MrMan

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   by MrMan 5y ago

   to do another IPO
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   one has to wonder why those dumb old economy guys have never taken twitter apart and tried to turn it around like Musk proposes? they are probably too dumb
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   before crypto there was a market phenomenon that I personally have no knowledge of but an acquaintance at a big bank which facilitated a lot of FX trading was very happy at one point that he was sent to Japan, where retail FX trading had be
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   you should learn from the seabird, instead of railing against stuff you dont understand.
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   I dont feel this way at all and I am old, so
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   if it reassures you, think about scientists, and adjacently, inventors. those two groups can also be entrepreneurs, but they are not necessarily the same. civilization is advanced largely through the discoveries of scientists and inventors,
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   I no longer use Amazon, for many reasons
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   we need to end the drug war and create more open borders between NAFTA signatories.
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   by MrMan 5y ago

   US covid deaths are down to a fraction of what they were around Jan 1.
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    I go between ubuntu, Mac, and increasingly rarely windows which for many years was my daily. I am not fully at home in any of them but they are all good enough now that it doesn't matter. most of my time is ubuntu machines through jump
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    You are fungible, I am not
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    Blackrock
13. 613.▲
    by MrMan 5y ago

    Hn is like Gab though, the users feel aligned with the management ideologically so they don't mind being censored by them.
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    at least we have crypto and libertarianism
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    poisoning securitized assets with people who are bad credit risks definitely happened. no need to ascribe individual blame to the borrowers, the mortgage originators are licensed professionals.
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    he is clearly right more often and about more things than most people, I dont understand the hate
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    Where are you trying to travel?
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    go, I dont like. if it was nim I would upvote it
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    I try to frame thing this way to my private equity / hedge fund / golfing friends and they cannot accept it. they think the natural order is that ten thousand millionaires on each coast are all we need to keep things moving forwar
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    this
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    well helping people is the opposite of killing them so maybe a meals on wheels driver or a public defender?
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    I wish HN had bots, I would write one to debunk this critical thinking fallacy with respect to social media. Better powers of discrimination, higher IQ, are illusory when it comes to inoculating yourself against propaganda.
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    you should make a separate HN post about this
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    I am just jumping in not to pressure you specifically to dump the source but in my experience in quant finance and music software development (hobby), I see kind of a tragedy of the commons especially in finance. If more people made their s
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    This censorship hue and cry about Twitter is ridiculous. But also quite frightening given how much I see it here in a forum of self-diagnosed geniuses[0]. [0]do your own research, have being poor
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    You realize twitter is most likely far more powerful at shaping opinion than any single newspaper? Fox News Facebook and Twitter are probably among the top 5 such mind control outlets. I am not on Twitter but I am motivated to research the
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    yes HN is rife with Russian propaganda, and has been for years.
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    no more both-sides propaganda please. one side attacked and is committing genocidal destruction of Ukraine, not the so-called other side. if all Russia wanted was Donbas they could just go here, take it, and eject the ethnic Ukrainians if t
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    this is a hodgepodge of tough-guy "realist" contrarianism. most of your statements do not connect into a thesis except maybe an impressionistic summary would be "since Russia plays chess, US is screwed." this is just hyp
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    by MrMan 5y ago

    if I were him I would see Europe as a very easy-to-manage relationship unless "viral democracy" is somehow a real threat, which I dont really believe. China is a real threat to Russia, and it seems that Putin has decided to become