fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
> Why is local news done by television stations when most
> other local programming (soap operas, game shows, talk shows)
> is contracted out? . . .
Local talk shows are also done by stations, no?
What's an example of a local soap opera or game sho
david friedman wrote:
> Going a good deal further afield, _Plunkett of Tamany Hall_ is a
> fascinating inside look at how big city political machines worked.
> Mencken is a lot of fun.
Indeed, but i think you'll find that is by
William Riordan.
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for the gap.
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irst word
> on sales at companies whose products I like. . . .
I don't know about you, but I rarely if ever get mail from any company
otherwise known to me unless I've done something positive to get it.
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r gospel is low-carbo.
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"If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about,
a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth." ---Sir Alan Herbert
Robin Hanson wrote:
> . . . Frank likes to posit that people care more
> about their rank in barbecues than health care . . .
The wonderful thing about status symbols is that
they can be on so many different axes.
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e?
It might, if any government existed which was in fact created by the
people as a whole; if real people's behavior were guided by global
rather than local optimization.
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. The more ephemeral a product is,
the more it will be designed for novelty; a car designed to last twenty
years will, I imagine, be styled more conservatively than one designed
to last four years.
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markjohn wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance but what's really the fuss over butter
> and margarine? Is butter made from better milk or something?
You could say that. Margarine is made from vegetable oil.
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John Perich wrote:
> . . . here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out,
> making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
> economics a waste of time. . . .
Not a complete waste; the study will be useful toward
setting up ecosystems elsewhe
" here.
> 1) "capitalism left alone" implies a pure market or close to it.
> 2) "been saved" implies the mixed economy we have always had.
No contradiction.
Would social unrest increase if the market were, for once, left alone?
Has compromise moderated the calls for i
Alex Tabarrok wrote:
>Yes, as I tell my children, "Son, don't worry about those grades -
> even a C student can become President one day."
And if their hearts are set on more serious careers?
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be built, but cannot be built because the
forces involved are (necessarily) great enough to break any possible
material.
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n certain software technologies,
> same as for hardware. Comparison-based sorting can't use less
> than O(n log(n)) comparisons, for example. [...]
Quantum computing will break some of the rules, but it won't remove all
limits.
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(it's often faulty) this was resolved by giving them a
price and a time-limit; as first conceived, they were to be supported
entirely by advertising.
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fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
> 3. They aren't as profitable as you think because people can frequently
> use quasi-public restrooms such as fast food places, hotels, gas stations,
> etc. Ie, there are real competitors.
But in the old days those also often had coin-locks.
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avor deregulation.
Why should the opening of competition in pricing &c cause a shift from
one nonessential (eye candy) to another (coffee service)? Because more
families started flying?
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markjohn wrote:
> . . . A year's course in economics can give you
> the basics but it not transform them to homo economicus-es.
Homines economici, in case anyone wanted to know.
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
> Accountants are now using imaginary numbers,
Good heavens. How?
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-term memory -- semantic (`the
capital of France is Paris'), episodic (events personally experienced)
and procedural (how to do stuff) -- and strength in one does not imply
strength in another. Social cooperation depends on episodic memory,
language on the other two.
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
> Even indexes replace firms from time to time.
The S&P 500 has just been purged of foreign firms, which apparently
means that scads of index funds will now follow suit - which strikes me
as a bit silly.
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
> . . . During the US Civil War, there was a shortage of coins,
> and postage stamps served as currency, and they could easily
> do so again.
How big is the stamp supply, by the way?
How much `float' does the USPS have?
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oyees, we (the INS) will believe
it, but a smaller firm must back it up." Designed presumably to
discourage phony enterprises whose principal purpose is to get a visa
for the owner's brother-in-law.
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john hull wrote:
> What does "IMO" mean?
In My Opinion. You'll also see IMH(umble)O, whence IMNSHO ...
IMO is also a brand of sour cream or some such.
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"size -3"?
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fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
> . . . lobbiests (sp?) . . .
Since you ask: lobbyists.
`y' changes to `i' before `-est' (superlative) and `-(e)th' (ordinal)
but not before `-ist' (agent).
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athier than thou
Worse than saying the same of people with wrong ideas about economics?
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n, no minimum price. Does the announcement of such a
plan constitute a taking?
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>> . . . suggests you mean "eminent" (rather than
>> "imminent") domain . . .
What he wrote first was "immanent", which makes
more obvious sense than either of the above. ;)
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effort in the past century
has been for the benefit of foreigners. As for health/pensions/welfare,
when is a transfer entitlement not a transfer entitlement?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Irving Kristol defined a neo-conservative
> as a liberal who had been mugged.
I guess that makes me a classical neoconservative (as of October 24).
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he *content* of the papers is fraudulent.
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ly hoops, but not those who
defy The Law out of a selfish desire to escape oppression, get a better
job, or raise their children in a safer environment."
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``In praise of renting and to hell with owning'')
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e learned to
walk or speak and her vocabulary never exceeded some 50 words."
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Bryan Caplan wrote:
> . . . they get my name wrong ("George" Caplan?!) . . .
Wasn't that the name of the phantom agent in `North by Northwest'?
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Bill Dickens wrote:
> I suppose cowboy extraordinaire Pecos Bill who was raised
> by coyotes, tamed a tornado and rescued the drought-stricken
> agricultural economy of Texas is more urban legend than fact. (LOL)
Rural, surely.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] why did the South fare so poorly after the US Civil War
> [compared to Germany after 1945]?
One difference is that Dixie, unlike Germany, paid taxes to the Yankee
regime afterward.
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ts. It is presumably as safe as any unsigned mail.
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27;s my cut of that guy's excess?)
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r I moved here.)
Where are you?
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john hull wrote:
> I'm in Michigan.
> I could have sworn that there was a one cent deposit
> in California. Maybe I'm mistaken.
I think it's a nickel - but either way,
there's no obvious way to recover it.
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based on profit.
But the borrower would still be personally liable.
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h") make us all richer in the long run.
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n with an existing tax regime.
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'continue'.
Call me paranoid but I don't actually believe that Bryan wrote this.
I hope I needn't warn any of you to treat it with extreme caution.
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Alypius Skinner wrote:
. . . . It became
obvious to me fairly early in the '90's that resentment against US foreign
policy had made Americans overseas the preferred target of terrorists.
Not in the Seventies?
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h."
http://mondediplo.com/2002/12/15genome
That's funny. I thought there was a widespread notion
that the private sector cannot do significant basic research.
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o-" when it becomes `Established'?
> Is economics suffering from a modifier shortage?
After "neo-" I suggest "ter-".
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Alex Tabarrok wrote:
> I am interested in the suggestions of list members as to
> what the most important lessons economics has to teach.
This essay might be useful
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-013003A
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john hull wrote:
BTW, the person who called De Soto's book an
"intellectual swindle" gave it three stars.
Joe Bob Briggs seems to give every movie three stars.
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s shop in a seedy neighborhood.
On another hand - I've read those letters in the NRA's monthly, and a
lot of them say "I just knew that if I hadn't shown a gun something
nasty would have happened"; I wonder how often the writer is mistaken in
that belief.
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ills again. He would pour a flood
of curious details about the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and ghod knows
what else, and expected me to understand what it all meant.
(I saw Dianne Feinstein's face in the WTC smoke, but never mind that.)
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the head.
A punch in the throat.
No.
All right then, a kick in the kneecap.
No.
Mrs Scum, I'm offering you a boot in the teeth and a dagger up the strap.
Er...
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uces homelessness
> and starvation rather than encouraging it.
In politics the appearance is usually more important than the reality.
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