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> are mostly about limiting the number of people in the field to make sure salaries don't crash due to oversupply. Notice that this is equivalent to ensuring that they crash three …

It's also why those people are not just wrong but have it completely backwards. If you give people money that can only be spent on housing or healthcare then they can only use it t…

The union lobbies for regulations that require you to apprentice under an existing master in order to enter the trade. The union's masters then purposely limit the number of appren…

> They have to pay taxes on the income/realised gains they use to pay the loan back when it matures. No they don't, they just take out another loan. If you have a billion dollars i…

> Right, so... like yes, leaving net wealth aside, what Elon spends in a year on necessary purchases may be 0.1% of his net income, and I spend maybe 20% of my income, and a person…

> If I'm buying a car or a house, and the guy I'm bidding against is getting a $12k check, and so did I, then he ups his offer and I match it so doesn't the price just jump by the …

The premise of an actual UBI is that it's universal, i.e. unconditional. If the UBI is $12,000/year then everybody gets $12,000 a year. If you don't have a job then you get $12,000…

> Result of the strike: failure. 6000 printers were fired, but there were jobs for 670 new workers who used word processing. The sad part is that it kind of does work from the othe…

It's possible that these things are related.

There is a propensity for the city that gets the business to be the one that offered too much, because if anyone is offering too much then they "win" because no one competent is go…

"Vote with their feet" means relocating to another jurisdiction. The other jurisdiction doesn't necessarily have to use a different currency, e.g. if businesses move from Californi…

Where do you get the premise that the people living there don't come out ahead? You have something which, if it moves in, would pay more in property that than it consumes in servic…

A competitive bidding process isn't a race to the bottom because it doesn't stop at the bottom, it stops when underbidding someone else is no longer worth it. Which happens when th…

They already do that. It's just that things like large data centers... actually pay a lot of property taxes. A huge amount compared to their land use. While not really consuming a …

Property taxes are ordinarily a percentage of the value of the land and structures because in most cases it has some approximation to services consumed. A building with twice as ma…

The thing that happened with "clean-room design" is that one company did it and the court said it was allowed. Companies are risk averse. Once they know one thing is yes and someth…

Once the code is in the mainline kernel tree, things tend to stay supported indefinitely. Some devices "work" without having real support by having some binary blob or third party …

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... > The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a mes…

Pinephone is a low volume product. What you need is to get the firmware for some common device that has shipped millions of units so that the number of people with the incentive to…

> I don't expect linux phones to catch up to ios for the mainstream, but I can see them working for me. That's the thing that allows them to catch up for the mainstream. Some nerds…

> Being terse and allowing for human interpretation is kind of the entire point of something being written like this. It's also to a certain extent why LLMs work. When IBM Watson w…

> in a relative sense the gap between "empty numb void" and "hiking at home (plus grand canyon videos)" is far far greater than the gap between "hiking at home (plus grand canyon v…

That indeed was the best business edition of Windows. Consumers weren't supposed to have that though. The then-consumer edition was Windows ME, which... wasn't as good.

> That would be the case with every y.0 vs x.8. There was something else going on during that time period though. Consumer operating systems in the 1990s were pretty bad. Windows 9…