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by hogFeast 7y ago
Out for Blood already exists and covers 95% of the story (I think HBO has a TV show in the pipeline too).
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by hogFeast 7y ago
No...you are just raising points that I didn't raise. The EU is the centre of industrial tax avoidance. Member states are responsible for assisting corporations (not just facilitating, advertising) in tax avoidance (trillions of dollar
813.
by hogFeast 7y ago
Because the main issue was constitutional, not whether the king was alive or dead. The issue with Charles I, his father, and James II was (ultimately) that they did stuff that really pissed everyone off (and were often very disinterested le
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by hogFeast 7y ago
You should also be concerned about who is doing this. The Met were, until very recently, just as bent as the people they were arresting.
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Oh, I heard about this. Is the same EU where one of the most senior politicians signed over 300 secret deals with corporations to help them avoid hundreds of billions in tax? And we only found out it about decades later, the deals were &quo
816.
by hogFeast 7y ago
It has the highest wealth inequality in Europe though (iirc, it is as high or higher than the US). In absolute terms, Germany's average net financial wealth per capita is slightly less than Greece...and in Germany, they have a substant
817.
by hogFeast 7y ago
You can't complete the "EU project". Politically and economically, it is just very obvious that states want different things from Brussels (btw, the people who go to Brussels are generally very different from national politic
818.
by hogFeast 7y ago
I stopped reading after the 10th historical inaccuracy. This is why economics/economic history is hard folks (not just the actual economics but creating something readable...this is basically unreadable). Germany, in particular, requir
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Why is it worse? I live somewhere that has huge inflows of tourists (something like 5-10x the population every year), and it is has utterly ravaged the property market. It isn't just that ~5% of the housing stock has disappeared (popul
820.
by hogFeast 7y ago
Why I didn't go into academia but GL convincing other people of the value in that. I am sure there are cultural differences here but where I am, the goal of most people who study CS is: leave me alone while I mess about with X (evidenc
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by hogFeast 7y ago
This stuff is basically gold for Wall St. I don't do it anymore but when I worked in investment management, people were starting to look at counting footfall manually at scale (in retrospect, the edge ended up being huge). You can get
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Engines that move markets by Alisdair Nairn
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Yep, have been reading for 15 years and it has only got really bad over the past few years (imo, it started before Trump). I actually wouldn't say it is about having an official position either. The OP really isn't about liberalis
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Yes, the main contention of the article is that this is unusual. If you think it through: the only way this article makes sense is if that claim is made...otherwise, the US was doing this in the past and it made no difference (which is true
825.
by hogFeast 7y ago
As a point of fact, it isn't true that the dominant currency imposing costs is new...that has always happened. Britain did it in order to secure continued use of the £, and the US has done it before now. It is a normal extension of for
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by hogFeast 7y ago
No. The point of owning a share is that you own part of a business. But, functionally, this isn't what index funds are doing. They employ next to no-one with any actual investment ability (from what I have seen, they employ an unusuall
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by hogFeast 7y ago
It is "open sourced"...you can go to any index provider, and they will tell you what is in the index...you realise that there is no complex "algorithm", it is just a market-cap weighted index (and even then, you can repl
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Yep, the story he tells about Warren Buffett is also (afaik) not true (this is common for basically all stories that are told about Buffett in SV). By the time that Buffett worked for Graham, he had already studied at Columbia with Graham a
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by hogFeast 7y ago
This doesn't feel like a very scientific approach. Looking at national satisfaction and then national advertising spend...seems like there would be huge scope for bias regardless of how many controls you put in. In particular, somethin
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by hogFeast 7y ago
I don't know why but Python attracts some real zealots. I think everyone has had this conversation about Python's speed with someone (I have, unfortunately, had it many times)...if your program is slow, it is always your fault, Py
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by hogFeast 7y ago
BMW are valuable because their labour is priced in a currency that is very weak (same is true of Toyota but to a far lesser extent). I don't think any of these companies are worth owning (again, there are just far easier games to play
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Nope. The exact case is going to depend on your situation (some brokers have stock loan programs, some put you in these programs automatically, some don't). But yes, it is easy to borrow shares with more retail investors (I think the b
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by hogFeast 7y ago
I don't think your conclusion is inaccurate at all. Yes, enterprise value reflects total business value...but the EV of these companies is pretty similar given the discrepancies in actual profit. Part of Telsa makes sense, they are sta
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Er no. It was the fact that the govt gave the Tusk ~$2bn of free money (and when the money was running out i.e. it really changed the narrative around the stock).
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Short interest was highest at the bottom, and is much lower now (just generally, changes are going to correlate with price)...~45m in July, and is now ~25m (which is where it was at the start of the year). So 20m shares have been called in.
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by hogFeast 7y ago
This is one of the most ideological interviews I have ever read with an economist. Economists are unusually unaware of ideology, this is extraordinary: conducts limited research with limited applications (i.e. how people behave in lab condi
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Understanding that everyone is biased is not a "stupid" opinion. It is reality. Thinking otherwise is certainly a very common belief, and quite "stupid" indeed (the hallmark of stupidity is thinking you are becoming more
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by hogFeast 7y ago
First, I didn't say anything about whether it should matter whether Fox News does or doesn't influence public opinion. I don't have an opinion (that naturally depends on whether you think Fox News is "right" or &quo
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by hogFeast 7y ago
I don't care about effectiveness, 95% of people have no interest in reality in this subject, there is nothing that you can say that will change their thinking.
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by hogFeast 7y ago
Comment talking about bias, only mentions Fox News. Welcome to hell (imo, this is what you get when you don't teach people how to argue and feed them too many Disney films). No, the press shouldn't be regulated. Yes, bias is norma

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