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Original reports come from WaPo and Bloomberg: * https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/202... * https://archive.is/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...

> We can accept that "supply-side economics" is a policy rebranding, but it is not a rebranding of "trickle-down economics". Reagan's people would disagree: > Ronald Reagan launche…

> No one believes in trickle-down economics. As GP said, it's a pejorative straw man invented by its opponents. Except the folks that implement it: > The cuts were based on model l…

> The policies of supply-side economics, however, are much more defensible, but it seems people would much rather pick on the strawman. Lowering taxes is one of the policies of sup…

> When half the country has believed something for close to a half a century, across multiple generations, you bet your ass it needs to be debunked. It dates back to the late 1890s…

> He thought some humans were slaves by nature and women were naturally inferior to men. The notion that all human individual are of equal worth isn't exactly common. You may think…

> Living in Vancouver ruins a lot of tv shows. Chicago? Nope, Vancouver. New York? Nope, Vancouver. SF? Nope, Vancouver! Also Toronto / southern Ontario. If you see a city scene an…

> It’s easy to emphasize glamorous World Cup coverage (which gave us huge stats!). But a lot of the events photographed are things like AAAS and other academic conference, local bo…

> I think the speedups and conveniences of modern IT and the Internet have been massive "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." — Robert Solow…

> Some podcast apps (Apple Podcasts) don't support Atom, so then plain RSS is better. Apple Podcasts stopped supporting Atom (sadly) a few years ago: * https://podcasters.apple.com…

> I simply don't agree with some companies practices and therefore I don't want to invest in them. Understandable, but unless you buy the stock from them at IPO, you're not giving …

Fun fact, the first webcam was for a coffee machine: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam#History

The century from 1870 is filled with many one-time only developments that will never happen again: Things like accepting germ theory (so treating sewage and drinking water), the de…

> This means all this akward conversations about why I don't spend money on stuff that I don't need just because some YouTubers want me to. There's nothing awkward about the follow…

> I wouldn't recommend this after seeing how SpaceX was literally shoved down lots of people's throats. If you're going to buy a "total market" fund, then SpaceX is part of the mar…

> And experiences come from the bulliest of bull markets. As someone who has hung out in Reddit's personal finance areas for many years now, the paniced posts of March 2020 and in …

> This is controversial but very bad advice. No index funds, by their nature, will ever match the return of high-flying company stocks. Sticking with index funds is very good advic…

> I never personally liked the blanket advice to "Max your 401k." I think the general advice is max out employer contributions to your 401(k) * https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfin…

> If you can even TRY to do these things it puts you SO far ahead of the average person. This is basically the advice of this 2016 post (later book): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

> I use YNAB I was happy to pay for YNAB4, which was local-only data. I have no interest in paying a subscription for YNAB5 when I have no need for cloud-access or cross-device syn…

> You could replace the AI with a piece of paper […] This is actually the 'schtick' of a book that was written ten years ago: > Emails and comments on his blog asked for a real ind…