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by junkscience2017 9y ago
fuel costs killed the 747, not the A380 we know this is true because no one is replacing retired 747s with A380s, they are replacing them with smaller, more fuel efficient planes
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Atlantic articles are now mostly indistinguishable from satire
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
It's a long way to Tipperary? By Christmas 1914 the war's brutality was not yet in full effect. Within one year of the Christmas truce neither side would be particularly interested in splitting a bottle of Sherry. Poison gas came
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
California has 40 million people. We have renewable water resources for 20 million. At this rate we will utterly obliterate our water resources for good. No government can fix that...and no, you aren't going to desal that much water ei
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Los Gatos has closed a highway onramp now for two consecutive summers and it is perfectly legal In California, you only need approval of Caltrans. In other states it is likely similar. Many people think there is a "taxpayer" angle
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
" Boston-based team of mathematicians and computer scientists working on U.S. redistricting " why does the US need redistricting? and who asked these people to do it?
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Tim Cook assures us he is working hard to improve conditions... this is about as good as it will get. private industry will try to hide and/or paper over the abuses and we will continue to honor them as "progressives"
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
not just America. growing up in Canada, exactly 0 minutes were dedicated to discussing treatment of First Nations peoples...noteworthy given that government's exceptionally awful history in that regard
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
governments going to war with their own citizenry (and I mean actual war, not class war) is less rare than one might think. it is also why people who come to the US from these places also say "don't give up your guns". think
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
one thing is for sure, no one is going to relocate at a loss if they can wait a year and then pass the bill to the government the dangling incentive will artificially sustain coastal developments frankly if we are going to bail out home own
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
firefighters, cops and nurses in many Bay Area communities make more than typical programmers and have more deterministic career/salary upgrades...and in many cases, pensions. and they don't have to worry about market forces the o
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Apple's getting lazy. Clearly drowning in money doesn't do much to motivate employees. Given Apple's deep pockets and platform ownership, how is it that Spotify is still alive? How is it the Apple Maps is still lagging Google
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
then everyone who lost some money in the East India Company invested in everything else rising as the British Empire expanded and made fortunes, that's what
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
lots of people here keep using the term "hedge"...none of the permabears market these as hedge funds...they do not internally hedge their own risk positions these are what they appear to be - bear market funds
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Hussmans scenario is far worse than 2008...more like the Great Depression x2 we basically don't know what would happen, but it's safe to say the rich might not be assured of a safe bearish trading market in a civil society
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
with 5% fees, Hussman himself is making money! it's only the clients that are losing money he just has to produce doomsayer screeds that are convincing enough to fool the clients. he's basically being paid to write dystopian ficti
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
sorry but the only answer any investor should care about is achieving their financial goals over the expected investment timeframe. markets tend to rise and as a result market declines tend to be temporary the permabear thesis appeared in t
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
right, lots of fund managers accept that crashes happen periodically...the permabears like Hussman assume they STAY low over a long period of time yet society retains enough order to let them fulfill their thesis if the market crashed that
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Lots of permabears will go long when it's obvious markets are headed up, not Hussman. https://www.hussmanfunds.com/strategic-growth-fund/ As always, Hussman manages the near impossible feat of reliably losing mone
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
it changes the risk profile when insolvency is not a potential outcome I'm not damning GS...any entity that has officially crossed over into too-big-to-fail should take as many crazy risks as possible...why not?
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
amateurs like Coinbase might speculate, but pros like GS use the Federal Reserve as their backstop its one of those "heads I win, tails you lose" scenarios...GS will keep the profits but if things go south, their losses can just b
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
BTC to $100k followed a drop to $80 and a public bailout happy trading
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
its quite simple really, if you are a conservative at a Silicon Valley company, just lie to anyone who tries to reveal your belief system. real shame we don't have a President Sanders...yes, really, oh yes I agree...
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I can see why Citylab would favor a system like BART...making everyone equally miserable (aka "levelling") is a primary motivation of the left Citylabs fantasy community is an endless stream of apartment buildings virtually fenced
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
In 2017 you learn things when they are leaked, not when they are investigated. How much was Edward Snowden making for the story of the year? Atlantic on the other hand publishes long form opinion pieces
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Despite what these publications tell you, the oversupply of people wanting to write things on the internet means you actually do not need to pay for "quality" journalism. For every grizzled vet that throws in the towel, frustrated
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
and how does your jab advance that?
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
the EU is rapidly turning in to a union with few willing and satisfied participants the EU would be much better off letting disgruntled states go, even if it diminishes the size and prestige of the remaining union, unless the bureaucrats re
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
you know what, just kick me off. frankly this site has taken on most of the awful qualities of twitter. your guidelines are designed to coerce people into writing pablum and i've decided i don't want to reduce myself any further.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
By forcing an equivalence with Nazism, you have proven my point, happy tweeting.

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