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by Straw 1mo ago
Most modern RNGs should be faster than memory bandwidth (when optimized), so unless your list is small enough to fit in cache, its unclear if this is faster?
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by Straw 1mo ago
Market systems work especially well when supply or demand are constrained- they allocate the scarce resource more effectively!
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by Straw 1mo ago
The data center demands are known years in advance. Its not like they magically appear out of nowhere. Perhaps we should eliminate the utilities guaranteed monopoly then! Monopolies are usually dysfunctional.
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by Straw 1mo ago
There isn't an externality here in the traditional sense. No one has a right to purchase anything at any particular price. Should people be disallowed from bidding in auctions because it increases the price of the item in question? No,
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by Straw 1mo ago
Why should they? If demand for X goes up, and price goes up, the whole point of the price system is to incentivize all users of X to use less and producers of X to make more. Here's an example where the benefit is obvious: Say I set up
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by Straw 2mo ago
Although this is a neat idea, the author appears to be confused about how generative modelling works. They repeatedly claim that previous approaches rely on factorization to reduce things to guessable chunks to avoid the 'blur problem&
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by Straw 2mo ago
Sure. The most straightforward example would be utilities in much of the US. Companies like PG&E are literally granted a monopoly in a region. Another example would be epipens. There is a competitor, but unlike most drugs, if the doctor
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by Straw 2mo ago
Grocery store profits aren't larger than any other industry. Nor are they larger than in the past. Large grocery store chains do not have high profit margins. Sure, the total profit may be large if you run 1000 grocery stores. What do
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by Straw 2mo ago
There are many other factors affecting the size of corporations. For example, a significant increase in the amount of regulation in other sectors of the economy. More importantly, the raw number of corporations isn't how you measure a
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by Straw 2mo ago
I'd say exactly the same about antitrust. Can you give an example of a lasting monopoly not backed by some government policy? At any point in the last 150 years?
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by Straw 2mo ago
You claim that a law that prevents or hinders you from making transactions with certain parties, while privileging other parties by exempting them from these restrictions, doesn't make it easier for the privileged parties to form a mon
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by Straw 2mo ago
Groceries are an excellent example of competition. Profit margins on groceries are razor thin. The large chain leverage results in lower consumer prices. Large grocery chains don't have anomalously high profits, ROI, or really anything
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by Straw 2mo ago
If you wanted to do the most to improve competitiveness possible, by far the most effective strategy would be free trade. Trade barriers prevent competition from overseas, making monopolies much easier to maintain.
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by Straw 2mo ago
No, governments tend to produce monopolies. Can you find true monopolies in the free market, in the last 100 years, that have lasted for at least 20 years, without some kind of government backing/suppression of competitors? I only know
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by Straw 3mo ago
Oh, I wouldn't say that. The summary for policymakers they produce is incredibly alarmist compared to what their actual reports predict.
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by Straw 3mo ago
Interestingly, the IPCC reports themselves (not the summaries for policymakers) are quite optimistic. IIRC something like, if we do nothing to abate emissions, climate damages in 2100 will cause damage equivalent to ~3% of GDP per year. (Wi
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by Straw 3mo ago
MT is actually quite a poor (and slow) RNG! PCG32 suggested in the article has much better randomness, state size, and speed.
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by Straw 4mo ago
A state is an entity with a monopoly on coercion. The tribal nations do not have this- while they have some carve-outs, ultimately federal law trumps theirs. So its not a matter of recognition, they simply do not meet my definition of a sta
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by Straw 5mo ago
The land and any associated rights was taken from the Native Americans by coercive force. Not a market. Not that they have any particular claim to it; states own land, not ethnicities. The particular state that controls land sometimes chang
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by Straw 5mo ago
These all seem fine in a normal market? If the Native Americans have water rights, they can also sell them. They can choose to use it inefficiently on subsistence farming, or they could sell at the going rate. A normal market itself doesn&#
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by Straw 5mo ago
Standard oil not only reduced consumer prices for gasoline, but was already losing its monopoly to competitors during the antitrust trial.
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by Straw 5mo ago
This causes major market distortions and worse outcomes than the econ 101 solution. The problem is that water isn't traded on a normal market at all. Lots of people have historical water rights and pay nearly nothing for their water us
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by Straw 6mo ago
This is nonsense. In every material good, the buying power of nearly everyone has increased in real terms over time, regardless of inequality. It's only in housing, with constrained supply, that inequality can drive up prices; and even
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by Straw 10mo ago
Navigation/maps providers like Google/Apple maps, etc, will incorporate price estimates as well as time estimates- they can even show multiple options if there are price-time tradeoffs available.
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by Straw 10mo ago
In a very weak form, yes- and yet it still seems helpful and even popular after people saw the effects of implementation.
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by Straw 10mo ago
The congestion fees would go to the government responsible for the roads. Of course, they could be captured by the rich, but most governments spend most of their money not on the rich. You'd set the congestion charge, by law (at least
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by Straw 10mo ago
At high demand times, you have to be very rich indeed to outbid a full bus without even thinking about it. There aren't enough people who can do that. But say this does happen a lot-this means rich people pay enormous road use fees, wh
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by Straw 10mo ago
This doesn't mention the most economically sound and complete solution to traffic: dynamic congestion pricing on roads. Due to the effects described in the article, entering a road that's close to congested imposes negative extern
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by Straw 1y ago
This is utter nonsense. There's a formal equivalence between Markov chains and literally any system. The entire world can be viewed as a Markov chain. This doesn't tell you anything of interest, just that if you expand state witho
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by Straw 1y ago
Viewing our space as two complex points instead of four real: Let H(z) = (z- exp(i theta)) (z - exp(i phi)) H(z) is zero only for our two points. We'll now take the norm^2, to get something that's minimized on only our two chosen

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