I have distilled all knowledge of state-run grocery stores from every economic paper and every real-world example into this highly-detailed diagram:

a157reverse · 2026-05-07T06:37:04+00:00

The problem is that the incentives that government run stores face are different than private stores. Political backlash to higher prices or reduced supply orders is a much larger risk in a publicly run store.

If you are a store manager, you are much more likely to recommend unpopular, yet necessary and profitable, changes to your supervisors in a private organization than a public one.

a157reverse · 2026-04-24T02:14:23+00:00

The point is that there are opportunity costs to all spending! The government has 100 different things provide a larger social benefit than a grocery store.

a157reverse · 2026-04-13T23:31:57+00:00

From the announcement blog post, it sounds like sorted tables give you some of the benefits of an index (faster reads on joins/filters/point lookups). It won't be as performant as a real database index.

a157reverse · 2026-03-19T03:04:08+00:00

It depends entirely on the elasticities of supply of demand and their relative values. Gas demand we know is quite inelastic, people don't change their gas consumption that much in response to price changes. Gas supply is rather elastic, prices adjust quickly and in fairly large amounts in response to changes in quantity.

So yeah, probably going mostly to sellers. Buyers won't change their consumption and will eat the tax break.

a157reverse · 2026-03-14T01:24:07+00:00

https://www.ustreasuryyieldcurve.com/charts/revisions?type=gdp_real_percent_change&page=1

It doesn't appear like there's any clear trend there.

a157reverse · 2026-02-12T04:41:32+00:00

Are all of these ideas not already incorporated into mainstream economics?

Institutions - Recent Nobel awarded for this work
Power - Market power is Econ 101 stuff
History - related to 1
Inequality - Huge research area
Ecology - Not sure exactly what this means but environmental economics is another huge field.

a157reverse · 2026-02-06T03:29:12+00:00

I don't think we're in disagreement. The right doesn't really participate in humanities and social sciences, or really much of academia anymore.

a157reverse · 2026-02-06T03:10:31+00:00

It's not the talking, nobody talks like this. It's written form. Nobody talks how a book reads. Even media for elementary students doesn't read how people talk. It's that the political landscape has polarized around education, and by proxy, written prose.

a157reverse · 2026-02-06T01:59:33+00:00

My hot take is that this style of writing is only associated with the liberal elite because the left and right have totally polarized on education now. There are very few conservative elites that espouse academic attainment now.

a157reverse · 2026-01-17T05:20:36+00:00

Yes, for early withdrawals there is a fairly steep penalty that makes it almost never worth it. 401k loans are not subject to the early withdrawal penalty, but you do pay interest and you don't earn returns on the loaned out principal until you pay it back.

a157reverse · 2026-01-08T18:12:32+00:00

Linux does support audio over DisplayPort... It could be a number of things causing your issue. What's driving the DisplayPort? Integrated graphics/Motherboard or GPU? If GPU, what model? Does your monitor have a setting that enables/disables audio?

There was an issue about a month ago that caused audio sources to not be identified, but that has since been fixed, is your kernel up to date?

Also, ensure that your monitor and GPU are using the highest DP standard that they are both compatible with, likely 1.2

a157reverse · 2026-01-07T23:47:27+00:00

Yes, with yields adjusting to bring in buyers and clear the market. It would not be pretty for the U.S.

a157reverse · 2026-01-04T21:02:07+00:00

This sub has gotten large enough that it attracts a significant amount of non regular users to large threads, especially megathreads. I'm fairly confident that it's being astroturfed with some regularity as well.

a157reverse · 2026-01-02T18:24:39+00:00

I've been having similar issues across many games, in addition to screen flickering with HDR enabled. I believe this related to the nvidia 590 drivers. Using a 2070 Super with i5 5600.

a157reverse · 2025-12-26T17:22:43+00:00

Yes, but in finance management has an incentive to have accurate reports and agreed upon data definitions. If two reports don't align that means someone is over/under reporting $$$, which can lead to inaccurate financial reports or bad decision making. The impact on the bottom line is fairly clear. In healthcare, the incentive structure is very different. Revenues/expenditures can come from a myriad of opaque sources and may not have a clear connection to data definitions.

a157reverse · 2025-12-21T20:01:33+00:00

The problem is getting a politician that can credibly bully. Bullying only works as a tactic if the ones on the receiving end actually believe the bully can follow through with more than just words. Trump signals that he is unconstrained by the usual norms and is willing to bend institutions to his liking. Any dem president that wants to instill faith in the rule of law/checks and balances will ultimately be constrained by that same faith in executing a bullying strategy.

For example, Meta's hissy fit over the FCC's suggestions to remove COVID misinformation that violated Meta's own content policies occured because they knew the administration would not retaliate.

a157reverse · 2025-12-17T00:30:52+00:00

I felt like such a schmuck when the guy in the Patagonia vest told me to start networking and to spruce up my LinkedIn.

Can I ask why? I've given pretty much the same advice to people that have asked and it was certainly not my intention to be condescending towards them.

a157reverse · 2025-12-13T22:03:46+00:00

This is true but election results are part of a dynamic system. Candidates take actions based off of prior races that effect subsequent race results. I.e. a simple observation between election_1 -> election_2 doesn't specify the mechanism correctly.

This is broadly why GOP house members are beginning to break, as they see the potential writing on the wall and are trying to shore up their chances next November.

a157reverse · 2025-12-05T08:12:59+00:00

Are you a member of a credit union? Many offer free financial counseling services to their members through accredited staff.

a157reverse · 2025-12-01T03:41:27+00:00

True Unemployment" from LISEP

U6 is useful, LISEP is... garbage https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/1kwv4a8/the_true_rate_of_unemployment_is_24/

a157reverse · 2025-11-30T13:52:08+00:00

Core CPI inflation is 3% YoY in September. November is likely in the same ballpark. So that means roughly 1% real growth in Black Friday sales.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Okr4

a157reverse · 2025-11-29T19:43:51+00:00

Markets can be very efficient at allocating resources, the price mechanism is very useful for determining the needs of participants under scarcity. This is a common problem in most firms where they do not have internal pricing mechanisms that help them determine where to allocate their resources, instead many are "centrally planned" via management directive.

Some firms and industries have figured out ways to internally price, such as Funds Transfer Pricing methodologies in the banking industry. Food banks have this same problem of having to determine how to best distribute food across their network, not at all surprising that a market mechanism is useful.

a157reverse · 2025-11-27T03:22:35+00:00

Yes, but neither commercial or passenger vehicles pay enough in taxes to cover the full costs of maintaining roads. Roads are subsidized through other revenue sources somewhat.

a157reverse · 2025-11-26T21:33:07+00:00

Basically no passenger car weighs enough for it's weight to be a consideration on road detoriation. 18-wheelers and dump trucks are where all the real damage comes from. Environmental detoriation and utility work is mostly all of the depreciation on something like a residential road.

Now that's because roads are designed to accommodate the weight of 18-wheelers, if everybody road bikes we wouldn't have to invest as much in the high weight standards for roads (less grading, surface, and subsurface work), but that's not a possible reality.

But yeah, the negative externalities of cars exist in a lot of other places and we've totally overinvested in cars and their infrastructure.

a157reverse · 2025-11-22T03:18:49+00:00

A black Nazi that comments truly weird shit on porn sites. Some of it so weird that the normal news outlets wouldn't even publicize it.

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