Eatspancakes84

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If that happened I guess it was His will /s.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

In prehistoric times the human hunting strategy was simply to follow an animal with a group of people until it tiers out, relying on superior endurance and cooperation skills. If it were possible for a human to simply defeat prime predators in one-on-one combat we would likely never have developed those skills in the first place. We are good at cooperating, precisely because we are so much weaker than gorillas.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

No way in hell. Bears have a ton of fur and very strong neck muscles. Nothing to choke. This is why we invented weapons in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

It’s a Facebook link… maybe at least give a blurb on why I should click it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn’t that take a ton of CPU/Memory?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I wonder if it’s really a computer issue or a more general lack of problem-solving skills. In your 20s you should still easily and quickly be able to switch to any OS and understand the logic. If you don’t the issue is likely not limited to computer-skills.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Isn’t anything in the upper range of what you are able to hear annoying? I.e. when you age 12.5 kHz will be annoying as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oof that resonates badly with the community here. I thought that by putting left-wing in quotes, it would be obvious that I was sarcastic, but either people did not read it that way, or something else about my post rubbed people the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Economist here. There’s obviously no single measure of the state of the economy, and if there were, jobs and wages would clearly be a key component. It’s mostly those “left-wing” journalist that will have you believe that one number, GDP growth, represents the state of the economy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

GNI still gives a slightly better measure of income which is what OP was asking for. For instance if an American gets dividend income from a foreign company that’s part of GNI but not GDP, and vice versa if a US company pays dividends to a foreign shareholder. But yeah in practice all of this will be negligible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Real GDP is adjusted for inflation. That’s what the term Real means. Nominal GDP is not adjusted. I always think that reporting should primarily focus on real GNI per capita, which is slightly more informative than real GDP, but in practice I think the differences won’t be shocking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

There is a variable called Gross National Income (GNI) corrected for inflation which is likely the variable Wolfers refers to. You can report it, but it will not be very different from GDP corrected for inflation which the media writes about all the time. Essentially production =income except for some small nuances.

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