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Re:Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google by knome on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:26AM (#7465659)
Is "in an efficient market" the economic equivalent of the programmers' "with a sufficiently smart compiler"? It seems to be used in the same manner in arguments.
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Re:Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google by dtech on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @11:51AM (#7466556)
You need the concept of perfect market (or other models) to reason about things. "In a perfect market, x happens. y is not in line with the perfect market, so eliminating y (c)/(sh)ould bring us closer to x".

Replace x with "fair salaries" and "y" with "Tech companies making non-poaching agreements"

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