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For Renaissance specifically, their signature fund has been closed to outside investors (with all funds returned) for decades, so pension funds aren't able to take advantage of their outperformance. I believe their publicly-available f
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"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome."
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It would be naive to believe that the Chinese will not build a competing naval base there, and encroach upon Mauritius's sovereignty over time.
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> Boat building can be solved by spending money to build boats (and perhaps waiting a couple decades for expertise to be built up). I actually don't take it for granted that enough money thrown at a problem can automatically solve i
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> "How much more money can we make from cheap shipping" while ignoring any national security concerns. But isn't it the case that national security concerns are being reached, presently, under the effect of the Jones Act?
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> At this point, I throw away most plastic bags I get. Otherwise I'd simply be inundated with plastic bags! I have a dog and an infant, so I seem to have an infinite supply of things best disposed of in plastic bags :-)
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As I understand it, research done on communities that have banned plastic shopping bags found that overall plastic bag consumption didn't change appreciably. People were in the habit of reusing such bags as garbage bags and whatnot, an
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To put in context, 50k gallons is about the size of the largest in-ground pool you might see in the back yard of an upscale suburban home. A normal tanker trailer you see on the highway carrying gasoline or whatever has a 7,500 gallon capac
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> Generally speaking, the energy would be better utilized elsewhere. Employment is not the ideal state. The tax works[1] to see that energy only be redirected to employment where the usage of it is so compelling that it is still worth do
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> just so you can extend corporate health insurance to them Besides, the true culprit to this is the WW2-era price controls on wages which made it so that non-wage benefits, like providing health insurance, were not taxable. In the end t
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> It's like being a diamond cutter in the diamond district. This is a good analogy. The old wisdom is that it's better go to go a restaurant surrounded by other restaurants than one that is off by itself; perhaps an implicit ac
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I'm told that hunters drive quite a bit of conservation efforts for other animals as well.
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I'm sure GP is being facetious, though perhaps with an allusion to stories like "How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers"[0]. It's neither from NPR nor about Latinos as in GP's (unlikel
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My understanding is that expert opinion in recent months have been converging towards the lab leak theory. Consider this opinion piece[0], which points out some notable differences between the previous outbreaks of coronaviruses that had na
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The Rasmussen poll on elites[0] has a nice working definition of "those having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, and living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile" as wel
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Fun fact: El Paso, TX is closer to the Pacific (via the Gulf of California) than it is to its own state capital, Austin.
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Neither of those are factually accurate statements; they pair a claim to fact in the first half with a policy proposal in the second half. "We should/should not do something about this" is not a statement of fact, it's a
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> Fox News isn't even news; they've admitted in court that they're an entertainment program. The admission they made was about one show, the one that Tucker Carlson ran before his departure from Fox[0]. Taking that and eli
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> He'll do things like call Kamala Harris the "border czar", which she never had as an official title Trump's strategy (whether one exists or not) around this aside, heaps of people have been called the "X czar&q
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Reasonable people can unironically agree with this statement without being a bad person or condoning slavery, so I suppose it's an illustrative point.
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I can't read OP's comment anymore as it has been flagged, but in response to your comment alone: the question isn't whether it's a good idea for someone to travel to Hawaii while positive for Covid in the early days of t
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> In a tax-funded situation, everyone is writing the checks. To further the analogy, everyone's pooling money in the same bank account, but there's still someone in charge of signing the checks. That someone is as capable of an
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> turning all news into something akin to NPR Why do you see NPR as such a positive example of journalism? It seems to me that it's been skating on its previous good reputation for quite some time now.
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> A lot of the badness of news comes from requiring a profit and where that profit comes from. The same badness will happen in a taxpayer-funded organization. After all, someone is still writing the checks, and coverage will be biased to
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I don't know, Uri Berliner's critique of NPR was pretty spot-on, at least from n=1 of this former longtime listener. I found it increasingly difficult to stomach the lopsided coverage that no longer stuck to just the facts, but ra
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> oppressed cultural minorities What oppressed cultural minorities? Nearly the entirety of the media landscape outright celebrates LGBTQ, if that's what you're talking about. I'd be hard-pressed to think of a more exaggera
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The source claims that the figures are measured in the "international dollar", which is adjusted for purchasing power in different countries.
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> we let our legacy ICE vehicle manufacturers dictate the terms of the shift to electric Is that true? There was a policy push here to sell EVs, though there of course is continuing debate about what the magnitude of that push should be.
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A tl;dr on how this works: people borrow the Yen because Japanese interest rates are so low, then they buy stuff that they think will outperform (NVDA, etc.). The Bank of Japan did a surprise hike last week, which threatens the outlook of Y
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Globally, there's a pretty clear negative correlation between GDP per capita and fertility rates.

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