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by rcme 3y ago
A typical example is a merge underway right now: Kroger and Albertsons are trying to merge. Apparently the CEO of Kroger has been quoted on a call as saying "We view a little bit of inflation as always good in our business." Alber
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by rcme 3y ago
You can’t raise prices in a vacuum. If the market has adequate competition, then raising prices will lead to a loss in sales as customers go to other businesses. With consolidation, which GP mentioned, there isn’t enough competition to keep
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by rcme 3y ago
The 4th dimension is somewhat intuitive if you think about it like a 3D space + a time dimension.
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by rcme 3y ago
Social security and Medicare are also a form of insurance. Are you not paying a social security and Medicare tax? How is that different?
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by rcme 3y ago
The U.S. Federal Reserve hasn’t advocated people voluntarily take a lower wage, but they have explicitly stated that their goal for raising rates is to put people out of work so that they’re forced to accept lower wages. You can see Powell’
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by rcme 3y ago
My point is that the FDIC DIF premiums and assessments are mandated by law and are thus a tax levied on banks. So the you’re trying to make it seem like the banks are managing the risk themselves but another way of looking at it is that all
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by rcme 3y ago
I don’t think “the government funds its operations via taxes” is a strong argument against this being bailout.
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by rcme 3y ago
I don’t really see how that’s relevant. Paying into the FDIC DIF is a legal requirement of the banks. It’s basically a tax. Somehow bankers have convinced everyone that they have impunity to mess up the financial system just because they pa
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by rcme 3y ago
Do you really think the cleaner looks at every thing posted in the lab as he cleans? Very unlikely. Agreements require a meeting of the minds. The only idiots I see are the ones that lost decades of research.
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by rcme 3y ago
Why does that matter? They knew it was broken but didn’t explicitly notify the cleaning company to avoid the fridge. Like what is the argument exactly? “I knew this was broken and didn’t tell you about it. Now you owe me money because the b
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by rcme 3y ago
Well in this case the fridge would have kept running after the power was cut at the breaker.
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by rcme 3y ago
Apparently they had a sign that explained how to mute the alarm. I think that’s going to work against them. They were aware that the alarm could trigger erroneously and didn’t fix the issue.
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by rcme 3y ago
SVB’s bailout is estimated to have cost the FDIC 20B. The Fed also set up new lending programs to support the banks, which was essentially free* money.
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by rcme 3y ago
The depositors were bailed out. Also, I would say the banking sector as a whole was bailed out. Providing unlimited insurance is to SVB’s depositors allowed other banks to remain solvent, as did the Fed’s new lending programs.
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by rcme 3y ago
I think the reason they preferred the vacancies is that the value of the property is related to the rent price, so if they lowered the rent they’d have to lower the book value of the asset as well.
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by rcme 3y ago
A large issue in the US is that local communities have very little control over many of the roads in their communities. In addition to locally controlled roads, there are county roads, state roads, and interstates. As a result, even if a co
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by rcme 3y ago
Think about a physical community, perhaps the area where you live. Do you really want the population of your neighborhood to 10x? Population size changes the characteristics of a place. Sometimes, you’re content with the way things are.
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by rcme 3y ago
Maybe adoption isn’t the goal. Just a thought…
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by rcme 3y ago
I believe the point they were trying to make is that the naming is confusing for consumers. Even if you’re aware of the difference, the naming is still confusing. If someone with knowledge of the product can’t figure out the naming, then ho
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by rcme 3y ago
The frame rate on an iPhone 13 Pro is pretty bad. Seems to average around 20 FPS. Granted, Safari sucks, but it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of Godot given that your game appears to be 2D?
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by rcme 3y ago
Saying ‘no’ to almost everything is the difference between successful people and very successful people. It’s not the difference between very successful people and unsuccessful people.
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by rcme 3y ago
The person you’re responding to’s point is that you know that a PS5 is better than a PS4 without cursory investigation because you know 5 > 4. When you’re dealing with mass market consumers, there are many that won’t perform cursory in
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by rcme 3y ago
A implies B does not mean B implies A. Certain human activities disturbs orcas, but that doesn’t mean all human activities disturb orcas.
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by rcme 3y ago
No one is building dams to fail. But they can fail for a variety of reasons. They need constant monitoring by experts for signs of failure and lots of costly upkeep when issues arise. This is a hard problem. The Netherlands is one of the fo
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by rcme 3y ago
I’m not on the left or the right, but I am an avid NYT reader and the paper was definitely equating lab leak with crazy conspiracy theory at the time. Here is an example from 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/1
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by rcme 3y ago
> Or better yet, if you ask apt get to update a package, you damn sure don't expect it to update itself. This might be true for apt, because that’s how it always worked, but is this true of modern package managers? Like if I do `bre
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by rcme 3y ago
This “thought experiment” is painting a narrative using a false dichotomy. “I don’t know” is always a valid answer. The nice thing about rule based systems is that they can be augmented with additional rules. You don’t know wether or not a
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by rcme 3y ago
Not humans, the suggested headline specifically mentions the boat race causing the disruption.
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by rcme 3y ago
How do you know the orcas were disrupted? > the latest encounter in what researchers say is a growing trend of aggressive interactions with Iberian orcas. Sounds like the orcas were acting with intention.
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by rcme 3y ago
Until the Number constructor starts accepting a radix parameter.

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