refurb's comments

On: Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

[refurb]

Yeah, but everyone knows why. The IMF has called out that 40% of Ireland’s GDP isn’t real because it flows into and back out (back to the US mostly) due to tax schemes.

On: Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

[refurb]

Unless you have better alternatives you’re not really saying much.

And I don’t think anyone relies only on GDP. Typically you’d look at employment rates, inflation, etc.

On: Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

[refurb]

I wish I had the kind of hubris to make a bunch of predictions that all turned out not to happen (high inflation, recession, etc) then come back a year later with more predictions and a “trust me bro, I’m 100% sure this time”

On: US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

[refurb]

Of course landlords create supply.

A renter is someone looking to rent. If someone buys a home then rents it out they just +1 the supply of rental units.

[defrost → refurb]

Only if that home wasn't already rented out by the previous owner.

A high proportion of real estate sales are owner churn, not the purchase of brand new never used before properties.

On: Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got

[refurb]

> The second secret to getting promoted is working at a company that's growing

I would say this is the #1 most important factor.

If a company isn’t growing, you’re relying on attrition to move up.

90% of the people I know who moved up to senior positions rapidly all worked at fast growing companies.

On: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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The problem is you’re getting all your information from the internet (I’ll bet social media?).

The impact of that is on display in this very thread. Random unproven accusations, conspiracy theories and repetition of “facts” that have been disproven long ago.

If your goal is to educate yourself about the US leadership, or really any subject, you’re not going to do it by what you see on social media.

[ndsipa_pomu → refurb]

Your post isn't really doing anything apart from casting general doubt. Can you be more specific please?

Are there more reliable sources of information that you can point to?

[JumpinJack_Cash → refurb]

> > Random unproven accusations, conspiracy theories and repetition of “facts” that have been disproven long ago.

Every person who has been out in the world had to deal with a Trump like person in the workplace or wherever .

And people don't like it, as a matter of fact they despise it, he's only kept afloat by those who fail to connect the abusive bullying behavior of DJT with their own personal experience with a similar character and those who enjoy bullying or are paitiently waiting in line to do some bullying.

[refurb → JumpinJack_Cash]

You reply seems to be a nonsequitur to my comment.

[JumpinJack_Cash → refurb]

it's not, you are arguing for media to conceal or hide Trump's personality and the common intuition ahout him

[refurb → JumpinJack_Cash]

Intuition?

Let me put it this way - if you wanted to know a subject well, as in truly understand it, for example the current protests in Iran.

Do you think you’d walk away with a good understanding from what the mainstream media says? From social media?

I think it clear to most people the media does a horrible job.

Now consider if they do such a horrible job on those topics, do you think they suddenly do a good job on US politics?

[JumpinJack_Cash → refurb]

There is nothing to understand about Trump, he's a know it all bully who enjoys bullying people and given the fact that he was born in privilege has always enjoyed the luxury to pick targets way below his stature as subjects of bullying. As bullys do. Picking on weaker people because they enjoy the process , and actually find it way more enjoyable than winning against equals or god forbid be the underdogs in a confrontation.

On: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

[refurb]

I’m sure the evidence for this is as strong as the Russiagate evidence.

You don’t see the irony in claiming Trump wasn’t elected in a democratic fashion, by using undemocratic methods to force him out?

I see the irony.

On: Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas

[refurb]

Vietnam, Tibet, Laos, Cambodia, India, Russia and Taiwan would argue otherwise.

On: HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

[refurb]

If by “money” you mean “spending limited health dollars on treatments where the benefit justifies the amount spent” then you’d be correct.

On: HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

[refurb]

That’s not how drug approvals work. You don’t make assumptions about safety, you make decisions based on data.

The original trials were for a specific population - no prior HPV infection, young women. Hence the approval was for that population.

Additional trials have been run expanding the population, but the decision was based on data not “yeah, I’ll bet this is safe/works for this other group”