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by arbuge 7y ago
That is one of the questions. The most important one though is how long the lockdowns will last. The answer to your question actually depends on how long lockdowns last. The longer businesses are shut down, the harder it is to restart them.
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by arbuge 7y ago
Of note: shopping malls in the US have a similar dependence on foreign tourists' money. It's why you see all those currency exchange bureaus in each major mall.
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by arbuge 7y ago
I'm having increasingly bad experiences on Amazon. The most obvious ones are common problems - the reviews can't be trusted, and they're no longer price leaders in many cases. But there are some new experiences I'm runni
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by arbuge 7y ago
$3B was allocated to precisely this purpose in the stimulus proposal before it passed, but it was later dropped over opposition: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/bailout-for... I agree with your as
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by arbuge 7y ago
> I think if the Malaria Med+Antibiotics treatment from the French study don't work (we'll know in about a week I think), we need to move to a war footing and start producing ventilators. My back of the envelope math has scared
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by arbuge 7y ago
> I don't understand how we get to Newsom's claim that 25 million Californians will get infected in 8 weeks. The math doesn't check out. The best data we have at this point is from China. They have 81,000 confirmed cases t
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Are Hospitals Near Me Ready for Coronavirus? Here Are Nine Different Scenarios(projects.propublica.org)
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by arbuge 7y ago
> The seven-year-old, 135-employee Ventec is a fairly small player in a market dominated by Medtronic (under the Puritan Bennett brand), GE Healthcare and Allied Healthcare in the U.S., and Hamilton Medical, Getinge, Drägerwerk and Phili
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by arbuge 7y ago
Bankers make more money, tellers make less. The inequalities were really always there... Life and the human experience have never come with any guarantees of being fair or equal. All that said, I fully expect bank branches to be closed just
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by arbuge 7y ago
There you go...
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Only consider buying stocks when nobody but nobody thinks it's a good idea. When "buy the dip" has utterly left the popular vocabulary. When dividends + valuations are at bargain-basement levels. I would say the above is
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by arbuge 7y ago
The other thing to note is that an oil price crash is going on. It had started before the outbreak, was accelerated because of it, and accelerated further by the OPEC+ talks failing yesterday. Cheaper aviation fuel will incentivize airlines
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by arbuge 7y ago
Looks like a bicycle accident, not a motorbike accident.
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by arbuge 7y ago
The US IRS can and will jail you if you do lie, so that might not be the best analogy.
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal in patent fight with VirnetX(reuters.com)
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Everything outside of cash holds risk. Cash holds a lot of risk. Inflation destroys savings.
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by arbuge 7y ago
I think the recommendations you're getting here to read Buffett's letters, The Intelligent Investor, etc. are good, but if you're completely new to accounting, I think starting with more basic texts would be a better idea. Tw
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by arbuge 7y ago
It appears to be spreading in the community now, which makes me think stopping a pandemic at this point will be very hard. One can only wonder what happens when it reaches places with much weaker health infrastructure, such as Africa and al
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by arbuge 7y ago
> MVC is a phenomenal idea. You have models, which are nice self-contained bits of state, views which are nice self-contained bits of UI, and controllers which are nice self-contained bits of … What? The implication is that what goes int
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by arbuge 7y ago
Orthogonal point: not every piece of art framed and hung in the Louvre really deserves to be there.
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by arbuge 7y ago
Given that startups = rapid growth (PG's definition), this is another way of saying that moving new tech from the fringes to the mainstream is unlikely to be a viable strategy for startups. If you can get those fringes in the beginning
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by arbuge 7y ago
> The second part of that statement is crucial. There is nothing better than a paid-off car. There is no monthly payment, and most of the depreciation has already occurred. You are driving for free. There is no such animal. As the car ag
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by arbuge 7y ago
> If anyone works somewhere that uses this tool, or anything similar to it, you should run far, far away from that company. For sure. But their customers are equally suspect. If anyone's prospective or current employer is actually p
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Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market(en.wikipedia.org)
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by arbuge 7y ago
> But when you consider the methane leaks from wellheads and pipelines and facilities it is roughly as bad as coal for climate. This is a solvable problem which can and should be addressed by appropriate regulation. The real problem is t
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by arbuge 7y ago
> If this project fails it'll probably be concurrent with a SV collapse in which case does it even matter? It certainly matters. SV collapses are not and should not be the end of the world for strong companies - indeed that is how
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Dabbawalas – Mumbai's lunchbox delivery and return system(en.wikipedia.org)
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Fake clicks on online ads costing companies ‘tens of billions’ a year(ft.com)
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Toyota War(en.wikipedia.org)
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by arbuge 7y ago
"One side effect of “the end of babies”—or, less dramatically, the steady decline in fertility rates around the world—is that today’s parents spend more time and money on the few kids they do have." Might that be a cause of declin

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