sophrosyne42

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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
> The amounts of money circulating whilst some of us struggle to make rent ... It may be expressed in terms of money, but these are assets and capital. You wouldn't find a fab a very comfortable or satisfying place to live. The reas
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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
Not if they are straight and white, which is a disproportionate amount of socially awkward geeks
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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
I am not describing the school
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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
I'm not looking, I am sharing my observations on what people here and other discussion forums tend to be saying. I don't really see what you have presented as an "argument" against polymarket. [1] tells us that it has co
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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
The term you are looking for is price gouging (i.e., having a higher price than everyone else). However, these terms (price fixing, gouging, undercutting) are completely vaccuous, and can be equally applied to any market price, making the a
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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
Based tbh
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by sophrosyne42 5mo ago
Patents and copyright were the original form of monopoly. As long as software is not open source, it is by definition a monopoly
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by sophrosyne42 6mo ago
This kind of naiive cynicism is exactly why we don't deserve Valve, and will eventually lose companies like them.
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by sophrosyne42 6mo ago
I have yet to see an argument against them that isn't more than personal disgust
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by sophrosyne42 6mo ago
Which regulations in particular? All businesses rely on governments not choking them into nonexistence by having regulations that harm that business. Regulations are not an amorphus blob. There are other regulations that would also benefit
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by sophrosyne42 6mo ago
You say "actively" as if it wasn'y a one-off event... maybe because Iran is forcing children to sit at IRGC checkpoints or other military targets? None of the gulf countries allowed offensive US strikes to occur from their te
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by sophrosyne42 6mo ago
These are the secondary and tertiary bad effects of lockdowns which were ignored at the time.
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by sophrosyne42 6mo ago
I don't know who these "capitalists" are, but generally speaking business regularizes as entrepreneurs learn to read new signals after unexpected market shifts. It is unlike a socialist system in that there are signals to rea
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
False dilemma
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
This, more than anything, is the cause of limited space utilities monopolies. Companies have to license use of the backing infrastructure, and most often municipalities only give these easements to a tiny number of players. It's a text
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
Unfortunately too often authors of non alarmist research end up promoting alarmist interpretations of their work in science media.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
I agree very strongly with intellectual humility. I just wish the microplastic fear mongerers would also take that lesson.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
The market producing what people desire is a functioning society. All the concern about so called addiction is simply a displaced puritanism disguised as humanism.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
Open firmware would become commercially viable when IP is abolished
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
A guess for what's next is not a slippery slope argument, let alone a fallacy.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
If all problems were solved, we should have already found a paradise without anything to want for. Your editing workflow being the similar to another for a 1970s era language does not have any relevance to that question.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
The church turing thesis is about following well-defined rules. It is not about the system that creates or decides to follow or not follow such rules. Such a system (the human mind) must exist for rules to be followed, yet that system must
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
Its not an assumption, it is a fact about how computers function today. LLMs interpolate, they do not extrapolate. Nobody has shown a method to get them to extrapolate. The insistence to the contrary involves an unstated assumption that tec
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
The relative abundance of land compared to other factors of production is, in fact, such a proposition. But when land is restricted through zoning laws this stops holding true. In other words, we must eliminate restrictions on production fo
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
OP used the term incorrectly. The term was used by Smith to refer to the fact that in the market, order occurs by the alignment of incentives of different people without any central planner.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
There is more than enough land for everyone, and rich people aren't really competing for the kind of housing that poor people are competing for, e.g. smaller plots with smaller homes. The demand of the rich does not eliminate demand of
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
Supply increases until the market reaches saturation. The question is why build more housing if the current supply is sufficient?
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
A consequence on our focus on legislation rather than the more natural legal apths of addressing these problems, e.g. easements and tort law.
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
I'm not really convinced that age verification is the solution to that, nor am I convinced that is sufficiently significant to be a problem that requires legislation, nor that legislation is the best means of addressing it if it were a
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by sophrosyne42 7mo ago
All regulations, because they cause increased costs, will affect the poor the most, since an increased cost will cause the marginal consumer/producer to become submarginal. That is the choice that is made when regulation is enacted, wh

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