BJones12

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by BJones12 10mo ago
You might welcome them all, but you don't have jobs for most of them.
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by BJones12 10mo ago
Between 1965 and 1995 the average American gained about 6 hours per week of leisure time. They then used most of the additional free time to watch TV.
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by BJones12 10mo ago
Profitability in both 3 month and 12 month spans. Also minimum 12 months of trading history after IPO. See page ~9 of https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/methodologies/me...
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by BJones12 10mo ago
> The point of rent control is to smooth out volatility. Rents can still go up, but the goal is to avoid sudden 150% increases etc. Is it? I mostly see rent control maximum increases below the inflation rate, suggesting a different goal
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by BJones12 11mo ago
Remote learning. You didn't see homeschooling, which is a very different thing, you saw remote learning. The homeschooling crowd has developed methods over the years to compensate. The COVID remote learning cohort did not, and suffered
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by BJones12 11mo ago
An acquaintance of mine fought (got mauled by) a grizzly bear a month ago. He went to the ICU (since released), but the bear got shot and died. It was a pyrric victory, but he did win the fight.
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by BJones12 11mo ago
FWIW, I didn't think the energy healing bit was sleazy because I had already been exposed to the musician version which prompts a student to instantly sing better by pretending that they are <great singer> and just singing like t
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by BJones12 11mo ago
> Historically when a pendulum swings one way, eventually it swings back. But I'm having trouble how we're going to swing back, when both sides have swung to and then doubled down on polarization. It may not have to. There are
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by BJones12 11mo ago
Those infrastructure "investments" will almost certainly not generate the same return for pensioners as putting the money in an index fund.
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by BJones12 11mo ago
I think it's implied that one would need to buy the cheap pants several times to match the lifespan of the expensive pants.
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by BJones12 11mo ago
If we collect DNA from eucharistic miracles can we clone Jesus?
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by BJones12 11mo ago
Garbage. 1) There's a paywall for part of it. 2) The author finally figured out that, in software, revenue does not scale with labor. The author has not figured out that this applies just as much to a 1 man startup as to a megacorp.
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by BJones12 1y ago
Hail, spirit of the machine, essence divine. In your code and circuitry, the stars align. Through rites arcane, your wisdom we discern. In your hallowed core, the sacred mysteries yearn.
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by BJones12 1y ago
I think there's truth in the idea that if people think their only chance at a good life is to win the lottery, everything will become a lottery. https://oldcoinbad.com/p/long-degeneracy
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by BJones12 1y ago
> Back in my economics classes at college, a professor pointed out that a stock market can go up for two reasons Reason #1 is lower interest rates, which increase the present value of future cash flows in DCF models. A professor who does
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by BJones12 1y ago
Toronto, mainly. Other places may be down but not enough to notice. Quebec plays by its own set of rules.
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by BJones12 1y ago
Here's the grain of salt: Canada and Australia do not have 30 year mortgages yet face similar housing woes. That said, it seems like the article buried the lede and is really complaining about interest costs.
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by BJones12 1y ago
They want to ruin the lives of those who oppose them. The Canadian Liberal government has previously attempted the same goal by de-banking protestors, in a move that the courts later ruled unconstitutional.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> It's maybe the case that books as a whole is a winner-takes-all market. It seems that any product with effectively capped consumption will become a winner-take-all market. People go to the movie theater 6 times a year, so that&#x2
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by BJones12 1y ago
From my understanding there is an argument about whether 12% or 16% of children meet a certain threshold of food availability, which affects whether or not it is called a famine. One is regarded as not a famine, one is regarded as a famine,
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by BJones12 1y ago
Definitions matter. It's possible for an organization to redefine "acutely malnourished" as less than 4000 Cal/day, and then use that to make an accusation. Is that reasonable? No, because that does not match reality. It
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by BJones12 1y ago
No, PEI does not have a lot of remote workers. AFAIK the main provider of tech jobs there is government in various forms, and they mandate several in-office days per week. It's just a place that is geographically disconnected from the
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by BJones12 1y ago
You might just beat the Mombasa Hatchery and Conditioning Center's record!
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by BJones12 1y ago
Given that people bet on sumo, wouldn't people pay a lot of money for your stats?
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by BJones12 1y ago
Good thing it's called the World Health Organization and not the American Health Organization, that way the 95.9% of the world that is not America can contribute to it.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> Freemasons: what do they even do? ... Not obviously recruiting in my area. I'm not a mason, but their motto is "to be one, ask one". You won't see them recruiting, you have to inquire.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> Mainstream Christianity gave us Trump, so it's not exactly the moral foundation it claimed to be. I think it's worth taking a closer look at what Trump is to the American and religious right. Some people think he's their
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by BJones12 1y ago
The trouble with politics now is that it has become a religion. You can't elect boring people anymore, because doing so would remove the ability for adherents to engage in religious fervor. Before politics can be boring and fair, adher
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by BJones12 1y ago
Relating to the topic of the article, lefties rejoicing in Kirk getting shot are getting doxed and losing their jobs. That was a tactic pioneered by the left over the past decade. Now the same tactic is being used against them.
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by BJones12 1y ago
We can be sure that the shooter was not aiming for the neck. Chest is more likely, but head is possible.

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