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by viburnum 6y ago
I ordered an $80 art book from Amazon. Had to return the first two they sent me, they were so damaged. No protection at all, just loose in a box. Amazon used to mount books to a piece of cardboard and shrinkwrap it together. They must have
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by viburnum 6y ago
This article explains the Volcker era and subsequent events in plain language https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/reviews/other-peoples-blood...
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by viburnum 6y ago
This is great. Would have saved me easily eight hours of research time.
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A network-based explanation of why most Covid-19 infection curves are linear(pnas.org)
16 points by viburnum 6y ago|8 comments
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Norwegian Rocket Incident(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
I’m a sucker for any kind of complexity theorizing but I don’t see where this is going.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Yeah you gotta bribe the right people or it’s a crime.
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The Lesson Americans Never Learn(theatlantic.com)
10 points by viburnum 6y ago|7 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
It would be better for society if the billions of dollars of capital invested in ride share platforms was invested in high productivity labor technologies instead of low labor productivity technologies.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Cars kill 35,000 people in America every year. America has over twice the fatality rate of other rich countries.
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Following Instructions(ginandtacos.com)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
No, what’s limited is assuming argument style is the input and relationship happiness is the output.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Couples are happy when they’re attracted to each other. Arguments turn bad is when the attraction is gone. Nobody wants to say “I’m not attracted to you anymore” so they fight dirty instead.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Good thing about wealth taxes is they don’t penalize changing your asset allocation. Capital gains is weird because you don’t get taxed for owning things, only for reallocating them.
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by viburnum 6y ago
If people aren’t motivated by owning over billion dollars of assets then what’s the point of brutalizing your workers? You’d be better off trying to earn esteem by making the world a better place.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I used to have mild tinnitus that I completely ignored (actually had to try to notice it) but after doing mindfulness it’s loud constant ringing that’s driving me insane.
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by viburnum 6y ago
“Once the researchers had excluded those that had deliberately set out to find negative effects” they did what?
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by viburnum 6y ago
What percentage of articles about mindfulness tell you that you’re going to recall terrible memories and have to work to overcome them? Do the human resource departments that advocate mindfulness tell employees about this?
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by viburnum 6y ago
Nope, they excluded small schools (expensive private schools) from the algorithm.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I thought all these self-control and willpower studies have been recently debunked.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Can’t find it now but I remember seeing something about how people with not enough zinc in their diet will have low D, even if they supplement or get sunshine. So maybe low D is a symptom of some other problem upstream.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Monetary policy to "get inflation under control" is the same thing as "squashing the ability of workers to demand more money." Higher interest rates slow investment, employment drops, workers lose bargaining power. That
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by viburnum 6y ago
High school economics was wrong, inflation is way more complicated than that. Productivity, credit flows, balance of payments, financial flows, investment, wages, inequality, capital/labor bargaining, all of that matters too.
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The Worst Answer to Climate Anxiety: Wellness(newrepublic.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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Supply and Demand Deconstructed(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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"Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" at Fifty(publicbooks.org)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
I think that one was debunked, cases weren't scheduled randomly.
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by viburnum 6y ago
There’s a link between his social views and his economics.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Is there anything new in Sowell? I thought he was a popularizer of traditional free-market economics.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I was active on the board back when it was on Morningstar. It helped me a lot, I contributed for a few years, and then I literally forgot about my investments for the next 15 years. Didn’t even look in 2008 and 2009. Highly recommended.

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