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by tfehring 6y ago
GDP = Consumption + Investment + Government spending + Net exports [0] The investment component is dependent on companies' expectations about consumption (or other companies' investment, or government spending) in the future, and
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by tfehring 6y ago
There's a pretty good technical illustration of how the discount rate impacts stock prices here [0]. This does provide one plausible answer to the headline question from TFA: Corporations' expected future profits are lower than th
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by tfehring 6y ago
I actually looked into this a bit after posting that comment, since it occurred to me that I don't actually know exactly what's blocking YouTube ads for me. (I'm still not sure, which is why I didn't edit my previous c
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by tfehring 6y ago
But the top 1% own much more than 37% of the wealth (and accordingly receive much more than 37% of the financial benefits of government spending) while only paying 37% of the taxes (which fund that government spending).
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by tfehring 6y ago
Among the group of smart people Musk is referring to, though? My impression is that there was a time when a plurality of, say, new physics PhDs were getting snapped up by quantitative trading firms, and that nowadays they're going into
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by tfehring 6y ago
ACID guarantees feel like they can be distilled to "everything must be perfect always" - and you can ensure ACID and still ship, just by using an ACID database. It's a hard problem, but it's also a solved problem. Some
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by tfehring 6y ago
AdGuard DNS works well for YouTube ads IME. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
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by tfehring 6y ago
This may still be the case, but it’s definitely less true than it was in, say, 2005. Today’s closest equivalent IMO is ad/surveillance tech. Maybe management consulting too, though I don’t know what share of management consultants are
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by tfehring 6y ago
Or, if you don't have room for a whiteboard, there are neon-colored dry erase markers that are designed for use on windows.
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by tfehring 6y ago
No matter how risky it is, there's a price at which it's still profitable (in terms of risk-adjusted expected present value or whatever) to finance it. In this case, based on a sibling comment, that price was a ~8% credit spread -
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by tfehring 6y ago
I'll go further than the parent commenter and say that I think Randian ideals are absurd and anyone who sincerely supports or buys into them is deranged. But I think the quote is interesting in this context because it's so obvious
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by tfehring 6y ago
They do support it, if including it as a level of granularity for fingerprinting counts as support. :-)
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by tfehring 6y ago
Probably also much higher than the overall US median of $34k/year. What's your point?
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by tfehring 6y ago
For future reference the package r-base-dev includes all of the tools needed to build R packages on Linux. The R maintainers should really do a better job of publicizing this. (It's not even included in recommends/suggests for r-b
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by tfehring 6y ago
The Year of the Linux Desktop will be 10 years after you can set up a Linux desktop, including installing all the software you need, without opening the terminal. Anyone who distributes software for Linux end users but doesn't include
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by tfehring 6y ago
You can write loops in (the procedural extensions of) SQL, but IME it's very rare that you'd want to. The bigger issue is the lack of performant abstractions - I copy-paste orders of magnitude more code in SQL than in any other la
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by tfehring 6y ago
I work in R regularly and do most of my more complex data manipulation in R whenever I can, but most of these examples are simple enough that I think it makes sense to keep them in SQL. The only ones that struck me as really weird to do in
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by tfehring 6y ago
For the sake of comparison, $4,800/month (mentioned by another commenter) is $57,600 extrapolated to a full year, or 1.7x the median US salary. That's the median for all US workers, so it includes mid-career professionals, not jus
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by tfehring 6y ago
Do you know of any courses that could teach me how to sell dropshipping courses to wannabe dropshippers? I'll pay $$$. /s
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by tfehring 6y ago
From a shareholder perspective, insurance "float" is a cheap form of leverage. 1. Take in $100 of premium, and put up $10 of your own money. Use that money to buy $110 of assets. 2. Set up $100 of reserves. Your $110 of assets is
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by tfehring 6y ago
I'd interpret "they take a loss with premiums" in the parent comment as meaning the nominal value of expected claims exceeds the nominal value of premium. And that's very commonly the case for interest-sensitive life and
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by tfehring 7y ago
That comment was informed by my experience with Google devices more than by my experience with Apple. I don't own airpods and have only owned one Apple device in my life (my current iPhone). But Android devices - across various OEMs in
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by tfehring 7y ago
IMO the real killer feature of AirPods is that they seamlessly "just work" when pairing, switching devices, taking them out, etc., and it's vanishingly unlikely that Google got this right.
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by tfehring 7y ago
That's household income, which includes multiple people's income for households in which multiple people work. Median income for individuals was $33,706 in 2018, the last year for which data is available. https://fred.s
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by tfehring 7y ago
Same. I'm seriously considering making this [0] my next phone when my current SE croaks, though I really don't want to go back to Android. [0] https://palm.com/pages/product
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by tfehring 7y ago
Here's the passage from that paper that explains the 0.3% figure from the abstract: From publication and citation data, Anderegg et al. (2010) selected 908 of 1,372 climate researchers, defined as scientists who had published at least
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by tfehring 7y ago
I have a 15.6" LG Gram running Mint 19 and I love it. It's lighter than a 13" MacBook Air and I usually get ~10 hours of battery life. My only complaints are the very high-gloss screen and the flimsy, proprietary power connec
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by tfehring 7y ago
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Professional experience is mostly R (including Shiny), T-SQL, SQLite, and C++ with some Python scripting mixed in. I've also used a bit of PostgreSQL and
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by tfehring 7y ago
The fair value of options is heavily dependent on the strike price to begin with (see [0]). The wording you quoted from TFA is strange at best, and it's inaccurate if interpreted literally - an option with a higher strike price is less
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by tfehring 7y ago
Sounds like a good idea in theory, but then you need to reach all the way to the back to access the PCIe card mounted in your optical drive bay.

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