Making a bad trade or missing a good one due to delaying data or bad data can pay for several years worth of bloombergs for everyone in your firm in one moment.

The data you’ve presented indicates you think only reducing the natural gas number to 0 with no context about trend lines or alternates is an acceptable solution which is obviously nonsensical.

Even the Chinese take several years to put up a nuclear plant. Nuclear is simply financially unsustainable especially in this era of high interest rates when solar, wind and natural gas plants can be brought up in a matter of months.

The global economy isn’t pivoting off Icelandic banks the way it is off US ones.

That sounds like a good thing and it is. But it’s not a US story. In fact, other wealthy countries didn’t just already have a higher baseline life expectancy pre-COVID, they rebounded to it post-COVID sooner than the U.S. was able to its already lower level.

So what this actually is, is a story of “global modern medicine good”, and unfortunately, even within that, the U.S. is among the worst performing.

Going to Windows Phone 7 didn’t solve the fundamental problem they needed to solve. The ecosystem, while also eliminating the ability to differentiate or innovate.

This is completely wrong.

The Asian Market is far more diverse than that.

The Nokia brand was extremely strong.

The Asian market was and is very capable of supporting high end phones. It’s a smaller percentage of the market than in the west, but the entire market is also a lot bigger, so the absolute size of the Asian high end phone market is not far off from either the U.S. or European high end phone markets.

- Windows Phone had no brand value. It didn’t add to the Nokia brand. It detracted from it

- Windows Phone allowed very minimal UI customization. This meant that Nokia could add little to no Nokia specific functionality

- Windows Phone allowed minimal hardware customization. This meant all Nokia phones looked and behaved like cheap Chinese phones for less than half the price

- Windows Phone was closed source, which meant Nokia engineers could not add either hardware or software functionality beyond whar Windows Phone already supported.

- As part of the Windows phone transition, MS required Nokia to kill their own OS development. Switching to Windows Phone was a hard 1 way turn.

The alternative to Nokia at the time wasn’t Windows Phone vs Meego. It was Windows Phone vs Meego vs Android vs Android + Meego.

The obvious, both contemporaneous and in hindsight, choice was to go with Android which and continue Meego dev on the side as a fallback. Android brought Nokia up to speed on the hardware and app ecosystem side, while allowing them to innovate on the hardware side and using their brand + unique designs + hardware quality to be a leading Android developer.

But either way, why would economists have commented on what healthy food is and why would anyone listen to them for health information?

That’s almost as bad as getting your dietary and health advice by fitness influencers, gym instructors, chiropractors and surgeons.

If they did these problems would have been solved.

Social media is about “generating content”. Social networks were about connecting with people, not about consuming the content they generated.

Heck, the original version of Facebook didn’t even have content. The only interaction you could have with someone else was giving them a “poke”.

The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications.

Since then, it’s become social Media. It’s now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers. The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it’s no longer about building networks between people.

The real question is that given that you don’t know anything about the system, why would you find it so hard to accept that maybe your claims are incorrect? Further, the other poster is not stating that there are no costs of running the system. They’re claiming, correctly, that the costs are far lower than alternative mechanisms.

This is not even hard to see. The cost of running NCPI is trivial compared to VISA/Mastercard’s network, not least because being a private company trying to maximize profits VISA/Mastercard overload their core network costs with the costs of running a massive concierge, gift card and loyalty points business, which is where their profits lie.

So they eliminated vegans from the sensitivity analysis despite them comprising a substantial portion of the no-egg group.

If the analysis doesn’t hold with vegans included, it’s probably saying a lot about dairy rather than eggs.

Other than that you’re right.

Pretty much every player has done something like that.

But again, he was blacklisted before any of even these marginal allegations were proven. And the actual allegations Magnus accused him of and that followed him for years has absolutely no evidence other than Magnus not accepting that Hans could beat him in a highly controlled over the table game.

Also, he continued to be punished in ways that are outside the actual punishment that was given to him that are not official but are being done through winks and nods between Carlsen and Hikaru and tournament organizers who don’t want to upset them.

It seems that the expectation today is everything is written or created for an audience and probably for monetization or “influence”.

At the same time, FIDE also needs to look back at the behavior of some of the most powerful people in the sport in the whole Hans saga. What Hans was put through was ridiculous even if all the allegations were true, given how many actions were simply the result of the most powerful player in the sport throwing his weight around.

I’m not a fan of Hans but I absolutely admire how he managed to continue and grow his career despite the top 2 biggest individuals in the sport, and a whole other set of powerbrokers (for example, the wealthiest tournament in the Sinquefeld cup) teaming up to destroy his career.