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by hardtke 5y ago
A hidden intangible that cannot be measured is that owners are much more likely to know and socialize with their neighbors. Even in a mostly homeowner neighborhoods, "the renters" often don't develop social ties the same way
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by hardtke 5y ago
Many of these articles are about tourist towns that have had an influx of new residents and/or increased seasonal populations (in this case Hood River, Oregon and Lake of the Ozarks). I read an identical article yesterday about Ketchum
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Northwest heat wave was statistically “impossible”(twitter.com)
22 points by hardtke 5y ago|4 comments
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by hardtke 5y ago
$81B in assets under management vs. Fidelity with $10T? At some point, your revenue is capped at a fraction of a percent of assets under management.
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by hardtke 5y ago
Your first point is important. Governments have protected citizen's quality of life by restricting the number of wires going around on poles and/or digging up of the streets. This is why local governments created regulated telep
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by hardtke 5y ago
From wikipedia: Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and current Facebook board member, paid $10 million to help finance lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the Bollea lawsuit. He called his financial support of Bollea'
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by hardtke 5y ago
I wonder how much of current asset appreciation is due to our largest trading partners (China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) wanting to make sure they can maintain large trade surpluses to maximize manufacturing employment. Rather than sen
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California Defies Doom with No. 1 U.S. Economy(bloomberg.com)
12 points by hardtke 5y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 5y ago
Being large is not illegal. Having a monopoly in a specific product is not illegal. The standard by which the antitrust officials judge companies is whether the company controls a sufficient part of the market such that the consumer is har
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by hardtke 5y ago
Advertising companies have a natural size limit since they generally can't work for competing companies. Agencies reach about $500M in revenue and then get sold off to a holding company. It's almost inevitable there are a whole
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by hardtke 5y ago
This is likely one of the most cost effective methods for increasing vaccination rates. VAT receipt lotteries are becoming a common tool to help increase VAT compliance among merchants. Consumers ask the merchant for a receipt so that they
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by hardtke 5y ago
A good friend of mine works for a large construction firm that has bid on some of the California high speed rail jobs. He said that for much of the work (particularly moving existing utility infrastructure) there are no firms bidding, or a
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by hardtke 5y ago
I saw Kurt Vonnegut speak in the 1990's and I remember his saying something along the lines of "I am one of the 100 people that are able to make a decent living writing fiction"
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by hardtke 5y ago
I wonder how much we are seeing general problems with adenovirus vector vaccines (e.g. blood clotting and this manufacturing issue) only because we've never rolled a vaccine out to a large population so quickly. Regulatory agencies are
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by hardtke 5y ago
I'd be really curious to know how San Francisco rental prices are diverging between newer (not rent controlled) buildings and older (rent controlled) buildings. There is historically not as much turnover in the rent controlled buildin
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by hardtke 5y ago
Real estate (built a few spec houses and then small scale landlord). His last client, BTW, was George Lucas' personal secretary. When she retired that was the end.
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by hardtke 5y ago
My single parent father was a typewriter repairman. He visited offices to repair them, so I spent some of my early childhood in the car outside of various office buildings (highly illegal now, of course). The exact moment it ended was whe
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by hardtke 5y ago
Most mortgages are made by mortgage originators who resell them. If I remember how it worked before the crash, the agent, mortgage originator, and title agent would work together to make the deal happen. There were some kickbacks. The mor
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by hardtke 5y ago
It's not just convenience and speed. In hot markets, the appraised values can't keep up with market prices (since the comps are a half year old). If the buyer doesn't have resources well above the minimum to make up for the
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by hardtke 5y ago
>90% of Americans prefer their primary residence as an investment over the stock market. People are likely to move funds from savings and the stock market into their homes, as they believe this to be the best strategy. The way the housin
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by hardtke 5y ago
There was a similar story about the ascendancy of Japan over the west in the 1980's, but demographics eventually slowed Japan's growth. There were simply not enough young people to keep the economy growing and take care of the gr
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by hardtke 5y ago
When I was in physics, I always read "a typical example of the data from an experimental run is shown in figure 1" as "we have carefully selected the best data, shown in figure 1." It sounds like that is the case here.
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Uber may stop letting drivers see destinations and name prices(sfchronicle.com)
11 points by hardtke 6y ago|11 comments
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by hardtke 6y ago
When I was in McMurdo station in Antarctica on the way to the South Pole I happened to be there at the same time as the Navy cargo unloading crew. McMurdo banned all alcohol sales while the Navy was in town.
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by hardtke 6y ago
Some of the people who are least likely to have insurance are those who "retire early" aka lose their job in their 50s or early 60s and are unable to find a replacement job with similar benefits and pay. Other people in blu colla
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Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study(med.stanford.edu)
563 points by hardtke 6y ago|528 comments
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by hardtke 6y ago
There is not so much a shortage but instead the empty containers are in the wrong place. With the US stimulus coupled with the lack of ability of American consumers to consume services like travel, imports to the US have surged. They&#x27
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by hardtke 6y ago
My mentor once said "3 sigma effects happen in physics a lot more often than they should." I've since come to realize that we should do a multiple-hypothesis testing correction on all such results, where the number of hypoth
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by hardtke 6y ago
The Whatsapp route is to get purchased by and subsidized by Facebook. There is no chance the antitrust authorities in the US and Europe will allow something like that to happen again.
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by hardtke 6y ago
There was a predecessor that proved the detector concept and eventually merged into IceCube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Muon_And_Neutrino_De... AMANDA observed atmospheric but not extra-terrestrial neutrin

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