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by adaisadais 6y ago
When San Francisco has it’s businesses open (pre-Covid) it is a fun city. When the businesses closed it became the opposite of a fun city. Restaurants and bars have been shut down and only a few have started to reopen. Many Parks outside of
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Same here. I read the Trial this summer too. It felt much in the same vein as Ecclesiastes did. Vanity of vanities.
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I would highly recommend downloading the ESV Bible app (or reading it in browser https://www.esv.org/Ecclesiastes+1/ ). The book is a relatively short read and I find it to be fascinating. “Koholeth” is about 1300 years
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by adaisadais 6y ago
“ This maternal silence, which soon came to assume a metaphysical presence, became the center of his work. ” I have loved delving deep into Camus during this dark period of modern human society. Existentialism has become such an intriguing
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Upon close examination I think we would find the ALL schools do this. This is just a symptom of the underlying problem with our education system in the US. It’s no longer about educating but about $. When the almighty dolla gets in the way
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Tim Cook is arguably the greatest managerial operator of our times. Without him apple wouldn’t have been able to scale and refine their businesses processes like they needed to reach the $1T mark. However, I believe it was Jobs who was the
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by adaisadais 6y ago
> This is frequently stated as fact, but no evidence is provided. I was referring to the U.S.; if you don’t live here I could see how you might come up with the conclusion That the state here is efficient. If you do live here it is more
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by adaisadais 6y ago
> I prefer the latter - we should be adding efficiency to the state, while giving people more choice on how to help each other. Agreed. The state has become much too inefficient. Sadly, much of that is the state’s own doing by continuous
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Huge fan of Chuck. “Who wants to be the richest person in the graveyard?” Is a question I often ask myself. Chuck has lived that philosophy. I moved to the bay last year and I hoe to one day meet him!
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I’m referring to nuclear capacity and abilities. I do not foresee the next War to be like the ones of old. Two+ massive powers competing will play ‘chicken’ until someone makes the wrong move. “ If the button is pushed, there's no run
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by adaisadais 6y ago
The West is in many ways equally as guilty but the stakes have changed dramatically. Russia and China are armed to the teeth. Turkey hosts some of the US nuclear weapons as well. The West gets textiles from turkey and China, electronics fro
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I was taught to prepare for globalization in most of my business classes in college. The world was now flat so you must prepare. We must be willing to compete and allow free trade as the internet (specifically the www) has opened the entire
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Chadwick was one of the few people from my area (Anderson County, SC) that made it out. He had such an incredible and successful career and was really just beginning to become the A list celebrity he was born to be.
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by adaisadais 6y ago
The dollar is gonna get f’d. Maybe Thomas Jefferson was right about central banks after all... probably not.
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In landmark shift, Fed adopts average inflation target, elevates jobs focus(reuters.com)
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by adaisadais 6y ago
One of my favorite (and definitely my Mom’s favorite) parts of Zappos is the hand written note that they send with each pair of shoes. My mom is an avid walker and she loves comfortable shoes so most birthdays and Christmas’s I send her a p
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by adaisadais 6y ago
This is the sort of news the world needs today. Let’s keep the ball rolling. Keep making things happen, HN Community.
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I loved learning about this phenomenon from Patrick Collision’s blog. Anecdotally, this makes sense to me. Up until the 3rd grade my mother would work with me every single day on my homework. I was consistently number 1 or number 2 in my cl
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I love the concept of massive buildings / structures in areas without such but I don’t think the city people would enjoy such buildings in actuality. The massive circular mine in Russia comes to mind (no pun intended).
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by adaisadais 6y ago
“The slow one now will later be fast cause the times they are a changing” -Bob Dylan It is apparent that Apple has been successful financially and has reached new heights but I don’t think this can continue for much longer. We are hanging o
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Meditation is big in both Catholicism and Protestantism within the U.S. Meditation is catchy now due to some of the research behind it as well as society always looking for the next panacea. Modern / Hindu / Buddhist meditation (o
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by adaisadais 6y ago
“My mind is living on cloud nine and this .9 is never on vacation.” -Kendrick Lamar. Nah, my mind is just pretty wild. Sorry if it was kinda hard to read, bro. GPT-3 is for suckers.
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Uber Driver here: Drivers (well, I can’t speak for everyone) enjoy the flexibility of driving. We also hate the prospect of not driving and not being able to pay bills. It’s truly a catch-22 situation. However, as someone who admires tech,
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Clearly it won’t work in the long term. No one knows what the market might do tomorrow. We might think we know but no one can ever truly know (legally speaking). What I’m advocating for is mainly based on the timing: the market corrects, on
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by adaisadais 6y ago
That’s two companies. Granted, they collect a larger proportion of revenues than many others within the NYSE. The market overall is not healthy. As long term unemployment continues more and more people will hang on to their iPhones or cance
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by adaisadais 6y ago
The markets are extremely overinflated as of now. We will see an adjustment by the middle of 2021 at the latest. I would wait until the news starts to sound so horrible you can’t help to do anything but invest. As many have mentioned, placi
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I think the life expansion is merely a byproduct of other things that have ultimately led to a higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s and other amyloid plaque based diseases. We have a few factors that have greatly attributed to this increase in
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by adaisadais 6y ago
Extremely well put. One of my favorite quotes from fiction comes from The Great Gatsby’s first page, “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenev
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Ask HN: How Do We Build a New Economy?
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by adaisadais 6y ago
I spoke to my financial advisor a month ago and he told me he was not worried of a major and sustained drop as FED and Congressional intervention had helped curtail that before it spiraled out of hand. But I cannot help but see current mark

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