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by gragas 10y ago
>Cut to 2008, when Goldman made money off the economic collapse by shorting the housing market. The firm was charged with fraud in 2010. First of all, that's non-sequitur. Second, why is it evil to short the housing market? Washingt
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by gragas 10y ago
Woops, you're right.
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by gragas 10y ago
>not consuming enough iodine. iodine gets added to salt to ensure people consume it. source? Also, it's ridiculous to argue that genetics don't affect IQ. There are many genetic disorders that impair cognitive skills.
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by gragas 10y ago
I hate how much the authors of this article imply causality. >There also, interestingly, was less activity among the runners in a part of the brain that tends to indicate lack of focus and mind wandering. Could it not be that people who
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by gragas 10y ago
Interest rates go up when the economy is improving.
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by gragas 10y ago
That's a ridiculous argument. From that graph, LTCM lasted 4 years. Renaissance has lasted decades.
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by gragas 10y ago
Ah, proud of UI design makes sense. I thought OP was feeling proud about his/her program design, immediately after mentioning it's so awful.
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by gragas 10y ago
>the code is generally messy and horrible, rife with race conditions and barely holding together in parts. immediately followed by >I'm proud of my work — especially design-wise ummmmm.... what?
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by gragas 10y ago
You make a good point. I agree.
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by gragas 10y ago
>Economic growth is not 0. The numbers are in real USD, not nominal. So in reality, it's a huge fallacy to say that we're so much worse off that in the 1970s. We're almost exactly the same as the 1970s . The main differen
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by gragas 10y ago
Suppose 30-year-olds make exactly the same as their parents did at 30. Then we would expect that barely half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents did at 30. This title is stupid. It implies "oh hur dur the economy is so bad&q
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by gragas 10y ago
>We would only elect depressed people to positions of power, favoring their superior acumen. Or you could elect intelligent non-depressed people. Being depressed is not a qualifier for being intelligent.
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by gragas 10y ago
Yeah, [citation definitely needed]
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by gragas 10y ago
abstractanon@sigaint.org (temporary)
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by gragas 10y ago
Is there any way that I can privately chat with you? I will soon have to decide whether to get into HFT or traditional SWE work. I have a good idea of what a traditional SWE career path entails, but HFT is quite obfuscated (from my position
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by gragas 10y ago
You're right. I argued against something totally unrelated to what you said. The places I'm talking about are not banks.
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by gragas 10y ago
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by gragas 10y ago
Do most students from your university stay in Poland, or do they move elsewhere after graduating?
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by gragas 10y ago
It really depends on your definition of ethical. Volkswagen is unarguably unethical (or at least has been unethical) and profited hugely because of it. Nestle wants to have a monopoly on water. Almost all tradition energy companies (some of
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by gragas 10y ago
Lots of unethical companies are very successful.
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by gragas 10y ago
>As the world enters what could be the twilight of the oil age This is the point when I stopped taking the article seriously.
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by gragas 10y ago
>Higher-quality new housing is built, which is one part of making an area more attractive to more affluent residents, which drives up prices despite there being more total housing available than before. This has me convinced that people
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by gragas 10y ago
>easy access to loaned capital has perversed the connection between wages and house prices a bit Only to a certain extent. Loaned capital is still limited by wages (no one is going to give a $1 million mortgage to someone who makes $40k
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by gragas 10y ago
I'd like to see that argument. The median home in California is not by any means affordable. The median home in many other states is absolutely affordable. Furthermore---and back to my original argument---suppose that home prices are X
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by gragas 10y ago
> rents are set by wages as you have to pay them out of your wages. Are you implying that there's some sort of grand-scale collusion on rent prices? If most rent takers think "hey, the median salary is X so I'll just charg
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by gragas 10y ago
So you're arguing that demand increased more than supply in the same period? By your logic, that's the only way that prices could fall while the new housing was built.
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by gragas 10y ago
I suppose I agree. The US' embargo was probably quite tough on Cuba. But I don't think the state of the economy in Cuba can be entirely pinned on the embargo.
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by gragas 10y ago
>Way less crimes than those who accuse him. Never sprayed Vietnamese with Agent Orange or napalms for one, never dropped nuclear bombs on civilians, never supported Pinochet et co, doesn't have 25% of the world's incarcerated i
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by gragas 10y ago
>Like being able to support two parties that alternate in power, like you are free to do in the US? My point is that Castro kills people who support opposition parties. You aren't free to support parties other than the one in powe
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by gragas 10y ago
Claiming Cuba and the US are comparable in the respect is absurd. Castro killed thousands of his own civilians to stay in power. Here in the US, you can literally disavow the president (c.f. #NotMyPresident) without any consequence. >T

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