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by JackFr 2y ago
Sorry, I don’t mean to be dense - do you mean you don’t trust AlphaFolds structures or NMRs?
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by JackFr 2y ago
Opening windows on high floors is great -- you don't need screens cause most urban insects stay much closer to ground level. (Although admittedly I haven't opened any windows higher than 20)
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by JackFr 2y ago
While it's true that Japan and Italy are the only two major developed countries suffering actual decline, basically all of the big wealthy countries are experiencing fertility below replacement. https://data.worldbank.org&#x
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by JackFr 2y ago
Yeah, significant portion of the developed world is shrinking not growing. Regardless, housing demand is more directly influenced (and influences) net household formation, and it is very regional and dependent on regional economies. There
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by JackFr 2y ago
I don't have the books of Red Lobster, but the economic rationale is that if the enterprise is continuing to persistently lose money, it is destroying capital not increasing it. It's likely that the real estate that the Red Lobste
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by JackFr 2y ago
Please. Those folks have a canine dental hygienist on staff. They don't go to walk in clinics.
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by JackFr 2y ago
Chipotle took on McDonalds as an early investor, used McDonald's investment to quickly expand from 16 to 500 stores. Chipotle had a tremendously successful IPO, which they used to fund further growth. McDonalds, who was always a min
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by JackFr 2y ago
Honestly 40-50 years ago all of the big investment banks were partnerships and operated in much the same way. Partners owned equity and by today's standards they were relatively risk averse because it was their money to lose, with no
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by JackFr 2y ago
B is creditworthy. That’s why I leant it to him. If I have an issue with liquidity I go to the discount window of my central bank and they will lend me the money. That’s why central banks typically make the rules about reserves, etc.
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by JackFr 2y ago
The 90% is not diamonds, it's loans I've made. I have two customers A & B. A has $1000 on deposit. B has $500 on deposit. I have $1500 in my safe. Assets = $1500, Liabilities = $1500. B borrows $500, which for simplicity&#
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by JackFr 2y ago
NAND gates by themselves are kind of dull, but it's pretty cool what you can do with a billion of them.
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by JackFr 2y ago
Gary Oldman was a lot of it. I had read and enjoyed the first two books. After the first couple of episodes I had to admit I was watching it for Gary Oldman more than anything else. I'd watch just a supercut of him expressing disdain
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by JackFr 2y ago
Fractional reserve banking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
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by JackFr 2y ago
I forget where I saw the headline, but it's still funny "Voyager: Please let me die. NASA: No."
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by JackFr 2y ago
We are so thankful that you left. It amuses me when people who leave NYC (and SF I suppose) feel the need to give a litany of exaggerated complaints about what a hellhole it is. I’ve lived in Manhattan 30 years (after growing up in a suburb
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by JackFr 3y ago
Well sure. No one wants to lose their job to AI.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Wouldn’t AI bombers simply be better cruise missiles?
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by JackFr 3y ago
Made me think of Navin R. Johnson’s invention of the Opti-Grab.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Ever think of how many more people would be willing to buy a table saw if they knew they weren't going to cut their fingers off? They are able, and they’re choosing not to. So SawStop is wisely spending marketing money on lobbyi
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by JackFr 3y ago
That’s actually a really good question. I would direct you to Ronald Coase and other writing on the theory of the firm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by JackFr 3y ago
I could have been clearer, but I honestly meant my point to be limited to the stock market as a means for allocating capital. I do favor markets in general and I understand their limitations. And with respect to allocating capital, stock ma
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by JackFr 3y ago
That’s nonsense. Markets are the best way we’ve come up with to allocate capital. Committees and commissars do not do a better job.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I think that many of the managers honestly didn’t understand where the quality and safety came from. They probably thought that they could just coast and the quality would continue. As a counterpoint, I work at very large financial firm in
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by JackFr 3y ago
TFA: > We adjusted the applied regression analyses and structural equation models for the linear and non-linear effects of age, sex, education, cardiovascular risk factors, and presence of depressive, anxiety, and substance use disorders
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by JackFr 3y ago
Reminds me of https://liartownusa.com/
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by JackFr 3y ago
Assuredly there are some things you believe which aren’t scientifically provable? In particular questions about how one should order their life? Not questions about ‘is’ but questions about ‘should’. Is a love of peace over violence, free
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by JackFr 3y ago
Well actually it’s more likely that Enrique of Malacca was the first person to circumnavigate the globe. (He had been enslaved by Magellan 10 years earlier on a voyage which had reached Malacca going east, and then returned on the later mor
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by JackFr 3y ago
> concrete syntax TBB (to be bikeshod) TIL the past participle of 'bikeshed' is 'bikeshod'. Tremendous.
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by JackFr 3y ago
The difference between good science and bad science is contingent on whether the search for funding aligns with the search for truth.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Why? A completely unvetted “family friend” who won’t even give a last name provides a salacious quote that’s completely unverifiable. A niece, known to be related and with a name and address offers a counterpoint. It’s ok to be skeptical.

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