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Fine, but blaming price increases on "greed" is still just as idiotic. Yes, market participants are "greedy" - sellers want to make the most money and buyers want to spend the leas…

> And big enough share of demand accepted that new price point. Exactly - this is literally econ 101, no appeals to "greed" needed. As they say, the cure for high prices is high pr…

The "greed" aspect is always bullshit unless there is a specific instance of market failure like monopoly power or collusion. This has definitely happened, so I'm not discounting i…

Generalized inflation affects everything. Energy prices have gone up, labor prices have gone up. The people who sell the barbed wire and wooden posts presumably like to be able to …

I realize saying RTFA is against the rules, but this exact point (meat processors profiting off the price hikes) is specifically discussed, and refuted, in the article: > Four comp…

But data centers basically take land and resources and generate almost nothing for the local community. The jobs are minimal after the data center is built. It's a giant windowless…

Yes, that one.

With all due respect, being cocksure enough to declare that the Dunning-Kruger effect is definitely a thing, even when more careful analysis shows that the study conclusions were i…

I always thought that Theranos was the perfect embodiment of this idea. Look, she wears a black turtleneck, just like Steve Jobs! She dropped out of a top university, just like Bil…

I hope they can compete with plugin hybrids. We have a BMW X5 plugin hybrid, bought on the advice of a friend, and it's such a great car. Almost always on electric in town, and for…

I thought this was great, and hilarious. Kudos to Opus 5, I thought it was the only one that came close to passing. Interestingly, I thought many of the failures drew the frog face…

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As someone who hasn't followed this closely, when/why did things switch? Japan had the opposite deflation problem for years (decades?) and IIRC tried battling that with "money prin…

While I agree with you about the level of financial illiteracy in the general population, I don't really see what AI has to add for the vast majority of the population is simple. B…

Except the rest of your arguments fall apart if your point is just "Sanskrit and English shared a common ancestor thousands of years ago and English (and some actual ancestor langu…

> I would be very interested to know what he did with the management and performance fees I mean, I'm pretty sure he pocketed the money and got richer. Most hedge fund compensation…

Did the return flight from Melbourne to Toulouse go "the long way around" by flying over the Pacific and Atlantic instead of the shorter westward route just for test purposes?

I generally like lots of vegetables, and while I can certainly enjoy a good eggplant parmesan (anything breaded and fried with cheese and marinara sauce is usually pretty easy to l…

The article talks about how larger, well-known companies are pickier. Google was at 21% the whole time, Microsoft at mid 30s. This sounds right to me (note these are not just engin…

My question was rhetorical. If OP really thinks going to trial is better for defendants because it will bring down prosecutors' conviction rates, I've got a bridge to sell them.

Oh, I see. I agree with the other commenters, I think you may be focusing too much on the "nuclear" part of GP's comment. I interpreted that more as "immediate" family, and I think…

> the vast majority of human life experience being in nomadic hunter-gathering, villages, farmland, and walled city-states. in which they lived in families, extended families and t…

You do realize that what you're advocating for is for prosecutors to bring more cases to trial that previously they would have dropped. And you think that benefits defendants how??…