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by foldingmoney 6y ago
So the people who you don't trust to understand what the effect of a tax cut will be and/or to lie about it to benefit their rich pals are the ones you want directing the economy?
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
>The people who pushed the tax cut said it would lead to a huge increase in companies making investments that would lead to more good jobs in the US, and it just didn't happen. Right, so are these the same people you want to have in
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
That's opening a can of worms. Some corporations invested in new opportunities, some bought back stock. The ones which bought back stock presumably didn't see any profitable investment opportunities. In the absence of monopolies (
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
I mean, the mandate of a public company is _only_ to benefit the stockholders by increasing the stockholders' wealth. The question is whether they do that via growing the business or via returning money to stockholders. The choice to b
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>it does also seem possible the USAF could have highly advanced prototypes that aren't ready for mass production yet. And have had them for decades now, if UFO reports are to be believed? UFO sightings aren't new. The capabilit
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Here's my theory about the recent influx of UFO footages coming from high places. US military was working on advanced drones. Nothing fancy, think current best tech, add 15 years and billion in r&d, that kind of stuff. The issu
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Also https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
People point that out as annoying now.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>- aggregate benchmark means some average of predictions from wall street investors, which is not the "state of the art" to beat, you should beat the best performing funds. They're not beating funds, they're more accu
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Congratulations, you no longer have an alcohol problem! ...now let's see what we can do about that ketamine problem...
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Time to setup python scripts which could parse through the excel spreadsheets, figure out which row corresponded to gross profit margin, and a few other "standard" metrics: ??? If you just want basic financial data there are e
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Can anyone with legal experience comment on the strength of Elastic's case?
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>You often CAN tell information from people's outward appearance, albeit probabilistically. Therein lies the problem: you can very easily train an algorithm to be maximally right according to your cost function, but end up biased be
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>This is showing "Pinterest the social network" not just "Pinterest the search term" I believe this is just a broader result set that includes searches for anything that Google deems to be related to 'Pinterest t
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Google trends is probably not a good way to assess Pinterest. Want to browse Pinterest? Open the app. Want to get Pinterest? Go to the App Store. Heard someone say 'pinterest' but don't know what it means? Search google. Your
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I hope this knowledge never ends up being relevant to my life.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I realise this isn't the point of your post, but it's exceedingly unlikely that they all take vacations on different weeks... like 4.73 * 10^-22 unlikely if vacation choice was random, which it isn't.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Except for models which may be wearing incredibly detailed and beautiful costumes that just amplify their hotness. For example - this year Ray Dalio was on Burning Man That reads oddly.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Good old stable-valued bitcoin.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>What’s with the MGTOW/redpill language? I don't think it helps to jump to conclusions and start slinging labels. Doesn't advance the conversation. Like if someone expressed some innocuous belief held by republicans and wa
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
That's not true. The yield curve inverted in 2006, people talked about recession for a while, then the general conclusion was that 'it's different this time', and right after everyone forgot about the inversion, the rece
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>If someone tells you, without further qualification (as is nearly always the case for TV and newspaper pundits), that a tariff of x% will cause a price change of y%, they are either incompetent or they are lying to your face in order to
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>So there exists a class of professional services designed to temporarily crash stock prices to make short sellers money? Curious. There exists a class of professional services designed to uncover financial fraud. That's what this i
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
No, everyone can agree that they'd like to support the public good as long as the costs they incur are proportional to the benefits they get. This is why taxation and public spending exists, and most of us agree that this is a good thi
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Yes, while also raising the value of every non-sucker's property, hence the problem.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Worrying about them today makes about as much sense as worrying about Autria in 1930 because Austrohungaria used to be a world power. And nothing bad came out of Austria in the 1930s.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Because the benefit of the public restrooms would extend to all private buildings in the area, but the cost would fall entirely on whichever sucker decided to pay for them -- and no one wants to be that sucker. That's why public fundin
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
A case of nominative determinism?
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Yes.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
If you're ever back in Auckland, pay a visit to Coffee Lab's cafe in Wairau Valley. Very unassuming looking place in an industrial district but absolutely amazing coffee.

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