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by GDC7 5y ago
> If you don't want to encourage rent-seeking behavior, you need to ensure that the count of dollars increases at a rate equal to the value of the assets being created. It's all textbook BS. Everybody is subject to this passion
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by GDC7 5y ago
Stock buybacks are just a tax efficient way to give money back to shareholders in lieu of dividends. Also this sort of phenomenons are rarely top-bottom. The American consumer is less and less prone to consume and more and more keen to inve
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by GDC7 5y ago
> But when you get caught in curating the environment that leads to a "win", it would probably hit strongly the other way. Everybody curates their environment, people just do so unconsciously and without realizing it. An Americ
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by GDC7 5y ago
Well, wasn't the end result comparable to the ones achieved by social movements? How many people had access and were capable to use a computer before Windows 95? And how many after? Before win95 it was a small club of elites, after it
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by GDC7 5y ago
Again success, dominating the room, being at the center of the attention at parties, people being receptive when you go talk to them, after the aforementioned positive reception also showing openess for a second encounter.
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Social anxiety spurs from not being popular or commanding a presence in a room, not being in the "in" crowd. In short it spurs from not being a winner. The socially anxious person maybe knows at the intellectual level that social
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by GDC7 5y ago
I don't think people would ever become accustomed to being losers. It might work for fear of flying or heights But being in a social setting and trying to penetrate into the "in crowd" and being rejected would only make thing
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by GDC7 5y ago
Yes he is, but how much talent did Seattle lose because players (especially RBs) suddenly weren't so excited to be coached by him? How many extra hours did the coaching stuff had to put into it to get inside players' brains and co
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by GDC7 5y ago
> "The only problem was that it didn't work. If the Seahawks had scored, the press would have called the coach's call genius." Not at all. If the world thinks you are a fool, you are indeed a fool. Pete Carrol the coa
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by GDC7 5y ago
> The WORST thing you can do for social anxiety (or any anxiety) is to avoid trigger it No point triggering for the sake of it. You need to bring the socially anxious person in a very easy enviornment. A scenario in which they can easily
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by GDC7 5y ago
Oh for sure, but social media doesn't enforce anything, it just shows rare shit that has always been there. Point is it was hidden or not as visible. It's a very rare thing for Victoria Secret's models to be the ones start ma
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Guys... we're humans. It isn't a crime to make small talk. It's not a chore to open your mouth. Most of us consider (or used to consider; and I'm not even old) that enjoyable. What happened? We are humans, but we ar
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by GDC7 5y ago
I feel like people should separate RenTech and Medallion. RenTech funds which are not Medallion have experienced losses similar to any other . The idea is great: looking at past events to understand how a particular event such as a sunny da
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Ask HN: Which city/town has the best climate according to you?
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That's just the exampler. Bottom line: Rich people have been seeking to hide themselves for the whole entirety of our specie, only in America they feel the confidence to come out in the open and advertise themselves and their riches.
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> When did success become a negative signal? The populace had hated rich people since the dawn of mankind. The anomaly is what we are witnessing right now, with people trying to cheat their way into the Forbes 400 opposed to cheat their
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Presenting it as a social movement Wasn't Windows 95 a social movement? Maybe there wasn't a sense of rage from the masses towards the few people who could use a computer (via a Command line interface) but the end result is t
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by GDC7 5y ago
> but what is it actually good for What are elections good for in a country of 350mm people? Crypto is a social movement, they are much more massive and powerful than technological ones. They also provide huge returns when you embrace th
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by GDC7 5y ago
Good luck finding anything "social" in Japan.
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"Everything is just so great, but somehow people are miserable"
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As the saying goes "It takes one to see one"
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The Simpsons did it first.
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It should not be a surprise. Athletes always go unconventional, and against the conventional wisdom. Who trains for hours upon hours for a job where only a tiny % of people end up making significant money? Also they reaaally believe in thei
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by GDC7 5y ago
When the whole society is on high risk mode such as people back in the late 1800s and early 1900s then you are just going with the flow. That is what you are referring to. That is what Karl Benz did. When society is in risk averse mode like
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by GDC7 5y ago
Sure, but the concrete company failed to even give the owners the optionality to retire and keep their current lifestyle.
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The goal of the individual is not to work, the goal of the individual is to retire early. Everything short of that is a failure. This company has failed to give the opportunity to retire early to its owners ever since 1874. The original fou
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by GDC7 5y ago
Not when you split that billion among the many millions of people who own shares in the company. I also remind you that the year of incorporation was 1874
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Lagos, Nigeria. That's where young people are. Looking at history exciting stuff (both positive and negative) happen where there is a huge concentration of young people interacting with each other. English proficiency is quite good as
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by GDC7 5y ago
> There are plenty of concrete/building material companies that do make a fortune: Heidleberg 18.85bn EUR Cemex 13bn USD CRH 27.59bn EUR That's the revenue, if you look at profits they made 1B in 2019 with 57,000 employees. Als
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> Hell, GPS alone is worth $1.4T The fact that it's worth that much doesn't mean that the companies sending those up there would make a fortune. I can give you the example of concrete. Don't people realize how vital concre

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