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New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:39:22 +0000

Ad Hominem.

New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:26:05 +0000

No that is circular reasoning. What is the price of a good when supply and demand are in equilibrium?

The value described in the LTV is the equilibrium price, it’s not exact to real world prices because supply and demand are not exactly equal.

New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:28 +0000

It’s the equilibrium price.

What is your preferred alternative theory of equilibrium price?

New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:14:26 +0000

Prices track labor inputs extremely closely, using the LTV yields a 0.90+ correlation coefficient to real world prices.

Mainstream economics doesn’t even have a non-tautological theory of equilibrium price.

So what “everything else” are you referring to?

New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:11:36 +0000

No, they do, with a 0.90+ correlation coefficient.

New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:05:36 +0000

You are empirically incorrect

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23602188

New comment by kingraoul in "Project Cybersyn (2022)"

kingraoul — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:29:49 +0000

I think commentators here are missing what is really exciting about this. Back in the 70s it was impossible to calculate all the labour inputs to product, so socialist economies had to refer to capitalist economy pricing. This doomed Cybersyn and any other attempt to use the LTV to work backwards.

That problem is now solved.

New comment by kingraoul in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

kingraoul — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:53:08 +0000

I mean by that standard there’s plenty of trouble everywhere for everyone.

New comment by kingraoul in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

kingraoul — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:22:50 +0000

Induction always sneaks in!

New comment by kingraoul in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

kingraoul — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:45:38 +0000

Still, the value chain is what drives innovation. We should cheer efforts to clothe and feed ourselves that don’t rely on near slave labour sweatshops.

New comment by kingraoul in "Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making"

kingraoul — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:49:07 +0000

The disrespect for the low post game. I sentence you to watch McHale nightlights.

New comment by kingraoul in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

kingraoul — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:27:12 +0000

Raises eyebrow I’m talking about watching the video. And surely you understand the content moderation will be different once the cat is out of the bag.

New comment by kingraoul in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

kingraoul — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:12:49 +0000

> The concern is deep, adversarial manipulation of public sentiment

You mean letting U.S. citizens see the flour massacre video on a platform where the security state can’t ban it.

This bill languished for years until that happened.

New comment by kingraoul in "Show HN: Neosync – Open-Source Data Anonymization for Postgres and MySQL"

kingraoul — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:40:35 +0000

Combining this tool with downsampling would allow you to run isomorphic workloads on smaller nodes and thereby reveal the yield curve.

New comment by kingraoul in "Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?"

kingraoul — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 12:06:03 +0000

The biggest issue with the Figma article was they did not discuss partitioning the tables before they sharded them.

New comment by kingraoul in "Postgres is eating the database world"

kingraoul — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:35:22 +0000

He means a materialized view, I believe.

New comment by kingraoul in "House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app"

kingraoul — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:14:59 +0000

The Flour Massacre was seen on Tik-Tok.

New comment by kingraoul in "Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately"

kingraoul — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:03:15 +0000

There’s another way to look at this - as the beginning of the construction of the Data Mesh: https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html

This can be seen as a “shift left” in data capabilities. The rise of Data Products ultimately democratizes access to data.