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"it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment." Counterfactual. The article you link to is laughable on the face of it. "A new study for the Mercatus …

Any list of "free" countries that has [the UAE]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Ara... ), Chile and Singapore in their top 10 is using "free" in the Orwel…

Point of clarification: Pai was appointed to the 5 person FCC commission by Obama. He was named chairman by Trump. FWIW, the previous chairman, Tom Wheeler (ostensibly a Democrat),…

What's the point of content-free, incoherent, misspelled comments like this one? There's nothing even remotely like what you're describing in the actual article.

"The government hardly ever creates wealth. They can create the conditions for wealth creation by getting the heck out of the way." Yes, we're aware that's how it works in shitty n…

All the truthering in this thread is a bit much. Some of the nastiest bullying I've observed (and experienced) in my life has been from smart people towards even smarter people tha…

"your poor lifestyle decisions." Why frame the issue in this way, except to make yourself feel better about being complicit in denying your fellow citizens access to basic healthca…

For some perspective here, the maternal mortality rate in the USA is 28 per 100,000 births. So skydiving is about 50x safer than giving birth.

Inflation also took off like a rocket in Switzerland in the early 1970's: https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/inflation-cpi Switzerland was on the gold standard until 1999. Si…

"If you show probability work like Hillary having lower election odds, then this is new definition of hate speech." I get that the guy is angry. I would be too if I got locked out …

Comcast is the most hated corporation in America. There's already a big competitive opportunity for non-terrible ISPs.

A lot of products start with half the population, though, and it's not considered weird. The old euphemism is "shrink it and pink it" - originally design for men, then put out a wo…

Apparently, a company with a 644 Billion dollar market cap, co-founded by a man whose parents fled the USSR for political reasons, is secretly trying to promote Communism.

Isn't the control group the part of the graph from 1993-2000ish, where perception and reality are fairly closely correlated? I guess that raises more questions than it answers. Wha…

Century: Spice Road would be an obvious match for Splendor.

Having regulations doesn't turn this country into a "state-run economy". Is America currently a state-run economy because of the existence of the FDA, the USDA, etc? What are these…

For anyone who didn't read the entire article, this is the part that these comments are complaining about: > Since all new creativity is held hostage in the hands of insensitive in…

Yeah, the article would be much more effective and useful if the advice was "if you hear these phrases, don't assume the developers are lying/bad at their jobs/etc. but do take it …

As a product manager, do you have developers formally reporting to you? That seems like a bad idea. If a PM doesn't have formal authority over developers but thinks of themselves t…

Hearing "Alinksy playbook" in 2017 is like hearing "Who Let the Dogs Out" in 2017. https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/01/29/ally-ally-alinsky-ri... If you wish to be taken seriously…

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

Are you sure the jobs that rely on soft skills and experience are more routine than other jobs? What experience do you have to support that? I've found that once you throw humans i…

I've had similar experiences, but I also think your answer could be paraphrased as "conferences are good because extroverts like them." Some people who are otherwise really good de…

I use a little shell script to send iTerm2 proprietary escape codes to change the color of the terminal window based on the value of $*. https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-cod…

My frustration is that the right wing has been doing this to people on the left for 70 years. It's not OK that the left has started doing it to the right, but the people I see goin…