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by tshaddox 10mo ago
Adam presented his case for the lifetime pricing model in this podcast episode in 2023: https://hackersincorporated.com/episodes/lifetime-pricing-is... I believe he succeeding in convincing Sam and Ryan to adopt lifeti
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That's not really meaningless though. You just explained in more detail some attributes of corporations, many of which are precisely the things many people are criticizing when they criticize the fact that corporations own lots of hous
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> Landlord, or property management, is a job, same as any other job you might have. Let's ignore property management for now and focus on landlords (i.e. people who own homes and collect rent from the people who live in the homes).
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> This is basically a maximum wage for landlords Well sure, but it's good to incentivize looking for sources of wages other than (literally) rent-seeking.
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I don't think that's quite what the comment is claiming. They're not saying that some small portion of homeowners are working together to raise prices. I think they're more talking about the concept of "marginal buy
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I'm aware of the assassination market concept, but there's nothing particularly unique about prediction markets. Nearly any conceivable market can be influenced by someone willing to commit violent crime. That obviously includes
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Ultimately, yeah. But specifically I think it's a combination of saving money directly on the bill of materials and assembly, and saving money on design flexibility (heck, you can probably do the entire infotainment design process at t
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That's something that I would (very generously) expect to add 5 megabytes.
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To be fair, insider trading for a prediction market doesn’t really seem like a bad thing. It’s arguably the entire point (to incentivize the aggregation of all relevant information on the topic) and, unlike securities markets, there’s no eq
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I would call that notion repugnant. It bares no resemblance to anything I said.
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Presumably most people also wouldn’t be particularly concerned with what the average is. If all companies have human rights records ranging from bad to terrible, surely it’s no compliment to be above average.
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Which part is impossible? It was implied that perfect rational numbers are possible, so I’m wondering what stops the square with rational side length from existing and having an irrational diagonal.
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> The nuance of 40 different cultures on a small continent might be lost on him. I don’t know about the author in particular, but Americans are generally aware of the “nuanced” European history of near constant war between rival nations,
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> Never mind that (despite my personal wishes) we're not even part of the EU (which I assume is what he means by "Europe"). Nah, Americans aren’t particularly interested in which Europeans are offended by being identified
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> You'll never come across a number in reality that you can prove is irrational. If a square with sides of rational (and non-zero) length can exist in reality, then the length of its diagonal is irrational. So which step along the w
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> Did you know that there are "more" transcendental numbers than the more familiar algebraic ones? Indeed. And by similar arguments, there are more uncomputable real numbers than computable real numbers. (And almost all transce
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There's certainly academic work about game theory and reputation. Googling "reputation effects in repeated games" shows some mentions in university game theory courses. There's also loads of work about how to incentivizi
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I think you might be conflating knowing where the puck is with being able to fix your eyes on the puck at all times . The complaint is usually about the former. People are complaining that they don't know where the puck is.
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> You can't see the ball in American football, either. The average play must be what, like 5 seconds? So if you lose where the ball is you're not going to be confused for long.
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Why stop there? Why should I pay for my own food, given that my employer, friends, and family benefit from me being well nourished?
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To be fair, this is already true of driving in general. Often in commuter traffic you’ll see one guy driving extremely unsafely, darting in and out of lanes passing everyone as fast as they can. You know this person does this every day fo
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It would take a very large number of routes before linear search would become a noticeable performance problem. At that point, you’d probably be splitting the router itself into multiple client bundles, with something at the root to quickly
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Perhaps that’s because Best Picture isn’t controlling for the effect that good editing has on the film.
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"Unbounded" is a better term to use than "infinite."
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Given that the TV is trying to match one digital frame against another digital frame, you could probably get decent results even with something super naive like downsampling to a very low resolution, quantizing the color palette, then looki
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> Usually I'm not a big fan of legislation, but in this case I completely agree. Yeah, I mean it's just basic rules of commerce, not very different from laws about false advertising. As it happens, in the U.S. consumer protecti
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> Diminishing material conditions makes a fertil breeding ground for right wing nationalism And imagined diminishing material conditions are just as effective as actual diminishing material conditions!
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"Conspiracy theory" might be a loaded term, but it's a person with a fairly notable job position (nuclear science at MIT) shot multiple times in his home with apparently no persons of interest yet. Of course it could be somet
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Isn't the only EV F-150 the Lightning? The Lightning has always been the sports model, so I can't imagine it ever made sense economically as a work truck.
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Grip seems like a bad example since in most cases gripping something a little bit stronger will make your grip a little more robust to an unexpected perturbance (e.g. you stumble, or someone bumps into you). Unless you have good data on how

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