Kenny Malone

Was that the peeing in bottles expose?

Oh, okay.

The first one.

How are you secretly influencing our lives, Daryl?

That's the question.

I do see those little price tags that can change.

And I wonder, like two seconds ago, was it less?

Like is that what's happening?

Yeah.

If you buy enough, then your friends will have to pay more.

We were talking backstage and earlier about the New York City Marathon.

One of the things I think is genius when you read the final chapter everyone is that it optimizes for envy freeness is the term I've heard which is like less about one specific system of optimization and more about will everyone be cool with this if they get left out for some reason

And that is also a different thing you can optimize for.

Surge pricing probably does not do that.

I mean, I think the thing that does get left out of the surge pricing and Uber conversation is there is a workforce that in theory is standing by and could quickly jump into their cars and do more rides.

And so this is a

price what is the term is the signaling market clearing price yeah there's a market demand price that would like then recruit more people and then would help the price drop and so in like that circumstance i think that's what gets left out of that conversation a little bit but i don't i don't know that that applies if it starts raining if it starts raining and prices don't go up for ubers or yes then you don't have this incentive for more drivers to come and get more people where they need to go while it's raining anyway i try to think of that when i grumble about uber prices but i mostly just grumble anyway during search times

Can we come up with a metaphor for this phenomenon, which is like, there's been more increased density zoning, and yet people would see new houses built that were like expensive townhouses, and they would be mad about it.

So like, it doesn't make sense.

You're allowed to build more houses, but all I see over here are very expensive houses.