anm89

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by anm89 5y ago
The metaverse already exists. It has for 10+ years. FB isn't betting on the metaverse existing. They are betting that they can make some new walled portion off it that will be so big that it will esentially be the whole thing. Personal
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by anm89 5y ago
Meh, their PE will be like 20 on open tomorrow. That's not really pricing in super growth.
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by anm89 5y ago
This is exactly it. They are going to bet the farm on the metaverse. Personally, I don't even like their odds there. Their risk of not existing 10 years from now is 10x any of the other FAANG companies IMO. They'd be smarter to ke
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by anm89 5y ago
How is this not flagged?
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by anm89 5y ago
The US government has absolutely zero qualms with dealing with the Saudi government. Why would we expect private companies to be more strict than them?
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by anm89 5y ago
If you haven't watched his youtube content go watch it. It's unbelievably high quality. He comes of as a genuinely great guy and he the quality of the analysis he is doing is really good. Definitely puts some things around this st
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by anm89 5y ago
Yeah I think this gets lost in this conversation. When you watch his earlier videos it was very clear that he was incredibly sharp. I'm sure even he was dumbfounded at how this all played out but he wasn't some idiot running aroun
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by anm89 5y ago
I know plenty of people who got fat checks and were quite open about pointing out that it was socialism, and a complete waste of money.
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by anm89 5y ago
Every single one of the richest people I know got a 6+ figure handout on PPP. I'm only upper middle class so I only got $15k. I'm guessing most of the people who could have eaten more food if they got a bit more from the program g
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by anm89 5y ago
Potentially yes but they would have to be actually good jobs, at good rates, with guarantees that payment can't be reversed(and other similar scenarios that upwork and the like are famous for). So basically potentially yes, but the rea
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by anm89 5y ago
Powell should just dump it onto 4chan
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by anm89 5y ago
They are specifically saying they don't plan to use a distributed ledger. Of course the US government is not going to allow miners to control their own currency or something like that. CBDCs have nothing to do with crypto. They are tot
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by anm89 5y ago
A lot of these old homes people would make smaller (drop ceilings and things like that) to make them cheaper to heat. One theory was that they just weren't using it and didn't feel like heating it. Or maybe during some renovation
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by anm89 5y ago
I had a friend who purchased a 3 unit rowhome in a row of identical rowhomes in Pittsburgh. His neighbor invited him over and the layout of the entire house was the same except there was an extra stairway and attic room in this house. Given
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by anm89 5y ago
no
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by anm89 5y ago
Just anecdotally, the "yoga, spiritual, new age" people I know are BY FAR the most egotistical group of people I have ever met. I lived in Bali as a digital nomad where these people are one of the core cohorts and it is very notic
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by anm89 5y ago
Agree but we have other words specifically for that: grift, corruption, kickbacks. War is definitely a racket but that racket isn't money laundering. The racket isn't about obfuscating the origin of the money but to direct it to c
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by anm89 5y ago
Take a look at your two answers: 1) > Pretty simple really! 2) > That's the big problem! At all but the most superficial level you'll find armed conflict motivations over all of human civilizations isn't "pretty si
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by anm89 5y ago
Ukraine can't defend itself against Russia regardless of if they'd like to or not. The buck stops at the US and Nato simply due to the size matches between the forces.
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by anm89 5y ago
Do you believe there is some objective thing called "just"?
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by anm89 5y ago
The idea of a government, especially the US, laundering money doesn't really make any sense. Generally, the point of laundering money is to pay taxes on it so it can enter the financial system. Governments (and especially the US who ha
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by anm89 5y ago
I think this is a probably a good sign that if promoting your band is important to you, Facebook shouldn't own or host your online identity.
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by anm89 5y ago
Pittsburgh lost over half of it's population over a 40 year stretch starting in the 70s. Blaming them in the past for not being able to tell the future doesn't make a lot of sense. When they built these bridges, it probably seemed
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by anm89 5y ago
This again makes absolutely zero sense to me. > The army of accountants would be needed to make that(inflation) 100x less. You seem to imply some black box where accountants are the input and reductions in inflation are the output. Can y
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by anm89 5y ago
This is very specifically not the definition of a ponzi scheme. actually it meets literally none of the criteria of a ponzi scheme except maybe the fact that money is involved and somebody loses money. if there is a real asset involved in t
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by anm89 5y ago
Not clear to me what is "goofy" here. You dislike the word acolytes? > Japan's exploded over a generation ago and And how did that go? > Most of western economies "exploded" 10-15 years ago. Sure and they had
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by anm89 5y ago
> I still think a fiscal conservative with an army of accountants could figure out UBI and make it work. This is totally lost on me. Why? I don't see how any of the issues with UBI are accounting based. We already can spend money we
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by anm89 5y ago
That's pretty astounding. Would you be willing to breakdown how 70% gets lost on a transfer?
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by anm89 5y ago
Having taught at a coding bootcamp, I can tell you that some people will never in their lives be capable of writing functional software. People exist, with college degrees, who cannot in months of lessons, understand the idea of a variable.
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by anm89 5y ago
These are the kinds of quotes they post in the documentary about the crash to demonstrate the hubris of the time. You are essentially arguing for the financial equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.

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