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by lazerpants 6y ago
To be fair, the materials and labor used by high end brands (at least the ones you mentioned) are different from cheap brands. Most of the labor is Italian or Portuguese, and those workers get a paid month off every year in addition to bene
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by lazerpants 6y ago
Most brand's factory stores use different production factories or textiles than the non-factory stores. J Crew Factory and Brooks Brothers Factory stores are mostly garbage produced by the same designers but at much lower cost than the
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by lazerpants 6y ago
They literally just changed the keyboard design because users hated it.
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by lazerpants 6y ago
Don't forget that the government paid $3B to destroy 665k perfectly good cars in order to drum up demand for new cars.
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by lazerpants 6y ago
>By many measures the USA is one of the most corrupt countries ever to have existed. Source?
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by lazerpants 6y ago
>Purchasing tangible items seems to bring more joy than it did two months ago. I wonder if this will remain true after Covid lock-in ends. It felt like the pendulum had swung awfully far towards people valuing experiences over items. Als
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by lazerpants 7y ago
It is annoying but taxes in the US are based on locality, so they involve state and municipal sales taxes, so it would be impossible to list one price for every customer.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Of course, the Fed is implicitly at fault here too for keeping interest rates too low for too long. They tacitly encouraged borrowing with low rates. If rates had been higher, companies would be thrilled about lowering rates due to covid an
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by lazerpants 7y ago
I didn't know about High Country News, looks like a great publication. Thanks.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Presumably airlines will be devaluing their points too, in order to help balance the books.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
The point of his index is to compare prices to wages at various points in time. It does look like transportation takes up a similar ratio of earned income as it did before, however, if you look at PCE or CPI, cars have become _less expensiv
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Housing is absolutely included in CPI and PCE calculations. I'm less knowledgeable about how education and healthcare are accounted for but they are also included.
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Rural America Doesn’t Have to Starve to Death(thenation.com)
20 points by lazerpants 7y ago|11 comments
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Pixel's don't have batteries that are intended to be user serviceable either. Plus, they don't get 6 years of updates... At least it's easy to drop by an Apple store to take advantage of the trade-in/recycle program
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Anecdotally, Denver and Austin were both pretty laissez-faire prior to the demographic shifts of the past 10 years. I would guess Vermont, NH, or Maine still may have places with the same purple politics.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
CPI includes both housing and education. If there's any argument to make it is around how they are calculated and the degree to which they are weighted in various inflation calculations.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
>people are getting into mortgages and home equity lines of credit they can't afford The numbers suggest otherwise: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MDSP
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by lazerpants 7y ago
There seems to be something else going on in addition to what you've mentioned. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871403X1...
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Ukraine Boeing with 176 onboard comes down near Tehran(theguardian.com)
4 points by lazerpants 7y ago|0 comments
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Somewhat dated now, but this is a good review from 2006. Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147149060...
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by lazerpants 7y ago
I feel like there is a huge demographic issue underlying these numbers. The cohort of young adults in the US probably peaked around 2012, so more binge drinking is likely caused by that alone. (I didn't read the paper the article is ba
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Amazon on demand (yes you have to pay for all content) is pretty damn close to this.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
The counterargument you will hear to your strategy is: you can always refinance at lower interest rates if rates go down at some point, but you can never change the price you paid for the home. Granted, you should do what works for you, but
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Isn't this exactly what is discussed in the Don Delilo book, Zero K?
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Just clear your NYT related cookies and it will work fine.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Not quite true. There are ethical ways of getting foie. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_...
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by lazerpants 7y ago
I hate the buses in NYC. They're tremendously slow. I bought a One Wheel, comparable an ebike basically, and it's awesome for the 0.5-4.0 mile range. Plus, it's more fun than the subway or a bus so I'll even take it over
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Such a bummer. Vue was the most expensive but certainly best of the online cable bundles if you wanted to get as much content as possible.
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by lazerpants 7y ago
You could also just purchase the magazine with cash at a newsstand...
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by lazerpants 7y ago
Trench foot builds character.

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