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by statguy 8y ago
Fortunate!
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by statguy 8y ago
Sure, it dosen't make sense to build subway lines to replace all roads/highways. However, as bobthepanda's comment says, once the demand on a route exceeds a threshold, mass transit wins by a mile.
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by statguy 8y ago
A Subway line will always be an order of magnitude more efficient than a system where each individual is in a separate vehicle, self driving or not.
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by statguy 8y ago
> Japan was able to endure a lost decade(s) due to immense social solidarity that few countries, perhaps even the US, possess. Your points make no sense. Civil war, countries breaking up etc. almost always happen only when people's
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by statguy 8y ago
Naan and Curry has the best non-vegetarian South-Asian food in the Seattle area. It has branches in Renton and Issaquah. I have personally found it much better than Maza grill, mentioned in the other comment.
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by statguy 8y ago
Where do you get the data from?
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by statguy 8y ago
The BBC article links to this https://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/hate-speech-once-more/#.7545... Here is the video on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXYzvI_FWs
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by statguy 8y ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39403778
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by statguy 8y ago
As bad as those scams may have been, the amount of suffering brought on to the general public by demonetization was several orders of magnitude higher.
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by statguy 8y ago
Now it is ruled by a firebrand hindu priest who was on stage while one of his associates exhorted the crowd to dig up corpses of Muslim women and rape them.
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by statguy 8y ago
It sounds exactly like a dictatorship. A prime minister with little to no economic knowledge (heck he doesn't even have an undergraduate degree) making a far reaching policy decision on the advice of a charlatan economist along with a
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by statguy 8y ago
Not to mention, the 100+ deaths directly attributed to demonetization.
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by statguy 8y ago
You are not allowed to drive an Audi and have to settle for a Toyota Corolla, just because of your race, even though you have the money. See what I am getting at...
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by statguy 8y ago
> Is not getting into Harvard specifically such a terrible injustice that it deserves to be litigated in the court of law? What did they lose by not gaining admission in a procedure that is a black box in nearly all institutions? Maybe n
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by statguy 8y ago
He probably meant "decrease of $20 for every $1B pulled from the market"
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by statguy 9y ago
This. To add to this, PM Modi and the current administration habitually make grandiose promises and setting up new schemes with a lot of fanfare just in time for key elections. When the elections are won, the promises and schemes are quietl
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by statguy 9y ago
> Very few rich individuals pay taxes and file correct income tax return. Government is very much responsible for this as filling a simple itr form consist of many different sections and people avoid getting into official paperwork. the
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by statguy 9y ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39945473 "Improved stability in family income can be understood as a disincentive for female household members to join the labour force"
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by statguy 9y ago
Automation is rapidly closing that window.
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by statguy 9y ago
There are other ways of arriving at it, apart from tax-filings, such as cars/electronics/consumer goods purchased.
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by statguy 9y ago
The Gini coefficient only accounts for relative differences and not absolute differences. A person/household at around the 25% income level in India might be below the US/Canada poverty line.
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by statguy 9y ago
I totally get what you are saying, I am just saying that people will still fall for active managers like they do today, although in far fewer numbers and active managers will not completely go away. Also, when almost all people are indexing
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by statguy 9y ago
I suspect we will reach an equilibrium where most people are indexing and a few very good active managers are in play, while most of the less competent managers have been booted out. There might be a few swings towards either side on the wa
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by statguy 9y ago
times have changed since...
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by statguy 9y ago
It was about mismanagement stemming from the demonetization, loss of autonomy of the RBI.
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by statguy 9y ago
You may debate about job losses, but all of the aggregate effects have been captured by the GDP growth rate which has dipped to 5.7% compared to 7.9% the same quarter last year.
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by statguy 9y ago
Did you even read the articles? There are 5 people mentioned, two of whom are former RBI governors and apolitical. While Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram are from the opposition, they are noted economists - MMS had predicted back in Nov. 2016
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by statguy 9y ago
A simple google search gets you RBI loosing its credibility: http://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/post-demonetisation-r... http://indianexpress.com/article/business/banking-and-financ... &g
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by statguy 9y ago
That is just one anecdote. OTOH 103 people died in the process, productivity was lost by people standing in lines all day, GDP growth declined by over 2%, RBI's credibility has been destroyed. Sure, some rich suffered, but many more po
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by statguy 9y ago
Yes, some details are here: https://research.googleblog.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-... https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/efficient-smart-repl...

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