Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> but is China not getting discounted Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan energy right now or do they participate fully in the sanctions? That's a question. They are but they also had much tighter monetary policy throughout the whole pa
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
First, point 2 isn't valid, inflation was happening long before the war. > yet somehow everyone is experiencing the exact same rates of inflation... almost as if it was for some common material reasons. Western nations mostly took t
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Honestly I find I check my phone mostly when I'm bored. So I find productive or healthier but fun things to do. Also, IMO, phones aren't worse than what my parents' generation did to waste time which is watch TV.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Canadian roaming rates are so utterly shit the SIM card comes out the second I'm on the plane. It's like $15 per day to roam in the EU. Not per month, per day, let that sink in... I can get a plan in Europe for 30€ month that p
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
This. A bunch of Canadian government interactions also use SMS as 2FA and I live abroad for months every year. At least most tech companies let you switch to an authenticator app...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> production value, allure, niche, etc all plays a huge factor Production value = hard work. Finding your niche requires marketing skills and work. Etc... So really the key is that even if you have talent, you need to put in work.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
This stat is apparently adjusted for inflation but is it adjusted for housing costs specifically?
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Yes I did lol. Thanks!
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
The majority are women. Perhaps they won't work and their families will accept a lower cost of living. Perhaps into service jobs. A decent chunk are close to retirement age anyway.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> I was hoping Apple would buy them God I hope not. Apple would try to prevent everyone else in the industry from using ARM IP and would lead to either a schism in ARM architectures or everyone jumping on something else (maybe that&#x27
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Japan — nobody knows why it grows Productivity https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp-per-capita-ppp > Argentina — nobody knows why it doesn't I mean, Argentina's economy has grown a lot since 2002.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I could have specified but at the professional level and high end in homes, electric basically means induction nowadays, for cooktops. In a professional kitchen an all electric setup would be: - induction cooktops - electric oven, usually a
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
>Plus it takes for ever to boil anything Tell me you've never cooked on induction without telling me. If there's ONE thing an induction range does quantitatively better than a gas range, it's boil water...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Since gas stoves are so inefficient, natural gas should provide no cost benefit. In North America, the cost of gas is basically just the cost of transmission. It's so plentiful it's almost free. Agree that the move to electr
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> At least the ones worth mentioning Of the top of my head can name a fair amount of 2/3 star restaurants that are all electric. BTW, Germany is among the MOST addicted to gas in the EU, despite their greenwashing. Generally the na
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
That's very informative, thanks.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
So how many kitchens did you visit, what country, and what appliances were obviously gas? > 41,000 electric devices and 9,200 gas appliances were sold'. ??? That's a 4.5/1 ratio in favour of electric. Anyhow tons of new
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
https://iea-etsap.org/E-TechDS/PDF/R06_Cooking_FINAL_GSOK.pd... Here's some stats. And yes I'm in the restaurant industry. Also keep in mind in Europe you can buy large cooking suites that look like trad
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
In Europe almost everyone and many (most?) restaurants are electric-only. It means nothing for restaurants except they'll need to get electric appliances and grills will be slightly less common (since electric grills aren't great
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
And eventually those nations got rid of those too.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Layman? My degree is literally in economics. And yes it was obvious. Any economist who didn't see it is probably a bought shill. It's not 50/50. What happened is orthodox economics ie. academic consensus. And Krugman is a
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
There are some republics in Europe that did indeed overthrow their royalty/aristocracy...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/03/25/j... https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/economy/inflation-larry-summe... Tons of economists predicted this. La
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Also hedge funds have different goals for themselves and their clients. It's not necessarily hard to beat them, the question is whether it's worth your time and if the returns hold up when you trade larger amounts. I daytraded f
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Predicting that massive spending will lead to inflation isn't that same as predicting the market itself. There's correlation but It's not 100%.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
It's essentially not limited overs because of how long each innings is though. The threat of losing all your wickets is too high resulting in extremely defensive batting and extremely boring matches.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Not sure what you mean. Inflation drives prices up so it was a great run up. Not going to short my house or anything (especially living in it) because, as they say, people can stay irrational for a long time. I did get out of all my inve
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
This. T20 cricket is super entertaining. I can't watch test matches or even ODI, but T20 is super fun. The limited overs encourage action in a way the other formats don't. Batters are aggressive, death bowling is a thing, way b
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Dunno about war but inflation was super obvious, yes. Expanding money supply = inflationary pressure. Literally economic orthodoxy.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Why not? Most game purchases are downloads now. They don't need 3rd party retailers.

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