BobbyJo

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811.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Why does the mode matter? We are discussing cost , which is related to the the number of retirees. The average lifespan tells you how many people you can expect to be retired at a given moment, the mode tells you... what exactly?
812.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
100%. If it's an older house, the mortgage might not even be half your costs for the first few years, while you get everything that breaks back in good condition.
813.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Isn't Donbass on the border with Russia?
814.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
It's the "appropriate" that gives it the negative connotation. Maybe you meant "the responsibilities necessary to feel an age", but it came off as "the responsibilities you should have at an age".
815.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
AIs can drive, just not as well as humans on all axi yet. They are better than humans on some axis in fact.
816.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
I think there is a greater tolerance for error here though. Cars haven't made it yet because the assumption about allowable errors was wrong. Turns out it isn't "good enough" for self-driving cars to be safer than humans
817.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Some people refuse to acknowledge the fact that a lot of what drives emotion is subliminal and can't be logic'd away. It doesn't matter if you know it's fake, if you see nothing but perfect 10's all day, then look i
818.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
And have completely different incentives and corruption. I don't see how that's better...
819.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
I think the place will change either way. Either because renters have been pushed out, or because the population has increased with a ton of new people, requiring functional changes (the neighborhood market has become a whole foods, etc.),
820.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
"We live in a society." Realistically, your neighbors have a lot more invested in your land/home/whatever than the state government.
821.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Is this a counter argument? It seems supportive of the point if anything. "Less invested but larger group of people telling a smaller group what to do".
822.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
The counter argument is: it wouldn't be where you grew up anymore. It seems like you're defining "where you grew up" with long/lag proximity, while attaching lots of unrelated personal concepts to it. How much can a
823.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
I think most people see inflation as the change in cost to transact today vs some previous moment, as opposed to the change in broader prices paid, since a majority of the items normally talked about in the media are perishable/consuma
824.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
What could rule that out in your mind then? Seems to me that if it had hardware that didn't serve any purpose with regard to weather data collection, calling it a weather balloon is, at the very least, an incomplete description, if not
825.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Does it not? Or are you being sincere?
826.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
> "It had multiple antennas to include an array likely capable of collecting and geolocating communications," the official added. https://www.ft.com/content/96992b83-58f7-4cdb-9900-a2bc59677...
827.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
It wasn't a weather balloon. Weather balloon don't do high precision EM signals collection, so your reasoning here is completely made up.
828.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
New, yes, but that doesn't answer my question. I don't see this as anymore aggressive than yearly war games, and significantly less aggressive than claiming islands and ocean territories that are contested and building military in
829.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Do you honestly think shooting down a balloon in your own airspace is an aggressive act?
830.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
> That's speculation on your part. The DoD has not released any information on what the payload of any of these balloons contains. Not true: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-carried-antenna...
831.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Fair enough, ~5% would be more accurate I guess. 16 oz at 5% is still a relatively small amount of alcohol in most cultures that historically consume it.
832.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Beer in the EU is often ~4% alcohol. Half a liter is barely more than a can of Coors light in terms of alcohol volume.
833.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
> The only problem they were created to solve was soaking future taxpayers with debt and a devalued currency, while keeping taxes low in the past and present. They were created to allow poor kids to fund their education with a vehicle ot
834.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
I don't think either is quite right. I was using free market in a practical sense, as in a market (a pairing of buyers and sellers) that has functional supply and demand dynamics. I wasn't relying on any larger context, like an ec
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
1) Market != Country. There are plenty of free markets within the U.S. 2) There are multiple ways to maximize profits in a free market depending on the market. Not all markets allow you to create monopolies. Monopolies only exist, in practi
836.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Or, make said funded loans being paid off contingent, to some degree, on student success? The gov-funded loans were created to solve a problem as well.
837.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Maybe the point is pointing out how distorted the market is, and maybe the distortion is the issue.
838.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
> Basically I think it's wrong to try to go cross eyed having "persuit of profit" always there while also trying to set some other "idealistic" goal. Just stay focused! It's a purely practical constraint. I
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
It's far easier to optimize for profit then theoretical ideals. The issue here isn't that they are optimizing for profit, the issue is that incentives have put that pursuit at odds with the university's core mission (educatio
840.
by BobbyJo 4y ago
People tended not to linger as long, and had tons of children and grandchildren to look after them. My grandfather had a heart attack and bypass fifteen years ago. He's been pretty much bedridden for the last two of those, needing my m

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