people would choose to stop paying to get their food delivered home by a poor guy on a bicyce
From a restaurant, sure. From a grocery store, it can easily get cheaper than the gas when the cycler gets cheap enough. Also, if you're working 80 hours a week, you really might not have time.
r stop needing uber to get them home after a night partying out in the city
You assume they own a car, and use Uber for convenience. Alternatively, you may be able to afford an Uber, but not a car payment.
I hope all these guys fail in the next major recession.
Sharing/gig economy companies were driven forward by the last recession, and are more likely to succeed as the economy slides back into a recession. Desperate people willing to do anything or let people use their stuff are the primary driving force.
There's patents, trademarks, and copyright - three completely unrelated classes of artificially protected work
You left out trade secrets. They are all related in that they vest certain limitations on what other people can do, and are producible solely as the product of the mind (until you get to registration/enforcement, which can be expensive.).
none of which bears any similarity to property.
I dunno. It seems as real as a share of stock or a bank account. They can be bought, sold, rented. They have no physical manifestation. They're assets confiscatable under bankruptcy and usable as collateral.
Heck, I'd like to hear how it's any different from owning a vacant building in a city you never visit. I mean, seriously, please try to explain the difference.
Well, this is classist for sure. And class is highly correlated to race. I don't know if I buy the link (classist implies racist), but I do like forcing those places to take cash.
Even your link points out that the rules around IRS confiscations were changed in 2014 and this is no longer an issue. Also, it stated that the goal of the businesses sometimes was "to avoid extra paperwork" That's an exact definition of structuring.
We hold that restaurant owners have fewer rights than restaurant customers. They cannot keep their kitchens however they want. They cannot refuse service to people based on sex or race. The list goes on.
the logical extension of this type of law is to ban bartering.
Huh, this has nothing to do with bartering. Bartering is exchanging two sets of items. This is arguing what type of dollar-denominated financial instruments are accepted. There is no connection.
I suppose it could be extended to "You owe $50 worth of sheep at the spot price of sheep" transactions.
The government generally frowns on bartering because it's economic activity which bypasses its ability to track or tax.
You have to pay tax on barters.
It's a huge temptation because printing more money is a quick and easy way
That's why the US government (and many others) have many limitations put in place to prevent the government from printing money at will.
The government? It's unaccountable companies that have shadowy data-sharing deals. I mean, maybe they sell that data also to the government, but they'll also sell it to me if I have the cash. At least if only the government had the data, it would be kinda-controllable.
So, what exactly is the threshold that separates "just a little bit," from, "a lot?"
It's the same goddam thing.
No, it's not. You might loan a friend $5, but not your life savings. Things have degrees. I'm not sure if you honestly don't understand that, or you're arguing in bad faith.
If stupid Apple simply added another option to the "Do Not Disturb" function that allowed no calls nor texts from any number not on contact lists this stuff wouldn't be a problem.
What are you talking about??? They totally do.
Settings -> Do Not Disturb ->Turn DND On. Scroll down in Do Not Disturb Settings. Click "Allow Calls From" select "All Contacts". Done.
If they waned to sell out harder, they could send every URL viewed in Safari on iOS to a Chinese government server, creating a centralized repository. They could give the encryption keys to the Chinese so they could decrypt user data. A search engine is nice for spying and all, but the OS, the browser and the user's backup files are better.
Well, what cause "Enron", assuming you mean the financial collapse of the company, was the fraud they did in other parts of the company. They made money off of California. If you meant it caused Enron to fleece the people in California, that didn't result from price controls. Enron profited from avoiding the price controls. For instance, they would wait until one of their bids for emergency electricity (which the state was required to have, but was not subject to price controls) had been accepted at an insane price, and then shut down a power plant, causing the emergency energy to get tapped. Or they would transmit power from California, through a line in Oregon, and back to California, making it "foreign" electricity and not subject to price controls.
TL;DR, Price controls weren't the problem. Badly created price controls were. The solution was that they created more price controls and the blackouts stopped.
Fentanyl is often added to other drugs without the user's knowledge. It ups the perceived potency, and therefore lets the drugs be cut more. However, it's extremely dangerous.
Apple removed some apps from their store, and stores some encrypted data (but not the keys) in China. Not selling people a VPN app is totally different from telling the government if they search the web for "Winnie the Pooh" and getting them sent to jail.
Right... he's not a billionaire cause he gave away a ton of his founders stock. That's what I said. Not being a billionaire by choice is pretty much being a billionaire, as far as "can you be bought" goes.
Where are you and what's inexpensive? There were a lot of decent sales 1 week ago... and for several months before then. But now, and for the next month, is probably the worst time of the year.
You think the cops don't know the identity of people living in tent cities? They drive up, and see them keep shooting. The system cannot absorb them. It costs more to keep someone in prison than to just give them food and let them die on the street. Hell, it costs more to keep someone in prison then just give them a place to live, food and medicine too.
Maybe it could end muggings, but living in a panopticon seems like a pretty high price to pay. Oh, wait, masks exist.
Further, it's pretty obvious this will be abused. I mean, do you remember the "LoveInt" scandal where analysts used Patriot Act powers to cyberstalk love interests?
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From a restaurant, sure. From a grocery store, it can easily get cheaper than the gas when the cycler gets cheap enough. Also, if you're working 80 hours a week, you really might not have time.
You assume they own a car, and use Uber for convenience. Alternatively, you may be able to afford an Uber, but not a car payment.
Sharing/gig economy companies were driven forward by the last recession, and are more likely to succeed as the economy slides back into a recession. Desperate people willing to do anything or let people use their stuff are the primary driving force.
You left out trade secrets. They are all related in that they vest certain limitations on what other people can do, and are producible solely as the product of the mind (until you get to registration/enforcement, which can be expensive.).
I dunno. It seems as real as a share of stock or a bank account. They can be bought, sold, rented. They have no physical manifestation. They're assets confiscatable under bankruptcy and usable as collateral.
Heck, I'd like to hear how it's any different from owning a vacant building in a city you never visit. I mean, seriously, please try to explain the difference.
On the one hand, we need to protect IP so that people keep producing it. On the other, I really, really want affordable rollable/foldable screens.
Started February 2015, so obviously 5 years later it shuts down.
I guess data mining the video for their AI projects was harder than they thought.
I thought FB's policy was never delete data of any kind.
Well, this is classist for sure. And class is highly correlated to race. I don't know if I buy the link (classist implies racist), but I do like forcing those places to take cash.
Even your link points out that the rules around IRS confiscations were changed in 2014 and this is no longer an issue. Also, it stated that the goal of the businesses sometimes was "to avoid extra paperwork" That's an exact definition of structuring.
We hold that restaurant owners have fewer rights than restaurant customers. They cannot keep their kitchens however they want. They cannot refuse service to people based on sex or race. The list goes on.
Huh, this has nothing to do with bartering. Bartering is exchanging two sets of items. This is arguing what type of dollar-denominated financial instruments are accepted. There is no connection.
I suppose it could be extended to "You owe $50 worth of sheep at the spot price of sheep" transactions.
You have to pay tax on barters.
That's why the US government (and many others) have many limitations put in place to prevent the government from printing money at will.
No, search isn't a natural monopoly. There's no reason network effects should exist.
That said, it seems very hard to displace Google, because they are a monopoly.
The government? It's unaccountable companies that have shadowy data-sharing deals. I mean, maybe they sell that data also to the government, but they'll also sell it to me if I have the cash. At least if only the government had the data, it would be kinda-controllable.
No, it's not. You might loan a friend $5, but not your life savings. Things have degrees. I'm not sure if you honestly don't understand that, or you're arguing in bad faith.
What are you talking about??? They totally do.
Settings -> Do Not Disturb ->Turn DND On. Scroll down in Do Not Disturb Settings. Click "Allow Calls From" select "All Contacts". Done.
If they waned to sell out harder, they could send every URL viewed in Safari on iOS to a Chinese government server, creating a centralized repository. They could give the encryption keys to the Chinese so they could decrypt user data. A search engine is nice for spying and all, but the OS, the browser and the user's backup files are better.
Well, what cause "Enron", assuming you mean the financial collapse of the company, was the fraud they did in other parts of the company. They made money off of California. If you meant it caused Enron to fleece the people in California, that didn't result from price controls. Enron profited from avoiding the price controls. For instance, they would wait until one of their bids for emergency electricity (which the state was required to have, but was not subject to price controls) had been accepted at an insane price, and then shut down a power plant, causing the emergency energy to get tapped. Or they would transmit power from California, through a line in Oregon, and back to California, making it "foreign" electricity and not subject to price controls.
TL;DR, Price controls weren't the problem. Badly created price controls were. The solution was that they created more price controls and the blackouts stopped.
Fentanyl is often added to other drugs without the user's knowledge. It ups the perceived potency, and therefore lets the drugs be cut more. However, it's extremely dangerous.
Apple removed some apps from their store, and stores some encrypted data (but not the keys) in China. Not selling people a VPN app is totally different from telling the government if they search the web for "Winnie the Pooh" and getting them sent to jail.
Right... he's not a billionaire cause he gave away a ton of his founders stock. That's what I said. Not being a billionaire by choice is pretty much being a billionaire, as far as "can you be bought" goes.
Also, Steve Wozniak. Although he gave most away to early Apple employees who never got stock.
At some point, when people become billionaires, they cease to have a price.
You left out "government set price controls" from the list of options.
Where are you and what's inexpensive? There were a lot of decent sales 1 week ago... and for several months before then. But now, and for the next month, is probably the worst time of the year.
You think the cops don't know the identity of people living in tent cities? They drive up, and see them keep shooting. The system cannot absorb them. It costs more to keep someone in prison than to just give them food and let them die on the street. Hell, it costs more to keep someone in prison then just give them a place to live, food and medicine too.
Maybe it could end muggings, but living in a panopticon seems like a pretty high price to pay. Oh, wait, masks exist.
Further, it's pretty obvious this will be abused. I mean, do you remember the "LoveInt" scandal where analysts used Patriot Act powers to cyberstalk love interests?
People bringing coffee to work is considered pretty normal. People watching porn at a coffee shop isn't. That VP is making YouPorn look pretty stupid.