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[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And now Apple is resuming advertising on X...

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dunno dude, I am just explaining while this move isn't a contradiction with libertarian ideas.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No it isn't. Children are not considered mature enough to make legal decisions on their own, so the whole libertarian issue doesn't apply to them.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but 5 Guys fries are so clearly superior

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Agreed, some murders and rapists get less than 5% of this sentence. The issue is consecutive jail terms where one "big crime" is cut into many crimes so that each adds to the total.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What about the planned economy that learns from the previous one's mistakes? Or the one after that?

Based on all the past experiments, they all fail.

Every person and company has complex needs and desires and ultimately, it's impossible for a central authority to fully anticipate and manage that over the size of a nation, because the quantity of parameters and unknown is almost infinite. Heck I don't even know what I'll want to eat for dinner!

Without even diving into the issue of concentrating so much power into a single hand. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Americans marry early. And often.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let me give you an overly simplified example. You are in a property market where rental yield is 3% (happens in some cities)

You could put a million dollar into buying a house and save $30k in rent every year

or

You could rent a million dollar house for $30k, and invest your million dollar in the market at 7%, returning $70k per year

Obviously this gets more complicated with mortgages, taxes, maintenance, interest rates, etc. but the gist of it is that owning your home always comes with an opportunity cost, every dollar of house equity is a dollar that isn't invested somewhere else. Depending on circumstances, renting might be the most economical choice.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What you forget is the cost of opportunity: the money that is stuck in a house is money that would yield income if it was invested somewhere else. Long term stock markets typically return 7%+, while rental return (or the rent you save by buying) can be anywhere from 3 to 7% depending on market, minus maintenance and other holding costs.

So there's no fast and hard guarantee that owning or renting is best - you need to run a proper simulation with the right parametres taking everything into account. In markets with low rental returns, renting is typically optimal.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Maintenance cost and property taxes too though.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Looks about right. Those that I have seen on this list were mediocre at best, and a far cry from the quality of the previous movie(s) which would have been fine being left alone.

[–] bitflag@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago (6 children)

She actively plotted and traveled to get revenge and clearly didn't act in self defense. While it's easy to be sympathetic to her story, her guilt seems difficult to deny.

 
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