math_loser
Re:US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money
on Friday August 07, 2026 @12:24AM (#49205882)
> As they say, the cure for high prices is high prices.
Your line of reasoning is downplaying the fact that we don't exist in a world with perfect markets or rational consumption habits.
There are multiple clear cut examples of producer collusion and oligopoly formation in the past few years - including in the food industries (see eggs and pork in the past 5 years). Food being essential for life means consumers can't interact with the market rationally, just like they can't for insulin, transportation that enables income, and so on.
Re:The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @10:50PM (#49205399)
> So what is the new fact?
For all arbitrarily sized (but finite) sets of not collinear points, there's always a line that passes through exactly two points in the set.