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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
This particular site is definitely strongly right-leaning. However, the vast majority of its claims are based in objective scientific studies and reporting. It's a pretty rare bird, don't see a lot of sites with its style.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
"Subsidy Cliffs" are a real problem. I implore everyone to help get rid of the insane situations they create. Plug in some numbers for yourself with this Obamacare calculator. If you are, for example, a married couple, both 55 yea
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Political opinion is a very strange protected class, and protection of it seems unenforceable to me.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The greater the degree that the ratio of marginal cost to marginal revenue for the upgrade differs from the ratio of baseline cost to baseline revenue, the more you can call it price discrimination in a loose sense. This would be typified b
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
>I'm pretty sure a worker could buy a house and support a family in 1950 on a single, average 40 hour a week salary The average family income in 1958 was $3300. Adjusting by CPI, that has the same buying power as $36,000 today. htt
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The article doesn't attempt to control for any variance that would lead to unequal outcomes even if there were no bias. For example, men make up the majority of people with very high (and very low) IQ's. If you randomly sampled th
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
>> Providing a platform for anyone is tremendously good for democracy. >Umm, is it? Really? Was electing Donald such a great idea? Well, the media certainly made its deal with the devil. Considering that Trump got elected in a time
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
>The problem is finance is so unnecessarily complex I have no idea what's going on. You're not wrong but you're not making any measurable claims. If you want to understand what complexity is "necessary" you shoul
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
>There's no reason to think Markopolos won't profit if the accusations are bogus, because he profits from the market reaction, not from the actual merits of the accusations. The strength of the market reaction is contingent upo
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
the banality of evil prevails.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Have you never met a Disney fan? Most of these interns are going to be self-selected to love Disney. The Disney fans I know are joyful and don't have a lick of cynicism. The "magic of Disney" captures a joyful attitude that w
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Economic progress saves human lives. You're trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
How widespread would the illegal activity have to be for the CEO to be at fault? Warren Buffett has said (roughly), if you have a city of 300,000 people, you have to expect that some of them will commit crimes, and you need police officers
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Thanks! Very informative. In general I've found the world of music theory to be difficult to penetrate as an outsider, just gotta take small bites.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I'm used to hearing the terms time domain and frequency domain. But I've never heard pitch domain as a separate idea. Isn't pitch just the same as frequency?
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
NYT could have saved lots of words. "China is bad. Hong Kong should be free." Removing nuance is fun.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I know that bias cannot be eliminated, but it can be minimized. That is the perogative. Let's say you run a newspaper that has to report on 50 different stories every day. A large fraction of these stories involve the moral plights of
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
It is up to the reader to form an opinion given the evidence presented to them. The media should try to present both sides as neutrally as possible. If Beijing's side has been watered down so much as to be comically neutral, the reader
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Big Fat High Flowrate Hoses are stiff and need a big handle to manhandle them around. Pistol grip handles work well for this. Big Fat High Wattage Cables are stiff and need a big handle to manhandle them around. Pistol grip handles work wel
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I miscommunicated context. The 40 miles in 18 hours is the at-home charging. I wanted to emphasize how restrictive that charging window is.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The inconvenience of charging away from home is much bigger than you make it out to be. Other posters here are mentioning ~40 miles of charging in an 18 hour period. That's pretty dang restrictive.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Once (if they ever) become non-scarce.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The moral debate around climate change should center around what you just said. Either we are all compartmentalizing it, or we all honestly convinced of "no harmful effects worth worrying over." Most people that care about climate
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
>Calling a friend for after-work plans? That will be with an iPhone, most likely (55% market share): or perhaps a Samsung (25%). Does the iPhone really have 55% market share? I don't believe that for a minute.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
As another credit card churner, there are a couple of notes I can add: 1. Always pay your card in full on time. 2. Signup bonuses are the only aspect of churning that is worth it to most people. If you can manage to spend $3000 on a credit
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Euro bond rates are below 0 nominal for maturities up to 15 years: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_intere... I don't have data on the quantities of these bonds outstanding, but trillions is a
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
In all likelihood, Gabbard and her campaign managers are perfectly aware that: 1. Google's automatic account suspension systems were doing exactly what they would do for any other account. 2. There was no intentional discrimination&#x2
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The unknown that remains is whether we have lost trust 1) because we have higher expectations, or 2) because the institutions and companies are failing us more than they did before, or 3) because we have greater visibility into a similar le
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
In all likelihood, Gabbard and her campaign managers are perfectly aware that: 1. Google's automatic account suspension systems were doing exactly what they would do for any other account. 2. There was no intentional discrimination&#x2
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Would you say that you agree with GP's point though? It's not as if there are other things that are getting better in Turkey to counterbalance this particular measure.

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