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1711.
by adventured 5y ago
> Without consistency, returns are unpredictable and capital investments will be directed elsewhere. No, the oil companies will keep being oil companies. Chevron, Exxon, BP, Aramco, KPC, NIOC, Royal Dutch Shell, PetroChina/CNP, Tota
1712.
by adventured 5y ago
Your employment decisions are significant as it pertains to your behavior and actions. It's very reasonable to judge someone by who they choose to work for, specifically if there are repeating negative patterns. If someone builds a car
1713.
by adventured 5y ago
> it is probably more affordable in Denmark than US It's not. You're not accounting for the higher US wages for one thing. Median take home pay is about 40% higher in the US vs Denmark. The Big Mac Index also gets pricing wrong
1714.
by adventured 5y ago
The Big Mac Index is a mediocre currency education toy, nothing more. And they admit it: > Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible. The Big M
1715.
by adventured 5y ago
I certainly agree. I think it makes sense to photograph anyone arrested, for numerous logical reasons (not least of which is because I don't trust the authorities; the photos should also be protected from tampering by the same authorit
1716.
by adventured 5y ago
US systems of authority often specialize in conflicts of interest. I think it's obviously by design, both sides ride the gravy train (govt / private sector). The FDA gets ~46% ($2.7b of $5.9b for 2019) of its operational funding f
1717.
by adventured 5y ago
And had Floyd been some manner of criminal kingpin or mass murderer, it would have been even more important to bring him to justice by correctly arresting him (not killing him before a trial can occur). To say nothing of that such criminals
1718.
by adventured 5y ago
Sure, consider the human rights abuse that is the online mug shots industry in the US for example. There's no sympathy for those people, the assumption is guilt. The superficial tough on crime types revel in the notion that those peopl
1719.
by adventured 5y ago
They can't at all. They're projecting a strictly personal opinion based on their own value system and very distant perception of such disparate figures as Sinatra, Rockefeller, Munger and Hefner, which is rather spectacularly comi
1720.
by adventured 5y ago
> e.g. via taxes ... There is no need for the yuppie and the coffee. The taxes are also paid for by the yuppies at a disproportionate rate to their income share. See: share of income taxes as broken out by income segment, in most every
1721.
by adventured 5y ago
Blogs today are just being hosted on Substack instead of Movable Type installations (circa the early 2000s) or Blogger and similar. The platforms play a game of never ending musical chairs, the winners change, the game doesn't stop. It
1722.
by adventured 5y ago
Angela Merkel did one Astra dose in April and then one Moderna dose in June. It likely works quite fine. I've yet to see any data showing that mixing vaccines produces a particularly greater risk of a bad outcome. It did make me wonder
1723.
by adventured 5y ago
That's pretty close. To put some numbers to it - Operating income margins for 2019 (this is before taxes, and using pre-Covid). Deckers 16%, Nike 12.2%, V.F. Corp 12%, Adidas 11.3%, Crocs 10.4%, Skechers 10%, Steve Madden 10%, Foot Loc
1724.
by adventured 5y ago
I've lived in areas with serious snowfall and icy road conditions that you have to deal with 4-5 months out of the year, most of my life. These small, lightweight, weak EVs are a bad joke in that context, they'd be useless. NYC, C
1725.
by adventured 5y ago
A mostly flat city without Winter weather. I doubt this thing - at 27hp - would climb the hills of San Francisco or Pittsburgh very well with two adult passengers in it.
1726.
by adventured 5y ago
> It's time to say the fucking word. It's time to admit you were wrong about the free market. It's time to vote for anticapitalist regulationists whenever you can. I'm going to remain a staunch Capitalist. I wasn&#x27
1727.
by adventured 5y ago
There's lying, delusion, denial, opportunism occuring in vast abundance. I commonly see a large amount of living in denial, living in delusion, about it, even among people that (supposedly) fully buy in to the worst climate change scen
1728.
by adventured 5y ago
There are many scenarios. There is also: 5% of a high growth, negative profit, thriving company that can rather trivially raise additional capital to keep pushing growth faster. Hundreds of start-up companies have fit that model over the la
1729.
by adventured 5y ago
> I think you cherry-picked here. You are thinking about the Baltics and forgetting about places like Uzbekistan The parent did not cherry pick, they didn't go far enough. It was overwhelmingly positive regardless of Kazakhstan or S
1730.
by adventured 5y ago
> I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers. That's as good as it's ever going to get. The rest will always be consumers.
1731.
by adventured 5y ago
It also didn't pay to be optimistic in 1968 or in 1998-1999 (perhaps peak optimism, peak irrational exuberance). 1968-1982, the S&P 500 essentially went nowhere. 1998-2012, the S&P 500 essentially went nowhere. Those dead perio
1732.
by adventured 5y ago
It's not particularly expensive to license music lyrics in terms of doing a start-up. The big problem is you won't be able to get search traffic these days. There was a rush of lyric sites once upon a time, during the content farm
1733.
by adventured 5y ago
> Hobby project leads angry person to interesting and unexpected material; angry person remains angry. Not angry in the least. I'm thrilled someone is working on a search competitor to Google. I understand you're attempting to
1734.
by adventured 5y ago
I did a search for "George Washington" First result after Wikipedia: "Radiophone Transmitter on the U.S.S. George Washington (1920) In 1906, Reginald Fessenden contracted with General Electric to build the first alternator tr
1735.
by adventured 5y ago
Thanks for linking that Netflix series, I was unaware of it. It's pretty decent.
1736.
by adventured 5y ago
The US did not lose in Iraq and it didn't kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. Iraq today is a free-standing nation, capable of charting their own path, courtesy of their significant oil revenues. The US is no longer required to pr
1737.
by adventured 5y ago
> what can NATO + Japan do? There is a solution to North Korea as it stands today. Chaos will take care of the regime eventually. Chaos is undefeated when it comes to wiping out totalitarian systems (quick, name a couple dozen 100-300 ye
1738.
by adventured 5y ago
If you were going to give/allow Taiwan nuclear weapons to protect itself, you'd have wanted to do it decades ago. And you wouldn't support them in developing nuclear weapons, you'd want to have quietly slipped nukes into
1739.
by adventured 5y ago
> Doing so might have cost the lives of thousands of South Korean civilians It would have been closer to hundreds of thousands. And it would have cost tens of thousands of American lives as well. To defeat and pacify North Korea you&#x27
1740.
by adventured 5y ago
Arecibo lasted for half a century. It would be more than acceptable if we built a telescope on the Moon and it lasted half a century before we moved on to replacing it and building the next interesting thing.

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