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by bartart 1y ago
Do they have any specific reasons? Haven't heard that sentiment before so curious to learn something new
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by bartart 2y ago
That’s very interesting, so thank you — how do you handle if the eigenvectors change over time?
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by bartart 4y ago
I don't know that these are very good examples. The box office and newspapers have been declining for years. Companies like Apple of course have a higher revenue relative to US gdp because they can sell their products with ease to rich
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by bartart 4y ago
I am curious, is putting up with the occasional self-obsessed ceo not worth it? For example Tesla has a market value greater than every European carmaker combined, having gone from approximately 0 annual car deliveries to over a million in
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by bartart 4y ago
The big read is definitely very good https://www.ft.com/the-big-read . You can read the articles by googling any article title in a private window. Just to give some examples, in the last week they published lengthy articles
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by bartart 4y ago
Here is an interesting article outlining some specific Clinton-era laws that were an enormous help to private equity: https://prospect.org/economy/cut-off-private-equitys-money-s... There used to be strict leverage res
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by bartart 4y ago
Aren't products like smartphones, laptops, desktops, etc all low-margin businesses though? At least for every other company in the market. Apple just sticks to the high end? Porsche sells hundreds of thousands of vehicles per year with
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by bartart 5y ago
The low-income threshold in sf for a family of four is about $120,000. And $150,000 is not far off from that. And even more important, the extraordinary rents in sf more than outpace the higher incomes: For example, a fair market rent for a
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by bartart 5y ago
Yeah, the actual pew summary for that question was "Germans more likely than those in other publics to say they are satisfied while offering few specifics". It seems like the takeaway is only two percent of Americans say vague pos
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by bartart 5y ago
It seems like this inflation is not broad-based: “In the quarter to August used cars, hotel rooms and airfares made up less than 5% of America’s consumer-price index, but together accounted for the majority of overall inflation” If we’re ha
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by bartart 5y ago
I know what you mean but I think think this specific article makes a good case. For example the financial industry concentration in New York and retiree mass emigration really do distort things.
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by bartart 5y ago
I think the picture is more complex than donor states and receiver states. As the article below argues, the Rockefeller study that the data comes from has flawed methodology. New York for example benefits tremendously from its large financi
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To Ease Housing Crisis, California Lawmakers Vote to Open Suburbs to Development(nytimes.com)
29 points by bartart 5y ago|20 comments
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by bartart 5y ago
Plus it appears that the lab was poorly run: She noted that a September 2019 paper in an academic journal by the director of the WIV’s BSL-4 laboratory, Yuan Zhiming, had outlined safety deficiencies in China’s labs. “Maintenance cost is ge
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by bartart 5y ago
I would agree that it doesn't seem like much. But the article says that the director of the wuhan institute's BSL-4 laboratory wrote in 2019 that “Maintenance cost is generally neglected ... Some BSL-3 laboratories run on extremel
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by bartart 5y ago
This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life. I'd ask everyone to please read it because it is incredible. One thing I did not realize is that US researchers who conducted gain of function research tried to downplay an
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by bartart 5y ago
Yes, but unfortunately no rich person actually paid those rates: "despite these high marginal rates, the top 1 percent of taxpayers in the 1950s only paid about 42 percent of their income in taxes. As a result, the tax burden on high-i
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by bartart 5y ago
It's also worth noting that the top 1% pay about 40% of all income taxes at the federal level, and they earn about 20% of annual income from all sources ( http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/186106 ). So classify
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Apple made it harder to change Hulu subscriptions because of a tweet(theverge.com)
3 points by bartart 5y ago|0 comments
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by bartart 5y ago
I think in this case it’s worth pointing out that monthly unemployment numbers are historically very uncertain and the subsequent revisions to the initial number are often pretty substantial. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com&
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CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward from Covid-19 Vaccinations(wsj.com)
2 points by bartart 6y ago|0 comments
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by bartart 6y ago
I wonder how many of his original blog's visitors were just bots. Also social networks have really lowered the barrier to entry for posting your thoughts online. The marketplace of ideas is much more crowded.
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A Rare Genetic Aversion to Sweets Could Be Key to Fighting Obesity(bloomberg.com)
1 points by bartart 8y ago|0 comments
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by bartart 8y ago
In a different article it says "Based on figures revealed on Monday, he has been able to turn a 14 per cent stake in his old PC company, worth $3.5bn, into a 72 per cent interest worth $35bn in his enlarged tech conglomerate." Ho
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by bartart 8y ago
Homes are a bad investment except that we all need somewhere to live. Even if you're renting many of the costs and risks the article mentions are borne by the landlord and then passed on to you.
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by bartart 8y ago
Yeah it is pretty bad. For a long time they were even projecting an 8.25% return according to the LA Times article I linked above. They used this number to justify the large benefit increases enacted when the stock market was doing well in
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by bartart 8y ago
Calstrs, which is only for teachers, has over 900,000 members, with a bit less than half currently working. The average pension payout is $50,000 and the average retired person under Calstrs worked for under 25 years. And this is only for t
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by bartart 8y ago
In California "More than 200,000 civil servants became eligible to retire at 55 — and in many cases collect more than half their highest salary for life. California Highway Patrol officers could retire at 50 and receive as much as 90%
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by bartart 8y ago
Pensions are going to become a hot political issue as they become more and more unsustainable. Even Illinois, one of the most liberal states in the US, elected a republican governor four years ago in large part because he promised to tackle
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by bartart 8y ago
It was actually an issue after the breakup because the successor companies started making much more money as a group than they did when they were together. They did all sorts of creative accounting to make it look like the breakup was a big

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