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Some lumber is traded on futures, some is not, but nearly all of it is manufactured to universal specifications (set dimensions and grades), making it a commodity market. Home Depot and the other box stores were constantly running out. We
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Our company has large sawmills on both sides of the US/Canada border. Notwithstanding the anti-dumping and countervailing duties, pricing was equally high/lucrative in Canada. There are no bans or quotas.
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I admit I don't know much about the grocery business. But you make it sound like those phone conferences were recorded surreptitiously, when in reality they were just their public earnings calls. And, by my read, they were saying that
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There was no supply shock. In the last three years, there was more lumber produced than ever. It was a demand shock driven by federal stimulus. And, again, what were we supposed to do? Tell the highest bidder we wouldn't sell to th
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But I have no means of doing that. It's a commodity market, and there are many, many suppliers competing with me, and ruthlessly. As pricing rose, we even saw surges in European imports. The only thing that drove up lumber prices
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This is all so silly. I work in the lumber business. We always, every day, at all times, sell our lumber to the highest bidder. But for the first ~3 weeks of the pandemic, our sawmills ran flat out -- more production than ever. Notwiths
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In case that's not sarcasm, I'm in the lumber business. Lumber prices have collapsed in the last six months with massive losses and curtailments throughout the industry. I assure you there is no less greed today than there was a
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On the site you link, 2020 and 2021 tell a different story, though only on the margin.
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And there's not much meat on that bone to redistribute to the elderly.
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By increasing everybody's salaries, it seems likely to me the cost of goods and services would go up by virtue of inflation. There is no free lunch. At the same time, prosperity is not a zero sum game. The rise of China has coincide
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I have a modern well-insulated house (built three years ago) in Zone 4. There is no universe I heat it with a hair drier.
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So, let me get this straight -- the EU is now requiring end to end encryption? Haven't they been harping this whole time on how that enables child predators?
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It also gets more difficult when your parents can't pay their own way precisely because they've made horrible decisions over time. That they'd take comfort in the fact that their kids will take care of them -- I don't k
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The result is inflation, which in effect is a highly regressive tax. That is not good policy. There is no free lunch.
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If I didn't have an iPhone, I wouldn't need it. I do have an iPhone for the reasons mentioned above, and I'm excited to have this new tool as a way of texting from my work Windows PC. While I would like to use a Pixel phone
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You can do that a dozen times and if other people pick up an old thread you participated in by iMessage -- you don't even see the message. It's just lost to the ether! You have no control over how those other people group text,
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Are those two sentences somehow connected or related?
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My experience was similar. Honors choir 6:45-7:45, school from 8:00-3:15, athletics (basketball, football, or track) from 3:30-5:30, and theater from 6:00-8:00. With homework on top, those were very long days. Why did I do it? To disting
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As an aside -- and maybe I'm missing it -- but I am a gun enthusiast and a competitive shooter with extensive police training. I keep one in the chamber and expect others would too.
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Precisely. If a particular race is disproportionately poor, then by helping all of the poor, you are disproportionately helping that race.
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Culturally, there are ants and there are grasshoppers. It's a story as old as time.
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How are you going to decide who fills the role of captain? In this hypothetical, is there any accounting for merit and individual agency?
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On this one particular point (DEI and outcome-based metrics), one extreme has captured virtually all of the institutional power.
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Personally, I would take it a step further. Even if there is a non-zero statistical chance that it causes cancer, I think there has to be some room to ask whether the benefits outweigh the costs. To some, low food prices in a world of foo
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The role of testosterone in the behavior of cattle or monkeys is obvious to any casual observer. I don't know why we try so hard to overlook it in humans. Like the GP, I don't view it as an objective negative, but there's d
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Agreed. As an aside, I find it interesting that people are willing to attribute cultural differences to disparate outcomes in this context, but not in other contexts like racial income disparities.
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That is decidedly untrue.
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Agreed. I use the web app exclusively and it’s excellent.
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This entire comment section seems premised on this idea that crypto is useful because it's anonymous. But with the exception of a couple tokens like Monero and Zcash, which are rarely used, crypto is significantly LESS anonymous than
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Cole said while he doesn't believe he was targeted Tuesday afternoon, he has been shot at in the past, in 2018 and in June of this year as well. Kilwins, a popular Hyde Park ice cream shop, was damaged in the shooting. The shop's

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