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by baskethead 4y ago
How is Tesla stock still so high? Its market cap is $750B with a tiny amount of cars sold, Elon is ruining his reputation on a month over month basis, he gives his laid off workers one-week salary, and his stock price goes up with impunity.
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by baskethead 4y ago
In no way, shape or form does California have a "pretty good public school system". https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/533... Ranked 42nd overall, 36th in quality and 51st, ie
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by baskethead 4y ago
Good schools? CA is one of the bottom in terms of education despite the 5th largest economy in the world. It's abhorrent.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Nancy Pelosi has been CA rep for decades and she is worth over $100M, meanwhile California education system is shit, the prison system is shit, taxes are among the highest in the US, income inequality is fucked, water is fucked, electricity
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by baskethead 4y ago
How many more tens of thousands of government employees are on the payroll of foreign governments?
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by baskethead 4y ago
No one cares that 1984 was a warning against all of this. It looks like the Bad Guys have won.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Buying options is completely orthogonal to insider trading. Options contracts are not allowed because it's written in the employee contract and that's because companies don't want you to be engaging in stock activity that goe
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by baskethead 4y ago
You can just short Twitter stock from any brokerage in the US. That is the exact same thing. As a non-employee, you can do that without issues (unless you have MNPI at which you can't do anything).
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by baskethead 4y ago
Companies routinely have blackout periods where employees are not allowed to sell their shares. Typically the shares from equity grants or ESPP are done by a brokerage and they can block those shares from being sold during these blackout pe
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by baskethead 4y ago
Once they leave the company they are free to sell the stock. They are not beholden to a stock blackout anymore.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Job market is definitely not "hot". I think there are still jobs out there but lots of companies are tightening up severely.
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by baskethead 4y ago
If you do have a kid, you'll learn that every single experience you've had with other kids amounts to nothing. Having a lifelong commitment to another human and trying your hardest to make them the best person they can be, often a
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by baskethead 4y ago
BitTorrenting pirated movies.
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by baskethead 4y ago
The thing is that when you pull the level, you're interfering so you're the cause of the consequence after pulling the lever. If you don't pull the lever, you're not responsible for what happens, at least in my opinion.
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by baskethead 4y ago
It's ridiculous to imply that Google and Facebook aren't one of the most successful companies in the history of the world. And there's no way they could have made it to one of the most successful companies in history with a c
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by baskethead 4y ago
> And you.. don't? The problem in this situation is that YOU are the one acting as a gatekeeper as to who gets into the company. The company should be the one setting the standards, and determine the best person for the job, and you
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by baskethead 4y ago
Leetcode-style interviews : software engineering :: auditions : acting Auditioning is nothing like being an actor, but that's primarily the only way actors get gigs. Unless you're so well-known that they seek you out. This is exac
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by baskethead 4y ago
Your technique has already been proven to create unconscious bias, because you are more likely to hire people that are like you. You even said it yourself, you want to work with people that you like and that you get along with. Here's
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by baskethead 4y ago
Investing in that is vital if you want to grow as an engineering company. I work at a company with 2000 engineers, and the infrastructure and our build/change management/review system is horrible. It takes me all day to check some
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by baskethead 4y ago
I think it's a good idea, but I also envision a lot of cheating just to get free money. If they can tailor this so that cheating isn't possible then I think it's a great idea for some areas of the country.
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by baskethead 4y ago
It's Facebook's job to convince users that allowing access to the data is worth it to the users. It's not Apple's obligation to give free reign to companies to their users' data. Their obligation is to their users a
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by baskethead 4y ago
I think it's only unprofitable in the US. Since China has banned mining, the US has become the country with the largest share of miners, and now as the price drops, mining will simply move to countries with lower costs of electricity.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Why? Are you afraid of rejection? Do you have problem making relationships with people you want to date?
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by baskethead 4y ago
You misread it. It went back to baseline after discontinuing the treatment which means that the increased depression was during the time while taking the medication.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Bill Gates isn't buying SFHs. He's buying all the farmland he can. He's the largest owner of American farmland.
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by baskethead 4y ago
I agree with this. Owning apartment buildings are one thing, but buying hundreds of thousands of single family homes and squeezing regular people out is detrimental to the entire country.
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by baskethead 4y ago
> Those of us fortunate enough to have 30 year fixed rate mortgages at about 3% are about to see our mortgage “debt” give us better returns than our stock holdings. This is incorrect. That's only if house prices go up along with inf
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by baskethead 4y ago
My house almost tripled in 8 years. I made $2 million profit from selling my house last year.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Homes have been going up in price for far longer than 40 years. The only time they have dropped is the Great Depression and the Great Recession. Otherwise there isn't an asset class that is more reliable over the long haul than real es
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by baskethead 4y ago
Anytime anyone says that Democrats are on the right side of morality, please point to things like this. California has been strongly Democrat for decades and this is how things are. They are "progressive" on hot button issues like

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