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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Just by the tone of this response I can infer that you did not People with healthy levels of arrogance and self-confidence don't talk in such a poised manner pivoting against other demographics when questioned about how they fare at th
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Tl;dr Even if you are #1 of 8,000,000,000 , you are still just 1 in 8,000,000,000 To be perfectly fair I think many of the leaders cited in this piece know perfectly well that they are easily replaced. Like, take the most traumatic instance
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> Countries like Ethiopia are catching up from being way behind using imported technology And who do you think is doing all the importing? A young guy in his 20s , who is working 14 hours per day for his family import-export company and
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> I'm telling you so, as a fact, not an opinion. Facts are that if you look at places that are experiencing growth at 9% or 10% YoY in real terms, meaning after adjusting for inflation, they are all places which are pretty socially
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
This makes me think about the importance of supporting a sports team. If your team goes on the road against the 1st team in the division, you can contemplate both the idea of following the team on the road and make your support be felt unti
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> We don't have "safe spaces in colleges". I graduated from college recently and never witnessed any such thing. How long has it been since you've set foot on a college campus? Just the fact that there are no brawls,
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Ask HN: What's the ratio of blind ideologues to detached prognosticators on HN?
2 points by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago|6 comments
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Wuhan had its first cases on Dec-17th , on Jan-14th the sequence was out and shipped across the globe. If you think that delay is bad wait and see if a pandemic develops in Yemen or in Sub-Saharan Africa...those countries would need 8-9 mon
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Textbook case of "Everybody who is not me is evil" fallacy Yesterday absolute evil was represented by short sellers and Big Oil, nowadays it's BlackRock and Vanguard. Saudis were great friends when prince M(Bonesaw)S expresse
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> The fact that your source for this is April 2020 makes me conclude you are trolling Fed has been doing QE ever since 2008 if you haven't noticed, and interest rates trailed inflation ever since
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Mostly proximity to eastern europe compared to NYC.
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> If a vaccine doesn't prevent infection... well I'll give you that it's still a vaccine. The failure of the covid vaccine to prevent infection You mentioned the flu and common cold, given that the results of vaccines for
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
The military is the most popular entity in any country, (except when they are actively and publicly engaging in internal indiscriminate genocide). If you speak against it you'll be a very lone voice and you'll very soon find yours
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
When such big donations happen can the entity which received the money re-purpose it should the political landscape change? It's no coincidence that most of donations are for stuff which is sure that people are going to care about 10&#
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
People tend to care about the elderlies, while it's true that vaccination doesn't prevent infection , it prevents serious disease and the cost for the prevention of such serious disease has now plummeted to less than 5 dollars for
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> Bitcoin alone is "worth" perhaps a trillion dollars, while M1 is around 20 trillion. You can't compare the liquidity of M1 with the liquidity of BTC. M1 USD is accepted everywhere, ranging from a 300M apartment on NYC&#x
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
As a betting man I see value in it. Bitcoin is like a real time index measuring the health of the cult of Ayn Rand and you can bet on how the cult is faring and if it's expanding or contracting. Much like Tesla is a real time index mea
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Profit might be #1 , but immediately after profit there is a huge moat to protect profits. When you don't build anything of value the only moat you have is your political ability to convince people that you are. I mean banks and insura
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Maybe, but I think they'd concede abortion if left-wingers concede climate paranoia. Somebody should organize peace talks.
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> The consequences of that intentional choice going forward are what matters. An entity which is invulnerable to market deterioration and solely decides to handicap itself on its own will for the the greater good so the speak...will alwa
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Both right-wing people and left-wing people are worried about humans who are not born yet. Left-wingers worry about people who'd be alive 100-150 years from now and thus want to stop climate change. Right-wingers worry about people who
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Think about how those who helped negotiate Instagram's 1B sale to Facebook must feel! /s Seriously this is like the regrets of the 0.01%ers. There should be a footnote every time a wealthy or powerful individual talks about regret
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> I don't see a path for the dollar to regain the credibility that it had before On the contrary, March 2020 demonstrated that USD is the only game in town, everything collapsed except that. Then the USD "decided" to colla
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Show HN: Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2021(credit-suisse.com)
2 points by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago|1 comments
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Logically speaking the only sure way to solve it is to forget the concept of time opportunity cost
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> FSD is a much more attractive proposition to most car buyers So is donating to the church hoping to secure a place in Heaven. We all fool ourselves for the sake of peace of mind or immediate gratification, the important thing is to be
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
He doesn't need to say anything. Everybody who has basic social reading skills and street smarts can clearly see his contempt for institutions and generally any person who doesn't proclaim their unconditional loyalty to him.
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> He is bullied by SEC Not receiving special treatment indeed feels like oppression when you lived a life of privilege above the peasants for your whole existence.
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Not all crashes involve multiple cars. Bigger cars reduce the amount of deaths because there is more metal mass between you and the tree/barrier that you hit. I also said that bigger cars is just one element in the equation, with seatb
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> I was challenging YOU who said that investors should consider treasuries capital preserving and default risk free I am up for the challenge, but promise to read the whole thing because it took a while to write :) It is risk free and al

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