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by ksdale 6y ago
Oh for sure, I know they show way fewer commercials than any other golf broadcast, I was mostly surprised at the increase, because I also got the impression of them being super tradition oriented and I assumed as long as the tournament brok
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is interesting to hear! They have multiple streams of the tournament on their website, including the TV broadcast, and the fact that they didn't charge for it always felt awesome to me. A few years ago, I was struck by how few com
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by ksdale 6y ago
Thaaat's not actually a euphemism.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Looks like you stepped in to say it!
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by ksdale 6y ago
My understanding is that reducing a single person's income from 12,000 to 10,800 is a big deal. And in any case, my original point was that this is barely "enough," and this is assuming a perfectly efficient and equitable dis
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by ksdale 6y ago
At $12,000 per person, you can't insure against much at all without seriously cutting into the food and shelter.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Yeah that's why I said for a family of 4. $12,000 is hardly enough for food, shelter, and clothing for a single person.
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by ksdale 6y ago
The GDP per capita of the world is only about $12,000. That's technically "what we need," food, clothes, and shelter for a family of 4, but on a per person basis, it's below the federal poverty line in the US. I don&#x27
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by ksdale 6y ago
Yeah, it's certainly true that the financialization of everything allows for a lot more of every type of investment to be made (including in productive capacity).
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by ksdale 6y ago
It doesn't necessarily though. When I buy an IPO, my dollars go straight (kind of) into a company's bank account. When I buy stock on the market, my dollars go to whoever I bought the stock from, who will probably use those dollar
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by ksdale 6y ago
I like that Graham quote, and you make good points. I guess when I say "investing," I mean more like - Purchasing an equity entitles you to a share of that business' income and potentially assets, but if you buy the equity on
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think in regards to finance, the only thing that's under attack is the idea of "stock market as source of knowledge about value." But I'm not sure that the stock market has actually served that purpose for decades. IMO
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by ksdale 6y ago
I agree completely with the premise that most people don't appreciate just how fleeting fertility can be, but I think rather than freezing eggs, the solution is for people to normalize having children at a younger age and designing wor
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is an underrated perspective. My wife's mom became a mother at 18, she certainly had a stressful 20's, but by her 30's, she was just a mom working at a bank as a teller, and by her 40's she was a woman in the back o
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by ksdale 6y ago
I've read plenty of history, thank you very much. I didn't say everything was bad, I said everyone lived in poverty and regularly worried about starving to death, which is objectively true for most people through most of history.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Once upon a time, everyone in the entire world lived in dire poverty on the brink of starvation. Now far fewer people do. (Well more absolute people, but fewer relative people) This improvement is mostly because so much more of everything i
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by ksdale 6y ago
They may well have done that, but as a very nit-picky aside, that font has a pretty general art deco vibe, so it's not necessarily unique to that GQ cover.
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by ksdale 6y ago
That's arguably part of the craft, though. People will believe all sorts of outlandish things if the story is told well enough. The story not being "believable" could be a function of crappy storytelling as much as a function
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by ksdale 6y ago
Not that internal combustion engines are the model to aspire to... but they're just a metal contraption full of explosions. Being terrifying isn't necessarily a disqualifier, haha.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Certainly government is competent in many places, but the performance of the American national and many state governments throughout the pandemic hasn't exactly been confidence inspiring. I don't think Americans who believe that t
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by ksdale 6y ago
A great many people cannot, in fact, put actual gardens in their backyards, due to space, or weather, or animals or insects, or lack of sunlight.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Ooh, that's a great example.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think there may be an element of survivorship bias at play. There's kind of a 2x2 you can draw where people can be publicly/privately kind/abusive. People who are kind all the time (or at least, not abusive all the time) ar
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by ksdale 6y ago
To be a bit facetious, that's like saying that I still possess all of the money I spent on groceries because I chose to spend it that way... at some point it's not my money anymore. I agree that Bill Gates still exerts some contro
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by ksdale 6y ago
It's kind of his money that he controls. He can do a lot with it, but he can't buy a yacht with it... You don't get the favorable tax treatment without a ton of restrictions on how you can spend the money.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Double nitpick: People often colloquially use "I feel like" in place of "It is my opinion that" and it doesn't even strike me as literally wrong to describe an opinion as a feeling... And do you think this episode i
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by ksdale 6y ago
Tractors, combines, trucks - there's a lot of heavy equipment that gets used to grow corn, and then there's emissions related to both producing and applying fertilizers.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I believe that pulling oil out of the ground is way less carbon intensive than growing the necessary amount of corn, and I believe plastic is made from some tiny fraction of the petroleum that isn't used as fuel, so the petroleum would
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by ksdale 6y ago
Are bio-plastics really a big improvement though? Growing corn burns a lot of fossil fuels. I think there's a case to be made that plastic that ends up in a landfill after few carbon emissions is better for the environment than plastic
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is great. In my comment, I almost mentioned that because of how much earlier people historically had children (than most Americans and Europeans do now), most of the people we think of as "masculine ideals" throughout history

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