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by JackFr 3y ago
Unless you come from the law faculty.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Without having seen the video, from the details in the article, I will assume it was either staged or fake.
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> And like, with all due respect, there were also a lot of mentally undemanding desk jobs back then. People got hired into them with just high school degrees. A lot of those jobs remain unchanged, with a college degree now required as es
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by JackFr 3y ago
But as an academic exercise, you can stipulate risk free lending as axiomatic, and still see that a natural interest rate comes from different inter temporal marginal preference for money among entities in the economy. It’s only zero if eve
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by JackFr 3y ago
If I have 10 pounds of blueberries and you have 10 pounds of strawberries there will be a natural price for one in terms of the other based on our different marginal preferences for the two commodities. Think of a dollar today as one commod
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by JackFr 3y ago
GP said “tax me more.” Nothing is stopping him from paying more. What he really means is tax me (and certain others I deem appropriate) more.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Ok, big talker, step up: Gifts to the United States U.S. Department of the Treasury Reporting and Analysis Branch 2 P.O. Box 1328 Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328
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by JackFr 3y ago
Zero is the natural interest rate? That’s ludicrous. A dollar today is always going to be worth more than a dollar tomorrow.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I voluntarily join a club. I get benefits from the club and I have responsibilities to the club. Of course I can eschew those responsibilities and then the club can deny me the benefits or kick me out.
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by JackFr 3y ago
No, I think you are absolutely onto something -- as you describe it, it is trivial to transform from N -> 2N districts in a manner which makes it impossible to combine them back 2N -> N in any other way than the original map. Maybe I&
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by JackFr 3y ago
How to you reconcile abolishing political parties with the right of free association?
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by JackFr 3y ago
Tan's tweet was reprehensible, but I doubt it rises to the level of criminality. With respect to his inebriiation, as my elementary school teacher used to say, " While it explains, it does not excuse." But I think a sincere
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by JackFr 3y ago
"If you hand is larger than your face . . . "
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Why is there such a strong preference for “one step app deployment”, no infrastructure knowledge required? > The obvious answer is because it is easier. No. The answer is that it’s more robust in the face of operator error, it’s rep
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by JackFr 3y ago
That’s nonsense. It does not lift GDP any more than breaking windows does. It redirects labor and capital from one use to another.
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by JackFr 3y ago
In fact the article is bristling with evidence and explanation. It's very simple. Ships manifests were completed before arrival at Ellis Island. If names were changed, they were changed in the port of origin. People's reluctance
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by JackFr 3y ago
> When strikers are harmed and killed, it is police doing the violence. Are there any examples of that in the United States post-WWII?
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by JackFr 3y ago
Teacher's unions aren't there to improve student outcomes. They exist for he benefit of teachers. Police unions aren't there to improve public safety. They exist for the benefit of the police.
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by JackFr 3y ago
“As god is my witness … I really thought turkeys could fly.” https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2017/11/23/ci...
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by JackFr 3y ago
Trigger warning
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Down 90% since 2000.
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by JackFr 3y ago
1) Citi has been talking about these cuts for three months. There’s little new here other than the CEO specifying the target head count. 2) There is no intent to rehire. Whole business lines are being shuttered. 3) Yes, of course there is
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by JackFr 3y ago
Well you’re not correct there. The first round was in November and 300 managing directors, representing 10% of the employees at that level were let go. The cuts expected next week are for middle management at the next two levels down. Subs
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by JackFr 3y ago
Simulation hypothesis is true!!!
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by JackFr 3y ago
Their competitors are BofA and JPMC. All three feature an investment bank, a commercial bank and an asset manager. There are a number of smaller operations which have all three but none at the scale of those three. Wells is much smaller, a
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by JackFr 3y ago
Also note that 20K jobs is 6-7% of Citi’s workforce.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I have to admit a weakness for reading not-quite-crackpot-but-likely-wrong theories. In particular, big fan of Julian Jaynes and The Development of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-cameral Mind, and the aquatic ape hypothesis https
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by JackFr 3y ago
Forget air traffic control - who new ground control was so difficult and fraught with danger.
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I believe that's why in some contexts you'll hear "niner" rather than "nine" ti differentiate it from "five". Also why ships use "port" to mean the left side. It was formerly "larboard
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by JackFr 3y ago
I think the big takeaway is that scale-to-zero customers aren't where they're making their money.

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