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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Natural gas is needed to make most highly efficient fertilizer and natural gas has just about doubled from prior to the war - this will increase the cost of food down the line, unless natural gas starts flowing freely from Russia again.
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
The lack of ability to leave a group text chat is the most annoying thing ever. Spammers send these group texts and there’s no way to leave.
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
The article makes a lot of claims but uses almost no evidence. Half of it is complaining about adjusted numbers.. but does the author know that all public companies have to report GAAP as well, not only the adjusted numbers? Then there’s th
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Both inflation and wages are lagging indicators and thus can be used together to get real wages historically. Correlation to inflation does not mean anything other than inflation and wages both increased, you can be highly correlated but no
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
The website you linked as I said includes capital and pretax income which is an absurd way to measure “income.” That includes stocks, 401K, houses, etc. if someone owned a house, the value went up, but if someone didn’t own a house their ac
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Real wages have gone significantly since 2020 when COVID hit per the below link. This inequality index website includes both labor and capital - meaning not just wages but income from stocks. Yes the stock market has gone down, the rich own
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
You are intentionally conflating nominal and real wages, most people are not making more money. In real wages they are declining as per the link in my previous comment. If you make $100K per year and your expenses are $100K you make zero. I
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Real wages are not increasing. The ‘Real’ part of real wages means after adjustment for inflation. See link, we’ve been going straight down in real wages. We are already back below pre-COVID wages. That means we are back to wage levels aro
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
That’s exactly right. Real wages are not keeping up with inflation. Inflation is confusing everyone who isn’t used to seeing it. It’s ludicrous to think we are not in a recession just because more people retired in the last few years due to
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I mostly agree but there isn’t really such a thing as beneficial regulation for tech companies. No rules is always the cheapest and easiest to implement. For example, why would a company even bother with disinformation in the first place if
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
The bot solution is extremely simple, add more layers of human verification or a paid tier. It hurts the user experience in one way but enhances it in another. Why not at least require verification once per 24 hours? The trolls in person is
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I don’t think it’s a trick at all, it’s actually much worse than being kicked out of a public square. Making YouTube videos or Tweets or Facebook posts can be your job and facilitate your entire form of income. You spend 10 years cultivati
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned more. Removing ratings was a disaster, just personally as a consumer. You don’t feel engaged enough use their like/dislike system where as with a rating you got that feeling of contributing something
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
We’re talking about gaming here and the fact someone said “fucking idiot.” You’ve just used asshole is your response, so collectively we should get off our high horses, and recognize that in the real world people swear constantly. It’s not
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I’m not saying they are. I’m saying that they are banning enough bots to make up 5 percent every 10 days. With that amount of bots being banned, the possibility of that amount also being missed from being banned is substantial.
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
It’s not that subjective anyone using twitter still sees spam accounts promoting a website, business, product, or scam on every post. Twitter just said they remove 1M spam accounts each day. Their mDAU is claimed to be around 200M. This mea
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
It’s not a good thing to have more bots at the same revenue because you aren’t just buying a companies past performance but their future performance. If advertisers thought they were buying 1M real person impressions and it turned out to be
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Your right twitter might just be incompetent and not keep that data, but this would be one of the most basic forms of data you need for analysis when your entire revenue model relies on that statistic.
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I’m taking about working between chains, not staying on a chain or other cryptos built on the same chain. Someone is building a decentralized exchange, the interaction or adding the next new crypto currency to that exchange and choosing how
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I’m not even talking about defi here. Let’s say I just want to trade ETH into BTC or some random coin. I need to trust some website to get that done and be the decentralized exchange. Sure 1000s if websites claim to be decentralized exchan
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Centralized exchanges are a necessity. Who can you trust to trade into and out of fiat? Who can you trust to make a exchange? Who can you trust to use security that works with your wallet? Sure there are decentralized exchanges but how much
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Defi isn’t just bullshit as far as I know, it is an actual scam that wouldn’t be allowed at banks - I’m surprised regulators haven’t shut down Defi yet. Doesn’t everyone wonder why exchanges advertise interest at 10% - 20% on deposits and a
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Some crypto are actually better but with the caveat that they are only better if you keep it in the crypto ecosystem. Trading in and out of fiat currency is probably the biggest hurdle for crypto. Going in and out of crypto comes with massi
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
As long as every bitcoin move is headline news there will always be a market for crypto. When these articles get no comments because it’s like arguing against flat earthers then it will be dead. The reality is it’s still nearly a trillion d
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Visa has also has value because it adds trust to the system. You can contest your charges and a lot of the fees go towards keeping that trust. Credit cards have tons of abuse but it’s backed by a level of insurance. I stopped using crypto b
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
On the contrary, I think Musks use of interviews and twitter has only helped him and his companies every step of the way. If you have been following him you have seen that he recently announced that he would be voting republican for the fir
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
This reminds me of those tiktok videos that have a spouse complaining about their significant other. They complain in public about whatever behavior, typically insignificant things, I think you can search like cleaning strike and see some o
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
OneDrive is just not as simple as DropBox. Dropbox you know what you get, an online file system that syncs to your computer. OneDrive always asks to backup local files when that’s not what I want it for and doesn’t have an intuitive interfa
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
I kind of get both sides. They shouldn’t scan personal files at all but then again Dropbox files are also shareable and is kind of like YouTube in that way. So if in this case a guy has copyrighted content, which they own the copyright for,
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by smaryjerry 4y ago
Standards are a good thing but I’m not sure that we have reached this point where USB-C is functionally the best. If we could completely eliminate on all other types of connectors on not just phones but computers then I would say it’s time

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