bardam

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by bardam 7y ago
Your information is correct in general, but there are many exceptions that prove the grandparent correct. My apartment was built in the last 10 years (i.e., after 1970), rents for close to $4k, and IS rent stabilized. See information here:
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by bardam 7y ago
In NYC the cost of buying/selling an coop/condo can be more than 10% of the total purchase/sale price. See for reference: https://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/03/closing_costs So the cost
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by bardam 7y ago
Qlik was sold to Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, about two years ago for $3B. Not sure if that's a relative bargain compared to this deal or if it makes the $15.7B look totally unrealistic. As of a few years ago the total revenue o
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by bardam 7y ago
> Wrong. NASA funding now is high as it was during avg. appollo years. That's not a true statement, unless you're talking about non-adjusted nominal dollars (that while technically true, is somewhat misleading). In inflation ad
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by bardam 7y ago
If by the future, you mean five years ago: https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/ "Amazon has filed a patent for a shipping system designed to cut delivery times by predicting what buye
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by bardam 7y ago
Yes. In 2016 the FTC stopped Shinola from claiming their watches were "made" in America. Much more accurately they were "assembled" in America (Detroit) from foreign parts [1]. I entirely agree with the FTC, their claim
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by bardam 8y ago
Also of interest, Malcolm Galdwell's podcast* "Revisionist History" had an excellent episode on CTE in football. He made an analogy to smoking. Evidence had long suggested that smoking was dangerous, but it was only that -- e
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by bardam 8y ago
See this N.Y. Times article focusing on Plattsburgh, NY: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/nyregion/bitcoin-mining-n...
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by bardam 8y ago
See St. Louis Fed data from FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP It's true that manufacturing jobs are on the rise, but it's still fairly clear what the long term trend looks like.
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by bardam 8y ago
Richard Pevear/Larissa Volokhonsky, a husband and wife team who have been translating Russian novels for close to 30 years. Having read most of Dostoevsky's works, some their translations, some others, I highly recommend their tr