They just happen to publish a new System of National Accounts (SNA) every time this happens. Last time it was to put more emphasis on R&D.

Ah, definitely not assuming that. It’s a tongue in cheek about someones physical attributes is correlatively to a behavior. In this case they assume that their name influences their behavior to look more name-like, and i said that their name makes them write this type of study. Same fallacy. There’s definitely some politics in there but that was unknown to me when i wrote the comment.

I really thought this was so obviously a phrenology study and it lacks any rigor that I didn’t have to say that.

They really busted out the AI calipers on this one. It’s literally looking at skull shapes. I only read the paper and didn’t watch the video, but people get the same result when figuring out if face shape is associated with criminal behavior.

I feel like it’s the only response when someone does a phrenology study.

This looks like a study someone named Yonat, Moses, Noa, Jacob, and Ruth would write.

I’ve woken up twice under anesthesia. When I wake up, I’m sort of frantic and they just zap me with more drugs and I pass back out. I honestly don’t think it’s a big deal and sort of cool I remember a little bit of the process. I’m not like in pain or anything, just awake.

Depends on the mouse I guess, which of course they’ll try to make as complicated as possible to seem like they’re doing something hard. There’s really no difference between a mouse and a keyboard from a HID perspective. The DPI setting generally only change how the mouse movements are interpreted inside the mouse, rather than fundamentally change how it’s reported over the wire.

I thought if we made workers poorer then it’d force a more competitive environment! How did this basic core macro-economic principle of neo-liberal economics fail us?!

I can bring two magnets close to each other and feel their fields interact so I know fields are real. Why not more fields, idk. What holds atoms together? Fuck if I should know, probably more magic fields. In the point of view of a photon, it travels instantaneously to its destination? That seems fake.

Any blockers. Yes many.

We’re not at war with China. China is our largest trading partner. Realistically we could never be at war with China because our lives would be terribly hard without them. Stop wanting to be at war with China. Do they realize what that means???

Yeah, it’s a major consideration when determining if a merger should happen, e.g. Krogers. Just because its more efficient doesn’t mean you get consumer benefit because you should expect them to profit maximize with monopoly rents. I mean definitely +1 on nationalize them rather than let capitalism go unfettered, but I’m making a general observation that large companies can only be large because they can extract monopoly rents, rather than just a barrier to entry to match efficiencies of scale thing.

I hope they know they’ll become old one day and will need your help, I hope you remind them of how shitty they treated you and you get closure.

Large companies can only exist if they receive monopoly rents. Otherwise incumbents would be outcompeted by challengers and we’d see a convergence of many small firms with low profit margins. So yeah, its the responsibility of the government to regulate monopolization and they aren’t doing it.

Glad they’ll overflow so I can still go rat spotting.

My grandfather gave me some dilapidated house in some place called Stardew something. It was a dump so I stayed at my job at Joja corporate. Some guy named Pierre wanted to buy it for like a fraction of what it was worth, real predatory guy. Last I checked it was infested with some sort weird bug. It almost sounded like it could talk, the weirdest things. Sometimes, I think about visiting, just out of curiosity, but then the quarterly reports come due, and keep forgetting about it. Recently, Pierre’s emails has gone from predatory lowball offers to ranting about the ‘soul of the valley’ and how my land is supposedly pivotal to some community revival fantasy. Honestly, if the bugs are half as persistent as Pierre, maybe they deserve to inherit the place.

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100%, it can get even crazier too, if people think there is inflation then it causes inflation. Macro-economics isn’t real and its 80% in peoples heads, 20% material conditions.

Inflation is governed by the supply of money. Monetary Policy controls how much money is in circulation and managed by the central bank. Fiscal Policy controls selling bonds to the public to make up for finance budget deficits without increasing inflation, and is managed by the government.

So the government borrows (e.g. sells bonds to the public) to raise money without increasing inflation.

But then a philosopher could operate a switch between two moral dilemmas, do you really want /that/ reality.