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by triviatise 8y ago
The current debt is 20T, the current money supply is about 6T. The inflation is guaranteed to happen. One reason why it has not is that we are the reserve currency so other countries have to have large US dollar reserves to buy oil. As the
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the 20T will have to be paid back. Unlike personal debt the fed can just print the money. There is currently around 6T in existing money supply (though I havent checked recently). The question is how will the debt translate to increased mon
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by triviatise 8y ago
Dont know if this is the hardest, but it is one of the most impactful. During the 2010 recession I had a client that had about 700K in receivables past due and we were doing about 120K/month in additional work. I started reading their
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by triviatise 8y ago
Maybe because the numbers are internally inconsistent and therefore not truthful? <<40% of my friends go to gym. Out of them: 90% of my male friends go to gym to build aesthetic bodies, it helps them attract females. Out of them: 97%
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by triviatise 8y ago
this person is thinking road bikes which might not have changed much, but mountain bikes have changed a lot 1) suspension forks and full suspension bikes 2) move from 26" to 29" and 27.5 3) dropper posts 4) major changes in geomet
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by triviatise 8y ago
selling shares short is selling shares you dont own. There is no restriction on selling shares you dont own. Short selling amplifies downturns because you dont have to own a share to sell it. There is no non option equivalent to short selli
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by triviatise 8y ago
It seems like a prescriptive easement could come into play. In california it seems like it only takes 5 years. In texas no beaches are private and all waterways are public.
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by triviatise 8y ago
I loved the ubiquiti stuff for years. Then one day two years ago macs suddenly could no longer reliably connect to the outside world even with a strong wifi connection to the AP. I would send pings and have 40% packet loss. Weirdly I could
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by triviatise 8y ago
i pay full retail for sirius xm in two cars. I dont even know how much it costs. My wife listens to her LA stations, I listen mainly to news and talk radio. When we drive cross country it works regardless of cell reception. I dont listen to
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by triviatise 8y ago
life expectancy is a bad measure of healthcare effectiveness 1) infant mortality heavily impacts life expectancy. The us has a few subpopulations that have very high infant mortality regardless of socioeconomic status. 2) The us has a high
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by triviatise 8y ago
We are already there, 200 miles is already plenty. The vast majority of people only commute and the average commute distance is 16 miles each way so a 200 mile electric car satisfies the main use case. Married households could do an electri
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Europeans have cheap healthcare because most of the R&D is subsidized by the US paying list prices. Europeans can spend such a huge amount (16% of govt budget vs 10% in the US) partially because the US is subsidizing their defense. The
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by triviatise 8y ago
my family escaped china when the communists took over and paid for the transport with gold because the currency was destroyed. My mother had gold bars sewn into her clothes. Jews escaped germany the same way. Finally, Governments keep gold
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by triviatise 8y ago
For those of you who claim to not use social media. HN is social media..
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by triviatise 8y ago
is hacker news not social media?
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by triviatise 8y ago
I used IRC (a lot) in the early 90s. I built the first online texas holdem poker game hosted as an IRC bot around 1994. There were a few hundred players, many of them asked to play for real money. People created graphical clients and anothe
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by triviatise 8y ago
luxury units can create affordability immediately. if 100 thousand luxury units suddenly came online at a cost of 1.5M each Here are a few possible outcomes: 1) 100K people can afford them and decide to move from their current homes into th
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by triviatise 8y ago
most doctors get little to no nutritional education. It is easy to learn about any one topic and know more than your physician. Especially since most physicians dont regularly read journal articles and probably dont even really understand s
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by triviatise 8y ago
I find this true on a high carb breakfast (which most breakfasts are). If I eat 4 eggs for breakfast I easily go until dinner without eating, but will usually eat around 3pm. Then some days skip dinner.
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by triviatise 8y ago
the only good food in the grocery store is 1) produce aisle 2) butcher 3) some dairy 4) a few dried base foods like oats, rice, and maybe beans. The entire rest of the grocery store is tasty poison.
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by triviatise 8y ago
they dont keep you full like protein does. Eating high protein moderate fat, low (not zero) carb reduces hunger to nothing for fasting.
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by triviatise 8y ago
The #1 factor for improving schools would be public school choice. Competition makes the participants in any system better. The schools need to use a lottery for acceptance of students. We can drop all the regulation around testing results
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by triviatise 8y ago
Austin just built a $150 million library which is a huge waste of money, if all it did was provide a storehouse for books. However, it is a community center where the community can get together. That is one of the key charges of a city. L
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in the 70s on the PLATO system (predates the internet) there was a game called bugs and drugs. It was a graphical dungeon in orange/black 512x512 where you used medicines to attack diseases. Medical students used it to learn pharmacolo
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by triviatise 8y ago
I have a completely different world view. Just like you build muscle strength through weight resistance, you build mental strength through overcoming (or just living with) adversity. You may not value that growth or may not feel it is worth
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In wickard vs filburn the govt made the case that a wheat farmer that grew wheat only for himself was subject to the interstate commerce clause. The reasoning was that he impacted markets by not having to buy wheat and therefore he should b
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by triviatise 8y ago
We do product management consulting and get some CS majors that dont want to code. Having a technical background is helpful and the path is solid leading to similar comp to developers.
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by triviatise 8y ago
according to a bloomberg article that I cant fully read, as of Feb 2018 <<The debt-to-equity ratio for the S&P 500 is 1.1 compared to an historical average of 1.7; >>
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by triviatise 8y ago
The current S&P 500 P/E ratio is around 24. That is historically overvalued (the median is around 14.7, mean 15.7). Yet the new normal might be a P/E of around 20 (though who pays 20X one year of earnings for a business unless
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by triviatise 8y ago
malazan book of the fallen or game of thrones (reread each season to remember what happened).

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