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Fake news. This is a measure of where inflation "goes", not what fuels inflation. The narrative that profits are "fueling" inflation is completely made up and the people pushing it…

Lyft contributed essentially everything back to OSM

Yes - Lyft contributed the overwhelming majority of the new data back into OSM. The only exceptions were layers that didn't meet OSM community standards for various technical reaso…

might buy an Oculus just for this

Article is half correct. It’s true that major consumption purchases (nice house, nice car) are better thought of as liabilities not assets. But the investment story here suffers fr…

I can't speak for COPD but I'm very familiar with a different chronic pulmonary disease (Cystic Fibrosis), and it seems to _strangely_ not be a huge risk factor for poor COVID outc…

It's amazing and wonderful how much environmental damage seems to be recovering. Air pollution is down, carbon emissions are down as much as 17%, fish and sharks are repopulating s…

Correct, the author is describing the effect of a competitive, liquid talent market. The other dynamic he correctly identified was asymmetry in switching costs (cheap for me to qui…

> and single story ranch homes with sad little yards This is so spot-on it literally pains me

It doesn’t matter if corporations pay taxes because the money just flows to people who own equity in or work for those corporations, and they pay taxes.

Only surprised it took this long. One of the below-the-surface purposes of regulation is to provide a mechanism for private players to shed liability (and public accountability) fo…

I ask most candidates to write code on a whiteboard in front of me and I’m not apologizing for it! The problem is usually fairly easy and if the candidate cannot get to a “describe…

Surprising that paying people to not work didn't lead to more people working!

This is ridiculous. "Greed" didn't kill newspapers. You think the classified business would be any better today off if newspapers had artificially held ad. and sub. prices down in …

https://www.supermacs.ie/menuproduct/mighty-mac/ I can't possibly imagine why McDonalds would be litigating against this chain!

The math here is based on the idea that MFA would reduce the per-person expenditures by 19% (19.2% actually) (1) 5.9% by unilaterally reducing drug prices by 40% (2) 2.8% by unilat…

Yeah - sure I'm not literally saying that all clubs are full of people with identical politics. I'm just pointing out that most communities in America are actually not that diverse…

The proposed link between civic participation ("cooperation") and both inequality and political polarization is a strange one to me, since civic participation seems like it would b…

Yeah. My personal opinion is that it's because insurance leads to, basically, 1/2 of a market. We allow suppliers to set prices however they want, but we mandate that insurance buy…

This is definitely true, so far as it goes. For many types of medical care it is unreasonable to expect a patient to act in a price setting capacity on the demand side. However the…

Ok Jun 2016: US spends $100 on health care ($7 on administration) Dec 2016: US spends $103 on health care ($7.21 on administration) Jun 2017: US spends $106 on health care ($7.42 o…

Oh look, another attempt to argue that market forces somehow don't apply to medical care. In this one, the author makes the argument that "competition" leads to a proliferation of …

One of the things I learned in college is that when someone says "I have thought about this social problem and understand both the cause and solution, please join me as I attempt t…

This rings pretty true to me. I live in Manhattan, and my wife is a personal chef, so she has to be one of the world's foremost collectors of anecdotal grocery price data you'll ev…

No one is going to 2.5x their 4 year early grant and vest it over 10.