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by sbelskie 4y ago
Should California force SV tech companies to hire a minimum percentage of people from CA?
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by sbelskie 4y ago
The decrease in net migration has everything to do with COVID + and embarrassing inability to process green card and other immigration related backlogs and almost nothing to do with there not being enough people willing to migrate here. At
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by sbelskie 4y ago
Why is FDA against the device? Honestly curious.
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by sbelskie 4y ago
This graph only goes back to 2000 but even on that timescale current military spending is lower than past peaks: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS
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Inflation is not cost of living(singlelunch.com)
2 points by sbelskie 5y ago|0 comments
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Is total return here increase in price + dividends or are the dividends also being reinvested?
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Are you claiming that this common kind of poison pill provision is illegal?
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by sbelskie 5y ago
I feel like I’ve read that book before but can’t recall what it was.
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by sbelskie 5y ago
The article suggests that “value investing” is not just about price ratios (which is mostly all such indexes can offer).
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by sbelskie 5y ago
I can understand that feeling but what offers average Americans a better option for growing and securing wealth than investing (most) savings in the stock market?
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by sbelskie 5y ago
The part of the argument made by looking at individual countries is much less compelling in a world where low cost total world stock etfs exist. They are of course weighted heavily to the US just given the size of US stocks, but one can red
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by sbelskie 5y ago
“ Adjustments to the IORB rate help to move the federal funds rate into the target range set by the FOMC. Banks should be unwilling to lend to any private counterparty at a rate lower than the rate they can earn on balances maintained at th
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by sbelskie 5y ago
But doesn’t the Fed still pay on reserves held? Even if it’s not required, the Fed increasing the rate paid on reserves would put upward pressure on other rates, otherwise banks would just take the IORB rate.
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by sbelskie 5y ago
For what it’s worth, the BLS does have methods to account for both of these. How well they work I don’t know, but the numbers you see reported contain adjustments for these.
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by sbelskie 5y ago
I invariably end up using Func<TModel, TModel> instead of Action<TModel> for stuff like this to support immutable objects/properties. Increasingly common with records now, but not really needed if everything is always mutab
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Defaulting just means you have not made required payments for a certain period of time (270 days for student loans), so anyone can default.
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by sbelskie 5y ago
I think the proposed raw string literals open up the possibility for something like this in the future.
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by sbelskie 5y ago
The construct seems to be defined as: ``` multi_line_raw_string_literal : raw_string_literal_delimiter whitespace* new_line (raw_content | new_line)* new_line whitespace* raw_string_literal_delimiter ; ``` Which I think says that th
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by sbelskie 5y ago
With potentially more on the way! https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/utf...
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Except how much someone is willing to pay for something depends on, among other things, prevailing market prices, which are influenced by marginal costs. I may be happy to buy a house for anything less than 200k but if all houses are sellin
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by sbelskie 5y ago
I think it’s totally fair to criticize the response and suggest it could have been better, I meant it more in terms of the people complaining never seem to entertain the counterfactual of how bad things could have ended up with no/poor
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Were there countries that did a better job than the US in regards to the economic response the pandemic, particularly with respect to fiscal stimulus? Is any other country as close the the US to prepandemic GDP trendlines? I wouldn’t be sur
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by sbelskie 5y ago
What country has GDP on a better trend compared to pre-pandemic than the US?
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Is that not speech?
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by sbelskie 5y ago
It offers some n64 titles now as well.
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Inflation rises 7% over the last year(cnbc.com)
6 points by sbelskie 5y ago|0 comments
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Myth: 4 people in the United States died from rabies last year. Fact: 5 people in the United States died from rabies last year.
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by sbelskie 5y ago
From your link: > However, a large genome-wide association study has failed to find any large or statistically significant effects of the MAOA gene on aggression.[47] A separate GWAS on antisocial personality disorder likewise did not re
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by sbelskie 5y ago
The CPI does have formal methods for attempting to account for this: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans... This can occasionally result in odd things, like when the introduction of unlimi
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by sbelskie 5y ago
Do you think that the economy has shrunk in half in real terms in the last 20 years? Because that’s essentially what it would mean for those numbers to be true.

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