nostromo

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by nostromo 4y ago
> In 2021, Elon Musk's net worth grew by an estimated $121 billion. And it's dropped by more than that in 2022... So I guess we should all be happy we've made billions more than Elon this year.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It's political. (I don't mean that as a negative, just reality.) The US is coming up on an election. The party in power is extremely unpopular right now, and about to get walloped according to polls. Polling shows that inflation
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by nostromo 4y ago
The US government has completely lost the ability to act strategically. Biden is currently in Saudi Arabia begging for more oil production, meanwhile he's blocking measures to increase North American oil production. So, instead of fix
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by nostromo 4y ago
These are the exact conversations happening in boardrooms everywhere, but most executives are terrified to be direct and honest in public. I respect the guy for being so open about his thinking.
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by nostromo 4y ago
But if you're borrowing to buy you're still hosed -- high interest rates means your mortgage is going to be much, much more expensive.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Yup. The key is to buy a house you want to live in for a decade or more.
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by nostromo 4y ago
We should be solving this by fixing supply chains, allowing domestic energy production to increase until the Russian war is resolved, raising taxes on the very wealthy, and cutting spending (to reduce deficit spending, which creates new mon
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by nostromo 4y ago
Raising interest rates can increase the costs of housing. (Not the sticker price, the cost.) Fewer developers will build new apartment buildings because financing is getting much more expensive. Fewer new apartments with a growing populat
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by nostromo 4y ago
They do this already. They're called helicopters.
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by nostromo 4y ago
There's two steps to the process: Step one, check the signature, the voter roles, and remove the envelope. Throw the ballot into the bin to be counted. Step two, count the ballot. This ballot now has no identifiable information on it
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by nostromo 4y ago
California paid a lifeguard over $500,000 last year. https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/la-lifeguards-raked-in-up-to-5... We don’t need to spend more - we need the state to fix how money is allocated.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Can we stop pretending the war on drugs is sending large amounts of people in California to jail? It’s not the 80s / 90s anymore. It’s very difficult to end up in jail anywhere on the west coast due to run of the mill drug possession.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It doesn’t matter where the budget comes from. The US funds primary education very well - as well as many of our European counterparts (despite our worse outcomes).
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by nostromo 4y ago
The comment didn’t say “we need to spend more on policing” - it said “we need more policing.”
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by nostromo 4y ago
Animals with economic value rarely go extinct. Just look at cows, pigs, and chickens. It’s the ones that don’t have value that are at risk.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Your comment is itself ridiculous. Do you expect them to go directly to clinical trials with no preliminary research? Of course not. This is exploratory research, not medical advice.
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by nostromo 4y ago
She seems squeaky clean compared to the Clintons, Trumps, and Bidens.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It seems a number of commenters don’t know that Wikipedia has a built-in page to show you articles with subjects near you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
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by nostromo 4y ago
Retiring because you’re rich enough to not work is a great thing. But don’t fool yourself - that’s not why millions of people permanently left the workforce. Thankfully you’re right and it has seemed to recover a lot of ground since ~2016.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Unemployment is a b.s. number. What matters is working-age labor participation rate, and it's been declining since 1999. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
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by nostromo 4y ago
Inflation is the only way it can end without another financial crisis. A married couple both making 150k will be seen as middle class soon. It’s already true in a few cities.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I’m not attacking you, your heart is in the right place, but your comment illustrates the problem. Housing absolutely should be a profit center. Home and multifamily builders should be unleashed to build as much housing as they can. Let t
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by nostromo 4y ago
People go to university for the credential, not to learn. Surprisingly little learning happens at university. The Case Against Education makes a convincing case about how worthless most of higher ed really is. Diplomas have tremendous valu
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by nostromo 4y ago
Uh yeah? We’re talking about how incandescents have superior light. CFLs are worse than both LEDs and incandescents.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The reason those didn’t matter so much in the past is because traditional light bulbs are so damn good. Even today, as good as LEDs have gotten, their color rendering is still noticeably worse than incandescents. (The highest scores are ar
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by nostromo 4y ago
So you'd rather everyone pay more for food based on your personal preferences? Even though there's a lot of evidence that these foods are entirely safe...
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by nostromo 4y ago
And white people that live in California or Florida should note that our complexion evolved in latitudes similar to Canada.
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by nostromo 4y ago
And the author is writing an article for Outside , which also has a clear bias in presenting a one-sided argument.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I suppose I am, yes. Not of all blind people of course, but of one that owns and fires a gun. How can a blind person shoot a gun in a responsible way?
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by nostromo 4y ago
That sounds like an interesting legal case. On one hand, the state shouldn’t block one’s civil rights because one is disabled. On the other hand, blind gun-owner.

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