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mk · 3714 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hubski Economy: A thought experiment

Why cost so high?

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Complexity · 3714 days ago · link ·

An arbitrary value. If I were going to do it for real, I'd set a range of costs between $0 and $Something where $0 is the Gaussian analysis of the length*grammar score of highest voted, densest comments in the entire Hubski database and everything else falls away to $Something that would be enough to make one think twice about being glib and lazy.

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This would still be costing me money.

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