breezybottom

Which game theory model specifically applies here?

Trmendous, huge, bigly

I mean yes, phone manufacturers have the same problem.

It doesn't really matter if I do, it matters if the economists who study it do. It's not controversial to say that "shock therapy" was a disaster, and that living standards have plummeted since the collapse of communism in many countries.

Well fortunately you don't get to tell people what they should romanticize. I know it's hard for an upper-middle class white computer programmer to understand, but some people actually prefer farming to sweatshops.

I wish Obama was president in 2020.

There are post Soviet countries that still haven't returned to their 1991 GDP.

Autonomy is a funny word to use, considering many of these places aren't democracies.

The irony of saying this while denigrating farm work, the oldest human profession, is mind boggling.

That's how it always goes. We're told that animal research is vitally important and needs grant money. But then when a study is actually published, we're told "that's just an animal study, you can't draw any conclusions from it".

How you you feel sad about it if you don't care? It sounds like you're not being so honest.

You're asking for a study proving that AI didn't exist in 1776?

Happens like every week. Maybe you just don't read news outside HN.

Where's that post-Brexit windfall of cash for the NHS? It's still coming, right?