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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10100 on: June 17, 2019, 07:44:27 PM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-14/brisket-lovers-pay-a-premium-thanks-to-hi-tech-barbecue?srnd=premium

3 people came to my mind while reading this article, can you guess who they were?
Henche and rs242?
Don't know the third

Actually I'll guess aygart for the 3rd (I might've slightly cheated on the last guess :) )
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Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10101 on: June 17, 2019, 08:29:10 PM »
Henche and rs242?
Don't know the third

Actually I'll guess aygart for the 3rd (I might've slightly cheated on the last guess :) )
Not even close.

One you might figure out from my DDF posts in recent weeks, while the other two have nothing SPECIFIC to DDF.
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10103 on: June 18, 2019, 12:58:41 PM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-17/how-housing-finance-enriched-whites-at-expense-of-black-borrowers?srnd=premium

With one minor caveat at the end, the author makes it sound like this was all racist - rather than, perhaps, the decisions being made based on financial indicators, which may happen to disproportionately correlate with blacks.

For example, in the graph comparing black family income vs. white family income, are they adjusting for whether each "family" has 2 parents? A 1-parent family is going to have significantly lower income for multiple reasons, completely unrelated to race.

Also - $3-4B sounds like a lot to me, and anyone else reading the article - but what percentage of overall sales was that?

Finally, while I'm no expert on this, there's a lot of controversy regarding what impact, if any, the Community Reinvestment Act had on lending to minorities in a risky way, and ultimately the housing crash that may have impacted those same minorities. Articles on this are dividied along usual political lines, but the left-leaning ones I've read use snide lines like, "the CRA didn’t force mortgage companies to offer loans [in irresponsible ways]." Well - it kind of did, since it seems (from admittedly brief research) that banks had penalties imposed if they didn't meet certain metrics of lending to minorities. And I somehow doubt that it was simple to explain why they didn't meet those expectations for economically valid reasons.

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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10104 on: June 18, 2019, 01:01:20 PM »
With one minor caveat at the end, the author makes it sound like this was all racist - rather than, perhaps, the decisions being made based on financial indicators, which may happen to disproportionately correlate with blacks.

Indeed. One of the reasons I found this article interesting and worthy of posting here, is to point out the racial bias of the MSM.
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« Reply #10105 on: June 18, 2019, 01:11:35 PM »
Yeah, this author's tone rises to rabid at some points:

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So if you ever find yourself in a predominantly black neighborhood, wondering why everyone seems so poor, know this: It’s largely because white people, possibly even you or your ancestors, stole from them and their ancestors.

When I'm on the subway and a kid is trying to sell a $.25 water bottle for $3 on a summer day, I can buy it or not, I don't say he's trying to steal from me.

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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10108 on: June 18, 2019, 09:14:14 PM »
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10112 on: June 19, 2019, 07:06:32 PM »
At the end of the day, it's just speculation.

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« Reply #10113 on: June 19, 2019, 07:40:17 PM »
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

You should put a warning up there as to length of article.

Most of The Atlantic articles are long.

At the end of the day, it's just speculation.

But this sums it up perfectly:

"The mystery surrounding MH370 has been a focus of continued investigation and a source of sometimes feverish public speculation. The loss devastated families on four continents. The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility. It is hard to permanently delete an email, and living off the grid is nearly unachievable even when the attempt is deliberate. A Boeing 777 is meant to be electronically accessible at all times. The disappearance of the airplane has provoked a host of theories. Many are preposterous. All are given life by the fact that, in this age, commercial airplanes don’t just vanish."
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« Reply #10114 on: June 19, 2019, 08:44:17 PM »
But this sums it up perfectly:

"The mystery surrounding MH370 has been a focus of continued investigation and a source of sometimes feverish public speculation. The loss devastated families on four continents. The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility. It is hard to permanently delete an email, and living off the grid is nearly unachievable even when the attempt is deliberate. A Boeing 777 is meant to be electronically accessible at all times. The disappearance of the airplane has provoked a host of theories. Many are preposterous. All are given life by the fact that, in this age, commercial airplanes don’t just vanish."

Well I think that + this:
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The important answers probably don’t lie in the ocean but on land, in Malaysia. That should be the focus moving forward. Unless they are as incompetent as the air force and air traffic control, the Malaysian police know more than they have dared to say. The riddle may not be deep. That is the frustration here. The answers may well lie close at hand, but they are more difficult to retrieve than any black box.

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