Excel_Wizard

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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
More value with less inputs? Sign me up.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
This article doesn't do a good job of explaining the income breakdown of the top 400 households. I imagine it is nearly 100% long term capital gains and dividends. That doesn't explain the change in the chart that occurred in 2018
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
How would you propose organizing society such that it is environmentally sustainable?
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
That's a bit much.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
You disavowed the wikipedia article for being strictly fact-based, having no interpretation. I can vouch for the fact that there are many left-leaning people offended by the contents of that article. You disavowed Damore's stance becau
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The current population of African Americans in the U.S. has a lower average IQ than the current population of White Americans in the U.S.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
They overlap. My bandsaw is a tool and a toy. Cars are often toys, but almost always tools.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Both Boeing and Airbus have received subsidies that are claimed by various parties to be illegal.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I think that the American Corporation is not in crisis, and is doing a better job at performing its primary function of benefitting shareholders better than ever. I think, on the other hand, that public benefit corporations and other govern
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
To me the article reads as a complaint that the legal and tax structures of employee stock and options compensation in Europe make such compensation rare. It doesn't present numerical data on how rare it is though, I'd like to see
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Wouldn't tariffs help a U.S. domestic rare earth mine? Unless the assumption is that China imports the majority of global rare earth production, even after being a huge rare earth producer.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
This feels to me as if the politicians have recognized that they need some technically competent people to even understand how to legislate in these matters. However, if the top-level politicians, who remain technically inept, are the ones
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Improvements that happen on the margin are better than no improvements at all. You seem to agree that the new app-driven delivery jobs are better than before. "Lack of good jobs" has always been true, but has also been improving o
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I have a question that is more likely to be answered here and now than at any other opportunity I've had before- For a long while now, VLMC has been a work-in-progress. It is a video editor being made by the same organization as VLC. I
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that you and kortilla are in agreement.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Was it a thought along the lines of him being selfish because his death (at any time) could leave his family without him?
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
If you explored the problem domain, starting with an understanding of trigonometry and calculus, it will naturally emerge as a result. It was not arbitrarily defined. Imaginary numbers were not arbitrarily defined either, they precisely des
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
>The argument for yeomanship also fails to acknowledge that the high cost of college makes it an iffy proposition if the only purpose is to find a well-paying job. The economists John Schmitt and Heather Boushey found that among 24-to-35
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Index funds do not contribute to the process of price discovery. As long as a certain fraction of trades are performed by active investors, price discovery will continue to be accurate. Currently, active traders dominate, making up the majo
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Be careful what you say or you might start to believe it. There is absolutely no reason to hang the CEOs of Equifax. Not even close.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The risk of a crash was 1 in 1,000. This is 10 times the threshold of 1 in 10,000 that requires a maneuver. Both of these satellites have been in orbit long enough for accumulated error to cause the satellite to drift from its predicted pat
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Architects call it functionalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(architecture)
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I think this article is written from the perspective of a satisficer- it sufficiently meets the requirements he cares about. This is the perspective of most consumers for most of the goods we purchase. It's good to get a well-considere
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Why?
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
When you allow the most competent people to rise to positions fitting their competence, they can create wealth for everyone.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
How is the Harvard Asian discrimination lawsuit going lately? I haven't heard anything in a while.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I 100% guarantee someone has died from substandard automotive goods. Not sure when or where, but mechanical failures contribute to accidents all the time.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The U.S. has 284 police officers per 100,000 people.( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... ) That would translate to ~14 police officers for a town of your size.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I am still able to go on ebay and buy small items (usb cables, camera lens caps, plastic pry tools, etc) shipped from china for $0.80. Is this going to change? What about the same situation for items shipped from Thialand or Vietnam? There&
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
They are strongly right-leaning. Their selection of information that they present is heavily biased in its selection, but I believe that the statistics they present are true. I don't think they would call anyone the "lower races&q

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