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by htss2013 3y ago
The financial system is seemingly totally disconnected from reality but I wonder if that's really true. "Reality" is an unfathomably complex global economy. There is a difference between nonsensical vs too complex to reliably
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by htss2013 3y ago
Centamillionaire today is what millionaire used to mean. Ie, can live opulently without ever having to work, along with their children and grandchildren, too. Inflation compounds and you are living through the hockey stick part of that expo
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by htss2013 3y ago
Is there confirmation it's data on all Americans? I read it as Buffet's records were leaked.
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by htss2013 3y ago
>Republicans are unelectable without scaring people about LGBT people and immigrants, while Democrats are unelectable without scaring people about Republicans. That seems to be the dynamic right now. That was the dynamic. Now with NYC, C
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by htss2013 3y ago
I think I see detailed renderings, eg, of a person's face. But if I try to focus on the face and really examine its details I can't. It's like that experience of trying to read a book in a dream but when you go to read the li
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by htss2013 3y ago
Humans seem optimized for detailed recognition of visuals, not reproduction of them. Makes evolutionary sense because you can easily see the utility of detailed recognition, but what justifies the additional burden of detailed reproduction?
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by htss2013 3y ago
COL is itself a function of the prevalence of useless jobs. They increase the cost of everything, they increase the need for infrastructure, they create friction for real work, etc. Put another way, if society allocates more resources to pe
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by htss2013 3y ago
What do you do if you don't like your doctor? Or your doctor just gets it wrong? Are you just screwed? For example, a therapist is a very personal thing and I'd imagine you might have to try many to get it right. Psychiatry is as
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by htss2013 3y ago
>It is a good thing that we have an economy where there are jobs for people to do things that 'don't need to be done'. This is the only way that a highly specialized capitalist society can provide income and purpose for ev
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by htss2013 3y ago
The chickens won't come home to roost in anything like a dramatic moment of reconing. The USA will just slowly become more and more like many Latin American countries that should be prosperous in theory, and for some of their people th
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by htss2013 3y ago
Fossil fuels are priced on a global futures markets. Did you think Canadian oil producers exist in a vacuum where Qatari production, or Indian demand, has no effect on them? Whether Canadian oil actually makes it to India doesn't matte
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by htss2013 3y ago
>Your argument basically seems to boil down to "the most polluting country can't reduce use of its most polluting energy source because other countries exist and emit anything at all". It's more like your argument for
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by htss2013 3y ago
I used to think it was as simple as calories in/out, until I learned that certain fibers (and their calories) and totally non absorbable by the body, so their calorie content doesn't matter...among other things that don't fol
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by htss2013 3y ago
Does Bloomberg also have a plan to replace them with something else that will serve as reliable base load? Otherwise this is just a plan to turn the US into South Africa with perpetual brown outs.
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by htss2013 3y ago
IANAL, but probably comes down to whether you had access to material non public information. Ie, what gave you a hunch? If it's anything non public that could have also given others a hunch, had they known like you did, it's proba
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by htss2013 3y ago
>it's overt and largely accepted as the way it is in our industry. A brave new world. What alternative is there? The only protection there ever was for taking business secrets was patent enforcement, civil lawsuits or prison. If a f
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by htss2013 3y ago
Yes this is the most disorienting thing about using a non native language. You're aware that you aren't able to convey intended connotation or comprehend it. So even if you are perfectly capable of all the right denotation, you&#x
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by htss2013 3y ago
I wish people who write and study this would differentiate between close languages (eg Italian and Spanish) vs totally different ones (Spanish vs Russian). I am guessing these are cognitively two very different undertakings, in kind, not j
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by htss2013 3y ago
I suspect this is happening a lot more than people realize. Even before the pandemic, in office, there was a layer of HR tracking and activity that was deliberately opaque to the people being tracked. Now throw in a "need" to be a
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by htss2013 3y ago
Commercial leases are for like 5-10 years. Why do you think they all simultaneously renegotiated higher rent in 2022?
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by htss2013 3y ago
Adding "I'm not fan of Musk" is odd here. Is this some kind of tribal signal? It's like writing about the market for new AWS services, preceded by "I'm no fan of Bezos but..."
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by htss2013 3y ago
No mask wearing isnt really a thing in the US anymore. Last year was different. In big cities today, you mostly only see masks on elderly, people who are sick, or other special situations. There is a tiny percentage of healthy, low risk neu
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by htss2013 3y ago
If catching covid multiple times breaks the human immune system, then humanity is screwed. Anyone who lives a non hermitic existence is inevitably getting it multiple times. I know you think masks are no big deal, and they're not if us
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by htss2013 3y ago
They've been targeting other things with mrna vaccines since way before the pandemic. For example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31079849/ (2019) https://jitc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1
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by htss2013 3y ago
How does that work in the winter in England? You'd think such a climate wouldn't work well with solar except in the summer, and not summer is most of the year. I assume you're using gas or other sources for heating?
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by htss2013 3y ago
Why would oil refineries do that? Unless they are all acting as a cartel to fix prices, it would be obvious that some are more expensive than others for no reason. Price fixing doesn't work with price competition. If they are acting as
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by htss2013 3y ago
If there is no other difference besides they use less energy to produce the same amount of heating, then you have extra money, and extra money can buy lots of comforts. Why does the comfort have do come directly from the pump?
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by htss2013 3y ago
Does Apple include Foxconn and all its other vendors in its calculation, including materials producers? Or does if not counf if you outsource?
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by htss2013 3y ago
>It's even amazing that mRNA vaccines actually made it to the market, and if it hadn't been for the pandemic, there's a good chance that it would be another 15 years before they do, and this mRNA vaccination tech has been
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by htss2013 3y ago
I actually think this makes sense. It's basically outsourced R&D for pharma companies via acquisition of companies once they get at or near approval of a new drug. This is why I don't take seriously any stats about pharma R&am

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