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It's not 'supply and demand'; it's centrally-planned dynamic pricing that just happens to be done by a private entity.

"Let It Burn" is not the most airtight of analyses of a complex economic system.

I think I flew the orangey-brown one in EVE Online a while ago. Got podded in nullsec. Shame about that.

So, I can't tell from Uber's site, but is Uber doing similar things for their drivers that actually save them money, as opposed to finding new ways to make money off of them?

No. The electorate chooses from a set of outcomes that are chosen long before they get a chance to vote on any of them. The political process starts a very long time before a typical citizen gets to vote.

Thinking that the political process begins and ends with voting is one of the key components of despair and cynicism in a democracy.

Have you checked your keyboard's electrical path for surveillance equipment this morning?

Did you test your water for drugs this morning?

Did you check them yesterday?

We all live at certain layers of abstraction.

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I think it's more about "governed by local hotel regulations."

So, if you're not saving money, why would you go with AirBnB at all?

You've just described every taxi dispatcher on the planet, modulo a couple of rounding errors about medallions.

"Suppose you could design your dream job that you'll be starting on Monday. It's at your ideal company with your ideal job title and salary. All you have to do is tell them what you want to do at your job and you can have it. What does your job entail?"

#savedyouaclick

Design and execution count.

You mention "well-screwed-together package". To my mind, if they defined the "well-put-together mass-produced sporting sedan" segment by showing you could have a entry-level luxury sedan that wasn't perpetually in the shop, then yes, they did define a segment.

Design and execution count.

If I have to wait 30 seconds for my phone to get out of its own way each time I desire to accomplish a task (camera, map application, web access), am I actually going to use it for those things, or do I now have a dumbphone with more things that can break?

One can typically see a civil war coming from much further away than a hurricane or earthquake.

Unless, of course, it was assumed this discussion would take place.

[[dramatic chord]]

Truth. On the flip side, if you're intimidated by working with all of the physical objects that are part and parcel of basic electronics technology, this book does a really good job of demystifying a bunch of it.

Bingo time. Today's free spaces:

"Why is the gov't punishing a successful business model?"

"The gov't should stay out of SmartCity's Freedom To Contract with the convention centers."

"If people don't like it, they can go outside the convention center, or not attend conferences at that convention center. No one is holding a gun to their head."

....and thus it all cancels out? Show your work.

The parent comment contains no new content. It just contains words. Irrelevant words at that. Total garbage.

The primary issue with Chesterton's long-revered fence is that puts the entire burden of proof on the person who desires to take it down.

What if the fence was put there for purposes of adverse posession? Those who would defend the fence, absent any documentation, would ascribe the most noble uses to it, as their desire is to maintain the status quo, or at least the status pro se. They would, to use Chesterton's term, 'go gaily up to it' and defend it with their lives, saying "clearly this fence always existed, and thus should always be."

Chesterton's 'modern reformer' is a strawman as bald-faced as any, and it's all too easy to use "Chesterton's Fence" as a defense of mindless conservatism.

Seconded. If you spend any time at all wondering about how things are shuttled around the world, read The Box.

Aye. When I hear people talking about "watching less television" (including myself), I substitute in "surfing social media" one-for-one with television time.

I believe the parent is talking about a bunch of people getting substantial liquidity events, and therefore having more money to chase scarce housing.

I made the decision that no amount of benefit from nature walks is worth the gamble of being screwed-for-life by Lyme Disease.

Clearly, that math works for some people, and good on them. I just can't make the odds work.

So, doing the math... a quick look around the web for the Audi RS6 says 15mpg city/22 hwy. This is a road trip, so let's say something conservative like 18mpg. Let's even say they take the same route as the Tesla. Also, the RS6 takes Premium gas, which was $3.29/gal in Boston just this morning when I drove past a major gas station.

759 mi/(18 mi/gal) = 42.17 gal

42.17 gal*(3.29 USD/gal) = USD 138.74

That's still not a hell of a lot of money, especially if you're driving something that costs three orders of magnitude more.

That implies that all the cash is getting sunk into a new place, which is typically not the case.

Typically, I'm only putting 20% of that $500k down on the property. Now, to be fair, that $100k is effectively mothballed unless I pull it out with an equity loan or somesuch, but that's a far cry from freezing $500k.

A rabbi can also be a mohel.

I'm afraid I don't understand your question.

It is for you to decide whether it was too long, and whether you didn't read it because it was too long.

How is "a practice that has been sustained across multiple cultures over thousands of years" not empirical evidence?

If you have a bucket of honey and a bucket of poop, and you combine one with the other, you have two buckets of poop.