RC_ITR

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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Again, maybe you're not in the US, but here we chose to build those interchanges right downtown , Say what you will about America, but we built our environment to accommodate decentralized forms of transit, it's sort of our thing
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The reason the government defines the recession as 4 months is because we did not see two quarters of GDP decline as much as we saw 4 months of it. Shift the quarter to begin in Feb and you'd only have 1Q of decline. That is why the
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Recessions are defined by NBER, a consortium of academic economists. Using the 2 quarters rule (something that has no official bearing) means that 2 of the last 3 recessions (2000 and 2020) weren't recessions.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>It's comparable to one quarter of a clover-leaf offramp. Again, maybe you aren't in America, but outside of SF and NYC, literally every major city is brimming with already loud highway interchanges/off-ramps. Just cap t
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>large open areas free of obstructions. https://www.beaconhealthsystem.org/beacon-medical-transport/... You need roughly a football field of clear flat land for human-piloted helicopters. In the US at least, that&#x
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
You're arguing about an evolution in legal opinion that very few people really understand. Often, in the past, judges would use a test of 'would a reasonable person be deceived by this?' and come out on your side. Increasingl
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
One wonders if this is just a really complicated pathway for 'sweating is a useful tool in maintaining electrolyte balance within the blood, particularly with high sodium diets'
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Japan and Korea both have similar diets to America I do not think this is true. I don't love the world in data guy, but according to his work, Americans consume way more calories than Japan/Korea [0] [0] https://ou
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It is a very dangerous and naive game to 1) 'Inflation adjust' asset prices (if you think the average stock-holder has anywhere near the spend patterns of the CPI basket, boy howdy do I have something to tell you about home owne
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Not if your currency of record is the pound the yen or the Euro! Only one of the reasons it's foolish to 'inflation-adjust' asset prices. EDIT: Also one nit > and trending sharply downward If only the stock market's p
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Ok what's your equity risk premium? How'd you calc it?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
10% in 2 years is a very normal return.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Facebook is not the economy https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>City planning hipster-ism is great clickbait on the internet. Younger people without much experience or brains click on it and get all enthusiastic about the idea of some mythical perfect city. Single Family Homerism is very popular amo
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>And enough natural resources to fund enough renewable ventures such as EV adoption and renewable energy production. It's not just cars to move people. It's getting water to each house. And electrical to each house (hope it su
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It's a common trope for people who don't like the fact that the stock market is trading at normal-ish P/E levels to say 'well the E is fake!!! Just wait until the E normalizes!' Usually, they cite things like artifi
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> Earnings are also artificially inflated, and will drift down Citation needed. Maybe we are enter a local minimum, but what, you think off-stock-market value is not going to be brought onto the stock market? I think you should try to r
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>And what about all the companies that still have billion dollar market caps but have NEGATIVE earnings? (Atlassian, Snowflake, Uber, Crowdstrike, Shopify.... the list goes on) I think they are an extremely small part of the $100tn globa
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> and has a long long way to go. The stock market's price level is well above where it was pre-pandemic, it's trading at earnings multiples in-line with 30+ year averages [1] (what was the 10Y yield in 1990, might I ask?) becau
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It's cover for the increasing editorialization of 'news.' Reporter wants to say something about 'I bet WFH will have negative impacts on white collar workers." Their options are: 1) Do data-driven research and come
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Sure, but that’s a lobbying thing. AVgas isn’t what runs jet engines (as I’m sure you know), it’s what runs hobbyist planes. And given how many other externalities there are to hobbyist flying (noise, airports on prime land, etc.) US hobb
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>censorship resistance of a distributed ledger is surely stronger than a centralised database People bring this up a lot. 1) In practice, blockchains get censored and edited all the time when mistakes happen. 2) I don't see the adva
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>This type of investing has long been done on paper, but the blockchain makes it much more liquid. Being digital makes it much more liquid. There's literally nothing about fractional real estate ownership that needs distributed co
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I would much rather have a centralized database to take the heat from me in all those scenarios! The advantage crypto has is that noone will set up that centralized database (because it would be stupid too!).
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>If it bothers you so much Literally what made you believe I was bothered at all? Was just noticing something, then commenting on it. Isn't that exactly what a forum is for?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Hmmm. Who’s worldview does this sound like? Something something real america…
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> I don’t think it’s wrong to allow people to take risks if they know what they are getting into. The problem is that people always agree to this until their house burns and their child dies and then they feel like society didn’t do eno
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Look, there are plenty of technologists who are very into crypto One of the reasons why everything about crypto is bad is because the technologists who are into it can tell you what the code does, but the "business people" w
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Lol. Yeah just go to the SVP-and-up offsites of any tech company and you’ll see nothing but people in their 20’s… It’s not 1995 anymore, tech is run by old people, the youth are the expendable labor just like any other industry.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Well, if it’s not a power dynamic thing then why is Tobi still CEO when it was his mistake and not the employees that he hired?

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