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by foldingmoney 7y ago
No one's being forced to buy soda, eat highly processed food, have a credit card, or use a car dealership. Yet people voluntarily choose to spend their money on these things, so they obviously do find some value in them. When you chara
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Low quality ingredients will always be cheaper than high quality ingredients, regardless of subsidies and taxes. That's an unfortunate fact of life, not a government decision. And there's nothing to stop people buying diet soda.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Okay, explain to me how the government is incentivising 'advertising, soda, highly processed food, credit cards, car dealerships, (most) sales people, etc.' through taxation and monetary policy.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
It's not like there's some central planning committee that sits down and decides what to pay everyone. Citizens decide where to spend their money -- at least the part that the government doesn't tax and spend for them -- and
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Since when is turmeric not flavourful though?
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Raymond Scott never wrote music _for_ cartoons. His early music was used in cartoons some time later because it turned out to be an excellent fit, but at the time I believe his stated intention was
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I think a valid definition of functional would be 'common in everyday life', and 'powerlifter trying to max his/her squat' does not qualify as a common everyday movement. Parent might be referring to the assertion t
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I think the general attitude of being willfully blind to fundamental distinctions between things that are only superficially similar and shoehorning issue debates in where they don't belong is ultimately unhelpful for the debate over w
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
It's different because in Europe you have people whose ancestors have lived in the same village for hundreds or thousands of years. They walk the land where their language was invented. Maybe their ancestors aren't really as pure
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
We're talking about auto suggestions along the lines of 'Yes, I have', 'no, I haven't', 'sounds good!', 'yum!'. I'm not arguing against your principles necessarily, but deploying the ar
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I think the term is generally used to refer to a melting pot of cultures as opposed to a bunch of adjacent monocultures. I'm not passing judgement on either.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Interestingly, 'villages of people with wildly different customs and traditions going back 1500-2000 years' is basically the opposite of what's meant by 'diversity' today, which is a high population of newly arrived
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I don't know what could be more morally neutral than 'we offer the suggestions that you've shown us you're most likely to want to use.' Anything else would be trying to put _their_ words in people's mouths. And
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
It's a pretty long journey from 'our algorithm chooses which auto-replies to offer you based on which have the highest probability of being selected' to giving lit matches to children. I'm afraid to ask your opinion of S
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Well, bonds are incredibly macro-sensitive, so when the course of the world economy can be upturned by one Trump tweet (or whatever) then yeah, a super complicated model that you throw away and replace with a fudge factor sounds like about
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
It's not impossible to tell the difference between a lucky guess and a well-designed model, although in finance you can often be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons. The issue is that the things you're tryin
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
What was the unit of analysis? Stock, sector, index, market, world?
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
It brings protection in general. Protection against sickness, famine, servitude, and so on. The more present these threats are, the more valuable the signaling power of money becomes. In a world where most people are infected by a zombie vi
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Its not hard to see why though. In industrializing countries with a lot of income inequality, wealth is rare, and anyone who has that is seen as either getting it through hard work, or getting it via their parents' hard work. I see
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
As I understand it, the majority of individual smartphone components would be manufactured using automation, and the primary step that takes place in Shenzhen is someone physically putting all the pieces together. I couldn't make an in
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
You can just look at the average returns of the non-peons to see that they're unlikely to be using insider trading. When I was at university, a meaningful percentage of my Chinese classmates' parents had paid for their expensive o
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Here is another vector: compared to the software you could buy back then, the things you could do in your spare time programming were more oftne than not cooler or at least comparably cool. To make a better version of any on single app
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
The bigger issue is that the nature of smart phone releases is that each time you want to bring out a new model, you need to employ a few tens of thousands of people for a relatively short time to assemble them. This isn't possible in
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
The dirty little secret is that trading on insider information is absolutely rife in the Chinese market among anyone who's above the bottom few rungs of society.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
The EMH isn't necessarily that every stock is perfectly priced. It's that it's not possible to reliably predict where prices will go next.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
You're not wrong, but holding for shorter time scales is typically called 'trading', whereas 'investing' is holding for several years or more.