Gen Xers worse off than millennials
by Heraclitusstudent
on 10 Jun 2015
28 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ The members of Generation X have plenty to be grumpy about. For starters, no one talks about them anymore. Its all millennials all the time. Theres another reason ...
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by Heraclitusstudent on 20 Mar 2018 12 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 There is no room to build housing in Reno? The pace of urbanization in the world today is such that a city like New York should be created EVERY ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Aug 2019 49 comments, latest 5 years ago
Trump main activity seems to be to reveal in causing outrage. When he tweets something like: "Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested ...
Economists still don't get it on trade
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Mar 2016 31 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03 "Annual imports of Chinese tires increased to 46 million in 2008 from 15 million in 2004, and American tire makers shed several thousands of jobs. So the Obama ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Mar 2016 31 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03 "Annual imports of Chinese tires increased to 46 million in 2008 from 15 million in 2004, and American tire makers shed several thousands of jobs. So the Obama ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 28 Jun 2018 14 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Mar 2018 8 comments, latest 6 years ago
It's all made up, you know. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 It leads to nationalism, which is obviously bad and leads to conflicts and extremism. We should dissolve these nations, hold hands, and sing ...
New Macbook pros...
by Heraclitusstudent on 27 Oct 2016 30 comments, latest 8 years ago
Meeehhh.... - Ok so Apple finally moved from 4th gen Intel core proc to 6th gen.... except Dell and HP are busy selling 7th gen computers. It may be ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 27 Oct 2016 30 comments, latest 8 years ago
Meeehhh.... - Ok so Apple finally moved from 4th gen Intel core proc to 6th gen.... except Dell and HP are busy selling 7th gen computers. It may be ...
5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Sep 2016 16 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/0 Here we have bank employees caught stealing from customers, and apparently the punishment is a fine, restitution, fired employees. Shouldn't people go to prison for theft? ""At Wells ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Sep 2016 16 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/0 Here we have bank employees caught stealing from customers, and apparently the punishment is a fine, restitution, fired employees. Shouldn't people go to prison for theft? ""At Wells ...
The West Faces Up to Reality: China Won’t Become ‘More Like Us’
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Dec 2017 5 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t Duuuuhhhhhhh! #internationalPolitics
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Dec 2017 5 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t Duuuuhhhhhhh! #internationalPolitics
by Heraclitusstudent on 11 Apr 2018 17 comments, latest 6 years ago
Any aircraft carrier group buyer remorse?... Aquatic drone swarms on the way. https://www.engadget.com/2018/ www.youtube.com/watch?time_con
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Feb 2019 28 comments, latest 5 years ago
https://local.theonion.com/laz MUNCIE, IN—Shaking their heads in disgust at the irresponsible man’s laziness and lack of initiative, sources disclosed to reporters Monday that impoverished 53-year-old Luke Reilly has never earned passive ...
Apple is next US tech company to be destroyed by commoditisation
by Heraclitusstudent on 3 Sep 2015 16 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ A smart phone is an assemblage of commodity components and really cost about $60. No amount of marketing will allow a company to sell an item for $600 ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 3 Sep 2015 16 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ A smart phone is an assemblage of commodity components and really cost about $60. No amount of marketing will allow a company to sell an item for $600 ...
More quotes from Brat
by Heraclitusstudent on 11 Jun 2014 17 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ “The one source of economic growth is virtue,†Brat, 49, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2012. “It is not property rights, not law or resources, but virtue.†Brat ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 11 Jun 2014 17 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ “The one source of economic growth is virtue,†Brat, 49, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2012. “It is not property rights, not law or resources, but virtue.†Brat ...
Humans will have cloud-connected hybrid brains by 2030 says Kurzweil
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Sep 2015 16 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.learning-mind.com/h That's it: the guy fell off the deep-end...
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Sep 2015 16 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://www.learning-mind.com/h That's it: the guy fell off the deep-end...
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Oct 2018 17 comments, latest 6 years ago
China implants spying chips on Amazon, Apple servers. https://www.bloomberg.com/news Humm... bring computer companies back to the US?
Tech companies cartel conspiring to keep engineer wages low
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Mar 2014 32 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://pando.com/2014/03/22/re "Back in January, I wrote about “The Techtopus†— an illegal agreement between seven tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Intel, to suppress wages for tens of thousands ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Mar 2014 32 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://pando.com/2014/03/22/re "Back in January, I wrote about “The Techtopus†— an illegal agreement between seven tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Intel, to suppress wages for tens of thousands ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 May 2018 9 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view "The Democratic grassroots are shaking with energy. In a series of special elections across the country, in a range of districts, Democrats have consistently outperformed results in previous elections. ...
Wheeler's delayed choice experiment: there is no tree
by Heraclitusstudent on 5 Sep 2014 23 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/6 Observation changes reality *after* it happens. So to Einstein's question: "when you turn away is the tree still there?" No, there is no tree. That's just naive realism.
by Heraclitusstudent on 5 Sep 2014 23 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/6 Observation changes reality *after* it happens. So to Einstein's question: "when you turn away is the tree still there?" No, there is no tree. That's just naive realism.
The $247 trillion global debt bomb
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Jul 2018 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com Is this why we can't afford to stop global trade? Too bad Trump didn't read the memo.
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Jul 2018 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com Is this why we can't afford to stop global trade? Too bad Trump didn't read the memo.
by Heraclitusstudent on 21 Feb 2019 22 comments, latest 5 years ago
\ On Bloomberg TV. - to build solar power station in space, its own space station, support private rockets, its own GPS network, some satellite repair capabilities that the US ...
Will Trump end-up in prison?
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Mar 2018 6 comments, latest 6 years ago
I think for a while he was sort of aligning with the establishment republicans: they saw they could use him to ram a tax cut through congress. At the same ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Mar 2018 6 comments, latest 6 years ago
I think for a while he was sort of aligning with the establishment republicans: they saw they could use him to ram a tax cut through congress. At the same ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Jan 2019 36 comments, latest 5 years ago
June 2008: - Oil ~$150 - Gas ~$4 Jan 2019: - Oil <$50 - Gas ~$4 ... falling from the OPEC cartel frying pan into the oil refiners cartel fire? ...
Phoenix: Sales down 21%, Cash Sales down 40%, Inventory up 47%
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Jun 2014 15 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.calculatedriskblog. Not bad.
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Jun 2014 15 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.calculatedriskblog. Not bad.
SJWism is spreading and why it is wrong
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Nov 2018 28 comments, latest 5 years ago
I stumble more and more often online on article such as this: https://aeon.co/essays/boudica On Boudica's revolt: "Ancient Rome prided itself on the power of its patriarchy, and was quick to ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Nov 2018 28 comments, latest 5 years ago
I stumble more and more often online on article such as this: https://aeon.co/essays/boudica On Boudica's revolt: "Ancient Rome prided itself on the power of its patriarchy, and was quick to ...
Could there be a panic in Bay Area real estate?
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Oct 2018 22 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/2 Sales down 10%. Inventory up 20% Prices still way up. Many people were hanging there just to take their huge capital gains every year. As many people start thinking ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Oct 2018 22 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/2 Sales down 10%. Inventory up 20% Prices still way up. Many people were hanging there just to take their huge capital gains every year. As many people start thinking ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 28 Mar 2019 73 comments, latest 5 years ago
Rash... I know. I think the best we can hope at this point is 1 year of slow growth and a volatile market before some kind of recession.
Stockman Says Trump Tax Cuts Will Cause 'All Hell to Break Loose'
by Heraclitusstudent on 30 Aug 2018 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news "The 4% (growth) was an anomaly. 1 point of that was due to trade pulled forward [...] second part was due to consumers spending money that Uncle Sam was ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 30 Aug 2018 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news "The 4% (growth) was an anomaly. 1 point of that was due to trade pulled forward [...] second part was due to consumers spending money that Uncle Sam was ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 13 Feb 2017 16 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0 Cheaper home prices could add as much as $1.5 trillion a year to US economy. This may disregard some side effects (on consumption and banking), but this highlights ...
Humanoid construction robot installs drywall by itself...
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Oct 2018 9 comments, latest 6 years ago
...While humans are bickering... www.youtube.com/embed/ARpd5J5g https://www.engadget.com/2018/
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Oct 2018 9 comments, latest 6 years ago
...While humans are bickering... www.youtube.com/embed/ARpd5J5g https://www.engadget.com/2018/
On Social disintegration, mass shootings and Tribalism
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Aug 2019 21 comments, latest 5 years ago
You see the signs of a social disintegration all around us: - suicides, depressions keep increasing, as is the use of drugs. - the most frequent answer to "how many ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Aug 2019 21 comments, latest 5 years ago
You see the signs of a social disintegration all around us: - suicides, depressions keep increasing, as is the use of drugs. - the most frequent answer to "how many ...
We’re not going back to normal
by Heraclitusstudent on 18 Mar 2020 33 comments, latest 4 years ago
https://www.technologyreview.c Basically, once we stop the lock-in, the pandemic will start again and in the best case will be at a level sufficient to overwhelm the healthcare system capacity by ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 18 Mar 2020 33 comments, latest 4 years ago
https://www.technologyreview.c Basically, once we stop the lock-in, the pandemic will start again and in the best case will be at a level sufficient to overwhelm the healthcare system capacity by ...
Rise of the squatting class
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Jul 2013 24 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/f As Banks Sitting on Abandon Properties... They can dumpster dive too and live like rats in the margins of a broken system.
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Jul 2013 24 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/f As Banks Sitting on Abandon Properties... They can dumpster dive too and live like rats in the margins of a broken system.
There's No Tomorrow
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 May 2014 13 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/V Looks like housing will be the last of our problems 20yrs from now. #housing
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 May 2014 13 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/V Looks like housing will be the last of our problems 20yrs from now. #housing
Paulson Says U.S., China Economic Tensions Reaching Breaking Point
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Nov 2018 3 comments, latest 6 years ago
... and he is blaming China. This is not just Trump. The political and corporate establishment is this country is waking up to the fact the rise of China was ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Nov 2018 3 comments, latest 6 years ago
... and he is blaming China. This is not just Trump. The political and corporate establishment is this country is waking up to the fact the rise of China was ...
Bent iPhone video was a hoax
by Heraclitusstudent on 26 Sep 2014 14 comments, latest 10 years ago
Look at the time when he bends it: 2:26. Look at the time later in the video when he displays the bent phone: 1:58. Clearly it was filmed in ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 26 Sep 2014 14 comments, latest 10 years ago
Look at the time when he bends it: 2:26. Look at the time later in the video when he displays the bent phone: 1:58. Clearly it was filmed in ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Nov 2017 13 comments, latest 6 years ago
In case you are not scared enough about the future: www.youtube.com/embed/9CO6M2Hs #future
The NYT defines white nationalism
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Oct 2017 13 comments, latest 7 years ago
White Nationalism Is Destroying the West https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 “It’s the great replacement,” his friend added, echoing the title of a 2010 book by the French writer Renaud Camus, which paints a ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Oct 2017 13 comments, latest 7 years ago
White Nationalism Is Destroying the West https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 “It’s the great replacement,” his friend added, echoing the title of a 2010 book by the French writer Renaud Camus, which paints a ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Nov 2018 12 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news
How to beat viruses
by Heraclitusstudent on 29 Feb 2020 30 comments, latest 4 years ago
Let's say in a normal situation a person sick with COVID infect 3 other persons before getting better on average. This means the virus is propagating quickly. So there is ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 29 Feb 2020 30 comments, latest 4 years ago
Let's say in a normal situation a person sick with COVID infect 3 other persons before getting better on average. This means the virus is propagating quickly. So there is ...
Male Sellers on eBay Have an Edge Over Women, Study Finds
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Feb 2016 13 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02 “The basic point — that people have different expectations of women versus men and so we treat them very differently in the world — it’s fascinating and depressing,†...
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by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Feb 2016 13 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02 “The basic point — that people have different expectations of women versus men and so we treat them very differently in the world — it’s fascinating and depressing,†...
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