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by 40acres 7y ago
If you were born in an advanced economy in 2000 you've lived through at least two recessions, weak growth, rising inequality and asset prices, and high cost of schooling. Yes, capitalism isn't really looking great right now.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Generally I think Zuckerberg is correct, Facebook is very powerful no doubt. But that power is vested upon by it's users. There clearly was a lot of misinformation going around during the 2016 election and at some point we have to look
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by 40acres 7y ago
I learned yesterday that Uber maxes out tips at $10. My Uber driver returned my lost phone and I wanted to thank him with a big tip, unfortunately after giving $10 Uber suggests that you tip the driver further in cash. I'm confused abo
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Are Loot Boxes an Illegal Gambling Mechanic?(natlawreview.com)
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by 40acres 7y ago
Met with an Automatic recruiter last month and had the same reaction. I just didn't have the time to dedicate so much of my focus to this opportunity while having a full time job. Perhaps if I take a sabbatical I will consider Automati
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by 40acres 7y ago
Perhaps it's because of the overt nature of it's pressure, but it seems to me that China has definitely reached a level somewhat equal to the US in terms of "soft power". Considering Belt & Road and it's influen
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by 40acres 7y ago
Perhaps because those groups were not subject to the institutional effects of slavery? If I told you that a people were discriminated against for hundreds of years would you be surprised to learn that they statistically under-perform their
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by 40acres 7y ago
When it comes to affirmative action cases like these people need to think a bit deeper than Harvard or even race in general. This involves our own collective notion of what is 'fair' and what is 'justice'. I recently hea
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by 40acres 7y ago
The legal basis behind affirmative action, which is the means by which we "fix" these things, has been challenged many times. This case is simply a reaffirmation of the principle.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Is it really? Think about the often used phrase in regards to subjects like this: 'equality of opportunity' vs. 'equality of outcome' think of all it would take in America to come close to equality of opportunity: you wo
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by 40acres 7y ago
Unfortunately this is bigger than Harvard and the Asian American students are 'collateral damage'. Fundamentally, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow permeates every facet of American life, education especially. You can't fix
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by 40acres 7y ago
Unfortunately this is bigger than Harvard and the Asian American students are 'collateral damage'. Fundamentally, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow permeates every facet of American life, education especially. You can't fix
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by 40acres 7y ago
The players should be paid a salary, full stop. If you're an athlete at a D1 school in the primary money making sports of men's basketball or football you're hardly a student -- most days are spent training or preparing for a
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by 40acres 7y ago
Markets are more effective when there is truth and transparency, that's why the S-1 was so effective and derailing WeWork's IPO. Private investors don't necessarily need protection but if I was a big player in the private m
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by 40acres 7y ago
For me, this whole WeWork fiasco has shown just how valuable the SEC and the S-1 filing process is. Let's be clear -- Neumann was fired because any investor who read the S-1 was mortified and wouldn't touch the company with a 10 f
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by 40acres 7y ago
Better to have a dollar today than a dollar tomorrow, especially with economic headwinds on the horizon. Assuming Salesforce has some foreign capital in this fund everyone is still desperate to invest in the dollar.
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by 40acres 7y ago
I don't think this is as big a threat as these comments make it seem. For the tech savvy, setting up a Plex server or whatever can be done in an afternoon's time. The majority of consumers won't go through the "hassle&q
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by 40acres 7y ago
I genuinely don't understand folks reaction to Rent Control bills like this or the one recently passed in New York. Don't you think that policymakers KNOW that the best way out of a housing crisis is to build your way out? Califor
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by 40acres 7y ago
> Don't you see? If everyone has a degree, it offers no advantage. The lower performers just end up with more debt. The problem with this thinking is that it is individualistic, zero-sum, and reeks of "I got mine, fuck you&quot
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by 40acres 7y ago
Why aren't other industries up in arms about this? I work for Intel and we have a ton of contractors, so does Google. Under 'A' of the 'ABC' test, it seems to me that most contractors for these companies would now b
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by 40acres 7y ago
Perhaps it's naive of me to think that Apple will ever detach the Watch from the Phone and allow set up and full use cases for users who don't have an iPhone. I'd definitely buy a cellular enabled Apple Watch and ditch my pho
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by 40acres 7y ago
All economies are subject to this because markets are based on trust and faith. If enough doubt is generated then the markets will reflect that in a downturn.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Mugabe liberated his people, that counts for a lot even considering decades of dictatorship.
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by 40acres 7y ago
In my experience the best books routinely stop me dead in my tracks. I just started Invisible Man and every paragraph is littered with really deep themes, I can normally finish a 500 page book in a few days (a majority of my reading is do
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by 40acres 7y ago
Specifically, the word tech means very little. What Ben is describing here -- and what WeWork was trying to present themselves as in their S-1 (by using the word tech 100+ times) is some type of software platform. For instance -- Intel is
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by 40acres 7y ago
The sooner we get it out of our heads that this education system of ours is a meritocracy the closer we’ll get to actually creating a quality universal system.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Would love to see a study that examines the level of racial segregation within a city and how it correlates with commute times from suburbs / exurbs into that city. Segregation, and the lack of resources that go to certain neighborhood
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by 40acres 7y ago
I think the issue is that most people don't understand probability very well, myself included. After reading the explanations I prefer the layout with possible paths color coded by probability -- in this instance it shows that both the
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by 40acres 7y ago
Ha, call it the libertarian / data-driven approach. Frenzy over drugs like marijuana and cocaine fueled the "war on drugs" which devastated communities -- so I'm a proponent of throwing out simple possession convictions
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by 40acres 7y ago
I can't say what truly caused it or what factor cannabis played, all I know is that the diagnosis was 'substance induced psychosis' and 'schizophrenia' -- the doctors were pretty stumped and that leads to my point t

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