about only his protectionism on Chinese tech, yea, maybe you have a point. Literally everything is coming off the rails because Trump is so obscenely corrupt, so we'll never actually know.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
The President doesn't pass legislation. You can vote against socialism in the legislature, and vote against total incompetence in the executive. There was no reason to vote for Trump regarding "no wars" and "no boom&#x2F
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by scoofy 3mo ago
>This is hyperpartisan bullshit that you obviously wouldn't say if someone were choosing between a red shirt and a blue shirt. I voted for Dean Phillips in the primary. I'm extremely angry at the DNC. I thought they treated Mit
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I built an open source golf shot dispersion simulator based on published data(golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
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by scoofy 3mo ago
God, we're really going to have to start teaching philosophy much more broadly if we're going to have a sensible future. This thread is so full of crazy unknowable speculation and entirely novel ideas of the human condition.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
High-trust societies are based in transparency . Ironically you get high-trust by actually not trusting people. We can have surveillance and transparency at the same time... the point is that people actually need to be accountable. It&#x27
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by scoofy 3mo ago
We already have electric tractors trailers. It would end up being cheaper in the long run.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
>You could feasibly quadruple the population if you wanted to, I guess my question is to why? It wouldn't decrease rent appreciably You live in a fantasy world if you don't think increasing the housing supply by 4x will do anyt
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by scoofy 3mo ago
What the hell are you talking about? I live in SF. Like half the city is literally single family homes. You could trivially double or triple the population of the city by just legalizing the cute, three-story Victorians they have in the
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by scoofy 3mo ago
It's very obviously false advertising. You can't say "free flight to europe" and then in the fine print say "no free flight to europe." It's just blatant false advertising to have a "rent" next t
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by scoofy 3mo ago
He’s talking about places with long run population decline. NYC has grown by about 1.5 million people over the last 30 years.
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by scoofy 3mo ago
A stock index is a business model. The concept of "passive" investing is alluring because you don't have to do any work. However, choosing a proprietor of a index that actually looks out for your well-being is, arguable, alwa
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by scoofy 3mo ago
It’s successful because it belies the unseriousness that some of even the strongest proponents of the crisis can have. I’m an environmentalist. This has been a crisis my entire life. I’m happy for nuclear to be a solution exactly because i
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by scoofy 3mo ago
"Some lawmaker" is democracy. The point is that people are pissed off about the addictive UX, same as cigarettes, and candy. If you want to make a serious argument, just argue that you should be able to opt out, which is an entire
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by scoofy 3mo ago
You could say the same thing about nutritional facts being printed on foods. The entire point is externalities that favor the company. These things are never going to be on products unless they are regulated. If you're going to make an
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by scoofy 3mo ago
What choice? When did I ever choose infinite scroll?

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