This reminds me of the articles in Windows Central about his Windows Phone was not competing with Android and the iPhones—and thus not failing tremendously—because it was a completely different product to a smart phone. How long until AOO is dead? Everybody I know has moved to Libre Office years ago.
I do historical research and you wouldn’t believe how many archival materials are not scanned at all or stored on microfilm in a single location. It’s absolutely absurd.
I am not fully getting the link he is trying to establish. Inflation is a result of increased monetary supply, which has been controlled by the central banks—depending on how you want to see it—the *latest* with the introduction of the floating exchange rates. This article makes it seem like inflation is somehow reduced by increasing productivity, specifically by reducing the costs of basket products as opposed to increasing their quality, i.e. cheaper things of the same quality every year rather than identically priced items of higher quality every year. That is completely besides the point and has nothing to do with the reason we have low inflation rates, being quantitative easing.
Nobody is stopping a researcher from publishing his articles in open access journals. It won't give them as much cred as publishing in Nature or another high impact factor journal though, which would obviously be against their economic interests. There is nothing to go to court over here. If anything, you could lobby to push through a legislation that would mandate that all research from public grants is published in open access journals, but good luck with that one.
Hyperloop One claims the trip would just take 31 minutes using its system of aerodynamic pods traveling through nearly airless tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph.
Well, it’s great and all that Hyperloop claims that they can do this without a single system being deployed anywhere in the world. The winner of their design competition—the one that had miniaturized pods move without a payload—didn’t even go a third of this speed. Shouldn’t Musk at least provide a working prototype on a limited scale before you start forming committees? it is little more than a very much hyped-up idea at this point.
It does mean that, but nominal wages are not stagnant; they have been increasing quite rapidly for the mentioned period. I don't even know what to say about your second sentence. Are we now going to make decisions based on "most people" not understanding how the CPI is computed?
Stagnating wages and dropping wages are not the same thing. The issue is that you're not making more than you made before, not that you're making less.
It's not an investment, it's an interest-free credit with an obligation to purchase a poorly specified product to someone with a rating so bad you would otherwise be making very solid double digit returns from.
Everybody--the employees, the customers and the society as a whole--suffers if Blizzard starts producing a worse product because of more flexible hours and better benefits. There are no free lunches.
A company's job--and thus by extension that of its employees--is to maximize the returns for the shareholders, not to coddle the people it pays and make sure they are not offended by cost-benefit analyses.
If you invest all your savings into any single asset, you are playing with fire. What that asset is is less important. Since all crypto depend on BTC and to some degree on ETH as their reserves, you cannot really diversify in crypto alone. However, you can diversify by buying crypto along with your usual instruments. Considering the ROI it has had, you can get very good returns with minimal risk by holding something like 10% or less of your portfolio in crypto.
What I find somewhat unnerving is that most people who buy Ethereum are not experienced in traditional investing. I have seen countless individuals on Reddit claiming that they are using it almost exclusively for their kid's college funds, retirement funds and so forth. They are nice people, but what they are doing is not well thought through. That is ticking time bomb.
If anything, they are like bullion. Zimbabwe can print as much fiat as they like, but you can't print BTCs indefinitely, just create a new kind of BTC the acceptance of which would usually be backed by a higher tier coin. This is in fact quite similar to how the classic gold standard worked. I very much agree with your main statement though.
How is a bankruptcy relevant to the fact that stocks constitute ownership shares of an enterprise? If you want higher security, buy the said corporation's bonds. There are stocks that waive your voting rights, but no stocks that supersede liabilities.
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This reminds me of the articles in Windows Central about his Windows Phone was not competing with Android and the iPhones—and thus not failing tremendously—because it was a completely different product to a smart phone. How long until AOO is dead? Everybody I know has moved to Libre Office years ago.
I do historical research and you wouldn’t believe how many archival materials are not scanned at all or stored on microfilm in a single location. It’s absolutely absurd.
Not to rag on the OP or anything, but this is like a decade overdue.
Nobody puts tariffs on exports, you dofus.
Does the Note 8 explode even better than its predecessor?
Little known fact: It was actually a lord mistress.
Nobody ever argued that this was not possible. The question is rather if it makes any sense.
As much as I like the genre, I think they are all bad.
I am not fully getting the link he is trying to establish. Inflation is a result of increased monetary supply, which has been controlled by the central banks—depending on how you want to see it—the *latest* with the introduction of the floating exchange rates. This article makes it seem like inflation is somehow reduced by increasing productivity, specifically by reducing the costs of basket products as opposed to increasing their quality, i.e. cheaper things of the same quality every year rather than identically priced items of higher quality every year. That is completely besides the point and has nothing to do with the reason we have low inflation rates, being quantitative easing.
Don’t forget the suborbital transport at economy flight rates.
Nobody is stopping a researcher from publishing his articles in open access journals. It won't give them as much cred as publishing in Nature or another high impact factor journal though, which would obviously be against their economic interests. There is nothing to go to court over here. If anything, you could lobby to push through a legislation that would mandate that all research from public grants is published in open access journals, but good luck with that one.
I think you are phenomenally lucky. I’m currently (temporarily) getting around six hours of sleep on weekdays and it’s nowhere near enough.
It’s pretty easy to surveillance train lines to avoid sabotage.
Hyperloop One claims the trip would just take 31 minutes using its system of aerodynamic pods traveling through nearly airless tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph.
Well, it’s great and all that Hyperloop claims that they can do this without a single system being deployed anywhere in the world. The winner of their design competition—the one that had miniaturized pods move without a payload—didn’t even go a third of this speed. Shouldn’t Musk at least provide a working prototype on a limited scale before you start forming committees? it is little more than a very much hyped-up idea at this point.
I think an elderly family member at the very least deserves a 20 dollar dumb phone that they would not have to recharge every 24 hours.
It does mean that, but nominal wages are not stagnant; they have been increasing quite rapidly for the mentioned period. I don't even know what to say about your second sentence. Are we now going to make decisions based on "most people" not understanding how the CPI is computed?
Stagnating wages and dropping wages are not the same thing. The issue is that you're not making more than you made before, not that you're making less.
It's not an investment, it's an interest-free credit with an obligation to purchase a poorly specified product to someone with a rating so bad you would otherwise be making very solid double digit returns from.
Resistance to antigens.
Everybody--the employees, the customers and the society as a whole--suffers if Blizzard starts producing a worse product because of more flexible hours and better benefits. There are no free lunches.
A company's job--and thus by extension that of its employees--is to maximize the returns for the shareholders, not to coddle the people it pays and make sure they are not offended by cost-benefit analyses.
If you invest all your savings into any single asset, you are playing with fire. What that asset is is less important. Since all crypto depend on BTC and to some degree on ETH as their reserves, you cannot really diversify in crypto alone. However, you can diversify by buying crypto along with your usual instruments. Considering the ROI it has had, you can get very good returns with minimal risk by holding something like 10% or less of your portfolio in crypto.
What I find somewhat unnerving is that most people who buy Ethereum are not experienced in traditional investing. I have seen countless individuals on Reddit claiming that they are using it almost exclusively for their kid's college funds, retirement funds and so forth. They are nice people, but what they are doing is not well thought through. That is ticking time bomb.
If anything, they are like bullion. Zimbabwe can print as much fiat as they like, but you can't print BTCs indefinitely, just create a new kind of BTC the acceptance of which would usually be backed by a higher tier coin. This is in fact quite similar to how the classic gold standard worked. I very much agree with your main statement though.
How is a bankruptcy relevant to the fact that stocks constitute ownership shares of an enterprise? If you want higher security, buy the said corporation's bonds. There are stocks that waive your voting rights, but no stocks that supersede liabilities.
Yeah, thanks, Obama.