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* Bell Labs
* IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
* Xerox Parc
I always felt when DoJ was suing Microsoft for antitrust the best evidence of their monopoly was that Microsoft Research had started spitting out good work.
I think you're onto something wrt Google.
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.
Other terms for scam (aside from confidence trick) include con, con game, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle, bunko (or bunco), swindle, flimflam, gaffle, and bamboozle.
Not a persuasive demo.
Without a seat, why am I paying?
Read an article about this years ago. It seems they had special pilots to do this. Like wetting the bed on purpose, trained ships captains had a very hard time intentionally running ships aground.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
Fertility, total births per woman 2021
Australia 1.7
EU 1.5
UK 1.6
Japan 1.3
Korea 0.8
US 1.7
Replacement fertility is estimated at 2.1. Countries with below replacement fertility are growing based on immigration.
Regardless, housing demand is more directly influenced (and influences) net household formation, and it is very regional and dependent on regional economies. There are rust belt communities in the US which suffered decades of net negative household formation even as the US population ticked up. Detroit and Baltimore had peak populations in 1950. While many would consider portions of them blighted and undesirable, that was more the result of and less the cause of the population decline.
It's likely that the real estate that the Red Lobsters were built on was worth more than the entire enterprise. In such a case the implication is that the ongoing operation is negatively valued. Splitting the real estate off and valuing the restaurants at zero is a rational action -- and good for the economy.
Put a mom and pop restaurant on the spot. Or a nail salon. Or anything that can justify its costs.
That’s why central banks typically make the rules about reserves, etc.
I have two customers A & B. A has $1000 on deposit. B has $500 on deposit. I have $1500 in my safe. Assets = $1500, Liabilities = $1500.
B borrows $500, which for simplicity's sake he deposits in his account.
Now A has $1000 on deposit, B has $1000 on deposit. I have $1500 cash in my safe and a note from B for $500. Assets = $2000, Liabilities = $2000.
I just created $500. It's really that simple.
I had read and enjoyed the first two books. After the first couple of episodes I had to admit I was watching it for Gary Oldman more than anything else. I'd watch just a supercut of him expressing disdain for and disappointment with his subordinates.
It amuses me when people who leave NYC (and SF I suppose) feel the need to give a litany of exaggerated complaints about what a hellhole it is.
I’ve lived in Manhattan 30 years (after growing up in a suburb) and raised three children here and loved it.
They are able, and they’re choosing not to. So SawStop is wisely spending marketing money on lobbying. If people don’t want to buy your product, nothing better than forcing them to.
I do favor markets in general and I understand their limitations.
And with respect to allocating capital, stock markets have proven to be better than the varying degrees of state economies.
> You are smarter than that.
True. :-)
Markets are the best way we’ve come up with to allocate capital. Committees and commissars do not do a better job.
As a counterpoint, I work at very large financial firm in technology and in general, the 20+ year veterans who’ve been here forever are terrible. They are hidebound in their actions, years behind in industry best practices and they maintain little fiefdoms simply because of their intimate knowledge of the banks arcane and idiosyncratic policies. The place would be better of without the bulk of them.
That is to say we are the complete opposite of what Boeing was. But the most charitable interpretation you could offer the Boeing management is that they thought they were in the situation of my company rather than the situation they actually had.