IanDrake

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by IanDrake 6y ago
You can print money indefinitely and not cause inflation as long as there is an equal demand for what you're printing. USD demand is very high globally and domestically right now. Let's hope that doesn't change over night.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
EEE then. That's a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria was a bad example.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
I'm not sure it's a function of money, probably more likely capacity and time to create capacity.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
As we enter summer, the question no one is asking is: Can mosquitoes transmit this virus like they do malaria?
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Testing when? When you have symptoms? Too late. 330 million people testing weekly? Not possible. There is no realistic way to mass test everyone in a meaningful way.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Most people are printing masks frames using house filters for the filter and face shield frames using overhead transparencies for shields. I'm my area a local maker group has coordinated with the local hospital to print and distribute
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by IanDrake 7y ago
No, its not hugely overvalued. Interest rates are low, where will you get your desired yield? PE ratios are in the normal range. How do you justify your position? What are you comparing it to? RE? RE isn't passive.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Who took on more debt just for stock buyback that is now asking for a bailout?
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Most parks are just outdoor resources and people want to be outdoors. I think it makes sense for the parks to stay open, but close the visitor centers and any other place people congregate.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
>Loosing a fully paying job is never preferable to unemployment in the US. Is that what I said? No, it's not.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
>When companies do these buybacks, they deprive themselves of the liquidity that might help them cope when sales and profits decline in an economic downturn. No one is depriving themselves of needed liquidity. Liquidity-need is forecast
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by IanDrake 7y ago
For many, losing a job maybe preferable so they can collect unemployment. Edit for what I thought was obvious context: If you had a full-time job and where forced to go to meager part-time hours, it might be better to just get laid off and
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by IanDrake 7y ago
At the point when hospitals run out of ventilators, no one denied a ventilator is going to care about FDA approval.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
And you are the arbitor of how much of something a person needs? Two people at a grocery store, both with an entire shopping cart full of dried pasta. One has twelve mouths to feed at home, the other lives alone. How do you police that or d
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Re: down votes. HN isn't a forum for people to disagree and discuss. It's a hive mind where dissenters are punished via down votes for hurt feelings. Regarding people being selfish... There is nothing selfish about self preserva
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Anyone else read this while counting the logical leaps being made between data and reason without any evidence? There is no multi-factor analysis being done, only single factor correlations that the authors want so badly to point to evil ca
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Typical Socialist BS. Greedy Capitalist calls for the death of millions. Just read the headline and trust our analysis. Except Santelli was clearly (but poorly) trying to argue that Coronavirus isn't that big a deal, as we'll al
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by IanDrake 7y ago
As Dave Chappell pointed out, if the shooter is a student, which is frequent, then why give them a road map to destruction.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
This article complains about conspiracy theories, yet it's a non-stop conspiracy theory itself.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Does the climate change? Of course. Are we doing a good job predicting it and understanding how it works? No. Not even close. I have a background in financial modeling, using exponentially more observations, in a less chaotic system, wi
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by IanDrake 7y ago
You're re missing the point. Look at the map, the blue region is the extent in 100 years. What do you think happens in that 100 years? I assume this would be a near linear progression. That means current waterfront has about 10-20 ye
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Obama only ran the country for 8 years, but hfdh434535 knows better. Real estate is about the closest thing to putting your money where your mouth is as far as climate change goes and the people have spoken - the coasts are still the most v
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Well, I don't believe in "consensus" [insert field] science because that's an oxymoron. If you still believed what was once the consensus, you would believe in some crazy stuff. Science is skeptism of the consensus, not
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by IanDrake 7y ago
I'm glad someone here gets it.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
In the free market of ideas, no one actually believes this will happen. Just look at coastal real estate. Buyers and lenders would have to be colossal fools to pay such premiums to be waterfront. Even Obama just plunked down 12M on a water
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Fun story. DCOM was so cool back in the day.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
So we should live in huts?
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by IanDrake 7y ago
I can't tell if you're just trolling me now. Three hundred years ago the world was a completely different place. We didn't have labor and environmental arbitrage like we do now. One could email IP to someone in China who c
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Not Gillette. Title is wrong.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
The beginning of this article seems to conflate "success" with riding a short term "fad". Only after you conflate those two, you can equate success with luck. Once you get out of SV, business success has little to do wit

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