NickC25

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by NickC25 1y ago
They also have $4.3T in AUM. $175M for them is quite literally pennies to them.
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by NickC25 1y ago
Non tech, but I started a sports beverage company with my brother and a neighbor. We are based in South Florida. My brother and I grew up playing sports and remember the simplicity of home-made drinks we'd take to games that blew the
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by NickC25 1y ago
Wow! I'm a food&bev founder and absolutely love what you are doing! How can I submit my products for testing?
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by NickC25 1y ago
>Have any of her attempts post google worked? Yes. She made a tremendous amount of money for herself while failing miserably at Yahoo!. Oh, you mean attempts at getting workable, groundbreaking new products out into the market with succ
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by NickC25 1y ago
Yeah. They don't have a good track record, and that's before the (partially justified) Islamophobia kicks in. Before anyone thinks I'm Islamophobic, I equally detest and mock all religion. I do find it funny that if there is
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by NickC25 1y ago
We should tax opinions like this right out of existence. This dude has almost half a trillion dollars to his name. Larry, instead of waxing lyrical about your desire for a police state, how about you bugger off to a private island and estab
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by NickC25 1y ago
>Maybe the narrative changes when their approaches towards human rights does? Clo$e. The narrative change$ whenever the $audi$ decide that they want it to. U$ually, thi$ involve$ $omething, but I can't figure quite what that &quot
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by NickC25 1y ago
>While not perfect, Saudi has very clearly moved "Westernly" on many ideas, most notably social and economic ones. My man, they can kill you for drawing a stick figure. Let that sink in. SA is still a single-export economy, and
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by NickC25 1y ago
Just want to give Lichess a shoutout here. They are fantastic, provide great content, have things for free that you need to pay for on Chess.com, and a fantastic amount of variants. Even better, the level of play in those variants, like 96
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by NickC25 1y ago
> Speaking of which, did you know the TSA screening area is a farce? My man, the TSA is a jobs program disguised as security theater. It's also a funnel for money into contractors' pockets (see: Leidos).
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by NickC25 1y ago
anything that encourages the youth to get outside and play makes the world a better place almost by default. god forbid they exercise, they should be indoors studying or playing on their phones 100% of the time. </s> maybe the w
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by NickC25 1y ago
try going to germany, where you can get a season ticket at top club for a few hundred euros. i think Bayern Munich's cheapest season ticket is like $200 at the current exchange rate. that's manageable. i've paid more than t
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by NickC25 1y ago
agree. im american and i see a bunch of youth in major cities who are clearly unhealthy. sport should be encouraged. i get that not everyone likes it, and not everyone will enjoy it (and even fewer will be good enough to actually enjoy it
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by NickC25 1y ago
Fair point - apologies for the confusion.
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I hope this is sarcasm. Larry Ellison is now the wealthiest person on earth and Oracle is an incredibly litigious rent-seeking law firm masquerading as a tech company. Good luck and godspeed to anyone with the balls to think that taking the
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by NickC25 1y ago
>the only reason someone can criticise mr Obama is because they don't like the color of his skin! I have roundly criticized Obama for the last 17 years since he was elected. I was critical during his tenure, and critical of his act
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by NickC25 1y ago
I live in SoFLA in the Miami metro area. People can't stop building here. I don't get it. It's going to be under water in under 50 years. Yet for some reason there's a 100+ story building going up across from Bayfront
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by NickC25 1y ago
>I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of people in the US who believe that the most inflammatory and divisive leader America had in modern history was Obama. You want to know why a lot of those people, who are reactionary by natur
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by NickC25 1y ago
> but you're clearly celebrating the death of the man in a thread about his assassination. I'm not celebrating anything. I'm pointing out irony. You call for gun violence, thinking you're untouchable (because of you
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by NickC25 1y ago
It also highlights to normal society that there are indeed people whose beliefs are so absurd that they get worked up and want to kill people over a stick figure.
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by NickC25 1y ago
>The US took all that capability and could not win in 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan against such a force. We had no military objective in Afghanistan. Our only goal there was to enrich contractors who had stockholders working at th
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by NickC25 1y ago
> Gabby Giffords assailant was pretty insane but reports from people that knew him claimed he was liberal Unmasking myself a bit here but one of my college roommates at University of Arizona also attended classes with Jared at Pima Commu
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by NickC25 1y ago
It's very sad, and very telling that our biggest corporations have become suckups to the reactionary side of the right wing and continue to carry the water for the most degenerate and attention-seeking members of said right wing. None
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by NickC25 1y ago
Perhaps I should have worded my statement differently - it's not that the players deliberately didn't challenge themselves, it was more that they were "encouraged" to focus on football. Especially in big time high schoo
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Steve was very lucky in the sense that every part of his life contributed to him being involved in the world of finance. He was born and raised in Greenwich, CT. Hedge fund capital of the world. Went to school at BYU which is run by th
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by NickC25 1y ago
But that's also before tax. A lot of these guys play in high tax states. Then they have to pay agent fees. Then the expenses related to their jobs - food, training, etc. Shit ain't cheap. And before you ask - no, not all NFL t
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by NickC25 1y ago
This x1000000. He's a generational talent who signed a $30 million rookie contract. I know guys who played in the NFL and they got paid a sliver of that, at best. They are out of the league. 99% of guys who make it aren't Saquon
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by NickC25 1y ago
Easier to do when you're an extremely relevant person in your sport. Not all NFL athletes have a shot at getting any endorsements at all. In fact, most don't. Be a star player or famous role player on a very successful team, that
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by NickC25 1y ago
>But if you don't explore a line, even if you believe it's effectively useless, then you haven't solved chess. That's actually a good point because ideas that modern GMs found to be useless (in particular, locking a w
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True, but we can at the very least teach a computer to prune what are effectively unreachable positions or openings that won't happen at a basic level let alone high level or GM level play. For example, I don't think I've eve

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