FooBarBizBazz

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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   It's actually true, in a way. There was a worry after WW2 that a large number of young, single men, trained in combat and now returning home, would destabilize American politics, especially if they could not be absorbed by the labor ma
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   If you stand with Ukraine, consider either Raytheon or Lockheed Martin, as it's a joint venture of those two companies that makes the FGM-148 Javelin. Or, for the stage the war is now entering, consider instead cranking out M777 howitz
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   I don't think VC-backed startups typically do stock buybacks? That's more of a Fortune 500 thing, AFAIK. "Startups" (of whatever size) are always concerned about the next funding round; I don't think they're go
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   Pretty sure there was always a significant cohort of men, probably a majority in fact, who, through some combination of moral belief and personal pride, would not have frequented strip clubs. Sexual morality has been a big, big theme in lot
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   Congrats! At 4% yield, that's like you've made (and invested) $150k, after tax. Before tax that'd be a yearly salary of well over $200k. If you can do 2 of those every year, you're on par with mid-level FAANG comp, once
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   Both can be true: a.) A tiny number of billionaires have reorganized society in ways that cause benefits to accrue to themselves. b.) The net size of those benefits, distributed equally over all people, is tiny. All this means is that peopl
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   If the trees aren't populating Jira tickets, are they really even doing anything?
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   See Fargoan's post, with the event website. This ain't just kids with glowsticks.
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   by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

   If you really believe that, though, then what do you invest in? This sounds like, "it's all downhill from here".
10. 820.▲
    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    > numerous and economically precarious out-group. Keeping a large group of people oppressed is incredibly dangerous; it's bound to blow up in your face. The Spartans did not last. You're better off expanding the in-group.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Only the Catholics are consistent here, and only some of them.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    The phrase "your rapist's baby" is linguistically a bit like "the time traveler's wife": The wife is not a person; she is chattel belonging to the (male) time traveler. Likewise with this hypothetical baby: It
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    At least, with the Maverick, they've started making a small, cheap truck again. America needs things that are cheap and cheerful. Not all this bloated garbage. That applies to everything.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    The Focus and Fiesta were good cars, except the interiors were garbage. (Why Ford can't match something like an Elantra in interior quality, I do not understand.) But they drove well. Then they canceled both, because they could get big
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    I don't think it was a big conspiracy; it was just people, in positions of responsibility, muddling through as best they could.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    > Name a government or public sector institution that lost power during covid. I honestly think: "Nearly all of them." We've seen some significant exercise of power, but the underlying legitimacy that gives rise to
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Is that, like, expelling the Normans? Do we have a rightful heir of Harold Godwinson somewhere to reinstate? ... Actually, Queen Elizabeth II can claim to be part of that line, so, mission accomplished, maybe?
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    > It has been suggested that in the third millennium BC Orcadian society was caught up in the unsustainable, and ultimately self-destructive, pursuit of prestige, social status and influence [15]. This scramble for social standing was ma
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Even suburbs are noisy -- those damned weedwhackers and lawnmowers! You go to live in this simulation of a peaceful park, but the racket never ends -- from the lawn crews who maintain the simulation. So then you head out to the country for
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Jira creates so much friction. It's a trillion dollar drag on the Tech industry. It should be as quick as writing a Slack message.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Pretty fair, I think. It's of geostrategic importance. The only thing I don't get is why nobody else has done it, since they've shown it's possible.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    I feel the same. Because whenever I hear these accusations, part of me goes, "oh no, am I a narcissist? Am I one of those horrible people?" But then I take a step back and go, "wait. It feels like someone is trying to con
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    It increasingly looks like I need a diversified portfolio of farmland, nonperishable food, solar panels, livestock, replacement parts, Nana's recipes, basic tools, loyal dogs, diesel fuel, antibiotics, good insulation, barbed wire, war
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    This is bad news. It makes car ownership more necessary in most parts of the US, at a time when cars are expensive. It eliminates a "default fallback job", exactly when inflation and recession make it more important. For those who
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    I don't honestly think the economic differences have much to do with differences in COVID policy. The US has "the" Tech sector, which at first did great, but which now is getting walloped by the rate hikes. Australia, by cont
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Things are a little different now than when Texas and Florida first started ignoring COVID. Now, people who want to get vaccinated, have been.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    So do we think ESG scores get transitively priced in, the way carbon pricing should work? Like, if you make it harder for those who burn oil to raise capital, does that mean that there are fewer customers for the people who extract it?
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    Lol, it's something to escape, not something to defend.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    I definitely knew people who got PhDs mostly because of immigration law. "Well, I'm not going back to Iran and the mullahs, but I can't get a work visa, so..." It distorts the incentives.
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    by FooBarBizBazz 4y ago

    If you listen to what the Fed says, it actually does. It thinks unemployment is too low.