Repliesjoeyarnoldvn (61)in politics • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.RE: Hack Democracy: The solution to voter fraudGood ideas.arseniclullaby (65)in elonmusk • 5 years agoRE: Arsenic Lullaby- Commissions and Elon Musk's "truck" is a death trap...There's no way you actually read the blog. That's what idiots on FB do dsonophorus, they see the headline and react without actually bothering to read the fucking article. Are you one of those…steemitboard (66)in politics • 5 years agoRE: The Wall is a bad idea.Congratulations @dsonophorus! You received a personal award! Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 3 years! You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on…builderofcastles (64)in money • 5 years agoRE: Crypto vs. MetalSo, which do you feel some kracker would do if they had a quantum computer? Get the pin number on your credit card (3 numbers) Get the private key of your bitcoin addresss (big long chain of…meno (73)in dtube • 6 years agoRE: Donald Trump is trying to kill the First AmendmentThis comment literally added nothing. It was a giant go around only to say. You don't know, shut up. Congrats Posted using Partiko Androidvalued-customer (67)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?I can see how models of markets would be potentiated at this point by such signal substitution for what are presently ineffable non-random effects. Such models would reveal many interesting things…valued-customer (67)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?Markets will persist for the foreseeable future, and resource scarcity continue to necessitate trade. Resource scarcity will eventually become incompetent to affect production - but eventually is a…jacobtothe (70)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?Ford likes to claim they sell the longest-lasting trucks. Their market isn't just former Ford owners, but current Chevy and Dodge owners, current Nissan and Toyota owners, and a growing population.…valued-customer (67)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?You are rightly parsing my thoughts on technological advance. I also agree that such punctuations are occasional, and that between such events complexity increases, as you state. Considering the…valued-customer (67)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?When the technology does not advance, neither supply nor demand are variable, governmental regulation will not change, etc. Those critical factors being immutable potentiate persistent monopoly.…jacobtothe (70)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?I'd like to see evidence to support that claim outside the realm of government mandates.valued-customer (67)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?Interesting comment. "A little recognized consequence to this is something I call 'Inverse Occam's Razor'. In domains subject to competition, when the complexity of competitors is low, Occam's…valued-customer (67)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?Again, technological innovation and evolving markets make this true only in immutable markets. Paradigmatic evolutions often - and more often of late - sometimes simplify rather than increase…jacobtothe (70)in economics • 6 years agoRE: Planned Obsolescence?Monopolies are not something that arises out of market competition, though. The bigger the bureaucracy, the more it wastes and the slower it can adapt to change. This creates room for innovation and…fredrikaa (70)in poll • 6 years agoRE: Poll: Flags or Downvotes?Many of the people who have left a short "yes" have written more than 10 posts and spent hours on Discord chats explaining why they are in favour.dullhawk (66)in liberty • 6 years agoRE: Tortured "complexity"A monopoly is impossible to maintain without the State. I would explain the reasons, but since you'd prefer to run away...dullhawk (66)in liberty • 6 years agoRE: Tortured "complexity"You seem to be confusing social structures with anti -social structures (government). Government is the opposite of society, in every instance. Good trick they played getting people to…gduran (70)in steem • 6 years agoRE: Steem Doing BadlyAre you fixated on prostitutes? That is about all you talk about, anything happened to you as a child?gduran (70)in steem • 6 years agoRE: Steem Doing BadlyThe problem is that it is not Steemit that is going to zero it is Steem, a crypto coin as long as this coin is down the social platform will stay down. Everyone comes here to make money in fact that…mes (67)in busy • 6 years agoRE: DELETEDAbsolutely magical magnetic demonstration! The water levitation effect is amazing too! hmmm I think for both effects, and mainly the magnetic effect, the best explanation I have so far is nothing…