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Fair, but at the very least "hyperinflation caused Hitler" is a significantly weaker statement than "deflation caused Hitler", given that the former was replaced by the latter like 8+ years before Hitler's takeover.

Economic problems was a big part though, the 1929-33 great depression. It features heavily in political literature pushed by the Nazi party leading up to takeover. You know, like "Arbeit und Brot", etc.


I don't think apollo 11's toilet malfunctioned, it was just not very good. Everything smelled like poop mixed with chemicals, and that was by design.

I mean five nines is legitimately difficult to accomplish for a lot of problem spaces.

It's also like.... difficult to honestly and accurately measure. And account for whether or not you're getting lucky based on your underlying dependencies (servers, etc) not crashing as much as advertised, or if it's actually five nines. Or whether you've run it for a month and gotten <30s of measure downtime and declared victory, vs run it for three years with copious software updates.

I always assume most people claiming five nines are just not measuring it correctly, or have not exercised the full set of things that will go wrong over a long enough period of time (dc failures, network partitions, config errors, bad network switches that drop only UDP traffic on certain ports, erroneous ACL changes, bad software updates, etc etc)

Maybe they did it all correct though, in which case, yea, seems hard hitting to me.


Hyperinflation in weimar Germany ended by what, 1924-ish with a return to gold standard? Hitler came to power 8+ years later

So London homicide rate is 1.1 per 100k? That's substantially lower than New Hampshire, Maine, and Idaho, which have the lowest homicide rates in the US.

Does seem like much ado about nothing.


The people these videos are targeting are not swayed by facts.

I get 1G (in the US) and am in a similar boat - I could pay for 8G, and my house is even wired for 10G. But..... all my network equipment is 1G, we rarely saturate it, and I don't want to shell out like a thousand dollars to replace my router, three managed switches, and three AP.

Actually $1k might not even do it all, but I could probably get the switches and router for just under $1k and leave the WiFi at 1G.

I suspect my 1G costs a bit more than yours though


Looks like yes. Last jet shot down was a warthog in Iraq 2003. Last fighter jets shot down were a nighthawk and falcon in 1999.

Another warthog went down today.

More like 40% effective tax rate at £100k, even including employer side of things?

> Spacex will be around 4.5% of the index [2].

Does that article say that? I didn't see "4.5xm" mentioned anywhere. Also jow does QQQ do float adjusting? Will it do the same 5x that we're hearing nasdaq is going to do? (Which would make it what, <1%?). Or something else?


QQQ is the same as Nasdaq, for this meaning of Nasdaq.

The article isn't a great source, agreed. But it does give this calculation:

> Oddly enough, had SpaceX entered the Nasdaq-100 with a market capitalization of $1.75 trillion on Friday, March 27 [assuming the new rules (?)], it would have supplanted Tesla as the fifth-largest holding in the benchmark. The electric vehicle stock accounts for 3.8% of the Invesco ETFs.

So it would come in somewhere above 3.8%, by those calculations. And it depends on market prices from day to day. Not much changes about the argument above if you make it 3% or 6%, holding constant the assumption that it's 30% overvalued.


I was mostly confused because the article made 0 mention of the float adjustment or the changes to nasdaq float adjusting that is proposed (5x float, which would still put SpaceX at <20% of its market cap, or <1% of the index, no?)

It is just not addressed at all in the article, which makes it seem like they're assuming it's 100% of market cap.


What is an example nasdaq 100 fund that isn't float adjusted?

>that isn't float adjusted?

AFAIK the problem is that they're lobbying the nasdaq 100 index provider to add a 5x multiplier for free float for spacex. Otherwise it would be far less controversial.

edit: https://keubiko.substack.com/p/nasdaqs-shame


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