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by mint2 4y ago
My speculation from a non-financial expert view might be that as an average investor deciding where to put money, Amazon stock doesn’t seem like a good bet when there’s very low risk easy ways to get at least 4.5%. Maybe they are working on
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by mint2 4y ago
Wait, does that mean chime offers no meaningful interest like chase?
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by mint2 4y ago
I’m on the same page with formatting, it’s not a pandas thing. (Doesn’t actually look like you’re saying it’s only a pandas thing) The same formatting patterns happen in all languages I’ve seen, sql quite often. It’s just a bad programming
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by mint2 4y ago
Random lists of strings are hard to decipher. What is that set of values supposed to represent? And it interrupts the flow of figuring out what’s going on. I prefer assigning lists like that to informatively name variable rather than have l
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by mint2 4y ago
What about comparing wages in 1960 to wages in 1990 without adjusting for inflation?
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by mint2 4y ago
Adjusted for inflation?
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by mint2 4y ago
> In LA, for example, the LADWP is test-driving a program where food scraps - vegetables, but also meats and fats - are diverted into green bins Moved to SF from LA area. Sf does the green bins and it’s actually surprisingly nice to sepa
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by mint2 4y ago
Expected value here should include some measure or utility. Like “expected value of useful money.” After the lottery is over 20 million, how much difference does it really make whether it’s 100M, 500M, or 1B. If there were 1k chances at 1M
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by mint2 4y ago
The scooter forces users to go 20mph? You’re talking about the stand on scooters not the mopeds right?
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by mint2 4y ago
A counter point would be that significant chunks of the world profess to guide their lives by a book human men originally put together over a thousand years ago. so is it really far fetched to that chunk of humanity that one can plan a thou
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by mint2 4y ago
Good thing then Russia’s official stance is that there is no war. In fact, that’s such a noxious lie in Russia view that they jail people for repeating it. Shouldn’t we trust Russia judgement on this if we’re trusting their claimed objectio
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by mint2 4y ago
To many, Ukraine defending itself against an invasion means it’s the aggressors because words have no meaning except what sounds good to the immediate argument. Tomorrow the words may mean the opposite. I say maybe we should listen to the o
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by mint2 4y ago
The nato expansion argument is garbage because in the face of it Russia did the one move nearly guaranteed to strengthen nato. Guess what, now historically averse to joining nato countries are rushing to sign up.
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by mint2 4y ago
“Hey little country next door, we must invade you because if we invade you nato will give you weapons and stuff and we don’t like nato being a barrier to our imperialism. Your only other option is to just surrender now to our extortion.” A
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by mint2 4y ago
“But the hard truth is that now is the right time to focus on this, and the beginning of the pandemic was simply not.” You’ve hit on one of the biggest issues of the debate. Early on many of the posts acted like if everyone got on board wit
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by mint2 4y ago
Or a bit over 4% percent (annual) on 6month T bills also on treasury direct
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by mint2 4y ago
It’s not a totally unreasonable consideration when making an individual personal choice, but it’s when making an argument against policies and the industry as a whole that the charger access contention is wrongheaded. Increased demand is wh
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by mint2 4y ago
Yeah EV tech moving down the cost ladder seems to be happening on the quicker side of things. I’m not certain that that particular comment was being the price up as a critique against EVs, but I’ve seen many people make it and it just makes
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by mint2 4y ago
So in other words, just as with nearly all new car technology advancements, it starts out with luxury vehicles and then gradually moves down the price ranges? Is it supposed to be magically different than normal car development progression?
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by mint2 4y ago
It’s never been safe to leave a car with valuables in big cities. That’s not an SF thing, and even if one insists it’s an SF thing for the sake of argument, it’s not a new SF thing it’s been like that for decades.
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by mint2 4y ago
The sf cops make the $1.7M single stall toilet look like a bargain. 45 traffic enforcement offices only manager to give out an average of 10 ticks every day. That’s not each, that’s as a whole department. https://www.sfchronicle
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by mint2 4y ago
> criminals still needs to be charged and convicted. There was a reason SF recalled their DA. It’s impossible to charge someone who wasn’t arrested or, in the rare occasion they are arrested, with shoddy evidence work. The police even ha
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by mint2 4y ago
> Correctly stating that the risk of aftershock on today's event was minimal We’ll this is terminologically correct due to that fact that if a stronger one follows then the initial one is a foreshock and the stronger one they prepa
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by mint2 4y ago
From that It’s clear you didn’t intend to minimize earthquakes in general which is good, it was just a matter of not the best wording/phrasing. “Big yawn” is a loaded word: It was not in the least terrifying and actually a big yawn; no
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by mint2 4y ago
This comes off a bit as minimizing/dismissing concern of the next big one, and also seems to be expressing disappoint that this one wasn’t more exciting instead of being “a big yawn; no known damage or injuries.”
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by mint2 4y ago
Point noted, yes it’s more a reinforcing feedback loop aka positive feedback loop. Although with more consideration it’s more of a system collapse than a feedback loop. I suppose one could credibility debate the terminology but “potayto” “p
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by mint2 4y ago
I’m oddly annoying by the repeated use of the term “negative flywheel”. It sounds like the worst of business buzz jargon nonsense and replaces the much more self evident and well known term “negative feedback loop”. But being in a tweeticle
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by mint2 4y ago
To many, Irvine is also soulless, sterile and feels like living in an office park. Hence moving to SF.
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by mint2 4y ago
This treaty they are leaving sounds awful, it’s whole purpose is to let oil companies sue countries for doing things that hamper their profits
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by mint2 4y ago
As if individual consumers have any ability to negotiate contracts. This is a main case for what government regulations are for. When the individual consumer doesn’t have ability to negotiate and companies are abusing something, then the i

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