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by bedhead 6y ago
Seriously I'm just tired of it. Do you know how many tech geeks over the last few years have proudly proclaimed online that the company is "going downhill" and they'll never buy any more Ubiquiti products? 50 billion, th
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by bedhead 6y ago
Phew, for a second there I was worried both the right AND the left had lunatic conspiracy theorists. Relieved to find it's only one side and that the far-left, if it even exists at all, is both totally normal and not even on social med
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by bedhead 6y ago
Ubiquiti is another one of these companies where if you did nothing but read about them on HN, Reddit, et al, you would think they're filing for bankruptcy tomorrow, set orphanages on fire, kill puppies, etc. The negative hyperbole aro
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by bedhead 6y ago
I guess you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening with tech companies who get to control types of media.
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by bedhead 6y ago
While I'm your everyday white guy, I've never understood why people among minority groups would accept this completely over-the-top pandering. It's a form of shaming and it's dehumanizing. Who wants this?
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by bedhead 6y ago
That's a fair point. Let me clarify by saying that the IPO's and airlines were two things that Buffett was repeatedly adamant and proud about over many years. These were more hard and fast rules. The tech thing is different, that
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by bedhead 6y ago
While I'm not of these meme investors who thinks Buffett is "washed up", I confess that I've increasingly wondered if it's just sorta over. In some sense, it's not his fault. Berkshire has grown so large that i
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by bedhead 6y ago
Story of the last 11 months.
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by bedhead 6y ago
Both of these comments are so viscerally true. I live most of the year in a very small town (as in, no home mail service) that's also a big tourist destination. It has all the usual tension between townies, second home owners, and tour
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by bedhead 6y ago
Not entering, in. Have been in one for over a decade. And it's getting worse.
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by bedhead 6y ago
"Taken" lol. Is there any journalist who can write about this with some intellectual honesty?
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by bedhead 6y ago
This is dead wrong. Melvin got a margin call from their prime broker, which is why they needed to get bailed out abruptly by Griffin and Cohen. The mid-month injection shows how dire it was and how margin calls work. Hedge funds like Melvin
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by bedhead 6y ago
I'd strongly argue that having an editorial staff has proven to be a catastrophic error for newspapers since it poisons the culture of the newsroom, assigns a political brand to the company (which creates a flywheel where only people o
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by bedhead 6y ago
When people stop saying tropes like big tech are “private companies” and “actions have consequences” every time someone from the wrong political ideology gets deplatformed I’ll take this bitching and moaning slightly more seriously. This sa
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by bedhead 6y ago
Why do we even need to define this at all???? We're never going to. Again, the US functioned just fine allowing "hate speech" to be legal. Would there be consequences to such speech? Sure, and deservedly. But the government
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by bedhead 6y ago
You couldn't help illustrate my point any better, thanks. My opinion is invalidated by my racial/economic identity. Actually, it's worse: the opposite of what I say must be true. Brave new world.
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by bedhead 6y ago
I've noticed a high correlation between people who callously want to ban all sorts of speech and people who just seem completely miserable and think the US is the most awful place on earth.
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by bedhead 6y ago
If this speech threatens democracy, peace, and safety, why hasn't it been made illegal by the government, and how has the US managed to do so well for centuries with it being perfectly legal? Odd, the speech you're talking about b
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by bedhead 6y ago
But now you're back to square one - who defines "hate"? That's the line you're talking about. Keep in mind mind that in many cases, some speech you consider "hate" is totally vague, and opinions will inevi
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by bedhead 6y ago
But that's the ENTIRE point here! This supposed itty-bitty exception - "Hey, just no bad stuff, okay?" - is actually EVERYTHING. You say something like "Just no hate speech" or "Only if they have violence in
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by bedhead 6y ago
Wow it's almost like the the founding fathers had a good idea when they drafted the bill of rights and the literal first thing that came to mind was freedom of speech. I'm sure this experiment of ripping up the constitution in our
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by bedhead 6y ago
"In mind" - what does this mean? Who exactly gets to define "in mind"? Like, you're now literally reading people's minds about their intentions? So I don't need to explicitly tell people to go do bad thing
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by bedhead 6y ago
"Beyond hate speech" lol. That's kinda the problem, isn't it? Who gets to define "hate"? And why ban speech that is actually legal (even if highly offensive) anyway? And if it's worthy of banning on a majo
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by bedhead 6y ago
I sympathize, seriously. "Food deserts" are real, but they're not a conspiracy...it's just capitalism. They're not economically viable in areas where too many people reject "good food" in favor of Big Macs
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by bedhead 6y ago
I was about to say in my post, "Our standard of living has become so high..." We have so many resources that for the first time in human history, this is actually a viable option for people. It's wild to think about. I wish y
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by bedhead 6y ago
What about their children? Or do they not count? Does the cycle that creates count for nothing?
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by bedhead 6y ago
"Good food is expensive" is a baseless claim I hear all the time. People could eat relatively healthy if they wanted to, but they don't. There are a bunch of reasons, but if I was forced to pick one it's that these big c
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by bedhead 6y ago
It blows me away that John Mackey, the founder of Whole Foods, frequently says that people need to eat healthier, and the twitterverse absolutely excoriates him. It's seriously disturbing. COVID is of course helping expose that we have
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by bedhead 6y ago
All roads lead back to about half a dozen companies. The concentration of power is astonishing and terrifying. They have all of the US, maybe even the world, checkmated. Nothing good will come from this.
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by bedhead 6y ago
No fan of Trump and I try to be militantly centrist, but how is Trump's baseless rhetoric about election fraud any different than almost every Democrat politician's endless claims that Trump was [eye roll] a "Russian agent&qu

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