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by jvm 11y ago
Agh you're so right! Sorry Sunday morning biff, I had $5/week not $25.
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by jvm 11y ago
He's not counting inflation and 11.3% is a super optimistic expectation of future S&P500 returns. A more conservative estimate for real returns would be 6.5% [1] (and internationally returns to equities actually average lower). Whe
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Freightliner licensed to operate autonomous trucks on public highways in Nevada(freightlinerinspiration.com)
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by jvm 12y ago
> There is definitely a kind of person who's interested in the social aspect of ride-sharing. In fact, there's always been—the people who hitchhike and those wiling to pick them up. My grandfather hitchhiked to school when he w
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by jvm 12y ago
> the imperative to build more and faster come from From a consequentialist/utilitarian perspective, you'd say that the utility benefit if you allowed a million more people to live in SF at affordable rents would outweigh by or
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by jvm 12y ago
Rent control prevents existing rent controlled properties from being redeveloped (e.g. to increase capacity). Of course, in the SF context that might also be impossible due to zoning/nimby opposition, but it is one huge factor.
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by jvm 12y ago
Okay but that's still, like, just their opinion man :-)
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by jvm 12y ago
The author declines to demonstrate to the reader that there are moral facts. He attempted reductiones ad absurdum fall completely flat, e.g., > If it’s not true that it’s wrong to murder a cartoonist with whom one disagrees, then how can
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by jvm 12y ago
> All things social belong to Facebook, so using a calendar that isn't linked to Facebook events is a non-starter for me. Can't you just sync your Facebook events to your Google Calendar?
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by jvm 12y ago
268 in 2014! http://project.wnyc.org/traffic-deaths/
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by jvm 12y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment, those are all valid concerns. But in the context of New York City I strongly believe the dangers to pedestrians are paramount. > inappropriately low speed limits It's hard to imagine speed limi
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by jvm 12y ago
> kickback scheme How could enforcing the law be a kickback scheme? Don't want a ticket? Don't speed! As a pedestrian I would personally prefer that drivers always feel they are in danger of getting a ticket, so drivers always
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by jvm 12y ago
Ah, sorry missed that aspect. Thanks!
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by jvm 12y ago
> Bit of a shame it's dedicated to continuing our use of fossil fuels really. Relative to baseline this probably consumes the least fossil fuels per tonne of any FF-powered transportation mechanism, so relative to baseline this vess
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by jvm 12y ago
> Maybe I'm weird, but I feel slightly offended if a vendor is not offering their lowest price to begin with Just to flip this around, should your boss be offended if they're not paying you the lowest amount you'd be willi
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by jvm 12y ago
Point taken, but you could imagine a state of affairs where the costs of trade are so high that the imbalanced prices do actually represent equilibrium, e.g. imagine tariffs are 100,000% and well-enforced. In the real world non-zero exchang
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by jvm 12y ago
Nominal GDP: $5mil PPP adjusted: $0
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by jvm 12y ago
> In Economy C, the workers who've been paid by the govt can then purchase 5000 Retina Macbook Airs at $1k each You are assuming transaction costs of 0 for international trade. If transaction costs for international trade are zero,
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by jvm 12y ago
Certainly Nominal GDP is a measure of the volume of transactions. However, PPP-adjusted GDP is intended to be a measure of national income in real terms, or put another way, the amount of value actually produced. Which is how people often
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by jvm 12y ago
> So, it's not entirely clear if China is really the biggest economy, or just by using an accounting trick called PPP GDP. There is no objective way of measuring the size of an economy. Imagine some hyper-simplified economies where
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by jvm 12y ago
> 8: How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future? > > Keep me alive. :-) Odd to express narcissism in response to this question. I have no idea whether NeoVim is going in the right directi
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by jvm 12y ago
> The only thing being "disrupted" is probably KidsCab's bottom line. That's exactly the origin of the word "disruption." It was industry lingo for a dominant player facing fundamental changes to the market
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by jvm 12y ago
Does Venmo actually have a better reputation for security than Square?
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by jvm 12y ago
> the weakness of Yen means they are investing more and more abroad Shouldn't a weak yen make it cheaper to invest at home relative to abroad? What's the mechanism that causes the opposite effect?
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by jvm 12y ago
The BBC has a story in English: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29982960
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by jvm 12y ago
That happened 25 years ago. I was only meaning to reference growth since 2008. it's not clear why recent growth should be impacted by an ancient supply shock. The same country's economy grew at double digit rates while recovering
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by jvm 12y ago
Germany has stagnated in employment, wage growth, and expected GDP growth (as measured by equities) compared to Japan and the US.
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by jvm 12y ago
They certainly are. But even Germany has had mediocre performance compared to the rest of the rich world.
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by jvm 12y ago
> Things are so bad they've taken to destroying the Yen to buy a very short amount of time, which is accelerating the overall erosion and rapidly dropping the standard of living in Japan This is an interesting perspective. If the fa
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by jvm 12y ago
There's a lot of conflation in this article between distribution and economic growth, which I think arises from the Spiegel's European perspective. Going back to the start of the DAX tracking (mid-2011), we see okay performance in

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