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by mcguire 4y ago
This writer seems to be confused about the difference between a generator and a battery.
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by mcguire 4y ago
I noticed this recently in the Amazon Shopping app. Yes, you can buy everything except digital books in the app.
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The First Nations of Catan(analoggamestudies.org)
3 points by mcguire 4y ago|1 comments
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by mcguire 4y ago
I'm afraid I find this argument to be specious. Sure, Roe v. Wade might or might not be a great legal decision. However, if it is not, why are conservative state governments racing to introduce new laws to ban abortion, punish anyone w
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by mcguire 4y ago
Everybody wants federal highway funding. "If you want Medicare funding, you will..." could easily backfire, given that conservatives are not fond of that program either.
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by mcguire 4y ago
There are a lot of ways to slice those numbers; I like deaths / km as it describes the risks of traveling from point A to point B by various methods. On the other hand, it's likely skewed somehow by the fact that you rarely have m
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by mcguire 4y ago
Dividing fatalities by population might be reasonable to look at acceptable death levels; in NL in 2020, that's 229 / 17,440,000 or 1.3 per 100,000. Automotive numbers would be pretty similar. (Correction: They would not. There we
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by mcguire 4y ago
Hmm. Most states brought on mandatory seat belt laws in the mid-1980s--mid-1990s. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_United_S... ) 1981 was the last year with motor vehicle fatalities over 3.0 per bill
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by mcguire 4y ago
" In absolute terms, more people were killed in a car accident (237) than in a bicycle accident (203) last year, but this is different per kilometre travelled. Traffic mortality per billion vehicle-km was much higher among cyclists tha
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by mcguire 4y ago
Could anyone give, say, 3 examples of that happening?
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by mcguire 4y ago
In increase in pay? During a layoff where they're trying to save money? And then there's the 3x increase in workload.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" No one cannot predict how bad the economy will get... " ??? I get that it's twitter, but grammar is still a thing.
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by mcguire 4y ago
You might try adding the number of McDonald's locations and their revenue. I have a hypothesis.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Do you remember when some Chinese baby formula producers were including melamine powder to increase their apparent protein content, or was that before you were born?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Yes. But think institutional investors of various flavors rather than personal, individual accounts. The 2-3% is the Fed funds rate; actual rates on government and commercial bonds will be somewhat higher. (A friend recently pointed out the
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by mcguire 4y ago
The inflation rate also hit 13.55% in 1980 and didn't go much below 6% between 1973-1982.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" If the hikes play out, we'll land around what, 2-3% for the fed funds rate? That's low, historically. " But it's not the 0.1% that drove money out of other asset classes (i.e. bonds) because they couldn't gen
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by mcguire 4y ago
Wilshire 5000 / US GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=qLC That is normalized to 1 in late 2007. At the end of 2021, it was 2.53; at the end of the first quarter of this year it's at 2.37. In 1Q 2020, i
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by mcguire 4y ago
It's always the government's fault.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Much of the problem is with families that need a specific formula. How would, say, importing different formula from Europe help that?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Absolutely! The biggest advantage for most, particularly readers of HN, is described in part II ( http://gameofrent.com/content/can-lvt-be-passed-on-to-tenant... ): "...landlords cannot pass Land Value Tax (LVT) on
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by mcguire 4y ago
Oh, there's lots of options. There's the gold standard. There are an estimated 250,000 tons of gold in the world, with estimated reserves of 60,000 tons. ( https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-gold-has-been-found
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by mcguire 4y ago
I can't count how many times people have explained here that Bitcoin is a "store of value". A store of value that can be down 40% YTD is...problematic. I mean, I guess the value is still there....
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by mcguire 4y ago
The "crash" in MT FAANG (that's a thing?) (-25%,-40%,-45%,-23%,-38%,-72% (whoa),-24%) is very likely people moving money out of stocks that they put into stocks because they could not get any return on bonds and other assets.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The short answer: It's financial engineering. It hasn't invented anything cool since the credit default swap.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" We drink elixirs that we refine From the juices of the dying " Shriekback, Nemesis, 1985.
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by mcguire 5y ago
1. Neither I nor anyone else in this thread has accused you of being an asshole. 2. Have you interacted with many human beings? We'd all love it if being treated as a human being were the bare minimum, but quite a few people didn'
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by mcguire 5y ago
To be fair, defending 'being a n asshole' is hard to do.
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by mcguire 5y ago
On the other hand, having spent many years at IBM, the Loudest Person In The Room is rarely a woman. And, having been part of a fair number of woman-led organizations, including those that were straight up empire building, hyper-competitive
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by mcguire 5y ago
Seeing your comment, I'm reminded of the Far Side comic where the dog only understands her name in the owner's speech: "blah blah blah Ginger blah blah". " Proving you're smart by solving hard problems is a gor

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