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Since Russia is just over 3% of the world's GDP, who cares if they "stop accepting USD"? About 20% of China's exports go to the U.S. They kind of want to keep selling that crap here, and if they refuse to accept U.S. currency they no longer get to sell it. We're out a bunch of Chinese crap...

I've actually thought about it and I think @CaptainObvious is actually on to something. I think anyone who spend more than 10 consecutive years paying zero income tax while taking advantage of public roads and sidewalks, police and fire protection, public education, a safe environment provided...

I've noticed a common theme with these people is the importance that everyone is a mindless sheep and only they and their little tinfoil hat group are smart and special enough to understand. I've also noticed among those I know in person that it's rare to find them to be well adjusted, healthy...

So from 2012 to 2017, did a single minimum wage employee leaving the company have the same impact on the overall finances of your company as the impact of leaving had on the finances of that single employee? That's the crux of the asymmetry I'm referring to, not if you had the ability to reduce...

I'd look at Boston for that, or technically I guess Waltham. Some of what they've put together is downright frightening! I think they're actually owned by Hyundai and SoftBank.

I don't think anyone believes that wages are being artificially held down by some kind of employer cartel or something. The problems are elsewhere. First, with a pure supply and demand situation a very tiny oversupply gives all the power to the demand side. Imagine a theoretical relatively...

There actually is - CME Metro Area Housing Index Futures Quotes - CME Group it's just not very widely traded. The problem is houses aren't a commodity, that would require them to all be the same and trade at the same value per square foot or some other common metric. It's apples and oranges to...

All poor people use drugs and shoot each other with illegal guns. They should all die as a result. Are you trolling or are you really a sociopath?

What would oil prices have been if there were no futures markets? It's far more likely if there are no futures that situations would repeatedly occur where suppliers shipped not only more oil than was needed but so much more that the storage costs were high enough to eclipse the commodity price...

Great, we can use that extra productivity at low cost to pay a universal basic income!

Ha! My son wanted to do the wd-40 flame thrower on them but I ixnayed that on multiple grounds!

I've been using this for the past couple years, similar DEET levels. It makes my skin warm when I put it on and may be impacting my ability to have children but I don't want any more anyway so that's OK:D The only insect I've found that completely ignores it are the biting black flies on the...

Toronto Venture Exchange mainly. Much more legit than most of the pink sheets, at least there are actual listing and reporting requirements that are enforced.

Yeah, I was planning to do the whole Everglades City to Flamingo inside trip on the chickies by kayak one winter after I semi-retire/go on sabbatical. I'm originally from Alaska so I like to think I can handle mosquitos, but I have spoken to a couple people who have impressed on me that I have...

That's on my list of things to do! Did the mosquitos eat you alive? If not, what was your secret?

I care about people dying, you seem to care about cases. It's unquestionable that the number of people dying in Ireland has fallen by pretty much exactly the percentage vaccinated and in fact the number of people dying has fallen "MASSIVELY" as you would say. Also, I don't feel the need to use...

Yeah, having owned the 30' cabin cruiser of that age I would definitely agree that the Whaler is far easier to maintain. It really depends on what you're going to do, if you're hanging out in inlets or the mouths of streams nothing beats the Whaler. If you want to go any distance or more than a...

Pretty sure this is just the latest sock puppet for the sad little troll variously known as volpunter, asiaprop, GRU, Grulstmrnn, Zzzz1, and a bunch more I don't remember. He usually can only last a couple months before he goes off on an antisemitic/racist/misogynistic/homophobic rant and gets...

I've worked in a commodity market that was exactly this. Very inefficient, both the huge commissions that get paid and the variance in prices that different participants end up getting/paying for the same thing at about the same time. Actually though it's the clients they take out for steak...

What's the 7 day average number of deaths in Ireland from Covid right now? Let me help you with that, it's 7. What was it in Feb, let me help you with that too, 58. So the vaccine has cut deaths by about 90%, what a remarkable coincidence with the 91% vaccination rate! By the way, going from 58...