TeaBrain

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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Once again, regardless of how free the US market was in the mid-20th century, this is not the most unique privilege about the US today, as you put it in your previous comment. Any country could institute the same market regulations and deg
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>And why do you think the dollar is dominant in international trade? The dollar isn't dominant in international trade because the domestic market is free, like the above user was referencing. The dollar has been the dominant reserv
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
That is interesting, although I'm not seeing the comment you're referencing. I read the article this morning, but I hadn't noted that there were possibly multiple types of screw worm. Looks like the Cochliomyia hominivorax
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
This old study found ivermectin efficacious in treating screw worm infected cattle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-0813....
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Someone probably said something similar in the 1960s when Buffet avoided crowded Go-Go era investments in the 1960s to his benefit.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>The only unique thing about America is free markets This is less unique than the dollar being the dominant reserve currency and dominant currency for settling international trade.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
How predictable. I'm referring to the purpose of the publication grouping stats together in a story. Saying "causation and coincidence" is to say nothing. There is never a clear direct "causation" in financial pric
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
The difference between an explicit and implicit narrative.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
There's always a story that can be thrown together for every price movement, although it looks like apple did miss sales estimates in China by several percent. Looks like they also withheld guidance on services growth.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Bloomberg reported that the shares fell because their sales in China under-performed estimates.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
From the linked article: "We can be certain that autism rates have gone up for artefactual reasons—diagnosis, changing awareness and incentives, etc. rather than real increases in the number of people with autism—by exploiting policy c
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>It is well understood already that the number of autistic people is not actually increasing. What is increasing is our understanding of it and the number of diagnostics. I see this idea thrown around whenever this topic is brought up, b
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
In Blade Runner's case, the art design is superb. As I mentioned in my parent comment, that's not what I referred to as generic. The script though is what is generic and ham-fisted compared to the novel. It's also not a cas
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
The art design, which is the most influential aspect of the movie, is superb, but compared to the novel, the movie's script is that of a generic thriller.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
That's not what discretionary means in this context. The funds having been originally earmarked at the discretion of the originator, means they are no longer available for any purpose at the discretion of the trustee, meaning they are
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
That's interpreting a lot from just four words. Opinion probably wasn't the best word for what I was referring to, but more-so their reference point for claiming that it is arguably his best work. My comment may seem dismissive to
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Sure, if you are reading the word "arguably" completely literally, but that's not the colloquially understood implication of the term when used to describe a work. Obviously the author of the parent comment is implying they t
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I agree that the book title is great, but I've never understood the fawning over the movie. The art design is great, but the movie script turned a contemplative story into a generic thriller with a unique aesthetic.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Arguably according to whom?
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Ryan Petersen was on the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast a few days ago.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Calling the Fed bankrupt isn't a close to accurate description of what was described in the column. The post describes a unhealthy balance sheet, but the Fed can't go "bankrupt" in the common sense, as it banks itself,
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I'm not making any attempt at analysis, just casual speculation as to the reasoning behind other peoples' actions. You're mistaking my guess-work of others' analysis for my own.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Yeah, I saw that. I was just looking at a chart of the yield over the last year. The yield has dropped below where it was for most of the last 12 months, besides a less than three month period from late July to early October last year. If
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Bessent had repeatedly been saying that he wanted to drive down the yield on the 10 year treasury. The stock market sell-off has been somewhat effective in doing this, with the 10 year's yield having been driven down over 50 basis poin
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Also, in Anthem, the two main characters end up living self-sufficiently in secluded wilderness.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Because if adding fluoride to water isn't additionally preventative beyond the use of toothpaste, then adding the fluoride to the public water system is just wasting public funds.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Another question is whether there's still evidence for continuing to fluoridate water with how common toothpaste use is now. If nothing else, if it isn't providing benefits over toothpaste use, then fluoridating water could just
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Unlike the shareholders of a company being acquired, the shareholders of an acquiring company do not need to be asked prior to the company making an acquisition.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Wow, you weren't kidding about the relative density between those areas. I'd consider Oak Park dense compared to most suburbs, just not as dense as some neighborhoods in Chicago. I'm most familiar with the north side neighbor
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>That street is basically identical to most of the city of Chicago. The only difference is fewer 2-flats. The front yard space and number of driveways in the Oak Park link also stuck out to me.

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