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by nrr 4d ago
> Companies can develop new products without your advice. In fact consumers often don't know what they want. I'd urge reading up on revealed preference and product discovery. It cuts both ways in that, sure, a company can offer
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by nrr 4d ago
Uh, what's the transmission mechanism for this? It's true that the National Flood Insurance Program does this, but that's only for flooding (which, admittedly, is a big part of hurricane damage...). Flood coverage is however
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by nrr 5d ago
> It’s very possible some of your proposals are similar, I’m not familiar with them specifically so I can’t say. If I can ever get around to writing about it or polishing up what I have enough that I feel comfortable with someone else lo
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by nrr 5d ago
> Long live CDC Update! Yes! It's one of those things I've carried over to bitty box distributed environments. > You posted before Steve's response[0]. Does that help? It does a little, yeah, but I'll admit that I
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by nrr 5d ago
I don't know if this is from the perspective of having learned Mandarin in elementary school first or if Japanese folks feel similarly, but reading words like, e.g., だいがくいんせい versus 大学院生 is actually a little more annoying because I hav
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by nrr 5d ago
Oh, hey. Nice seeing you here. I appreciate your work blazing some interesting trails with graphs and weaves in distributed version control. (Though, I must admit that I'm still left sort of scratching my head at the concept in a bytes
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by nrr 5d ago
I'll echo the other comments here: this article is really anemic on the details of how ERSC intends to retool Git for the future (beyond Jujutsu as a migration path) or why there isn't a place for Git (as we know it) in the future
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by nrr 6d ago
This is WalterBright's operative definition of a monopoly[0], and I'd agree that he's being either deliberately obtuse (perhaps via ideology?) or is misrepresenting history (perhaps also via ideology?). I'm honestly fine
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by nrr 7d ago
Does it? This is an empirical observation matched with a causal claim. How have you controlled for your confounding variables?
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by nrr 7d ago
I mean, they don't exist by construction per your definitions. A free market is a market that lacks state intervention beyond what's required to enforce property rights, and a monopoly is a state-imposed single seller in a market.
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by nrr 7d ago
> Libertarianism is far more than just an economic system Acknowledged. That nevertheless tends to be where my interest in it lies. Near as I can tell, I don't actually have much of an ideology; I wasn't raised to be political
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by nrr 7d ago
> Any tax seems heavy if the proceeds do not benefit the taxpayer. I dunno, man. Caesar asks for his money, and I just give it to him. I don't really have much of a say. > I regret not having a photographic memory. That's fi
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by nrr 7d ago
> Why is that so hard to believe? Economics isn't a game of make believe for me. I have professional standards to uphold, and this is probably where my actuarial background makes me uncomfortable with the argument as posed. Supply,
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by nrr 7d ago
I'm mostly trying to pick apart the epistemology of thinking about economic systems this way because, hey, maybe there's something that my professional background in the subject is blind to. It isn't especially interesting to
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by nrr 8d ago
Hmm. Why should the word monopoly only refer to the legal mechanism by which market exclusivity is enforced rather than referring to the resulting market structure or market power? If I'm not legally prohibited from competing with a fi
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by nrr 8d ago
> The Crown did not heavily tax the colonials. Huh, did they not? After the Seven Years' War, the Currency Act of 1764 received assent, and it functionally required that public debts be paid in hard money. Unless I'm rememberin
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by nrr 8d ago
> When productivity rose sufficiently, child labor disappeared, as did the long hours. I'd interrogate the steps that led from rising productivity to both the disappearance of child labor and the disappearance of long hours. The cla
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by nrr 8d ago
> Colonial America had much of nothing. I'm unsure that I'd draw that conclusion. Why else would the Crown want to tax the colonials so heavily? > "Taiwan has a highly developed free-market economy where prices are set
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by nrr 8d ago
> The high levels of immigration came from poor people in un-free countries coming to the US to make their fortunes. Free markets is what has distinguished the US from other countries. I accept that free markets is only one possible answ
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by nrr 8d ago
Is this true? I ask because the metric for determining the distance from the US's construction at any point in time to the libertarian ideal is unclear. Like, given an assertion of closest, it should be quantifiable[0]. It should also
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by nrr 14d ago
This betrays a lack of understanding of nominal versus real debt dynamics. (And also taxes, but I'll admit that my upbringing has probably given me a unique perspective on Caesar and what it means for us to be able to use his money.) O
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by nrr 16d ago
And? As a risk management professional, I am nonetheless left scratching my head.
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by nrr 16d ago
The illustration that Chrome uses Mach ports is a counterexample to an (implied) insinuation that nothing in running in macOS user space uses Mach ports. Outlier or not, the fact there is at least one (albeit also very useful and very popul
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by nrr 16d ago
> If you ever owned a vacant home, not only are you still going to have to pay all the usual bills, you'll be dealing with vandalism, squatters, and that undetected roof leak that ruins the interior. Maybe! That said, the improvemen
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by nrr 16d ago
To this end, we can model the price level at some point in time in a way similar to how we model compounding interest: P(t) = P(0) * (1.0 + r)^t. Take P(0) = 1.0, r = 0.032, and t = 2026-1914 = 112. Then, P(112) = 1.0 * (1.032)^112 = 34.05.
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by nrr 18d ago
> and you kinda have to keep learning in software dev It's less the constant need to keep learning that bothers me (my formal credentials involve a requirement to undertake a minimum of 30 hours of continuing education annually) tha
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by nrr 20d ago
Oh, I mean, I'm fully aware of the emphasis on codebreaking and on areas like operations research that provide optimization tools for tacticians, not to mention the ITAR restrictions on crypto export. (I was there when only 40-bit SSL
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by nrr 20d ago
In the case of housing, agglomeration effects play the biggest role. A single family house in the middle of nowhere is very scarce, but it also has limited economic productivity[0]. Notably, that lone house isn't enough to support comm
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by nrr 21d ago
> Are you sure your reasoning is flawless? Oh, heavens no. I'm human, so I almost certainly make logic errors all the time, whether in terms of truth or validity. However, one thing I am very careful about is that the definitions I
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by nrr 21d ago
Forgive me, but I don't exactly follow. This isn't obvious to me.

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