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   by mdemare 7y ago

   Berkshire Hathaway does not pay a dividend - is it therefore speculation? Surely not - its valuation is based on it’s earnings.
2. 152.▲
   by mdemare 7y ago

   Apple doesn’t sell any wired mice or keyboards AFAICT.
3. 153.▲
   by mdemare 7y ago

   I heard rumors that a lot of towns just send their psychiatric homeless to SF with a one-way ticket.
4. 154.▲
   by mdemare 7y ago

   So, China is a U.S. vassal state?
5. 155.▲
   by mdemare 7y ago

   Milton Friedman has been dead for 13 years.
6. 156.▲
   by mdemare 7y ago

   If WSL2 allows access to the GPU, chances are good.
7. 157.▲
   by mdemare 8y ago

   Tensorflow doesn’t run on 3.7, only 3.6 (and 2.7). That’s a pretty major library.
8. 158.▲
   by mdemare 8y ago

   The Dutch talk in whispers? Just ... no. (I’m Dutch). The Belgians and especially the French do talk very softly.
9. 159.▲
   by mdemare 8y ago

   I would hardly call the Surface family cheap.
10. 160.▲
    by mdemare 8y ago

    That was the original draft, but they chickened out and just decided to halve poverty by 2015 instead.
11. 161.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    To Kill A Mockingbird is set in the 1930s.
12. 162.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    The consequences of a falling dollar isn't "a nasty chain reaction of consequences", it's to import less and export more, which increases employment and leads to increased tax revenue. > After Japan's savings rat
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    People have been saying that for ten years now. If inflation ticks up, the Fed will raise rates, which will dampen inflation but increase the interest on new treasuries, which will presumably compel the administration to cut spending and ra
14. 164.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    "Some people are more skilled than others, therefore inequality exists" - sure. But why would that predict _rising_ inequality?
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    During the period Hitler came to power, there was deflation, not inflation. Inflation means your saving go to zero. Deflation means your mortgage and mortgage payments stay constant, while your salary and the price of your home falls by X%
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    Oh yeah? https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/938112396668805121
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    Payment costs in the Netherlands (ABNAMRO bank, english): https://www.abnamro.nl/nl/images/Content/022_Zakelijk_nieuwe... Note that nearly all fees are flat fees.
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    You guess wrong. If a bank does not have enough liquid capital, it can borrow from the central bank. If the value of its deposits exceed the value of its loans, it’s insolvent. Stockholders lose everything. Depositors are insured up to $250
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    My negativity toward bitcoin is that it’s used by con-men to scam naive techies out of their money. These kinds of financial operations never end well, and when they do, people will lose their life savings, their retirement, and many will r
20. 170.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    According to Google autocomplete, the world is also running out of antivenom, bees, cocoa, doctors, energy, fish, gravity, helium, ip addresses, jobs, lithium, magnets, nutella, oil, phosphorus, rice, scotch, topsoil, vanilla and water.
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    Ok, that was pretty obscure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shadwell
22. 172.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    > Even low and zero interest savings accounts are used by banks to back loans. Only if banks have more lending opportunities than deposits, and that hasn't really been the case, (depending on which country we're discussing) sin
23. 173.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    No, that completely depends on in what economic climate they'd be in. Exuberant spending in 2009 creates jobs, but in 1999 crowds out more sensible use of resources.
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    In a world with a $10K yearly UBI, income taxes for many people will go up by a lot more than $10K.
25. 175.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    So much for never deviating into sense...
26. 176.▲
    by mdemare 9y ago

    I'm pretty sure more than 1.7M houses get built every year worldwide.
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    Incidentally, ast also runs http://electoral-vote.com/ , since the 2004 elections. Posts marked (V) are by him.
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    by mdemare 9y ago

    There is _massive_ evolutionary pressure going against this. To the extent that not wanting to have children is at all genetic, it will disappear from the gene pool within a few generations. That the desire to "not want to have childre
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    by mdemare 9y ago

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    by mdemare 9y ago

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