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AirBnB is not rent seeking though I’m dubious of its value to society. People buying property in RESIDENTIAL areas to be used exclusively as short term rental units are rent seeker…

If society was actually thrown back into preindustrial levels, odds are good we would never get back, because all of the easy to acquire oil/coal is already gone.

I don’t think that’s frightening at all. A bunch of rent seekers lose everything, and everyone else wins. This practice should be, and in some places is, illegal.

People seem really positive about this, but I don’t see anything here that seems actionable or materially different from what we’ve seen elsewhere. Can someone point out why this i…

Mean age of control group is 15 years older than experimental too.

I don’t believe that could possibly be true. The current ICU makeup in the US is 2-4% for ages 20-44. That’s a 10-20x increase you’re proposing. And yes, you can say that they’re t…

A quick google suggests that 84% of the population is under 65, so this isn’t especially surprising. Every other data source I’ve seen has used age 60 as the benchmark which is pro…

I did too. My in person interview consisted of me showing them my drivers license and verbally confirming my email. Honestly I was pretty pissed that I needed to spend so much time…

The IWBTG maker has a rarely updated blog in which he talks about game design in stuff he has played or made which I enjoy. Maybe check this out? This post seems relevant. https://…

Raspberry Pi is a really unnatural combination of words. Helm is a pretty average noun.

He didn’t claim you couldn’t do real work, he claimed there were better alternatives for your money. And if real work is just taking notes, then I think you really need to question…

I mean, yeah, that’s the point of a rent strike. To apply pressure

Now would be a good time for a general rent strike until the government steps in to help small businesses

They would raise prices because their costs just went up, with a huge emphasis on rent. Also, this has nothing to do with operating at scale

If people are moving to areas that lack jobs and economic prospects, because they can survive on UBI, you’ve just burdened a bunch of small towns with people who aren’t interested …

I don’t see how it would reduce the power of landlords. If more people want to live in an area than housing can support, rents will increase to whatever level they can sustain to f…

Respectfully I don’t think that was particularly shallow. Those are a lot of shaky numbers. They are not convincing of much.

Low power study, sample size of 31, p-value of 0.04, and a regression stating that somehow gdp per capita, gini coefficient were not significant? Shrug. Sounds tenuous.

Anecdotally, I have a friend who runs a middle eastern restaurant near a handful of popular Chinese restaurants. Early on, before there was any realistic threat to the area, but af…