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Re:America's Looming Pension Crisis [video] on Thursday April 24, 2025 @05:45PM (#43787850)
I think they're painting the picture that these pensions are less sophisticated than they really are. These people are usually prior investors with stories careers themselves, not "police officers and fire fighters"[1].

They're also much more transparent than this video paints them to be. Here's where they report all of their returns[2].

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/treasury/invested-for-oregon/pages/or...

[2] https://www.oregon.gov/treasury/invested-for-oregon/pages/pe...

Re:Ask HN: Why are there fewer low-income families living in U.S. citi... on Saturday October 08, 2022 @07:05PM (#33136892)
this makes sense at a high level. do you have any recommendations for where I can look into this a bit more?

Ask HN: Why are there fewer low-income families living in U.S. cities nowadays?

Posted by whall on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I just finished watching a movie that was based in one of Hong Kong's most densely populated districts and it struck me that there really aren't cities like that in the United States. Based on the little history I do know, it seems like New York City used to have a pretty large population of lower income families.I don't know if there are any good materials to read up on this, I honestly don't...

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Re:How I Use My Free Azure Credit on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:42PM (#26714077)
Nice! The patient preview portal still works. I searched my name and luckily didn't find anything. You mentioned that the website was built in wordpress, but it looks like it's built in Vue. I'm guessing it was frustrating enough to rebuild?

Also that's really interesting you can purchase domain names with azure credit!

Re:Tealeaf on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:50PM (#26183070)
if they have the language model they could retrain it to include the meta discussion
Re:Tealeaf on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:01PM (#26182358)
From what I understand, they're using Reddit right now, but the model will apply to any text source. I'm guessing twitter is a bit too big for now... It updates every thirty minutes.