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by jpadkins 4y ago
my take: crypto (PoS shitcoins) will take a hit, bitcoin comes out looking better than ever.
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Note that this doesn't necessarily mean home purchases are more affordable. For example, $1M home at 3% interest(30year) = ~$4200 monthly payment. $800k home at 6% interest = $4800 monthly payment. It just means more of the home is g
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by jpadkins 4y ago
If someone bought US Dollars($) a year ago and wanted it to be a store of value, it is certainly not "whatever the holder wants it to be" for that person. A lot of currencies are not a good store of value the last 18 months.
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. https://coinpedia.org/crypto-live-news/ftx-ceo-in-connection... https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/sec-chairman-gary-gensle... https:&#x2
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Don't fall for the red-blue trap. There is one establishment, which uses social issues to divide and conquer and create the illusion of choice.
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SpaceX would get considerably more than $10M in marketing / brand goodwill by donating to a museum. So for the first 1 or 2 decommissioned rockets, I think donation beats scrap ROI.
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This is an interesting point! Can you give more detail or examples of 'institutional constraints' moderating public officials interactions with the public (in the past)? Are there rules or policy written down about what can&#x2F
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I didn't bring democratic party into this. The GP was clearly talking about the left wing in the US.
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4) don't overestimate cut of transaction and underestimate ad revenue (promoting the transaction seekers). Let's use Amazon as an example: They run a 3P marketplace with a transaction cut business model, and it's not very pr
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If their intention was to reduce violence from his supporters, then why did they delete the video he uploaded at 4:16 that stated “I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us,” he said. “It was a landsli
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by jpadkins 4y ago
suppression of the hunter biden story was the clearest one. (let me know if you need details or citations on the NY Post article & account being banned by twitter before the election). Also Alex Berenson's lawsuit with Twitter reve
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by jpadkins 4y ago
can you really use soapy water in the garden? Won't that harm bacteria and the microbiome?
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"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." - contemporary philosopher
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exactly. We need to go back to public discourse being carefully controlled by a select few.
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motorola was patents ($8B in protection IIRC) + key talent acquisition (called ATG at the time). I don't think Google ever wanted the bulk of motorola's operations or rf engineering. They bought it, stripped out the things they w
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by jpadkins 4y ago
The GP story was based on the premise that opting a campaign into the display network increased CPC on search ad clicks. I know for a fact that it is not possible. I am not at liberty to go through each issue the GP had, so I linked to the
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by jpadkins 4y ago
There are some misconceptions here (i.e. display CTR effects search ads quality score) Here are some direct from the source help pages that might clear up your understanding of the system. https://support.google.com/google-a
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pennies are made of zinc, not copper (since 1982)
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Case Shiller home price index is another measure that shows 4X increase in housing costs since 2000. housing is a large component of cost of living. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/case-shiller-home... See f
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by jpadkins 4y ago
thanks! I didn't know shadowstats was just adding a constant to the BLS data. I thought they were actually re-calculating using the pre-1980 method as they claim.
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sticky prices https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=sti... roughly, changing prices has transactional and psychological effects, so suppliers hold out on price changes as long as possible, then do
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by jpadkins 4y ago
The 1980 and prior CPI calculation is still calculated here: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts As inflation was measured in the 1970's, we are experiencing ~15% consumer inflation.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Let's go Brandon is used when you want to express 'Fuck Joe Biden' but in polite company. Only GOP congressional baseball players are afraid of getting assassinated by Democrats.
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Yes, a pandemic with a high IFR and a treatment that prevents transmission. We had neither this last pandemic.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
mRNA COVID treatment is a great example in the loss of trust in media, institutions, and each other. By suppressing and censoring information, I believe we have lost so much trust and good will. I know I have lost a lot of trust in medical
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what tech companies were using cheap capital to achieve insane market cap? Very few tech companies borrow money. Unless you meant people were buying tech stocks with leverage, which I agree with...
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why do you believe wealth or value is limited by natural resources? That hasn't been the case for a very long time. I'd say the limiting factor on wealth is smart, productive people's time (given we are in the information ag
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Correct. Also, Democrats could have passed an abortion bill in 2008-2010 when they had a super majority in the senate, but choose not to.
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Almost all pet ferrets are sprayed and neutered. Female ferrets die if they go in heat and don't mate. https://www.westdavisvets.com/veterinary-topics/ferret-healt... Maybe CA would have a position if they banned
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> Feral ferrets Citation needed. Where in the other 49 states is this scourge of feral ferrets? Domesticated ferrets are to known to die fairly quickly if they escape to the wild. They have no hunting instincts. If you are worried abou

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