Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

[chop2chip]

As a percentage of disposable income. Disposable income drops when you don't have jobs.

Well considering we had record demand for things people spend their disposable income, color me skeptical.

Do you have data you’d like to share that shows disposable income was very low at the time you wanted to give everyone extra money to put in their savings accounts?

 

[thethe]

some other free advice... if your services are simply your skills... you cannot meaningful scale that.

learning python will help you immensely in scaling your time. if making models and templates if your service, id advise learning the best technology to implement it

I integrate VBA with my templates to increase automation.

I can use BI to create processes to pull data on any cadence I want so visualizations update for the end user without any interaction.

I respsect what you are saying and I'm dark on how python can be used in the data space but my research tells me that I don't need it for what I do.

 

[thethe]

Well considering we had record demand for things people spend their disposable income, color me skeptical.

Do you have data you’d like to share that shows disposable income was very low at the time you wanted to give everyone extra money to put in their savings accounts?

Nobody was positive about the future based on where we were the previous six months - And all indications were that the new regime was going to tighten the screws even more.

People needed that money. Not people like you or me - But the majority of Americans.

But Mitch didn't think so while later voting for future spending bills and Ukraine funding. I wonder why....

 

[chop2chip]

Well considering we had record demand for things people spend their disposable income, color me skeptical.

Do you have data you’d like to share that shows disposable income was very low at the time you wanted to give everyone extra money to put in their savings accounts?

To spoil the surprise, household disposable income hit an all time high March 2021.

 

[sturg33]

My type of business can be ran from wherever so I'll most likely be elsewhere in five years. For now - I still love Long Island.

im still not clear on how you got to the conclusion that your such a math giant relative to me

at first id just assumed maybe you were a genius

but then you said the same cannot be said about chop

so unless your both super geniuses... something I said must have led you to that conclusion... was it that i was impressed by RDS' election margin? or what is that I don't see a way out of SS shortfall without raising taxes, printing money, or cutting benefits? or was it something else?!

I am dying to know!

 

[thethe]

To spoil the surprise, household disposable income hit an all time high March 2021.

Well when investors sold their investments at record highs they generated lots of income.

You should try to get stratified data and see how that plays out.

 

[sturg33]

I integrate VBA with my templates to increase automation.

I can use BI to create processes to pull data on any cadence I want so visualizations update for the end user without any interaction.

I respsect what you are saying and I'm dark on how python can be used in the data space but my research tells me that I don't need it for what I do.

I've never used VBA but knowing some other tools out there, I'd suggest your limiting yourself by remaining soles in the Microsoft ecosystem

 

[chop2chip]

Nobody was positive about the future based on where we were the previous six months - And all indications were that the new regime was going to tighten the screws even more.

People needed that money. Not people like you or me - But the majority of Americans.

But Mitch didn't think so while later voting for future spending bills and Ukraine funding. I wonder why....

There will always be people that need support. I’m not even against social welfare nets in general, but the ways they are implemented are almost always ham-fisted.

Unfortunately, our noble attempt to help people during Covid is disproportionately impacting them negatively via inflation.

 

[thethe]

im still not clear on how you got to the conclusion that your such a math giant relative to me

at first id just assumed maybe you were a genius

but then you said the same cannot be said about chop

so unless your both super geniuses... something I said must have led you to that conclusion... was it that i was impressed by RDS' election margin? or what is that I don't see a way out of SS shortfall without raising taxes, printing money, or cutting benefits? or was it something else?!

I am dying to know!

Well mostly because you were being a little prick saying 'math guy'.

But otherwise I've always excelled against my peers in math. Whether that was in High School Calc BC or in Advanced Linear algebra at Binghamton.

If I wasn't such a pothead in my younger years I'd probably be a mechanical engineer. Alas - I've made mistakes in my life.

 

[sturg33]

Well when investors sold their investments at record highs they generated lots of income.

You should try to get stratified data and see how that plays out.

I don't know if you realize this but this happens frequently.

You make a claim that actually doesn't have data to support... then you pivot to say if not for it happening, things would have been very bad/good

the reason these arguments last for pages is because rather than accepting being wrong about something, you double down on it and create new imagined scenarios that maybe make it not wrong

 

[chop2chip]

Well when investors sold their investments at record highs they generated lots of income.

You should try to get stratified data and see how that plays out.

That’s a theory. You are welcome to prove it.

 

[thethe]

I've never used VBA but knowing some other tools out there, I'd suggest your limiting yourself by remaining soles in the Microsoft ecosystem

Again - You work with large corporations. The stuff you are talking about is completely irrelevant for businesses that I would be consulting for with my one man shop. The microsoft ecosystem (BI still in its infancy) is perfect for small businesses.

VBA is incredible - For simplistic purposes you effectively command excel to do anything you would do jsut by using it but speeding up the process by 10000000000X.

 

[sturg33]

Well mostly because you were being a little prick saying 'math guy'.

But otherwise I've always excelled against my peers in math. Whether that was in High School Calc BC or in Advanced Linear algebra at Binghamton.

If I wasn't such a pothead in my younger years I'd probably be a mechanical engineer. Alas - I've made mistakes in my life.

oh well this was anti-climatic

by the way... I called you math guy because you previously informed me that you run circles around me in math

I thought that was kinda rude so figured id return a little friendly fire when the opportunity presented itself

 

[thethe]

That’s a theory. You are welcome to prove it.

I am not paying to get data sets - I just have a gut feeling on these things when I see definitions of disposable income and I make my assumptions.

If you think everyday Americans were all of a sudden getting amazingly high paying jobs after the whole country shut down then thats fine. You are entitled to that theory as well.

Its dangerous to look at general data conclusions without understanding the weighted aspect of the data.

 

[chop2chip]

I don't know if you realize this but this happens frequently.

You make a claim that actually doesn't have data to support... then you pivot to say if not for it happening, things would have been very bad/good

the reason these arguments last for pages is because rather than accepting being wrong about something, you double down on it and create new imagined scenarios that maybe make it not wrong

thethe has always been this way. He and I had wonderful debates going back to the Mitch McGary era of the Thunder.

That thethe was fun to argue with because he was endearing and good natured. Political thethe packs a bit of venom in his punches.

 

[thethe]

thethe has always been this way. He and I had wonderful debates going back to the Mitch McGary era of the Thunder.

That thethe was fun to argue with because he was endearing and good natured. Political thethe packs a bit of venom in his punches.

Hey man if the nba would have allowed marijuana McGrary would have been amazing.

I'm about to enjoy another ten year run of brilliance. This time without having to pretend to like Westbrooks game.

 

[sturg33]

Again - You work with large corporations. The stuff you are talking about is completely irrelevant for businesses that I would be consulting for with my one man shop. The microsoft ecosystem (BI still in its infancy) is perfect for small businesses.

VBA is incredible - For simplistic purposes you effectively command excel to do anything you would do jsut by using it but speeding up the process by 10000000000X.

interesting.I will check it out. im familiar with vba but only have used python since I learned it. but I will check it out and see how it compares

by the way I was able to get chatgpt doing python scripts for me the other day to perform complex tasks in excel with pretty basic prompts.

the world will be a changing

 

[thethe]

interesting.I will check it out. im familiar with vba but only have used python since I learned it. but I will check it out and see how it compares

by the way I was able to get chatgpt doing python scripts for me the other day to perform complex tasks in excel with pretty basic prompts.

the world will be a changing

can you give me an example of a complex task in excel?

 

[chop2chip]

I am not paying to get data sets - I just have a gut feeling on these things when I see definitions of disposable income and I make my assumptions.

If you think everyday Americans were all of a sudden getting amazingly high paying jobs after the whole country shut down then thats fine. You are entitled to that theory as well.

Its dangerous to look at general data conclusions without understanding the weighted aspect of the data.

Generalized data > no data

If you show me stratified data that supports your position, I will happily reconsider my position that paying people money to vote is a bad idea.

 

[thethe]

Generalized data > no data

If you show me stratified data that supports your position, I will happily reconsider my position that paying people money to vote is a bad idea.

Well since you know I will never get access to that data I will have to resign to the fact with the available information on hand you are right.