drewcon

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by drewcon 5y ago
It’s the default state because humans are living animals with a biological imperative to reproduce. That doesn’t mean you have to, but it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s widely considered normal.
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by drewcon 5y ago
I’m surprised no one has mentioned sleep restriction. About six months ago I herniated a disc pretty severely in my lower back. Initially totally messed up my sleep with real pain…then the pain turned to annoyance and just caused me to wake
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by drewcon 5y ago
Aside from the branding section, which author handles realistically...I don’t see anything I would consider chart junk.
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by drewcon 5y ago
But no one is “selling” you anything here. CPI is just data with a very public methodology. Some things go up, others go down. The Fed uses it as one input in decision making to manage inflation over long time horizons. You can look at what
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by drewcon 5y ago
“The real cost of goods is observably higher”? I don’t get how anecdotal evidence trumps repeatedly buying and measuring the cost of a vast cross section of products everyday people consume? Help me understand the conspiracy here? Who is do
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by drewcon 5y ago
Care to cite evidence of this conspiracy?
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by drewcon 5y ago
CPI isn’t “rigged”. CPI measures exactly what it measures and measures it transparently. Whether you think it and it’s constituent parts are good metric for measuring inflation is a different conversation. But that doesn’t make it “rigged”.
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by drewcon 5y ago
Good thing CPI isn’t calculated using anecdotal evidence from “anyone who has been to the supermarket”. Learn more about the calculation here: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_04132021.htm
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by drewcon 6y ago
I thought the same thing when we initially put them on. I thought "hey they're a bit weird, but this is the internet! What isn't weird here!?!?" But if you put them on continuously in front of a young kid (or at least m
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by drewcon 6y ago
Can confirm. There is a strain of video (below) on there that is just like perceptual candy to kids. And there are LOADS of these videos in slightly different versions. My own anecdote: Our 2 year old found these videos (3 years ago): htt
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by drewcon 6y ago
Your point seems to be you don’t personally like this art, so other people shouldn’t like this art because it’s not the way you think art should be conceptualized and experienced. By all means, choose not to like it as an individual...but s
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'Dystopia Prime:' Amazon AI van cameras spark surveillance concerns(news.trust.org)
4 points by drewcon 6y ago|0 comments
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Silver jumps 11% as Reddit traders try their squeeze play with the metal(cnbc.com)
4 points by drewcon 6y ago|0 comments
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by drewcon 6y ago
I don't think it's credentialist. It's not short for no reason. Even a layman can piece together GS business model doesn't have much life left and so the stock ought to have downward pressure. Hedge funds are pursing th
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by drewcon 6y ago
No I do understand that. And I’m suggesting that is a bad thing. It’s also illegal, which seems to have been left out of all the conversations. “ The rush by short sellers to cover produces additional upward pressure on the price of the sto
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by drewcon 6y ago
I still feel like these stories are missing a core distinction. If these WSB folks rallied around GME because they were true believers of a beloved brand with faith in a turn around plan, god love em. I think that’s an interesting phenomeno
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by drewcon 6y ago
Sigh. In a different life, I worked for a well known discount brokerage in 2005 processing corporate actions. Mergers, splits, divided payments, proxy voting, exercising bond contract provisions, warrants, short covering etc.for retail cust
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by drewcon 6y ago
About 1/3 of Americans have a 401k. The RSU snipe was just for the orange website crowd.
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by drewcon 6y ago
Yeah I can't wait to live in a world where we enable more financial market mobbing by the uninformed and emotional masses. What could go wrong? Tune will change when RSUs and 401ks get effected.
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by drewcon 6y ago
There is a world of difference between playing a game of chance, and playing a game where you happen to believe you have real better/different information about how the future unfolds. Speculators tend to act mostly on emotion and ine
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by drewcon 6y ago
Who has been doing this for decades? When has "Wall st." coordinated a random attack to squeeze cash out of an entity just for the hell of it? You may disagree with the outcomes of short pressure, or private equity actions etc.,
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by drewcon 6y ago
I have no problem with individuals or fiduciaries investing on short time horizons because they believe they understand something fundamental the next guy doesn't. But mass coordinated speculation isn't that; it's using a mob
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by drewcon 6y ago
Trading stocks is not the 1st amendment where we basically say we don’t really care about the outcome of your speech (as an individual). Say what you want even if its dumb and hurts you. With capital markets...there absolutely is a goal, a
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by drewcon 6y ago
It’s a relevant science story to HN and I share because it’s directly affected my friend who is a firefighter on Nantucket. This stuff needs more attention. https://youtu.be/s4lGGMdF8Ds
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Firefighters Battle an Unseen Hazard: Their Gear Could Be Toxic(nytimes.com)
5 points by drewcon 6y ago|4 comments
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by drewcon 6y ago
This seems naive at best. The goal of studying history is not to be paralyzed and constrained by it, but to learn from it. Human behavior seems to be notoriously consistent across centuries, there is much to gain from understanding past mis
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by drewcon 6y ago
There are most certainly more than two sides.
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by drewcon 6y ago
I would have loved to see the data of gas alone compared to the data when gas range is properly vented.
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by drewcon 6y ago
We have the option of remote, flex (hot desk), or office (perm desk) when this is all over. Before I was a 3-4 days in the office, 1-2 at home kind of guy. I’m planning on being a 5 days a week in the office guy so hard when this dies down
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by drewcon 6y ago
So much worse. I never thought the 45 min spent in the car was actually useful time! Turns out sitting in traffic was basically meditation.

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