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by sooheon 5y ago
Efforts to obtain monopoly rent ("supernormal profits by restricting output and hence increasing prices above its perfectly competitive level."[1]) is a subset of rent-seeking. The problem again, isn't the wealth itself, it i
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Great point, but worker exploitation (like so many other problems) flow out of perverse rentier structures. In fact this is one of the first principles discovered about how rent works, termed the "law of rent" by David Ricardo ove
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by sooheon 5y ago
I agree with all of your points and still believe that rent seeking is the root cause to be addressed, not wealth in and of itself. Wealth is just stored labor. It is value neutral, and everyone has the right to the fruits of their own labo
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The economic definition is being used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking (there is debate about which activities qualify, but the gist is obvious)
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The rich aren't the enemy, rent-seekers are. They may overlap, and Bezos may be both, but wealth and capital on their own are orthogonal to justice. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHKZRLcW4AA1aju?format=jpg&name=.
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Drug dogs have a 50~80% false positive rate, because after they've been certified as capable of detecting drugs, they get that trained out of them the field to instead indicate whatever the handler wants indicated.
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> What it looks like to me is that Apple is planning on releasing end-to-end encryption for iCloud This is Gruber's optimistic take on it as well. If so, why not make both changes at once? Given that they've walked back E2EE on
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Of course. IBKR has lower rates and approves more easily, therefore they will be much more trigger happy. CS timidly emailed about potentially discussing margin rate adjustments, IBKR can liquidate your positions for instantaneous margin vi
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Caveat emptor: IBKR's TOS makes it clear they reserve the right to liquidate your positions at any time for basically any reason, including margin requirement changes.
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Sounds more like you ran into a conflict of mental model and language feature, not necessarily that the language couldn’t achieve your goal simply.
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Instead of typing things into a repl and copying back into source, imagine stepping through your source in a debugger.
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Loved the monocle blog, as well as other posts on that site. [Finda]( https://keminglabs.com/finda/ ) was another one I saw in this space.
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> All sorts of rights violations have to happen for that to occur. I agree in general, but in this specific case I don't think there were any rights violations. The guy sadly had a heart attack while complying with reasonable if for
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1. Some situations are highly sensitive, and 2. any decision-making process for a fixed budget has a precision-recall tradeoff.
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It takes no effort to yell "fire!" in a crowded venue. Some very easy things are very harmful, humans have to learn not to do them.
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Any kid can take a stick and push it into another kid's eye. You can't child-proof the world, you have to raise the kids.
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> Whereas in reality there are many events - the humans at location A see both colors as do the humans at location B This is one of many interpretations, I don't think it's fair to label conjecture as "reality" yet.
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Information sharing without physical interaction is "spooky action at a distance"
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You can visualize this: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/557~23912/Comparison-of-t...
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So why does linux ux feel slower?
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The fork response was genuinely hilarious.
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> Pay kids to move to, or simply stay, in Kansas. [...] give them zero interest loans, new tractors, whatever. Direct incentives like this usually get gamed or don't work. I prefer the Georgist approach, working with, not against ma
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by sooheon 5y ago
Yep. You will also often immediately get connected to a sales rep via chat, and they will follow up you all the way through to shipping and for any repeat orders.
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Of course you're right, and that's why the role of DNA in cancer is undeniable. It's possible to argue (what Warburg did in the 1920s) that insult to mitochondria can kick off cancer, but it's almost impossible to mainta
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> DNA theory of cancer isn't actually right and that carbohydrate metabolism is much more powerful This is an unnecessary dichotomy. The Warburg effect has been theorized for almost a hundred years. It's not that only one of &q
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FYI longvida is a brand name from a third party (Verdure Sciences), and ND is the reseller that claims to own and operate an internal testing lab.
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The first author of linked paper is (in)famous for being highly prolific and having a large number of retractions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Aggarwal#Scientific_mis... http://retractiondatabase.or
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You may enjoy this essay, which calls this mechanism "liqudity flywheels": https://lt3000.blogspot.com/2020/07/market-inefficiency-liqu... A liquidity flywheel is a situation where inflows into an
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Into Darkness was another great one from Axiomatic. Also great action, and a seriously intense brooding atmosphere.
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Pick up Axiomatic, try the first story (The Infinite Assassin) and see if it grabs you. It's got the best parts of something like Snow Crash, which drops you in without much exposition, and lets the visuals/action lead. Learning t

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