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  1. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    digging into reviews, it seems that contemporary Top Critics (outside of Ebert and Variety) were pretty bored with it (tbf it was released at the time when "science teen comedy" was a genre with titles like My Science Project and Weird Science going on) but later reviewers are overwhelmingly positive. Apparently it aged a lot better than its contemporaries...

    It holds up and Ebert’s review is one of my favorites of his.  There’s a humanism to Ebert’s reviews that is lacking in many of his contemporaries and who get distracted by film making techniques or the rhetoric around the production.  

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  2. 1 hour ago, Esque said:
    • Higher home prices = higher monthly mortgage payment, property insurance, and property tax or total monthly housing payment.
    • Higher total monthly housing payment = higher Owner's Equivalent Rent ("OER").
    • OER is the measure of how much an owner would pay in rent to equal their total monthly housing costs.
    • OER is a main input and driver into CPI.
    • Therefore by definition higher home prices result in higher CPI in a stabilized borrowing costs environment.

    There's also secondary knock on effects that tend to be inflationary.  For example, the higher the total monthly housing payment, the more rent can be pushed at for-rent properties because the relative attractiveness to ownership increases.  Likewise, this all tends to bleed into the labor market as higher monthly housing costs (either ownership or rent) means higher demand for wages.

    Hey dude, kudos for all that.  I could have described it but never so concisely.  It almost makes up for you being a Rangers fan. 

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  3. 22 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    if you are paying market you can always trade him and pay a lot of his salary

    This is a good point-my main concern is that the Astros are losing chips, period, but they still have money and need to deploy it creatively.  

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  4. 38 minutes ago, WBT said:

    His refusal to take on long-term FA deals has limited our signing pool to relievers and old guys.

    To be fair, that’s mostly who is available on the FA market.  His refusal to take on long-term FA deals is also why we’re not paying Springer for his declining performance and Correa’s absences (personally I probably still would have retained Correa for the mix of performance and leadership).
     

    I think it’s clear we’re shedding talent faster than it can be replaced and that’s going to accelerate over the next two years.  It’s partly why I’m sure he hired Brown-you’ve got to have prospects you can consolidate into lower cost established players like Cole or Verlander.  You just can’t rely on your draft skills to produce them.  By the time they are FA’s you’re mostly paying for the back part of their career and there’s not much surplus value.  
     

    Tucker is a little different; I’m sure there’s some caution just because the team might need to be down for a few years to rebuild the farm and young player depth.  Why pay Tucker market for six wins if you’re better off losing?

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  5. 43 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Yeah. She's just sexy and it boosts her attractiveness in my book. A bit like ScarJo.

    Also she got very naked in Oppenheimer.

    I don’t personally find her all that attractive but I think she’s got more charisma than any other actress under 30.  I kind of feel the same way about Chalamet, too.  

    BBQ

    15 hours ago, ftf82 said:

    The debt includes more than $1.5 million to Austin-based financial technology company InKind, which is the most senior secured creditor of the business, said InKind CEO Johann Moonesinghe. The company is working on essentially taking over the business as an assignment for the benefit of the creditors.

    Haha, even smarty pants tech investors lose money investing in BBQ operators.  

  6. 32 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Right but it was a 50/50 split per the post.  They both walk with 13k plus.  Yes sounds like normal is 6% though I know for higher end homes you don’t get 6. 

    The fact it’s 50-50 is immaterial.  The listing agent offered to list it for a reduced rate.  It’s customary (but changing) for a buyer’s agent to expect to be paid 3% and obviously they have to be flexible about that, at times.  
     

    There’s also this presumption (in the recounting) that the buyer was unaware of all of this and lost out on a house because of it.  Obviously that might be true, but it also might be true that the buyer was on board with countering that the seller’s agent should give up that extra .5% of their commission.  Usually buyers are pretty loyal to the agent hauling them around every weekend and agents are usually pretty good about creating relationships, which is why they are in this business in the first place.  

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  7. 3 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Not sure. Per the post it was a 50/50 split 13k each side.  So on a 500k home the selling agent only paid 2%?  Maybe that’s normal for expensive homes and I guess 500k is a lot in the Midwest.  Curious what was the verbiage between buyer/buyer agent?  Losing 13k over 2700 and your clients is homeless?  Meg

    Yeah, that sounds to me like a listing agent who took the listing at a cheap rate and wants the buyer’s agent to make up the difference.  Most buyers agents would be happy to do a deal for 2% commission, but being forced to do so with no negotiation I’m sure results in push back.  
     

    There’s a reason why the otherwise reprehensible big builders go to great pains to advertise their homes with 3% to the buyer’s agent.  You don’t want to do anything that discourages a buyer’s agent from bringing the buyer in.   
     

    Also, you essentially had five offers, four at $2750 below list (because the way to easily negotiate this is have the buyer pay more and the seller rebate it back to the buyer’s agent) and one at list and you took the one at list rather than try to get more money?  If I’m an agent and I’ve got five offers, all within 2% of list I’m going to give everyone a chance to increase their offer.
     

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  8. Something about the math on that story doesn’t make sense.  Usually a listing agent putting it on MLS at a reduced commission isn’t expecting that to come out of the buyer’s agents pocket.  
     

    This sounds like a greedy listing agent to me and not something that only just started to happen because of the NAR settlement.

     

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  9. 2 hours ago, mdmost said:

    He explained it to Toranaga. Spain and Portugal divided the planet into two halves for their empires. 

    Yes, but why does HE care so much about that?  This is why lazy story tellers always resort to tragic backstories in order to show a character arc. For example, “King Philip’s men burned down my village and and my wife and children were among the casualties.   I will not rest until every buggering Catholic meets their end.”  
     

    I think they needed to re-emphasize that hate near the end to make the abandonment of it feel like character growth.  
     

    I’m picking nits, though-it’s all there in the first couple of episodes.  

  10. 3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:


    I don’t pick up on much but wasn’t the mission that the Spanish were trying to horn in on the Portuguese honeypot that was “the Japans”?

    I think that’s the historical telling of it, but the show’s arc of Blackthorne depends on there being more to it than discovery or commerce.  He describes the Catholics as his enemy to Toranaga.  Why?  The show needs to connect those dots better if it wants the rejection of that to land.  

  11. 1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    Ishido is the de facto lead Regent for the entire country. Basically the prime minister or chairman of the board.

    Mariko is "merely" the daughter of a subordinate to a lord/daimyo... a **disgraced** one at that.  So at best like a child of a George Santos or assistant to the regional vice president or something.

    I think you are overstating Ishido’s power and understating Mariko’s.  
     

    Ishido is one of the five regents and essentially mayor of Kyoto, but he’s not able to force project much beyond it and has a fief smaller than the other four regents (also, remember these aren’t the only daimyos, just the five the taiko selected).  He can’t really do much without working through the other, wealthier regents and that’s why he has to isolate them in order to exert control.  He’s also dependent on Lady Ochiba, who controls the samurai pledged directly to the taiko’s heir.

    Mariko is more like Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and if she was best friends with Caroline Kennedy as a kid.  She’s got her own money, married into a distinguished family, and her father retains respect in some quarters.  She’s also super savvy at playing the game within their carefully constructed social behaviors. 

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  12. 5 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    just read this vanity fair article on cosmo jarvis and it makes sense now. 

     

     

    I’ve read a couple of interviews with Kondo and Marks deconstructing the finale and I think this is an area where they didn’t quite calibrate the storytelling effectively, at least for me.  I don’t really FEEL Blackthorne‘s transition and I think it’s because there was too little made of it in the intermediate episodes.  We get the “becoming Japanese” part fine, but what was the mission again?

    I’m doing a rewatch now that my wife wants to watch it and they definitely hit that beat in the first couple of episodes but maybe it’s a little too subtle.  

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