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Relevant number is percent of food not percent of farms.

alexeisadeski3on Americans throw out more food than plastic, paper, metal, and glass

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

Wut

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

Culture.

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

More or less.

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

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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.

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

>moving our business there

That would be genuinely insane.

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

If poverty were relevant, Colorado would have zero gangs.

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

I suppose many of them would.

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

The US is a police state...

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

Absolutely.

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

Why downvoted?

alexeisadeski3on Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

>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?

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

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

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

>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.

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

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.

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

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

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

Price Gouging and the Poor - relevant

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

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

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.

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

>Why do people think the latter is "more fair"?

I have no idea what unfortunate psychological characteristic of the human brain leads so many to oppose price gouging and markets, but here is some tangential discussion:

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

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

Richer people can afford more stuff, more news at 11.

alexeisadeski3on Uber Makes Economists Sad

Wow.

alexeisadeski3on This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps

What's "glib" about replacing food stamps with cash?

alexeisadeski3on This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps

"Food stamps" are so obnoxious. Just cut them a check or better yet hand out cash.

alexeisadeski3on BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers

Funny thing.

Everyone here compares climate denial to other left wing bugaboos: 'creationism' 'ancient science' 'earth is the center of the universe'

So why not compare to things where the left wing is wrong?

Why not say, "if we're not going to give equal time to one thing where science is settled (climate change), we also shouldn't give equal time to..."

1. Economic fact: Minimum wage hurts low earners

2. Economic fact: Free trade is almost always good

3. Economic fact: Unions hurt the poor

So is climate change really something you care about, or is it just another tool to be deployed in the left-right debate?

The left brings climate change - their settled science - the right brings anti union policies - their settled science. Each side has heterodox scientists, each side has the vast consensus of professionals on their side. Yet only one topic gets a zillion upvotes on HN, only one topic gets extensive coverage on our favorite media aggregators.

I wonder why.

alexeisadeski3on BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers

SarBox? FATCA?

alexeisadeski3on U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers

Give it time.

alexeisadeski3on U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers

Agreed :)

alexeisadeski3on U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers

>A ban of the technology would pretty... unprecedented

It would not.

alexeisadeski3on U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers

I thought ISIS is the state now? The Taliban certainly were, and they did similar things.

Not to mention 15th C Spain.