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iflint

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    Comment #41992060

    It is AVGO

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    Comment #37311946

    The unit cost goes down with scale. A Honda Civic would be extremely expensive if they only made 2000 of them. That doesn't mean it's too flashy for the job, it just means they hav…

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    Comment #37177701

    As an American, I view it as an option to start a light conversation. You can decline the option with a simple "Good, thanks", or you can genuinely answer with a light comment and …

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    Comment #36772995

    Important to keep in mind that it has a per capita income similar to Mississippi, not wealth. Wealth can mean many things, but it is often associated with your savings more than yo…

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    Comment #35817661

    I had a professor in grad school say that AI is just a search algorithm. I think that is an interesting way of framing things. Often times the model is just searching its training …

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    Comment #34139773

    Agreed that context is extremely important. Income is an imperfect measure of buying power, since prices vary significantly based on geography, but it is still a measure, and in th…

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    Comment #34094311

    There is a fairly simple way to tax wealth: inflation. There are downsides to inflation of course, lower economic growth is a big one. But we are entering a higher inflation, highe…

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    Comment #32411975

    Be careful using the YoY number, you need to factor in the base effect. (i.e. the change in YoY number each month factors in the new month of data but also the month 13 months ago …

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    Comment #31554932

    > "Any significantly above market returns of any kind are either a scam or have risks that are either not understood or not disclosed." By definition, the market return is an avera…

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    Comment #31446278

    I used to live in a neighborhood of Queens next to an above ground line, and it is extremely loud. One thing I found interesting was that the support beams of the train were made o…

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    Comment #22637101

    Yet some bureaucracies have done a much better job than other bureaucracies

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    Comment #19115713

    Yes the tone is coming through, where did I say that poor people aren't trying hard enough? When you work long hours for low pay or have a family, time and discipline are difficult…

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    Comment #19101408

    This needs to be said more often. Money is not the problem, the time needed to shop and cook as well as the discipline necessary to consistently do so are the largest factors.

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    Comment #18274593

    There are many hedge funds with much lower volatility than the average mutual fund. Hedge funds are not inherently more or less risky than mutual funds, they are just actively mana…

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    Comment #17335812

    Though I agree with your point, New Delhi and Delhi are not the same. New Delhi is a less dense area within Delhi that has many parks, government buildings, monuments and large sub…

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    Comment #11771496

    This is saying that Trump bookings are a lower percentage of hipmunk's total sales this year than last year. And since we don't know the growth rate of their sales, this data doesn…