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sooheon

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    Comment #49031157

    If they're so valuable, maybe you could spare a thought of thanks that the previous owners passed them onto posterity, whatever the condition. If you don't like the condition, feel…

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    Comment #48695460

    That's just vanilla regulation. Yes it tends to create market inefficiencies, by definition. Capture entails industry corrupting and directing regulatory bodies.

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    Comment #48695457

    I think this is plain old regulation, not regulatory capture. For it to be the latter we'd need evidence than it was the incumbents who designed this oversight which they then aske…

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    Comment #48682419

    This straw man doesn't merit falsification. Nobody claims wealth alone gives political power. Wealth applies leverage to all endeavors, but political ends still require strategy an…

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    Comment #48682391

    > you start or fund a think tank that writes policy proposals, or a media organization that advocates your views Or you run "money primaries", financially filtering the menu of can…

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    Comment #48640023

    Nobody is forcing anyone to place bets they can't back, isn't this a personal responsibility issue? edit: to be clear, if companies are committing fraud in their marketing, that sh…

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    Comment #48454414

    A family member lost years of irreplaceable photos and paid apps due to account lock, and doing this across two countries they were legitimately residing in triggered it.

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    Comment #47550020

    Also went from one click to two clicks

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    Comment #47384136

    Wonder why he was only charged with contempt, rather than defrauding investors?

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    Comment #47364359

    Your nervous system extends over your entire body, the brain doesn't live in a firewalled jar.

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    Comment #47030117

    Yeah not disputing that, just saying it's definitionally wrong to say land "is not the means of production".

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    Comment #46999936

    This is a sad take, and a misunderstanding of what art is. Tech and tools go "obsolete". Literature poses questions to humans, and the value of art remains to be experienced by fut…

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    Comment #46999181

    Land (or in modern terms, location value) has been seen as a means of production along with labor and capital since Adam Smith.

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    Comment #46842412

    My bad, went down rabbit hole and got my writers/links confused.

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    Comment #46835628

    The 2020 adaptation of ZeroZeroZero, mentioned in this article, is one of the best crime shows I've ever seen, with basically zero buzz. Pretty interesting reading the reason for t…

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    Comment #46832967

    The weird cousin of "This time it's different": "That time was different"

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    Comment #46776486

    Yes, but rent seeking isn't even capitalism in theory.

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    Comment #46776456

    I'm not sure what definition of capitalism you're running with, but as early as Adam Smith, the importance of competition free from monopoly and rent seeking was central to the mai…

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    Comment #46776437

    Using power to tilt the playing field is the logical outcome of all political systems, not just capitalism. > capture the market, and become the sole dominant force in that market …

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    Comment #46776392

    > Survival of the fittest and efficient marketplace Rent seeking is an Econ 101 example of market inefficiency. > what's the other option, rent seeking is socialism? Rent seeking i…

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    Comment #46668992

    This is misuse of language. Rent seeking is anti-competitive by definition. The current system, as far as it encourages and rewards rent seeking, is anti-capitalist.

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    Comment #45628604

    Just like human atoms have been repurposed to make other things.

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    Comment #45036110

    Let's flip the hypothetical -- if someone googles for suicide info and scrolls past the hotline info and ends up killing themselves anyway, should google be on the hook?

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    Comment #45035265

    Could be, but there is another app that does the same thing faster so there must be some optimizations available.

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    Comment #45032853

    The configuration lies. Even with "Show hints" set to "Immediately", there is a long delay. Feels like half a second on M1 Pro.