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by candybar 6y ago
What kind of data do you have? Do you work at one of these companies and know that the data is fudged? Do you run an analytics company? There could be some measurement errors or biases but it's virtually impossible that it's di
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by candybar 6y ago
You're talking about the streamers? As I mentioned, streaming is a tough business, it's going to have a lot of churn. In terms of viewership, there's publicly available data and it's not going down: https://
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by candybar 6y ago
Where are they going?
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by candybar 6y ago
I don't see how any of these are deal-breakers for the viewers and if the viewers are there, the streamers aren't going anywhere. The network effect is real - it doesn't matter how good your streaming platform is if no one i
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by candybar 6y ago
What in particular do they hate about twitch and what type of streamers are they? (top, emerging, casual, etc). I too hear a lot of complaints about Twitch too but I feel that most of them have nothing to do with the product, but the zero-s
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by candybar 6y ago
How does any of this change GME's valuation? Any company can decide to get into anything - the existence of an opportunity that everyone is aware of doesn't impact the company's valuation unless the company's uniquely s
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by candybar 6y ago
> Just this week the BTS (a K-Pop band) fandom in Germany wanted to cancel radio host over a remark they deemed racist. I can’t remember the last time 14 year old boys initiated an outrage mob. This is a bizarre take given the actual rem
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by candybar 6y ago
I agree that the problem is systemic but it's a bit more complicated than this - the reason why such a high percentage of the students are failing is likely because the parents of the students that wouldn't fail have disproportion
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by candybar 6y ago
Also, what is "your 'civilians'" supposed to mean?
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by candybar 6y ago
The program that led to a very small percentage of German nationals in the US and an even smaller percentage of German Americans in the internment camps was for German nationals that were considered to be pro-Axis. They did not mass intern
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by candybar 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America... There's a distinction here between demonizing the enemy you're fighting against and demonizing the citizens of your own country for having a par
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by candybar 6y ago
I think you're likely running into what hntrader mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26242516 > This we agree on. But we have to factor in adverse selection. If you're a prestigious employer, a
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by candybar 6y ago
Investors certainly care about pedigree and having McKinsey on your resume (or Google or Facebook if you will), not to mention the experience and connections, are going to help when you're trying to raise money for your startup. There
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by candybar 6y ago
Btw, the agent that was fired, Colleen Oefelein, was also the victim of an attempted kidnap plot by her current husband's ex-mistress in 2007. This story, dubbed, the "Astronaut Love Triangle" because her husband and the ex
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by candybar 6y ago
I don't think the concerns you're bringing up have anything to do with Electoral College, which doesn't care about cities or rural areas and doesn't favor small states in any case. It favors a handful of medium to large
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by candybar 6y ago
You're citing protection for residential tenants - the rights for commercial tenants are generally limited to whatever they negotiated in the lease. And the protection for residential tenants isn't due to the difficulty of finding
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by candybar 6y ago
That's too generous. Even if these these businesses "conspired" to do this, that's still not a conspiracy in a legal sense, which is about an agreement to commit an actual crime. As it's not a crime to end busines
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by candybar 6y ago
Trying to appeal to a very small number of people that are still playing multiplayer SC2 and think of SC2 as the gold standard for RTS is a dead end. SC2 fundamentally failed with their multiplayer design due to their irrational focus on t
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by candybar 6y ago
I don't think high-level competitive play matters at all for success - the biggest issue with SC2 IMO is that they prematurely optimized for competitive multiplayer. If they spent the majority of their time worrying about how to make
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by candybar 6y ago
This is misleading - yoga in the traditional sense means something along the lines of "spiritual way of living" rather than yoga as an exercise (hatha yoga) and naked yoga in this sense is an extreme ascetic lifestyle where you li
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by candybar 6y ago
From the study: > The Short Grit Scale (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009) was used as a measure of grit and was administered to most of the NLSY participants in 2013 (6,476 of the original sample of 8,984 in 1997). It consists of 8 items in t
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by candybar 6y ago
That's for the 2017-2018 season and it was the worst flu season in quite some time. The article even says it's the worst flu season in at least 4 decades and way outside the normal range: "In recent years, flu-related deaths
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by candybar 7y ago
With respect to your point about unstructured interviews - keep in mind that any statistical measure of performance isn't based on an objective measure of output - it's almost certainly based on performance ratings, which take int
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by candybar 7y ago
> Can we please stop pretending that this zombie market we've propped up since 2008 works? If you like markets, then you shouldn't agree with the fact that the government can effectively be held hostage every decade or so due t
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by candybar 7y ago
> 1) Businesses going under is preventable. If a lot of businesses go under, so will banks when those businesses default on debts. And more businesses will go under with your system. Most businesses that are losing most of their revenue
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by candybar 7y ago
> And to flip it around, if 50% of small businesses go under, banks will be left holding a lot of bad debt. Banks will go under. Landlords won't have renters, and will be left holding mortgages. Without action, the whole system coll
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by candybar 7y ago
> Banks can get loans for free, and pass that onto credit-worthy businesses. Why would they? And who's creditworthy in your world? Are banks going to be able untangle every single contract you have to see how this affects you? Es
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by candybar 7y ago
This doesn't make any sense - the Fed isn't going to provide loans to everyone, individual and business access to these loans is still gated by their own creditworthiness. And if you can make credit that easy, why do you have to
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by candybar 7y ago
20% is not "most" and no we don't have the figures yet. 20% of Americans being unemployed isn't a good reason to freeze the entire economy such that effectively 100% of Americans are unemployed.
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by candybar 7y ago
> 76% of americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. Regardless of if you like it or not, a time will come when massive amounts of rents aren't paid. It can either fully immiserate the economy (most likely course of action), or it can be p

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