zeke5123a
21d ago
Yes and no. It was obvious from day 1 that those CDOs weren’t good as good. They were labeled AAA but had yields materially higher compared to other AAA. This was attractive for insurance companies who legally were required to have a percentage of assets in AAA. But the only reason why one AAA trades at a yield much higher than other AAA is that the first isn’t really AAA.
zeke5123a
21d ago
I think the OP os largely posting nonsense but if you wanted someone you’d probably pick family to lower the risk (eg Don Jr)
zeke5123a
22d ago
This was the standard in Iceland. If you killed someone and paid the weregild, no feud would occur. But if you tried to hide your killing, then you became outlaw.
zeke5123a
25d ago
To be more specific, it says that people who are black get representation like everyone else; not that black people the group get representation
zeke5123a
26d ago
Yep. My wife and I had our final kid mid 30s. The first few months hit harder compared to our first in late 20s despite having a lot more experience re mid 30s
zeke5123a
26d ago
It is significantly less pleasant being the parent of a young child in your late 30s compared to your late 20s
zeke5123a
26d ago
I googled and spent all of two minutes not finding stats on this but my perception (dated now) was that women made up large majority of grads who went into public interest law
zeke5123a
30d ago
Sure it isn’t popular. Doesn’t mean woman suffrage was a good thing for women or society.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
You keep repeating this but seem oblivious to the fact that the statement appears sarcastic.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
A lot of seems to be a joke. For example, the gas chamber comment was in reference to republicans that didn’t vote for him or even republicans that did but weren’t full throated supports. It seems obvious that he doesn’t and would never actually want to gas them. It’s a clear joke. Maybe the sin is it isn’t that funny but it is a joke.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I’ll just pick on the first “rebuttal.” Thiel is making a Type I v Type II error point. Yes WW3 would be unjust. But so too will be the efforts by those saying “be afraid of WW3–give us these powers to prevent it.”
He then points to Thessalonians. In it, Paul is not saying he is proclaiming “peace.” Instead, Paul is quite literally saying TPTB will be saying “peace.” That is, it’s a prophecy. Thiel is saying the Antichrist will use the yearning for peace to usher in a fate worse than war.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I regularly take the train (NYC metro area). I could easily afford to drive. But train is a lot easier and I can work etc.
Most of the people on the commuter train are not poor or college kids. Maybe ant one point they are jurors but I imagine that was a typo.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
People want nice stuff—especially housing. Bing that cost down and other things like the above won’t matter
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Ha! I told my kids that if they were good, Santa would give them a present. If they were bad, a lump of coal. And if they were really bad, Krampus would pick them up, put them in his sack, and carry them of.
They laughed and responded: you’re joking right?
I played around for a few minutes like it was real but ultimately told them that Krampus isn’t real. They had a fun time with it. And it showed they understood play and could figure out some things were absurd. Notably however they didn’t seem to question Santa haha
zeke5123a
1mo ago
No — we know someone else was also guilty. Doesn’t mean the CP5 weren’t concurrently guilty.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I think the CP5 were likely guilty.
Also Trump isn’t unique in his lying. He lies a lot. But so do other politicians. Trump is simply more uncouth.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Proposition 1: it is impossible to deport millions of people by actually catching them and deporting them.
Proposition 2: People who are afraid will self deport.
Proposition 3: We want to deport millions.
Solution: Make illegals afraid they might be caught and disappeared.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
One of the posters here (I think his name is Anti Populist now) posted the Seltzer poll. I, among others, pointed out how absurd the cross sectionals were and how inconsistent it was with prior polls. He kept on ignoring it predicting a Harris victory right up until she lost.
I rubbed his nose in it because when people make predictions on vibes while ignoring the obvious holes they should be reminded to improve their thought processes going forward. He then blocked me. So yeah, people here were gung ho on harris until she lost.
This strikes me as a Hayekian knowledge problem. Local charities can help people in need but can use discretion (ie local knowledge) to minimize free riding. In contrast, federal government programs are designed to lack discretion (ie rules based). Even if the rules might make sense, people will figure out how to MinMax
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