IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
A 20-30x increase in costs being a problem for your business isn't indicative of being in an unhealthy low-margin business per se, quite the opposite. If you were operating in a 95% profit margin industry, which is an insanely generous
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
This is pretty insane, I think it's about time that tech companies start to honour longer-term contracts and give more notice, even on their hobbyist service offerings. I mean, imagine a local grocery store who's rent would go up
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
The potential value of an engineer is unlike anything else. At the time of Whatsapp's acquisition by Facebook they had 10m users per employee and a roughly $500m valuation per employee. That's pretty insane if you think about it,
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You'd have to run this world cup thousands of times by simulation, running it a single time and determining the results are not in line with the model is meaningless and silly. It's as silly as saying my claim for the odds of near
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Isn't production 20k a month and pre-orders >400k right now? Doesn't seem like a couple a month right now and at all. Of course it could dwindle fast from here on out, but even if production doubles you'd still be looking
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
A ridiculous amount of people, institutions, resources. There's just no media drama. The effort is there, although not large enough imo.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Some countries will let the market figure out prices but will offer a sliding scale rent subsidy. From an income of 15k a year and below you get 100% rent subsidy, which falls down to 0% at an average income of say 40k.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yes, it's pretty sad. For example, mortality under five worldwide: https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/U5MR_deat... From about 12.5 million, about 25 years ago, to 5.5 million. Or abo
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
A lot of places have something like this. For example, the Netherlands has no capital gains tax or dividend tax, but it has a tax of roughly 1% - 1.5% of your net assets. So if you have a $300k investment property, it's taxed like that
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Somehow this reminds me of the history of lobster as cheap food for the poor and imprisoned. People detested it. Until of course the status of lobster changed. Or the fact aluminium used to be extremely expensive and thus used for the most
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
On housing there are some caveats: - it's a consumer-driven market, higher prices made a lot of ordinary citizens rich. It's not money that disappeared into a few rich shareholders' pockets like say in the medical industry. -
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> People voluntarily stop having (as many or any) children worldwide. They already did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yup. Real median personal income in the US is up. [0] Although there have been few gains in the past decade. It's a pretty decent measure of the average American. It's also a bit better than wages as a measure of average citizen&#
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
How I understand it is this: Everyone creates 100 units of pollution together, say ten firms producing 10 units each. Then they say, you can only use 90 next year, 70 the next decade, 50 the decade after. Everyone needs to reduce pollution
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
How though? I mean, houses themselves haven't really gotten much more expensive. Two things have happened. One, we're all living much larger than before. i.e., our average home sizes have doubled in about 50 years, while the numbe
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Doesn't work like that. Return rates on assets average about 6% or so. i.e., if you invest $100, you expect a $6 annual income. In other words, a $100b investment would expect a $6b annual income. Take average PE ratios for example, ab
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Dying a slow death. Sports is all about the stories, the personalities, the names, the drama, the tribalism. If you can't license the big teams or big competitions and have to rename everything (which PES is famous for) you just can&#x
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> Using administrative register data and cognitive ability scores from military conscription data covering three decades of Norwegian birth cohorts (1962–1991) I can't access the full study, somehow it's not published yet for m
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> Using administrative register data and cognitive ability scores from military conscription data covering three decades of Norwegian birth cohorts (1962–1991) Doesn't seem as if immigration played any role in this study.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Are you factoring in the price of your financing? I very often see that ignored. You either need to include financing costs, or opportunity costs. Spending e.g. $20k isn't free, either you don't have it and need to borrow, or you
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
It'll take a little longer than you think. Further, you're referencing a coal job figure, which is meaningless in this context. Coal production in the US over the past decade was higher than ever, by quite a large margin too, it&#
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
It's a blatant lie because they knew exactly what they were implying and it wasn't true, i.e, it was a lie.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You're right, I think I was misreading you. Indeed (as you edited), the national inflation figure can 'capture' it in the statistic sense, but cannot capture it in the sense that the number expresses individual paint points
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Not sure I agree there. There are plenty of historical examples of people seeing things in bizarre ways that simply weren't true. We see this recently with crime statistics dropping across the board, terrorism being less dangerous than
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That's true at the EU level for the inflation measure of the European Central Bank. But national governments tend to have their own (modified) versions of the HCIP which do include things like owner-equivalent rent or mortgage rates. N
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Fortunately we have exactly such local and sector level inflation statistics. They just don't get published in the media much because who wants to read tables for all states and provinces of tens of different countries. (e.g. https:&#
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Well of course such a number can. You just calculate average price increases, weighed by their share of spending (a 1% increase in healthcare has more implications than a 1% increase in telephone bills) to the best of your ability. The ques
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Says who? They generally do.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> most of the increases in wealth since the 70s have gone to rich people. That itself isn't enough to state poor people became poorer, only in comparison to an ever increasing moving goalpost of what poor means is that statement eno
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> housing cost and health insurance aren't counted in inflation. Generally, that's simply not true. There are infinite different measures of inflation and it's up to the synthesizer of the inflation metric to include or ex

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