Rury

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by Rury 4y ago
If you're looking for a reason, collecting $4000 from 1 person is preferable to collecting $1000 from 4 people as there is more work/maintenance in dealing with 4 people. This alone incentivizes landlords for wanting high rents, a
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Why not both?
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Honestly, for the first 10 years of my career, I stuck to common investment advice, but since then, the stock market seems like a giant pyramid scheme to me. I mean, if this generation is going to have fewer kids, then who am I going to be
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by Rury 4y ago
I think you're mistaking (along with many people including many religious people themselves), what religion's purpose actually is. IMO, religion isn't really about truth, or "there is an afterlife", or "there&#
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Really, I'm convinced there's no permanent solution to this problem. People have long asked this question, the Bible and every major religion even has parts about this topic. I'm quite convinced that the only solution is: to
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It doesn't matter, as it's not evidence for them choosing the "best case scenario" for themselves. The best case would of been them just keeping an overpayment, and never refunding me anything. And besides, I have double
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by Rury 4y ago
That hasn't been the case for me. I end up owing come tax time every year, and yet every time, after having paid what is owed, months later they give me a small refund anyways. Now I know where I can save money on my taxes, and I'
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by Rury 4y ago
They actually don't have all the information they need in every case, as not everything is reported to the IRS. But yeah, they already have the majority of information, particularly the most impactful information, and for the majority
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Sometimes this is born from politics, and whether you have the freedom to be a 10x programmer, or are held back by externalities, opinions, and red tape. Anyhow, the fact is, there can be unfriendly environments to 10x programmers, and so i
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That whole thing is highly dubious, and reads like a slippery slope argument. Like one, there's a limit on how much water can exist as vapor in our atmosphere, (which is far, far less than what the earth's oceans hold ), up until
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by Rury 4y ago
A lot of research has been done on this, and the vast majority of mutations are neutral, and have no affect on an organism. That is not good, nor bad. Somewhere between 75 to 90 percent of our own DNA, is nonfunctional, and never used. But
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I'm still not convinced that the expansion of the universe is accelerating based on current evidence. That argument largely comes from supernovae appearing dimmer than we think they should, and more distant things appear more red and i
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This is likely an open question. I'm not an expert, but I'd imagine the main reason (at least our) cells all contain genetic code for the whole organism, is largely because stem cells contain genetic code for the whole organism. I
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That alone is not sufficient. Your body makes backups every time it creates a new cell. Once you make a backup of something corrupted, you're going to get corrupted restores. Also, even when you make a non-corrupted backup, it can only
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I disagree. Look at your body. It's multicellular, not one living thing. Your very cells both compete and cooperate with one another for resources to survive (just as we humans do amongst ourselves). For the greater good of the organis
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You're ignoring that, it's entirely possible allow Y people to live there, without increasing numeric margins on rents. Instead, landlords/investors often look to maximize their profit margin as much as demand allows. Which s
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>Why do we have management? Management's purpose is to ensure that an organization, remains and functions as an organization. So basically 1, but not exactly... Basically, when you have a herd of sheep that you need to move, and you
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The thing is, it's needed. You can't have an organization without some level of bureaucracy. It's what ensures an organization, works and remains to be a functional organization. But it's very nature is anti productive.
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Yes, that's because managers are the quintessential bureaucratic worker, and bureaucracy is an antithesis to productivity. Unfortunately though, some amount of bureaucracy is inevitably needed to sustain an organization.
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The point is that, it is entirely up to you to decide.
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They need therapy, because they need to stop unnecessarily blaming themselves for things they have little control over (e.g broken hiring practices). They need to divide their ego from what externally happens to them, and instead build it u
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Seems to happen often in business. Replace a feature people love, with something people don't want. Then later, return with that feature people used to love for extra profit.
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This is an ad hominem. I did not a miss at all. Economics is bounded by the laws of physics. So, because wood is finite in a physical sense, it is also finite economically speaking.
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>A massage table doesn't seem finite either. If its made from wood, leather/cotton, those would be regenerable resources But it is finite, because those resources aren't infinitely regenerable. You're forgetting that,
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Brain size has more to do with body size than anything. Most of your brain functions as a motor control and sensory processing center. To willfully move muscle in your body, requires brain power. This is why after a stroke, and a part of yo
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People always look at the end results, want it, but don't see how much work and practice it takes to get there. It's always the motivation to overcome the difficult frustrating parts in the beginning, that is the hardest part. Thi
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Food is essentially just a bunch of molecules/chemicals. Digestion is essentially a word for breaking big complex chemicals (ie food) down into smaller simpler chemicals. And metabolism is just a word for any chemical process which tak
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People like when things go their way, and it's easier to get things to go your way, when you're in a position of power. Promotions can help put you in such positions.
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Debt forgiveness can help reduce inequality, but so can holding people to their debt obligations. And either can also increase inequality. It entirely depends on the circumstances surrounding the debt.
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Doesn't seem that farfetched. I mean there are well known genetic conditions which cause you to become mentally retarded, if not death, if you eat certain foods (eg PKU). Then there's protective genetic conditions like gilbert&#x2

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