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I assume they make much more money than you think. With 80+ home games a year they don't need 50k fans in attendance.

This is anecdotal but probably points to what baseball is versus other sports. I went to a MN twins games last year on a random Tues night when they were out of the playoff running.

I was blown away by how many people were there and engaged with the game / having a good time. The amount of families and kids is impressive, and hoards of young teenagers too. It was just a great atmosphere.

Baseball seems more of an atmosphere / spectator sport than other sports. There aren't drunk trashy dudes with oversized jerseys picking fights. You go to the ballpark to hang with the family, eat a few hotdogs and drink a beer.

5 hours of alone time a day? Please point me to this utopia.

I guess if you count work but I don't consider that alone time.

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Everyone says this the first time they use Claude.

The exponential capabilities have been promised since 2023, yet I still have to redirect it to do what I would have done quite often, slightly faster once in a while.

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Sure it could be hyperbole. I admit I'm an early Claude user but it has certainly opened my eyes to what Ai is capable of.

The move from just using a chat bot daily to using Cowork feels exponentially better, but maybe I'm just late to the party. Even if it gets marginally better it's a game changer IMO.

Maybe the exponential growth will be more in how people use it rather than its actual capabilities. Regardless, it will fundamentally change how alot of businesses operate sooner than later.

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Today is not that day.

What AI puts out is garbage. It's being pumped by leadership at companies, because they aren't in the details.

It saves time summarizing, it might catch grammar mistakes, and it can tell you where to look to find something.

It's absolute shite at creating. Even web design, it's just not good. You can see when AI has created logos or put together a marketing campaign. It can't tell you accounting standards with any sort of accuracy. It gives a vague idea, but usually it's just flat out wrong

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I thought this was until about a month ago when I started using Claude.

Now I know that's just completely false. It can spit out client ready deliverables with ease. It can create analytical tools that cut down work from hours to minutes.

I'm seeing it in real time. In 6 months it will be exponentially better. And 6 months from then exponentially better.

IMO it's still early enough that most people haven't picked up on it (hence the replies in this thread). It's still possible to be early but that time is running out.

Depending on your prompt, it's not gonna be any worse than advice you read around the internet. That is, ultimately, it's source for info.

It will likely give decent advice for general investing. It will also likely give horrible advice for individual stock picking.

But alot of Ai is about the prompts you use.

That being said, as a research tool it can be awesome. What used to take multiple sites, sources, earnings calls, etc to compile can now be done in seconds.

It's every other house here in Minneapolis, and it's all political shite.

Sad to hear it has infected Nola too

It's really not that expensive to fly. If you're only paying for yourself you can fly plenty of routes for a couple hundred bucks round trip.

That's attainable for most low income people.

Never thought I had an accent until I moved to MN.

I get 2 words out here and people ask where I'm from.

So you're telling me that a historically poor and abject region can become highly successful and desirable by making strategically good economic decisions within the U.S. system? And that the U.S. system can support and promote such economic development and prosperity?

Do you think Alabama would be able to accomplish this in Canada?

I don't think the argument here is that Alabama in and of itself is a testament to economic prosperity. The overlying point is that under the U.S. system, everyone has the opportunity to prosper if you make the right strategic decisions. Can the same be said about Canada?

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Average poverty builds on a simple intuition. If someone I’ll call Alex earns half as much as someone else I’ll call Barbara, then Barbara is twice as rich as Alex and Alex is twice as poor as Barbara.

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This is all you really have to read to know his methodology is biased because he's more concerned about "inequality" than anything.

It's flawed thinking. Just because I'm 99.9999% poorer than Elon Musk, doesn't mean I'm bad off. He's putting more weight on the super wealthy, which of course will make the US look bad.

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This means that poverty can be defined as the inverse of income, and its unit is simply inverted. If incomes are measured in dollars per day, poverty is measured in days per dollar.

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Wait a second, am I understanding this correctly? He's basically just inverting income to measure poverty? This means the higher the average income the more the poverty?

As someone in this space there's certainly truth to some of things he's saying, but he's also being a bit obtuse.

The reality is, the vast majority of hospitals only make money on commercial patients. And even with commercial only make money on certain procedures. Rural hospitals have terrible payer mixes that make them more vulnerable to this.

That being said, there are specific Gov't programs for rural hospitals to help with this. But it still makes it very difficult for them to offer a wide array of services because they simply don't have the volume to be profitable. But if they don't offer those services then they're the bad guy because they aren't providing the necessary care to the population.

That being said, he's certainly right about some of those things he mentioned.

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spend so much on consultants and fees

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True, and why I have a job :lol:

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They are so set in their ways, it’s a shock more don’t go out of business.

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So true and why I left the operations side of healthcare. They are some of the most difficult workers to instill any type of change.