NickC25

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by NickC25 3y ago
It's always worth entering a market if you have an edge or idea that nobody else has, and you think the market would utilize it. That's sort of the point of startups :) Disclaimer: I actually worked for (and helped found) a compa
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by NickC25 3y ago
We should call it worthless, and move to a platform not owned and operated by a narcissistic egomaniac with too much money on his hands.
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by NickC25 3y ago
You should differentiate between added sugar and naturally occurring sugar. It's OK to have fruit. It's not OK to have food loaded with artificial sweeteners or artificial sugars. I run a small business that sells sports drinks
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by NickC25 3y ago
Tim Cook believes in all sorts of things....when he in the US/EU. When he's sucking up to China, all the morals and values he ingrained by growing up a gay man in the American deep South quickly and rather conveniently go right ou
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by NickC25 3y ago
I would think so, because if it was indeed that straightforward (pattern X reveals future movement Y), it would inherently mean that the stock market is easy to predict and that markets are rational. Markets aren't easy to predict (tha
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by NickC25 3y ago
Me too. Wile I still push myself in the gym nearly every day, for some reason I'm just not as energetic as I used to be. I'm 33, and was in my 20s when COVID came around. I got vaxed quickly, and have gotten boosters since. I s
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by NickC25 3y ago
The difference is that none of the corporations you listed have products that are effectively mandatory to use for one to exist in modern society. Helpful, yes. But mandatory? No. In China, it's borderline impossible to do anything i
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by NickC25 3y ago
Except he can't make an "everything app" because we're not in China. People don't want the "convenience" of being able to do everything in the same app because they rightfully fear monopolies and over-con
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by NickC25 3y ago
Absolutely. I'm all for companies being able to participate in political discourse, but there has to be a limit. Regulatory capture, while a natural outcome in a capitalist economy, should be actively fought against with the stronges
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by NickC25 3y ago
As much as I hate Meta, Google, etc... they shouldn't be in the crosshairs here. It's the tax-prep companies like Intuit that are effectively rent-seeking leeches that serve little purpose outside of "lobbying" politicia
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by NickC25 3y ago
> They are taking everyone around them down to raise themselves a few millimeters. That's what we get for insisting that the stock market's rules run everything - where executives are bound by law to increase profits every qua
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by NickC25 3y ago
Don't really know how I feel about this one. I do think market consolidation by massive players through M&A activity really isn't great for gaming overall, but that's the world we live in. On one hand MSFT has shown time
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by NickC25 3y ago
Precisely. The whole point of these massive projects in Dubai, Qatar, Saudi, etc... is effectively make-work for those who might have the ability to one day overthrow the king....and to make it appear to the populace at large that yes, the
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by NickC25 3y ago
Not to mention the likes of McGraw-Hill and other textbook makers deciding that since students have to go to school, they're free to charge said students whatever they want. Those companies are for-profit and publicly traded, meaning
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by NickC25 3y ago
> That's the bare minimum we should set. China/USSR had a more severe consequence for officers of the company that isn't likely feasible here in the US but is probably the real deterrent to this behavior in future criminal
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by NickC25 3y ago
I see your point, but the whole purpose of an LLC is, yes, to prevent undue liability on those acting on the behalf of corporations, but at the same time, there needs to be a point where as a society we say "well, you can't claim
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by NickC25 3y ago
It's not even a slap on the wrist. 3M will just past the costs of this onto end-users (consumers). Their board and C-Suite won't face and personal liability claims or pay a cent towards the settlement costs, nor will they ever s
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by NickC25 3y ago
>Not everything that we learn has to be learned in college. This honestly is the crux of the issue with higher education. In fact, most things we learn outside of STEM in academia can be learned elsewhere - literature, languages, arts
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by NickC25 3y ago
>majority owner should be paying out of pocket for other companies to access twitter's data for free Spare me the sob stories for the wealthiest person on earth (the son of people who made their fortunes exploiting impoverished Afri
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by NickC25 3y ago
I'm running a startup. We certainly do NOT need a podcast - we have a physical product, and since we're only 2 people, we don't have the time to produce a podcast, let alone the time to do a podcast well . We have a produc
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by NickC25 3y ago
I live in Miami, where the hospitality industry dominates the employment landscape. Jobs are being taken left and right....but for very little pay and even poorer working conditions. There is some tech but comparatively very little when
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by NickC25 3y ago
Good. This was a dumb decision to begin with, fortunately someone convinced Elon that it was dumb. Now, I understand why the initial decision was made (to prevent scraping, and to control the costs associated with being one of the most ( i
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by NickC25 3y ago
The Republicans don't want to have an actual debate, who are you trying to fool? It will be a complete rehash of every GOP-only debate we've had in the past 20ish years - morons trying to outflank eachother to the right, idiots pr
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by NickC25 3y ago
As they should. We should adopt Mexico's stance on illegal labor. Their idea is that hiring illegal immigrants harms the economy at large - because driving down salaries for the lowest rungs of society rarely results in stability for
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by NickC25 3y ago
Yeah, but if that was the case, and he REALLY wanted to make sure we got off this rock, he could use his hundreds of billions to pursue that goal, not spend tens of billions on fucking Twitter and then run it into the ground. He'd be o
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by NickC25 3y ago
This dude needs to walk away already. Why grind when you've got like a quarter trillion dollars? Honestly, it's folks like him that really need to realize that life isn't just about "work" - it's about spending
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by NickC25 3y ago
> so there's no place to hide an anti-grav unit Lockheed doesn't do materials research?
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Who cares?
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Supposedly the President is deliberately kept in the dark. Bush Sr. denied President Carter access to that information, and I have no doubt other more recent Presidents were denied access or purposely fed misinformation. Trump in particula
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by NickC25 3y ago
Seriously. Oftentimes, though, it's not the government who is ahead in tech, it's the quasi-private sector that is decades ahead but due to secrecy laws cannot come forward and talk about it under any and every circumstance. I ha

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