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Many bands use to love their labels privately but in the press blast the labels as evil corporate empty suits to fit that typical narrative and image.
Podcast, youtube channel, music, it is all the same process and payout structure.
Since there is too much choice you just have to sample what is popular and so what is popular gets more popular at the expense of the less popular. Repeat.
As if the idea of getting all our energy from the Sun is an original thought.
How do we accomplish this?
"I don't know, I am just the idea man. You do all the engineering for my idea and we will split the profit 50/50!"
Imagine putting in that many hours of practice on the classical masters to end up with a low paying job playing Frosty the Snowman and Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me".
"The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "
Couple low BMI with a much lower life expectancy so less people over 65 and I think the main variables are covered.
"The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "
There is no deeper thought going on here than the above. These are barely thought out, quasi religious beliefs as moral justifications for get rich quick schemes and frauds.
The same conversation about nothing, ad nauseam.
I just don't know how anyone at this point can not say the Fed's job is to write puts under the equity markets when that is exactly what they have done for 13 years.
Not moving 50 bps this last meeting says it all.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
If 2002-2004 was keeping rates too low then what do you call the past 14 years?
Do they not want ambulance drivers in Denmark? That is mind blowing to me.
I don't see how a game engine is much different for the foreseeable future. It is so far away from under cutting humans in this domain in terms of time and expense.
You almost literally can't come up empty on CRAN.
IMO the entire narrative that Americans are so divided is largely an illusion. People are highly divided over wedge issues in online arguments.
If you turn off the internet, the phone and FOX/CNN/MSNBC people are pretty much the same.
Sporting events are a good example of reality. If the media narratives were true getting a 100k people in a sports stadium would result in utter chaos.
We are certainly not as divided as in the 60s. That is so apparent if you read any history from that time.
Actually, if we suffer from anything it is exactly represented by Dalio. Conflating extreme wealth accumulation with extreme intelligence and wisdom. The ideas of billionaires are given far too much weight. Not based on the ideas themselves but on the size of their net worth.
IMO if Feynman or Einstein were alive today no one would listen to them, "If you are so smart why don't you have a billion dollars???"
I think we will see these fields as attempts at science while completely lacking the instruments to properly study the field so all kinds of nonsense conclusions were drawn.
Economics though is so especially perverted because of monetary incentives for economists. A somewhat correct prediction is worth so much but terrible predictions don't really harm much at all. "It is economics!?! It is stochastic, the coin came up heads, not my fault. The theory is still correct".
Or maybe in 50 years we will just have an honest econ textbook that is just a 1 page pamphlet that says "When the stock market goes down, print money. Make up everything else as you go along to justify this".
I am pretty sure anyone expressing these worries outside of Germany is either a troll, completely ignorant or a combination of the two.
It practically seems like a type of cognitive bias based around technology.
We use some similar technology from the past to model the implications of the new technology and then willfully ignore the fundamental change brought about by digitization and network connectivity. The strangest thing is everyone understands how powerful network connectivity and digitization are in the abstract but when it comes to the concrete we brush it off like it is not.
This is just like renting The Terminator from the video store in 1989. What could possibly go wrong?
It is even more than not caring. People are willful accomplices in spying on themselves and do so compulsively. That to me is so fascinating.
Come on. Most professors are not Feynman. This is exactly the problem if anything.
State school tuition cost have crushed the general level of inflation increases because it is easy money for the state and there is no state that does not love extra money to spend.
There is a really good chance they would be lured away to Wallstreet to work at a hedge fund or Silicon Valley to work on the latest CRUD application.
Especially Einstein. There is no way he would have ever been a clerk today. He would be doing something that Physics would be a massive pay cut.
I don't think the point is that these people don't exist today but the point is that people of this level can make so much more money than doing physics. It wasn't that long ago that a University Professor was a high end job that a person could afford a second vacation home and a ton of status came along with the position.