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Mike Mayers
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Yes I know, and no I haven't seen it | Instinctive permabear | Co-founder productrole.ai | like = thought-provoking ≠ agree
NYCproductrole.aiJoined November 2021

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Clownish nonsense. These are dangerously unserious people.
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Together, we are bringing light to Ukraine! Ukrainians can exchange their old bulbs at the post office for energy-efficient LED bulbs.   The EU is gladly providing 35 million of them.   Every kW of energy saved is precious to counter Russia's energy war.
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"long term storage" is doing a lot of work here...
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Over the past month wind had produced over 44% of Great Britain's power There should be almost triple current wind capacity by 2030, meaning availability of power for export or long term storage, to be used in low wind periods later in the year electricinsights.co.uk/#/dashboard?pe
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For someone so concerned about the safety of his family, telling the world that you killed 25 Taliban fighters is an astonishing admission.
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Great thread. And just wait 'til SCOTUS throws out the Biden student loan forgiveness...
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Lately I have heard that the consumer is strong and can weather these current challenges Looking at quarterly YoY changes, inflation (CPI/PCE) has grown while median real earnings, while improving, are still negative How is the consumer so strong? 🧵
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Another outstanding thread from Suspect the impact on the "wealth effect" can't be understated. See jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/
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Home prices are falling across the United States. Some areas are seeing home prices crash faster than the 2008 crisis, while other areas are actually still rising! Where is the housing crash hitting the hardest? Let's find out 👇 1/
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Blockchain, voice, IoT, crypto, web3, metaverse... All have lacked for utility beyond the trivial or the speculative. Tech has a problem and it's the elephant in the room.
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Yet it could be argued that those are the three closest analogs--each in their own way--to the environment we now face.
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Replying to @TimmerFidelity
When you strip out the three 50% bear markets of '74, 2001 and 2008 the average is 28%. 50%+ bear markets are very rare
Question for data science types... Is there a scenario where full self driving reaches an asymptotic level of (safety) performance which doesn't reach acceptable levels?
The surge did work. And Afghanistan was in the process of nation building. Poor examples.
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The same foreign policy experts & generals who tell us to disregard Putin’s nuclear threat previously told us that we would be greeted as liberators in Iraq, that The Surge was working, nation-building in Afghanistan was working, and on and on. They should have zero credibility.
I get why it happens, but I'm so tired of being hyper-segmented by every company I do business with. Yours, Value Blue Plus Choice Extra+ member
This thread is an economic masterclass.
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America’s middle class is vanishing. In the last 20 years, the share of wealth held by the middle class dropped more than 8%, while the share of wealth held by the top 1% increased almost 8%! Why is this happening, and is this trend going to continue? Let’s find out 👇 1/25
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