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Yes, your post is a perfect example of intellectual inferiority complex.

They actually have increased. A lot. Plastics being one exception since they can make resin from ethane feedstock.

Yeah it's common for individuals with lesser intelligence to believe that those with greater intelligence are not believable. Dunning-kruger and Inverse snobbery. Tell us that you have never met any global CEO's without telling us. .

You seem to have conveniently forgotten how this discussion started. You said: ”Oh come on man. You really think it costs more to print a paper than in 1990? Give me a break.” - What a Tuel To which I responded, of course it costs more! Inflation has pushed prices higher. Ink costs more, paper costs more, vehicles cost more, salaries cost more. Once you eventually realized that it does in fact cost more now, you switched to an efficiency argument. The entire basis of this entire argument is that it costs more now to print the paper than it did in 1990. Your computing advances argument is the same as your employee argument. The advance of computer power has simply reduced salaries, which I already showed you *still* doesn’t outpace inflation. There is no other way around it - it costs more to print and deliver the paper now than it did in 1990. .

No one said they are not more efficient now. What was said is that is still costs more. You're changing your argument from "it costs less now" to "well i guess it does cosst more but it would have been even worse if they didnt become more efficient". Well, duh. .

You not understanding inflation has truly opened my eyes. Our public school system is a disaster.

Maybe this will help @What a Tuelunderstand. Pretend you have a company that has $1,000,000 of expenses per year and 500,000 of that is salaries. Automation comes along, making 90% of your ENTIRE workforce obsolete. What is 90% of 500,000? $450,000 You just laid off 90% of your employees and saved 450k. Now your expenses are down to $550,000. Then inflation comes along and everything costs 2.4x more. What is $550,000 x 2.4? It’s $1,320,000. You're now paying $1,320,000. So you reduced your workforce by 90%, but still pay more… Are you starting to understand how inflation makes things cost more?

Yes, consider who is agreeing with you @oldmanfan. This poster, who agrees with you, can not grasp how inflation over the past 23 years has made the cost to print newspapers higher now (due to inflation of ink, salaries, paper, delivery vehicles, etc) now than in 1990. Think about that and the brainiacs that agree with you. May be enough to make you realize some things.

Yeah, that's why I said you don't seem to know what the word means. Objectivity is assessing a situation without personal bias or subjective influence. Personal opinions, being inherently subjective, literally negate your objective view! I actually enjoy when someone can challenge me. The trouble is when small-brained mosquitos nibble on my legs.

Im starting to think you dont know what objective means.

'my lack of personal biases have told me that I have no biases' Ding, ding, ding, ding! He finally gets it! I thought you're objective!?

oh look, another form

A person can not be the judge of their own objectivity. It's literally recursive.

That's a lot of bloviating to simply say: "I have zero proof". It's comical, isn't it? He wants to hold others to the standard of peer-review yet cant provide a shed of proof for anything he writes. I've asked him before for his name, or work email, or anything. He refuses to give it. I don't believe he actually posses the credentials he claims.

Yeah you have attempted to make this claim several times but have still yet to prove it. That’s called an unsubstantiated claim.

This is akin to the “cool kids” in class picking on the nerd because he was significantly more intelligent. Bullying doesn’t change as you grow older - it just appears in different forms.

It's called framing an argument. McDermott supporters have run out of runway with their original arguments due to another disastrous playoffs so they must now frame the argument as a "Stick with McDermott and at least win the regular season" or "LOSE FOREVERRRR". It's not like a team could fire a successful coach (Pederson in Philly) and then immediately hire a coach that takes them to the Super Bowl (oh wait, Sirianni in Phily). That would be impossible. What data supports that McDermott is a good in-game strategist?

Not the type of independent variables that you are speaking of. Like my evidence in the first post, Auto Regressive models literally use past values and past prediction errors to predict future values. It's the entire purpose. For example, in an autoregressive model, the estimate for a variable's value at a given time point 't' is derived from an amalgamation of its preceding values—designated as ('t-1', 't-2') and so forth. Despite their temporal antecedence, these values serve as the model's surrogate "independent variables", even though they are, in fact, antecedent observations of the very variable being forecasted. They are not a completely separate independent variable like you are talking about (weather, injuries, whatever). Really an time series data model, like recurrent neural neworks. They are specifically designed to "remember" patterns over time, without excuses, which makes them great for univariate time series forecasting.

Everything stat has external factors. But we (as humans) tend to only bring up those external factors when it suits us. For example, why do we even mention INT totals for bad QB's? Weather, game plan, tipped passes, etc all are factors that could change this statistic. Another example is test scores. We use standardized test scores to measure the performance of a student? After all, external factors such as socio-economic status, parental education levels, language barriers, quality of teaching, and even the student's health and nutrition can significantly affect these scores. That persons not dumb, they're just unhealthy! And why blame weight gain on poor eating habits? Numerous other factors like metabolism, genetics, mental health, medications, and socioeconomic status also play a huge role. That person's not fat, they're just poor! We can "external factor" our way out of every statistic to ever exist if we wanted to.

Haha, my diet is FAR from healthy. I just prefer to eat junk food that tastes good.

You can just stay logged into your "Tuel" account. No need to flip back and forth. The current newspaper printing presses were built in the 1990's. The Buffalo News printing press is using a 90's era machine that was installed after Y2K. Thats part of the reason theyre moving the printing to Cleveland - the press is old! They still employ press-men and engravers! That's how old the tech is. If you walk into the Buffalo news warehouse you will see a large metal structure that pushes the paper over rollers and imprints before combining. These machines have been in place for over 20 years. They're not new. Production is not significantly cheaper now because it's the same machines we used back then! Add on top of that: - Ink prices went up due to inflation. - Rent went up due to inflation. - Truck prices went up due to inflation. - Gas prices went up due to inflation. - Salaries went up due to inflation. The process is not automated either. Workers in the plate room control a machine that burns pages onto aluminum plates. The plates have a special coating that is sensitive to light. They undergo a chemical bath. Afterward, the plates are bent to fit the press and are then attached to the presses and pressed onto newsprint using a combination of water and ink (which is typically soy or oil derivatives). These ARE less workers, but it's because newspapers in general have declined in readership thus necessitating less workers. Less revenue = less people you can pay.

Oh I've noticed. They throw temper tantrums like Genny cream ale folks as well.

Yes. Correct. Due to inflation which has caused wages, ink, paper, etc all to climb. You're unwillingness to accept facts doesn't change that. Ignoring empirical data doesnt change that. Newspapers and its derivatives were not immune from inflation for the past 40 years. .

Making a mistake doesn’t make you a fool. But refusing to admit your mistakes, shows how foolish you are.

haha I just thought the same thing. That was a brutal drop. Doesn’t get much easier.