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by NTDF9 7y ago
Have you seen real world inflation lately? If not, I encourage you to do so (disclaimer: stressful days follows)
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I'm probably one of those, despite making well over six figures. On introspection, I realized that I was worried about money because the system is set up as a casino. You just HAVE to gamble to save the fruits of your labor. Every inve
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by NTDF9 7y ago
This is basically the government discouraging family oriented people (perhaps the exact model immigrants that most countries want).
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by NTDF9 7y ago
This liverpool and Manchester City teams are setting the bar very high for what sports is going to be in the future. There is no way teams would go entire seasons with just one defeat (against each other) without paying attention to every t
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I don't think you get the scale of analytics. It's not just goals, touches, formations anymore. It's about entire models of game play style and running simulations with a prospective player to see how they fit in. The data sc
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by NTDF9 7y ago
But that's exactly my point. Teams with money buy the best players and managers. But what is the definition of best? It used to be scouting and feelings. Today, it's almost down to great data science. That's the reason why Ju
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Anyone who's been watch European football for a decade knows how much disparity exists between teams that can afford data science and teams that can't. Sports are filled with numbers and any teams/players who can afford it ha
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by NTDF9 7y ago
One bug? That's laughable to anyone writing any software
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Lol. They are literally asking the candidate to simulate an Asian style entrance exam or a crammy SAT test
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> Millenial here, and I just don't understand why my generation is so pessimistic. Things are simply better than when we were children. Perhaps it's having immigrants for parents, but my life just seems great compared to my par
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by NTDF9 7y ago
>> Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in California [1], so it is not surprising that they would push for laws in their own ethnic self-interest. Once immigration has progressed sufficiently, it can no longer be stopped. Am I the
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I find it hilarious that you think these stores are a parody but not the strip malls and payday loan shops everywhere else.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Singapore is smart. Nobody can rely on a government on the other side of the planet with a history of war-mongering. For Singapore, their geographic proximity is more important than a fiat hegemony.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
This is accurate. For example, India doesn't have Alibaba or Tencent or whatever because they allowed in foreign companies with stronger currencies too soon. USA set the rules after WW2. China played the game according to those rules.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> Did you notice that not even in sports can we relax and make lasting friendships and a relaxing atmosphere? Team sports are different. They tend to create lasting friendships quite often. Not always but quite often. Same for music band
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Too much of our identity is tied to our employment. Add to it the fact that our economic system is inflationary (and badly measured at that), not working literally causes one to fall behind. So no one can actually take time off to do someth
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Don't other countries have their own tractor makers?
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Good question. Let's just put things in perspective. In the 10 years that the FAANG developer took to reach 400k income, some born-with-a-silver-spoon asset holding trust fund kid made more than $1 million a year, with lesser taxes tha
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by NTDF9 7y ago
At a fundamental level, incomes (and wealth) have to rise proportionate to productivity. Average employee productivity has increased a lot since 1970s but wages (and thus wealth) hasn't. The top 1% on the other hand reaped the benefits
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by NTDF9 7y ago
So Boeing is the FB/Equifax/Exxon of Airlines? Move fast break lives?
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by NTDF9 7y ago
It only took a bunch of billionaires to earn multi-billions for a few years and sabotage the debt situation to FINALLY trickle the wealth down.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Oh yes, separated and put in cages should be more precise
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Well, they are. Airbnb, Wework.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Anyone who tried to buy a house in SV in the last 5 years already knows this. Turns out Chinese are better savers of dollars than Americans and they now want to do something with those dollars. Like buying houses, companies, building struct
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by NTDF9 7y ago
They are close to retirement and at $200k. They do have a pension plan though so I'm not that worried.
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Ask HN: What is/was your parent's net worth at retirement?
14 points by NTDF9 7y ago|13 comments
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by NTDF9 7y ago
It is. Unfortunately, American society has finely tuned itself to money/business oriented thought processes. So much so that most people here think its awkward to just spend an afternoon at a coffee shop talking.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Lol. Such posts have been coming up a lot lately. I'm not sure if there's a dissonance in what people understand vs what they vote for. US has been making the rich richer. If people want some kind of redistribution, vote for highe
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by NTDF9 7y ago
How about being humble, accepting and competing to regain number 1 without being catty high schooler about it?
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by NTDF9 7y ago
It's not meant to be a provocation or an insult. It's just interesting to see how ingrained American exceptionalism is in our psyches. So much so that we are almost willingly blind to how far behind we've fallen. Also, the me

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