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New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Americans throw out more food than plastic, paper, metal, and glass"

alexeisadeski3 — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:29:36 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Americans throw out more food than plastic, paper, metal, and glass"

alexeisadeski3 — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:55:50 +0000

Relevant number is percent of food not percent of farms.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Americans throw out more food than plastic, paper, metal, and glass"

alexeisadeski3 — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:33:19 +0000

>So in order to keep food cheap, we have to throw half of it away.

Wut

Tyler Cowen on Inequality and What Really Ails America

alexeisadeski3 — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:31:06 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/upshot/tyler-cowen-on-inequality-and-what-really-ails-america.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8113022

Points: 2

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New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:58:31 +0000

Culture.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:59:02 +0000

More or less.

http://b-i.forbesimg.com/richardgreen/files/2013/12/Income-d...

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 03:33:51 +0000

Does any other jurisdiction ban one's company from leaving? None that I'm aware of.

Just losing that future option value is sufficient to deem such a move insane regardless of original jurisdiction - unless for some reason there is zero other option.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:21:43 +0000

>moving our business there

That would be genuinely insane.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:17:15 +0000

If poverty were relevant, Colorado would have zero gangs.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:12:39 +0000

I suppose many of them would.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:11:11 +0000

The US is a police state...

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:10:49 +0000

Absolutely.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:08:45 +0000

Why downvoted?

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:07:03 +0000

>I don't even have a guess as to why white females might be arrested at a higher rate than black females.

Have you spent any time around white American females?

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Uber Makes Economists Sad"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:52:07 +0000

Ancaps simply have more efficient ways of keeping the polluting factories away from homes than existing zoning processes can achieve.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Uber Makes Economists Sad"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:50:22 +0000

>I think almost everyone agrees that governments shouldn't allow factories to be created in residential areas, or allow drivers to drive without liability insurance.

Zoning is not needed for the former.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Uber Makes Economists Sad"

alexeisadeski3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:47:53 +0000

No, that is not the root of the problem at all.

The root of the problem is that humans have evolved anti-market biases that served us well when living in tribal communes but which are Pareto inefficient when living in large billion person societies.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Uber Makes Economists Sad"

alexeisadeski3 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:10:49 +0000

The amount of economic ignorance on display in here is not only astounding but deeply depressing.

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Uber Makes Economists Sad"

alexeisadeski3 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:09:11 +0000

Price Gouging and the Poor - relevant

http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2013/10/price-gouging-a...

New comment by alexeisadeski3 in "Uber Makes Economists Sad"

alexeisadeski3 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:07:49 +0000

Yes, yes it does.

If Uber could help usher in the end of some of the other government monopolies, we'd be looking at some huge steps forward.