I want to buy a few acres of farmland, but either it's too expensive or its in remote location.
> too expensive or its in remote location
This is generally how land values work...
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In my understanding, collective ownership !== public ownership and is just anything where the amount of owners is > 1
I've always taken "public ownership" to imply "publicly-traded company", which means John Q. Public can call up his broker and buy some shares in the company.
This in contrast to privately-held companies, which can and do have many owners, but whose owners are acquired through partnership, investment, key employees within the company, and M&A - but not through the sale of securities.
I'd imagine the cost of arrests and incarceration are sunk costs though.
It's not like we pay the police $2,000 for each arrest, or pay the prison $500/night per inmate.
Does anyone know if these numbers were taken by adding up the costs of running a prison and police department and dividing by the number of arrests and inmates?
If so, it's a little disingenuous to make this argument.
Also, these cases are not about a 1:1 relationship of harm to society vs. cost of justice. If you let the crimes go, you'll have more people doing it because "everybody does it".
60 days in jail does seem pretty excessive though. If imagine tons of young kids or people in a rush would make a silly mistake.
> It's not like we pay the police $2,000 for each arrest
Not in a direct sense - but civil asset forfeiture and arrest/citation quotas do incentivize individual officers to take actions that benefit their department's budget and their annual review, respectively.
> It's not like we [...] pay the prison $500/night per inmate
In the case of private prisons (which house 8% of the US prison population[0]), a per-prisoner stipend is the most popular[1] business model.
The government quite literally pays the prison company a fixed dollar amount per inmate-night, which the company then turns a profit on.
[0]: https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/files/comparing_correc...
[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/062215/busin...
k_sh commented on Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text theverge.com/2019/4/18/18... · Posted by u/mattkevan
Edit: The following is correct but misleading. The Muller report was reported to be released before the Facebook security update.
Facebook announced this before the Muller report was released.
The Facebook security post was updated April 18, 2019 at 7AM PT [1].
The Muller report was released "Thursday morning, shortly after 11 am [EDT]" [2]
[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/keeping-passwords-secur...
[2] https://www.vox.com/2019/4/18/18411966/mueller-report-releas...
Disclosure: I work for a big tech company but not Facebook. All opinions are my own.
Sure, but the Mueller report was widely reported[0][1][2] to be released Thursday morning days ago.
[0]: https://deadline.com/2019/04/redacted-robert-mueller-report-...
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/muell...
[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/15/mueller-report-expected-to-b...
k_sh commented on Ketamine: From Party Drug to Prescription Medicine cugmhp.org/2019/03/15/ket... · Posted by u/laurex
AI is on the way to create cheaper alternatives for medication. Recreational or therapeutic use? It'll take the middleman out of the price. it'll be cheap as chewing gum. My guess.
AI doesn't solve the underlying issue that made ketamine depression treatment expensive: intellectual property rights on a particular molecule.
If a company achieved AI that can identify effective alternatives, why wouldn't they just acquire the patents for all of those alternatives and prop up all the prices?
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What about Amazon makes it successful with having multiple versions of the same concept at one time compared to Google's* lack of success doing the same?
*At least my impression of Google and their structure/incentive system that pushes different groups to pursue the same thing and not succeed at any. Messaging is at the forefront in my mind.
Follow-through.
Google is infamous for this sequence of events, time and time again:
1. We made this great new thing that's gonna change the way you verb! Hope you enjoy it!
2. (1-5 years of product stagnation)
3. Hey, thanks for the all the good times. We're closing the thing at the end of the year.
Amazon (for all their warts) is much more adept at keeping customer experience in their crosshairs.
Looks like[0] the real value of your average acre of US farmland is about 3x what it was fifty years ago. There's more data available if you want to drill down into cropland vs pastureland, and specific regions (e.g., Corn Belt vs the Southeast).
[0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/land-use-land-v...