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  • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

    Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
    The MSM is just dying to sensationalize something they don't know dick about for clicks.
    Whenever there is a news story about something I know firsthand or have professional expertise in:

    1. they emphasize all the wrong things
    2. they get basic facts right but leave out or misunderstand advanced facts
    3. they are stenographers for non-informed actors who are projecting support roles (LEO, political, corporate)

    I don't think these are deliberate biases or conspiracies. It is the freight cost for delivering news quickly and in an entertaining way so more than already knowledgeable people will consume it (and buy beer and cars).

    Think of the news as those "Kids News" glossies when you're in elementary school. It's not that it's evil, but if anything is interesting to you then it's the beginning of your own research path.
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    • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
      Yeah but $9/hr in India being upper middle class doesn’t mean a ****ing thing when it comes to skill level relative to $160/hr American programmers. There’s a reason we don’t outsource our chemical reactor programming overseas.
      Because your market is apparently not competitive enough to compel you to cut your costs in this sensible way? Coding is a commodity - you may as well be bragging that your company ensures all its workers wear US-made shoes. If your testing is rigorous enough (as it is in aviation), it doesn’t matter who did the coding - it either passes the testing or it gets fixed until it does.

      The coders didn’t code the thing wrong - they coded the wrong thing.
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      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World




        Shareholder economy. **** labor.
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        • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
          Shareholder economy. **** labor.
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          • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

            Originally posted by aparch View Post
            Why do you and (((economists))) hate America?

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            • Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
              Why do you and (((economists))) hate America?
              Just give laffer some new awards and it’ll all be ok

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              • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                MAD magazine is ceasing publication of new material and stopping newsstand sales.

                Though I haven't read MAD in decades, it was an important part of my youth.

                https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48865342
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                • Originally posted by joecct View Post
                  MAD magazine is ceasing publication of new material and stopping newsstand sales.

                  Though I haven't read MAD in decades, it was an important part of my youth.

                  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48865342
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                  • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    MAD magazine is ceasing publication of new material and stopping newsstand sales.

                    Though I haven't read MAD in decades, it was an important part of my youth.

                    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48865342
                    It hasn't been the same since the 70s. Man it had a great run, though. There was a good long stretch when Mad was the most intelligent publication in the country.



                    (Song works just as well for American immigration politics in 2019, too. Plus ca change.)
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                    • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                      J.P. Morgan looks like they'll have an asset write-off

                      https://markets.businessinsider.com/...9-7-1028340025
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                      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                        Interesting.......

                        ‘Race also played a central role. Minneapolis is among the most segregated and unequal cities in America, a fact at odds with its self-image as a tolerant and diverse community. The gap between white and black homeownership is the widest in any of the 100 cities with the largest black populations: 75 percent of whites own their homes, compared with just 25 percent of blacks.‘
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                        • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                          Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                          Interesting.......

                          ‘Race also played a central role. Minneapolis is among the most segregated and unequal cities in America, a fact at odds with its self-image as a tolerant and diverse community. The gap between white and black homeownership is the widest in any of the 100 cities with the largest black populations: 75 percent of whites own their homes, compared with just 25 percent of blacks.‘
                          That is interesting--and surprising. Milwaukee is awful, and I'd assumed Mpls was much better.

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                          • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                            There might be some other factors in play here. Minnesota has an extraordinarily large Somali population and a fairly large fraction are first generation. I’m just not sure that study paints an accurate picture.
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                            • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                              Eh it’s beem around for a while. Problem is more north side than cedar riverside if I recall.
                              This is why the 2040 plan came about.

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                              • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                                I remember the story when it came out. I just think it doesn’t accurately account for the influx of first generation immigrants who have always had some difficulties in things like homeownership. I’m glad they’re addressing it though. They’re a good community and very friendly.
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                                May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                                I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                                Originally posted by Kepler
                                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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