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by bedhead 6y ago
There are disparagement clauses often.
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by bedhead 6y ago
Because you sign various employment contracts that contain all sorts of landmines even after you’re gone, and out of self-preservation it’s a helluva lot easier to just not comment.
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by bedhead 6y ago
You are right about the feedback loops that make it hard to escape poverty. The most uncomfortable one to talk about is basic social network effects. Two people meet at some prestigious college and get married - are we shocked they have chi
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by bedhead 6y ago
I love these little examples of the government acting literally like mafia bosses.
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by bedhead 6y ago
The Onion?
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by bedhead 6y ago
I’ve long argued for massive estate tax rates on large estates in order to incentivize behavior like this. I have no problem at all with Bezos being worth $200 billion (or whatever it is now), but it’s this dynastic wealth that I find borde
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by bedhead 6y ago
Can we just scrap this thing and move on already? Isn’t all of this back-and-forth alone evidence that this thing shouldn’t be flying?? It’s over, Boeing, you lose.
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by bedhead 6y ago
Letter of the law vs spirit of the law.
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by bedhead 6y ago
Tell that to Amazon. It's all just company/leadership culture.
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by bedhead 6y ago
Personally, I hate the idea of corporate income taxes - they're literally stupid. You can't tax corporations, you can only tax people. At the end of the day, it's always a person somewhere that is paying the tax, whether it
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by bedhead 6y ago
I've long argued for massive estate taxes on the very rich that forces a partial reset on wealth and avoid medieval times when land ownership was just passed down generation to generation. It's the only fair and practical wealth t
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by bedhead 6y ago
The hyperbole of this is almost incomprehensible. The absurdity of this latest "controversy" - Zuck not wrapping some form of token and meaningless censorship around a single Trump tweet - is proof that this isn't about Trump
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by bedhead 6y ago
That's odd, I don't recall arguing for nationalization of Twitter, nor do I recall planting a "conservative" flag. People see what they want to see I guess...
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by bedhead 6y ago
The problem with Twitter and Facebook is that the lines are getting blurry with regards to public vs private. Like it or not, a couple tech platforms are the de facto new town squares. Not saying I have any answers, just saying it's de
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by bedhead 6y ago
But demand for restored furniture wouldn't have imploded without the lockdowns - it's all connected. The government lockdowns (among other things) have whipped people into such a frenzy that you're right, demand is collapsing
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by bedhead 6y ago
I drove by Target today and the lot was full. Target doesn't have any kind of social distancing policy so it was business as usual, no lines or anything. Literally across the street is my friend's small restored furniture store, w
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by bedhead 6y ago
Feel free to provide basis for any of these claims.
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by bedhead 6y ago
Literally any article about Amazon on HN inevitably devolves into a bunch of useless anecdotes about how much Amazon supposedly sucks. You could set a watch to it. It's beyond tiresome. If you did nothing but read HN you'd think
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by bedhead 7y ago
Trump has a limitless number of flaws (I didn't vote for him) but goddamn has he been prescient about Chinese trade, their never-ending shenanigans (hacking, spying, stealing, anti-competitive actions), and bringing back manufacturing
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by bedhead 7y ago
Yeah sorry I think we have more important things to do right now.
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by bedhead 7y ago
I manage a fund for a living and have been doing this stuff for a while. I'm generally an optimist...and I've never been more terrified in my life than now. This makes 2008 look like a keg party. We have a health crisis and the pr
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by bedhead 7y ago
Their power comes from a combination of (1) the shares they own, (2) their balance sheet which allows them to outspend (litigation, buying more shares, buying bonds) anyone if they choose to do so, (3) their reputation as money-makers and b
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by bedhead 7y ago
Agree it it serious just as the flu is serious. We don't need to create a panic and literally bring the global economy to a halt is my point. Just reading the responses I sometimes think people are cheering for pandemic.
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by bedhead 7y ago
Folks, it's the flu. We don't have a cure for the flu either. You catch it, you feel awful, your immune system fights it, after a few days the virus runs its course, and then you're fine again. The people who are die from the
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by bedhead 7y ago
Definitely not at all presumptuous when we call it now the climate "crisis." Nope, totally objective... [eye roll]
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by bedhead 7y ago
It is clear that Sergey and Larry (and Eric) have been asleep at the switch in shaping Google's culture, which now looks like the campus of Evergreen State College. Both he and Sergey have seemed checked out for years. Being the CEO of
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by bedhead 7y ago
Beyond spineless of Jack and everyone at Twitter. Political ads seem to work just fine on TV, radio, print, and everywhere else on the web. Pathetic that Twitter decided to bow down to the most paranoid in our society. All he is doing is va
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by bedhead 7y ago
I toasted my old fashioned to you tonight.
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by bedhead 7y ago
Any googling results in reports that Russians spent, even at the highest estimates, literally immaterial amounts on ads relative to the candidates and PAC's. And people on the left still insist it mattered! Meanwhile, Mike Bloomberg
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by bedhead 7y ago
You're right, the point gets lost, I hear what you're saying. I guess it reflects that I'm tired of trying to have normal conversations about it, I feel like the people who blame everything on Facebook are completely unhinged

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