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by bhupy 6y ago
In general, it's more or less impossible to litigate a legal decision based off of 2 quotes in a public statement. It's why we have courts of law, it's why the legal system is predicated on deliberation. > now disproven le
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Because the NLRB isn't some opaque body; it's a public body accountable to voters, and as a voter it's impossible to know if their explanation is valid if the press doesn't accurately and fully report on why a particul
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In what contexts is taking 1/3 or 1/6 a common pattern?
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For a variety of reasons, I prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius for everyday temperatures. But, genuine question, what could possibly be the advantage to using a base 12 unit for measuring distance?
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> I remember staring at a scantron in elementary school trying to figure out whether I should check the "Asian" box--which I ended up doing because the other categories made even less sense. I'm from India, and this still
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That same country is ranked higher in food security than several other high quality of life industrial nations in the world: https://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Index
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"Lived experience" is just a fancy word for "anecdote". I can also point to the lived experience of millions of Americans that enjoy dinner every day (myself included), and we'd be no better off in understanding wha
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Believe it or not, the United States has a higher median income PPP adjusted after taxes and transfers than pretty much every European nation; it's ranked #3 in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_h
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As of 2020, Federal transfer payments for healthcare amount to 22%: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/45/E1408 That shouldn't come as a surprise considering that just under 80% of all government spending i
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Yes, that’s a great point, but it’s important to understand how the status quo system came about. There’s a path dependency. It didn’t start as a top-down system, it happened from the bottom-up, and the Federal government only supplemented
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Maybe another potentially surprising fact: Canada’s Federal income tax is more or less identical to the US’s; and in fact the US imposes a slightly higher tax on ultra high earners than Canada. This works in Canada because Provinces levy hi
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This is also exactly how Canada passed its Single Payer healthcare, Province-by-Province. Saskatchewan was the first Province to offer single payer in 1947, followed by Alberta in 1951, etc. By 1961, all Provinces had some form of a single
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> The US could spend half of what it currently spends on the military and still be twice as powerful in terms of military force as the rest of the world combined. I'd argue investing a chunk of that money in domestic infrastructure,
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> On March 30 You mean publishing what sounds like a joke 2 days before April 1st? Occam’s razor would suggest that it’s just a premature April Fools joke.
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Who said anything about a holiday being an entire month? We’re talking about 2 days; and really 1 day for the time zone that’s furthest along. If someone tweeted about pumpkins and skeletons on October 29th/30th, it’s probably relate
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Sure, but if a global company pulls a stunt like that (pun and all) 2 days before April Fools day, it’s probably related to April Fools day. Given all of the signals, and the proximity to April 1st, a little bit of sobriety and common sense
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There’s nothing unprecedented about a company temporarily changing branding and tweeting about it during April Fools day.
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I found a good articulation of this here: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-holy-church-of-christ-w... "Suddenly we’ve got numerical infinities on that ethics spreadsheet, inputs that win out against any finite
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> that the anti-female bias must be even stronger elsewhere to overcome the significant pro-female bias at initial stages From a strictly scientific standpoint, you can’t really draw such “must be” conclusions. It could also very well be
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Yup. I recommend watching Justice Scalia talk about exactly that in this video: https://youtu.be/Ggz_gd--UO0
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It’s what the US Framers referred to as a “parchment guarantee”, nothing more than words on paper.
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> The unspoken side is that most companies simply measure your importance by how many people are under you, so everyone tries to hire as many people as they can get budget for, and build their empire. If we're throwing around conven
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> You still have a buyer and seller even if the prices are stupid. First of all, this is broadly untrue. It's really only true for a certain set of meme stocks, but that's because the market allows for fun stupidity. But just b
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by bhupy 6y ago
In the same post I linked, Matt Levine actually provided an example of exactly that happening to another similarly over-hyped company, AMC: “In talking about GameStop, I have occasionally tried to tie the goofy stock-price dynamics to corpo
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You’re being downvoted, but hedge funds’ positive impact on price discovery is under-rated. Matt Levine (Bloomberg’s extraordinary finance opinion writer / jokester) had a pretty good articulation of this in a recent post about GameSto
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Do you have a source for that? I’m no art connoisseur, but just sampling a few famous works: Starry Night, original $80 million ( https://medium.com/@comma.php/more-info-of-the-starry-night-... ). Replica $500 ( https:&#
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You’re right; I meant to say that they can be expected by current investors to be dividends-paying at any time in the future because their economics are fundamentally GAAP profitable at this point ( https://www.nytimes.com/20
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I mean, the technology industry (especially FAANG) aren’t exactly known for sacrificing long-term growth for the sake of short-term penny-pinching in the context of employee happiness. Any company that (pre-COVID) had a proclivity to sacrif
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> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm business labor productivity rose by over 10% over the course of 2020, despite the fact that most of us are working from home. I’d push back on this claim with another piece of releva
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Sure, but if its stock price plunged due to massive sellout, its profits wouldn’t really change. I’m directly refuting the claim that Tesla is unprofitable. It’s in fact a sustainable dividends-paying enterprise. Perhaps a comically over-pr

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