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by amylene 6y ago
I wouldn’t so much consider this childish, as I would consider it criminal. You may feel justified in doing it, but don’t fool yourself: this would be theft.
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by amylene 6y ago
Isn’t this a result of good governance, ie no stock buybacks?
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by amylene 6y ago
That’s the wrong question. The right one is whether the economic downturn would be worse if we had a multiple amount of deaths. Additionally, we have saved lives (and animal lives) by shutting down parts of the economy. That should be inclu
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by amylene 6y ago
The other side of the argument is also just an opinion. What’s your point? The way I read it is that we have no reason to think the economic drop would be less severe if we didn’t have a shutdown. This is because people dying could hurt the
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by amylene 6y ago
This is how PowerBI, from Microsoft, works. It copies the data into local RAM (or on a cloud machine that also runs the dataviz)
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by amylene 6y ago
There are other options of actions he could have taken that wouldn’t have involved shutting borders. Over the years, as well as not making obviously false statements, starting in late January. Those falsities created a republican resistance
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by amylene 6y ago
That is a charitable view of private equity - that it improves margins without hurting operations. Another explanation lies in reputation mining. Think of it like doing something profitable but unsustainable. Curious what kind of experience
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by amylene 6y ago
Matt Levine has a good take from a few weeks ago. Basically he argues the buybacks were the only sensible play, if you were the airlines.
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by amylene 6y ago
I’m on a 2 year contract with Comcast and getting 600 down for $60. You might give them a call to see if they can lower your rate.
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by amylene 6y ago
Or, it could spur some necessity is the mother of invention innovation for deployment. Or a million other things could happen. I am asking that you change your “would” to “could” to properly reflect the uncertainty. We have a tendency to wa
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by amylene 6y ago
I can’t correct other peoples flawed thinking. But I can avoid reacting to it when that reaction makes my thinking worse. Just because someone does something I don’t like doesn’t mean I should base my viewpoint around rejecting theirs.
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by amylene 6y ago
Our best guesses are the best we can do. Are you familiar with the research around the bias bias? Or the fact that smart people tend to be more subject to biases?
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by amylene 6y ago
Yes, certainty in future economic projections is delusional, but it’s a delusion that is well received by society. Humans prefer confidence over competence, and abhor uncertainty. Right now, we have a lot of uncertainty.
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by amylene 6y ago
Super interesting, thanks for replying! So you are aware that your estimate is biased because of your other beliefs, but you don’t try to fix that? Mind if I ask why?
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by amylene 6y ago
Why do you believe that vehicle quality is related to anything else? This seems like halo effect bias.
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by amylene 6y ago
The difference is that flat earthers reject objective evidence. This is someone disagreeing over projections about the future. And, to be frank, nobody has a fucking clue how to estimate the medium term effects of this.
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by amylene 6y ago
When you say, very likely, can you put a percent on it so we know if you mean 20% or 80%?
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by amylene 6y ago
Deaths would also worsen an economic depression. Why does everybody forget about this? Also, an economic depression reduces air pollution which would reduce deaths. There are lots of factors that would need to be considered. Most people I’v
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by amylene 6y ago
There exists a significant set of businesses who are overall profitable, but cannot manage cash flow. This mechanism robots the cash flow from incredibly bad times, into the future.
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by amylene 6y ago
Remember the old phrase, “imagine the person who maintains your code is an axe wielding murderer who has your home address”?
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by amylene 6y ago
Because there is value in making good decisions after a series of bad ones. Wuhan has stopped more infections, which is to be applauded. Moving forward, we can criticize the reasons in the post mortem. However, if we are looking to find the
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by amylene 6y ago
Big belly breaths (when you fill up with air, then top it off, then top it off again) stimulate the vagus nerve, which for me is crucial in combatting my anxiety.
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by amylene 6y ago
The comment they responded to was not a serious comment, which is what they were mocking. That is t to say that relatives of yours went through horrible things, with some American responsibility. As a nation, America has done some awful th
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by amylene 7y ago
Unfortunately, this feels like it relies on the same mechanism as trickle down economics.
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by amylene 7y ago
They have fewer people in that category, and also more room to make lifestyle adjustments so they can remain afloat. Also, access to credit and family loans.
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by amylene 7y ago
Yes, the best way to fix something dysfunctional is to slash its budget, repeatedly make statements contrary to what they actually say, and downplay worldwide pandemics. Without conceding the point of prior dysfunction, I have to say that t
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by amylene 7y ago
Do you have any evidence that their pricing is confusing on purpose?
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by amylene 7y ago
The same reason anyone did: signal status. Immigrants can be self conscious of their accents, so it seems even more likely that a normal person would feel that impulse. JvN was no ordinary person.
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by amylene 7y ago
That rotting copper is going to be immensely valuable after the collapse.
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by amylene 7y ago
No, they are supposed to measure progress in one dimension towards a target. They are often misused, but it’s not necessary to conflate the improper use case with the original intent.

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