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Concivably the number of shows/tickets might increase and the price decrease, since setting the price above the market rate is one of the inefficiencies that monopolies introduce.

For artists who are maxing out their # of shows and selling out you're right though.

there's nothing wrong with paying someone else to maintain your dwelling and dealing with capital costs. people don't have a problem with the market solutions to the basic right to food, for the most part. The main problem comes with the unearned profit that comes from owning land that benefits from improvements made by others.

tldr: land value tax and less restrictive zoning yesterday

NPR stopped being government funded years ago. they're closer to a donation and syndication based NYT than they are to the BBC. https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

when a metric becomes the target, it ceases to be a good metric

if all you have is a hammer…

I mean, yes, the bottle itself is a source of microplastics.

this is one example of a whole family of orthogonal Wavelet transforms, that let you trade off how between frequency and scale resolution.

gp means they're accidentally getting people used to using VPNs etc by poorly implementing bans on popular things.

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" from Pascal comes to mind.

> Now I can create a video from the device I have in my pocket that has much higher quality than was available in the 30s, upload it either to YouTube or an AWS S3 bucket and upload a yaml file that creates a CloudFront distribution (AWS’s CDN) and distribute it worldwide and create a web page that anyone with a $70 (unsubsidized) Android can watch.

I think you're vastly underestimating the degree to which corporate players see a different world than you or I. I'm not talking about limits on personal actions. I'm talking about corporate, and even there for the most part publicly traded corporations.

> Not only that Comcast - a cable company - owns both the modern distribution pipes that have far more reach than the studios ever had and a studio (Universal) and a broadcast TV and an Internet streaming service.

I mean, do you seriously think I don't want Comcast dismantled and sold for parts? I agree its worse, but it's a somewhat different conversation.

> But there is no “monopoly” on either video creation or distribution or streaming.

Vertical monopolies are still monopolies. If the only place you can get Disney movies is directly from Disney's own service, that's a form of monopoly. Fwiw, I'm relatively sympathetic to netflix; if it weren't for movie studios getting into the distribution business, they probably would be doing quite well right now, having a significant headstart on how to do distribution.

> And who gets to decide what content that should be blocked?

Any company which owns their own distribution network and preferentially distributes over that. Seems like the sort of thing the courts and FCC can work out. Will it work very well? probably not, but the point is to add enough friction that its easier for those producers to sell on the open market instead of forcing users to buy their entire bundle, or none of it at all, not to exclude them from the market.

> So let’s take Fox News or any other news organization or even the Discovery network. They all create documentary content. Should they not be allowed to stream their own content? Wouldn’t it be against the freedom of speech and/or press to say that you can’t stream your own content via your own website?

No. Those programs should be syndicatable by anyone else who wants to distribute them, at the cost that they charge their own network for.

The point isn't to stifle speech, it's to stop networks from bundling together a bunch of terrible garbage with their best products to force users to buy junk they don't want.

blocking studio owned distributors from other jurisdictions makes sense, though I'm sure its the sort of thing that would happen on a case by case basis.

Newspapers in general don't syndicate most stories to begin with, so no I don't think it makes sense in that context.

by the way, this isn't some weird new policy. the equivalent applies to studios and movie theaters [1]. we just neglected to extend the policy to online distribution because the powers that be decided vertical monopolies are OK, actually. [1] https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-slow-death-of-hollywo...

it's about scale, obviously. the sorts of ventures you make a limited liability corporation for. you want to protect yourself from the potential risks? Then participate in the market in a fair and non-abusive manner.

Same thing for publishing companies. individual authors can do whatever they like.

open protocols in the case of Facebook and banning studios from owning/exclusivity with distributors in the case of Netflix.

Living in Sac, we are not remotely in the same league as what is described in OP. Sutter may have outsized market power, but you can definitely get care at a ton of different providers in the area, on e.g. the open market CA insurance plans. I know this because I did it.

Definitely can't speak to the ambulance thing, we've been lucky enough to avoid those at least, if not the ER.

As someone who has far more reason to interact with ERs than the normal person, if you have a problem that needs to be seen within the next week by a specialist and not just a GP, you have to go to the ER to actually get it addressed. Otherwise you won't be seen for months.

well there was that one time a speedrunner established a record time by a cosmic ray inducing just the right bitflip. But yeah, people get super weird about cultivated meat for whatever reason.

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/17/cosmic-ray-flips-bit-assists...

But unicorns and the people who fund them are all about disconnecting from actual returns today, and caring about projected returns in 10 years. Accidentally becoming very popular is great. Aiming for that as the goal distorts the business into something unsustainable and inevitably leads to enshittification.

Establishment Democrats and Republicans are the conservative parties in this sense. Tea party and their anarcho-capitalist descendants aren't really conservative.

Only if you insist on a spotless car… we haven't actually cleaned ours in years to basically no detriment, and we're im the Central Valley. I'm inclined to agree with gp.

I'm specifically comparing with a very successful carshare program in Minneapolis, not getting the federal government to do it. Knee-jerk assumptions that governments are always incompetent is a great way to make them that way.

If it weren't an oligopoly I'd be less inclined to endorse government interference in wage setting. I'd frankly rather the twin cities just spin up their own rideshare marketplace, they have a great carshare system[0], would love to see them expand into rideshare too.

[0]: https://eviecarshare.com/

just because someone programmed something in R successfuly one time to compare against doesn't suddenly make it a better language.

lets ask someone who's colorblind

so I think this is a great connection that deserves more thought. as well as an absolutely gorgeous write-up.

The main problem I see with it is that most of the time you don't want the optimum for your objective function, as that frequently results in overfitting. this leads to things like early stopping being typical.

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-big-problem-in-br... In the mid 1800's Germany it was ~50%, so every other. not as dire as gp, but definitely enough to change relationships.

the person hosting the RSS can put a preview rather than the full content if they want ad revenue

Don't know if you've had the pleasure of interacting with US health insurance, but they do this for coverage and cost estimates all the time, so there is unfortunately precedent in the States.

> Every system is linear for small perturbations.

every smooth system, sure, but even continuity is no guarantee of locally linearity.

the original article is talking about native Chinese in China, though the fact that they're attending a school with an english teacher from America is also a strong filter

the vast majority of urbanists are referring to induced driving demand when they bring up the topic. njb is definitely a jaded man, can see why it'd potentially be offputting.