altusbrown

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by altusbrown 1y ago
If I caught the staff doing that at a hotel or restaurant, I’d black list them. Fuck that.
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by altusbrown 1y ago
If you really want to avoid getting anything in your water - even essential vitamins and minerals - you can always distill your water. It’s worse for you though, much worse. That ‘chalk’ in your carafe is just small amounts of minerals you
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by altusbrown 1y ago
Landfilling is even better.
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by altusbrown 2y ago
Or how the network settings pages often don’t even have basic network information on it, so you literally can’t even use the supposed debug page to actually diagnose even the most basic network issues!
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by altusbrown 2y ago
It is. My ‘favorite’ is when technical help links in their own settings app links to useless web searches with ads.
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by altusbrown 5y ago
Amazon currently employs 798,000 employees. It touches essentially every household, and based on revenue and customer counts is clearly a well used service with utility for a great many people. It is valued by investors at 1660 billion doll
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by altusbrown 5y ago
No sharp line, but hardly artificial. If someone gives you a cake, and I take the whole cake it's clearly confiscation no? You got no cake at the end. If someone gives you a cake and I take a slice (say 25%), then it is clearly not con
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by altusbrown 5y ago
Good luck though when the person who learned how to be an assassin/shark and was able to build and maintain the wealth has handed it off to their kids (or grandkids) who probably never had much contact with them (what with all the assa
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by altusbrown 5y ago
Based on your comment, I'm assuming you would expect them to be led by someone doing the same things - which just highlights the role doesn't?
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by altusbrown 5y ago
That attitude does tend to align more with mine, with some important distinctions. It would also be interesting to compare long term societal/general impact and survival with that attitude. My reasoning is that being exposed to the inf
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by altusbrown 5y ago
There is an element to that, but it is not only that. Most (but not all) sizable wealth builders I've met or done research on have been people with a combination of: - ability to cut through bullshit but play the game (so can generate
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by altusbrown 5y ago
Taxation is not confiscation, unless the taxation is punitively high. I'd argue it would likely need to be 100% to meet the common usage of it. The more you tax, the closer you get to banning or stopping activity. If a government sets
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by altusbrown 5y ago
Do you think Amazon would just exist if Bezos didn't do what he did? Do you think groups of people spontaneously collect in ways that produce more value than they cost to exist? Even if there is no way to benefit from it individually a
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by altusbrown 5y ago
Something about the AMD implementation is notably harder to exploit, though last I looked it wasn't clear what that was. It's held up much better, and a lot of people have looked at it. Still exploits, but almost impossible to do
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by altusbrown 5y ago
FYI - at least one friend-of-a-friend large scale investor reached out after this article to note he'd almost hired this same person. Don't assume someone coming in through a reference has had the level of due diligence you need.
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by altusbrown 5y ago
That registration with the state puts them in one of the other categories I checked. She was not in those categories. Those in house council also are a very different category than a independent lawyer. You're not wrong there is an edg
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My Lawyer who wasn't a Lawyer, or why Due Diligence matters(linkedin.com)
35 points by altusbrown 5y ago|10 comments