Tyrek

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by Tyrek 9y ago
A reason in search of a problem. Intermediaries in finance exist the same way that lawyers exist - to translate technical gibberish for you, and to bear some burden of the risk if they do so negligently. As pointed out in the main text, the
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by Tyrek 9y ago
While I do agree that all these areas need regulatory improvements, I feel like you're falling into the what-about-ism trap. I personally feel like increased regulatory scrutiny about tech companies (i.e. regulating information) would
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The practical value is that if there is uncontaminated life on Mars, scientists will be able to study it and hopefully open up new avenues of scientific inquiry. It's a research question and one that likely would contribute immense val
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by Tyrek 9y ago
Well, a decent chunk of people living alone are probably renting, so that changes the whole appliance-purchasing dynamics already, but to directly answer your question - yes? The increasingly common dual income family has more income than a
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by Tyrek 9y ago
Only under efficient market hypothesis (EMH), which is not necessarily the true state of the market. Under EMH, 2008 would never have happened, because all the (unforeseen) risk would have been priced in as 'knowable' - the risk
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How does this play into how we perceive security threats? As far as I understand it, the general model to reduce threats to any system is to create bottlenecks (reduce attach surface) where you can focus the majority of your countermeasures
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by Tyrek 9y ago
It seems like it's even worse - "we were too lazy to jump through additional hoops to open a bank account in the proper jurisdiction and instead relied on a business partner to handle it for us"
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by Tyrek 9y ago
Sure, but that doesn't change the messaging - nukes are good for defending national sovereignty.
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It's not just shareholders, there's a lot of people whose jobs depend on Bitcoin/Tesla/UBI/Cloud failing. And I think it's fine that they keep it, it doesn't really hurt anyone.
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I'm sure the deserve some credit, but that doesn't wipe away the fact that they behaved in a way that reeks of 'arrogance, incompetence and mendacity'. Bad decisions are bad, and walking them back doesn't undo the
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by Tyrek 9y ago
Could you post more links? This has been great reading.
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Mystery weapons allow for all sorts of deniability. With snipers and stuff there's always a pretty clear starting point for investigators to (attempt to) trace back to the source. That's much harder with this mystery weapon. It&#x
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I don't know if it's fair to say that it's not the issue. Unless we have a crystal ball that will reveal the exact breakdown of causal factors, it certainly seems reasonable to address the big ticket items that we are aware
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by Tyrek 9y ago
DC's problem, as always, is one of congestion and access. If we sidestep the tax burden ('we paid for it therefore we should be able to use it without charge') issue, there's a fairly typical large-city congestion proble
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by Tyrek 9y ago
Your entire argument is predicated upon the current American model of taxation/funding - i.e. that education spending is funded by individual states. There is an argument that this funding model is completely broken for the reasons out
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by Tyrek 9y ago
In which case you can litigate. If it's baseless, the litigation should be quick, easy and painless. If it's not, then you have other problems.
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by Tyrek 9y ago
You haven't answer the core question, which is: Why can London do this, while NYC cannot? Is there less red tape with accountability in London?
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by Tyrek 9y ago
Resurfacing every day of the year is kind of a meaningless metric, though. If the entire resurfacing department is 1 dude, he can be resurfacing every day of the year and only get a (couple?) streets done. The argument there is that the dep
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by Tyrek 9y ago
That's kind of the point though - it's much more acceptable (to the markets) for a private company to be doing crazy things, low runway, etc, because if the company goes broke, the damage is limited to 'skilled' investor
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Sure, but how many companies have been in the same position and failed?
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Police aren't there to prevent the first offense - only to clean up afterwards. Regulation (read: licensing, etc) is more pre-emptive in heading off some of these issues.
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by Tyrek 9y ago
You have it backwards. taxing consumption is actually more regressive than taxing income - the spending a wealthy person has is far more variable (and generally a lower % of income - some of it goes to investments, etc).
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by Tyrek 9y ago
I think that there are two lines here that are easy to conflate. 1) That the golden rule "treat others as you would like to be treated" is sufficient to make you A Good Person, or at least not complicit in any sort of -ism. 2) Tha
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by Tyrek 9y ago
You need to have clauses to specify retroactivity, otherwise you get into a world where the government has to wait for everyone alive to die before they're allowed to implement a new taxation plan. There have to be limits somewhere, an
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by Tyrek 9y ago
to be fair, what do you think the purchasing company wants out of the deal? Acquisitions are generally structured as a) acquisition of key talent, b) acquisition of customers, c) acquisition of technology/IP, d) efficiencies from cutti
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by Tyrek 9y ago
ah yes, the freedom of imposing immense inefficiencies and externalities (read: pollution, congestion, industry lobbying against any sort of mass transit) upon everyone else around you, in exchange for feeling good.
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Marvel films are covered by this as well.
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It is not an externality, as an externality is strictly a cost that is borne primarily by parties outside of the transaction. The cost of a commute is external to the Company, but the labor market is two sided (employee/company) and th
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by Tyrek 9y ago
While I am sympathetic to the cultural forces at play, it seems that most of the anti-city sentiment is from a position of...pickiness? you might call it? If it was literally a choice between starving and moving to a City, I suspect the cho
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by Tyrek 9y ago
That's kind of like arguing that because housing prices have never(!) gone down (pre-2008), housing prices will never go down, and therefore underwriting any mortgage carries 0 risk. It's simply bad math.

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