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by nkurz 6y ago
Is there a good up-to-date resource for understanding the current premium that MSTR has over its BTC holdings? The article says: "MicroStrategy said last week it owns around 91,579 bitcoins. Its holdings, worth around $5.5 billion acc
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by nkurz 6y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer! Going farther, why do you go to all the trouble? Is there something specific about the articles on the list that make you want to promote them?
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by nkurz 6y ago
I disagree. I think a simpler explanation is that someone being arrested would continue to deny having done anything illegal. While it may be true that he "ate too many drugs", and it's not impossible that he would suddenly
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by nkurz 6y ago
Full text available from link at bottom of article: Description: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20191777 PDF: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20191777
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by nkurz 6y ago
Machine translation to English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/...
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by nkurz 6y ago
American Persimmons (Diospyros virginiana) actually respond well to a few freeze-thaw cycles. Despite myth, they don't require it for ripening, but they aren't hurt by it they way that Japanese kaki are.
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by nkurz 6y ago
Could you tell me more about this? What's in called in the local language? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbus_torminalis as someone mentioned below?
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by nkurz 6y ago
You are right that depending on where you are, it could be either. The English language Wikipedia article for 'loquat'[1] suggests that Southern Italy uses 'nespolo' for 'loquat', while Northern uses it for &
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by nkurz 6y ago
Not really. At least, if you hadn't been told in advance that the loquat was also called the "Japanese medlar", you probably wouldn't think they had anything more in common than a pear and a plum, or an apple and an apr
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by nkurz 6y ago
Your link isn't working for me, but this video confirms that muç-molla is indeed the same fruit as medlar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpgCdAXb-Xo
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think you are confusing the "loquat" with the "medlar". The loquat is still relatively common, doesn't have a gaping open end, is yellow to orange, and can be eaten out of hand. The medlar is darker in color, h
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by nkurz 6y ago
Wow, what a great article! And it links to one of my favorite botany papers every written: "The Medlar (Mespilus germanica, Rosaceae) from Antiquity to Obscurity" by John R. Baird and John W. Thieret, Economic Botany Vol. 43, N
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by nkurz 6y ago
> None of these people will espouse things like raising the minimum wage, reducing our out of control military budget, or god forbid, universal healthcare for Americans. Odd, I have completely the opposite impression. I support all of t
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by nkurz 6y ago
It's a wider net relative to reading only the mainstream US press (defined here as centered around NPR/CNN/NYT). Also, all of those strongly identify as leftists, just of a different strain than is currently dominant in the
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think the best hope is to cast a wide net, and hope that you can find sources that have complementary biases. You shouldn't avoid the mainstream US media, but you should be aware that many apparently independent sources share simila
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by nkurz 6y ago
Today's [flagged][dead] article from Glenn Greenwald seems quite relevant: "Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie All Over Twitter" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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Why in the world would you own bonds?(bridgewater.com)
355 points by nkurz 6y ago|515 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
As others have pointed out, this is handled differently in the UK versus the US. You are correct for the US standard definition of CPI, but the author of the article is a professor in the UK, writing on a UK domain for a (primarily) UK aud
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by nkurz 6y ago
https://archive.is/5h8Zx
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by nkurz 6y ago
https://remove-js.com/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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by nkurz 6y ago
It seems strange to me that the authors of paper seem to have made no attempt to determine which factors the model is using to differentiate between images. Or even to ask the human comparisons how they obtained their greater than chance r
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think you misunderstand what "controlled for" means in this case. The way the controlled version of the test works is that two pictures are presented at the same time. Both subjects will be of the same gender, the same ethnici
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by nkurz 6y ago
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think you must be wrong. Here's the ingredient list for Starbuck's turkey bacon: Turkey Bacon [Turkey, Vinegar And Lemon Juice Concentrate, Water, Brown Sugar, Honey, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Seasoning (Natural Flavorings, Sea
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Slouching Toward Post-Journalism(city-journal.org)
25 points by nkurz 6y ago|54 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
> It's also frustrating that every common term for some concept can easily acquire connotations that suggest a particular affiliation. Upvoted, but for sake of example I'll mention that your use of "anti-immigrant groups&q
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by nkurz 6y ago
I thought this was a good summary: "The progress of the COVID-19 epidemic in Sweden: an update" February 18, 2021 By Nic Lewis https://judithcurry.com/2021/02/18/the-progress-of-the-covid...
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by nkurz 6y ago
It's not quite what you are asking for, but I thought this was a well done article by the current Black president of George Mason University on how he views the slave-owning namesake of his university: https://www.nbcnews.co
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by nkurz 6y ago
Nice article, but gives me an "Invalid URL" error when I click. It works if I remove the "beta" from the URL. Maybe test and resubmit?
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by nkurz 6y ago
The secondary air combustion for wood burning stoves usually doesn't require electricity. At least, we shopped for an EPA 2020 compliant replacement wood stove a couple years ago, and I don't think I came across that needed elect

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