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Deflation and wage stagnation are not the same thing, indeed sometimes they are opposite. And I don't think their is a clear way to measure what potentially low percentage of the c…

The trend of rich Chinese investing in US property is likely also due to the trade imbalance. Just supply and demand.

He and many others were able to state their critical opinions because they had the Web as an open platform, so they did not depend on anyone’s permission to publish their words. Cr…

Does anyone blame John Oliver for all of this? A sort of Cold War of comments. Maybe there should be an internet startup selling e-stamps.

Private organizations are of course able to take and support political opinions, especially since there are competitors in the browser space.

Agreed? An empirical claim that $15 minimum wage is better than $10 could be proven false by some set of metrics and controls. That $1 is better than zero? That is a different type…

I read this comment and think instantly of a creation vs evolution debate. Neither side can disprove the other and things just get more heated as we talk past one another. There is…

> As we've reported, the FCC falsely claimed that an outage in its public comment system was caused by multiple DDoS attacks, when in fact the outage was caused by the FCC's inabil…

Many states have laws that force electricity distributors and producers to be legally separate entities. So for example an electric producer that is closer physically or offers the…

I agree with you but something different, called "net neutrality" could be implemented trivially; just make sure the net revenue ISP receives from all external entities, for X amou…

Here's a question for you then about the definition of net neutrality. Would it be net neutral to treat all data as the same net value but partition the cost differently? I.e. the …

This exactly. The number of parties involved in any information transaction can be reduced to three: the consumer, the immediate producer, and the canonical producer. Prohibiting o…

If Americans are so keen to pay people better they should vote to elect leaders who will decrease inflation. But they don't. So it does seem that the majority of voters don't care …

> I might be for that, as long as any welfare given to a company's employees is billed to the company. Sounds like a convoluted way of having a job and getting paid for it.

Thanks! To all the others too.

To HN: Is there a body of economic theory or a good text that separates inflation of the base currency from some other term that captures its relative value to other currencies?

None of these articles ever talk about any concept of economic "distance". This one at least discusses the need for throttling if you read past the headline. End consumers pay an s…

This is a problem of economics more than design failure. The current legal/technical system that has developed between ISPs doesn't charge parties fractionally very well.

Perhaps, but an even easier comparison to Maginot line is China's concrete islands

Why do people lie? Maybe people are prone to exaggeration when its an idea they like or it's somehow attached to a position or stake they have taken (of)themselves. But really the …

I think this is a major arguement for folks who criticize currencies. For example an energy based currency could be intrinsically ecologically conservative. Another example is cont…

Has any politician ever campaigned on this though? I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to vote for a cap and trade

I think the problem is not really a blip on GDP, because it could be done in a revenue neutral way. The problem is that it will change the winners and losers