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by karzeem 6y ago
The taxi industry has existed for a long time with a lot of the regulations that people are trying to force onto Uber. But drivers flocked from taxis to Ubers as soon as that option became available. That suggests that at least for those wh
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by karzeem 6y ago
That's what they're saying to justify it. That and the evergreen appeal to "security reasons". But these are the same people who, every few years, try to ban strong encryption. The next time they bring that up — which yo
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by karzeem 8y ago
One distinction I should have drawn is between running an Airbnb with a landlord's permission (or as a landlord yourself) versus doing it in violation of other agreements you have (like with your landlord or co-op board or whatever). I
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by karzeem 8y ago
I'm with you that if they were doing that in violation of their lease, then it's wrong.
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by karzeem 8y ago
Dense, multi-use blocks are part of the magic of New York. And there are hotels comingled with residential buildings all over the city. I'm not saying tenants should be free to violate their agreements with landlords, but these uses of
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by karzeem 8y ago
It harms communities by allowing housing inventory to flow to where the demand is most intense?
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by karzeem 9y ago
The key is don't follow accounts that tweet about politics. I filtered mine down a few years ago and have loved it ever since.
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by karzeem 9y ago
Any more info out there on the technical details of the bust?
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by karzeem 10y ago
I'd say that's a good argument for fixing whatever the flaws are in the handoff process that make it even worse than 28-hour shifts.
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by karzeem 10y ago
When given a choice, drivers stampeded from yellow cabs to Uber. Riders stampeded from yellow cabs to Uber. It's clear which one most parties prefer. And that suggests that all those government "services" around the provision
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by karzeem 10y ago
What kind of books do you write?
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by karzeem 10y ago
Huge portions of the cost of building a utility are due to local regulations, not the inherent cost of doing it. http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-jus...
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by karzeem 10y ago
Foreign competition is important, because some things (like oil drilling or sugar farming) are only doable in a few places, so if one company captures those places it'll be tough to compete. Also, the fact that some companies became ve
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by karzeem 10y ago
What are some good examples of sustained monopolies in markets that aren't heavily regulated?
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by karzeem 10y ago
Those monopolies were generally protected by tariffs, expensive licenses or regulatory costs, or other laws that blocked competition. Some dominant companies of course emerged in that era, but I'd be interested to see evidence that com
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by karzeem 10y ago
There are huge regulatory hurdles to starting new ISPs.
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by karzeem 10y ago
This is an interesting angle. Are there examples of it actually happening?
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by karzeem 10y ago
Genuine question: is it safe to assume that dumping is bad for consumers? It's clearly bad for competitors, but it's basically like handing out free money to consumers. The concern is that once all the competitors die, the dumper
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by karzeem 10y ago
There's a book called "Catastrophic Care" that directly addresses this question. It's an expansion of an article the same author wrote for The Atlantic ( http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive&#x
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by karzeem 10y ago
Mixed Content: The page at ' https://deborah-digges.github.io/shooting-viz/index.html' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script ' http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js' . This re
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by karzeem 10y ago
I'd suggest that a lottery is less fair even to the poor — it doesn't account at all for how badly someone wants a ticket, and to whatever extent it might be gameable, the poor will always be the least well-equipped to game it. Al
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by karzeem 10y ago
Do you have a system in mind that would be more fair?
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by karzeem 10y ago
That's how almost all goods in the world are allocated. Is a lottery more fair?
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by karzeem 10y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "withdrawing supply"? Are you worried that sellers will hold some tickets back from the auction, or that resellers will buy the tickets that go up for auction?
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by karzeem 10y ago
Could you elaborate on the "regardless of the price" part of that? Are you saying that popular tickets should always just be allocated by lottery? Would you say that about other scarce goods (e.g. last-minute plane tickets), or is
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by karzeem 10y ago
The underpricing is the core problem. We're trying to assign tickets to people, so the question is what rules to use to do the assignment. A typical price system is one set of rules (and IMO the best one). Some kind of contest where pe
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by karzeem 10y ago
I meant that a lottery is an unfair way of allocating tickets.
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by karzeem 10y ago
The efficient solution is to price tickets at the market price in the first place. Even if primary sales weren't dominated by resellers, "sign on at the exact moment tickets go on sale, and hope you're one of the lucky few wh
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by karzeem 10y ago
For underpriced tickets, that basically creates a lottery: everyone rushes to buy a ticket the second they go on sale, and some lucky fraction get one. If you're busy at that minute or your computer craps out or you're just part o
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by karzeem 11y ago
They could charge sellers the greater of the purchase price or the market price of the ticket at the time of cancellation.

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