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by bedhead 7y ago
These kinds of people see their careers the same way someone creative gives their life for that you mention.
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by bedhead 7y ago
I have an MBA from on of these schools and I can tell you that it's virtually worthless. I went at night because my boss made me and paid for it. (Yes, doing classes from 6-9pm a couple nights per week for two years was miserable) Peop
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by bedhead 7y ago
That would require congress to actually do something.
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by bedhead 7y ago
No university would ever do that (effectively anonymize applications) because donations would plummet to almost zero. If there are no perks - one of the big ones being your kids have a good chance of being admitted - what's the point?
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by bedhead 7y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of dipshit kids who got admitted based on their family's history and donations to the school. I'm also sure that if a couple people meet at Harvard and have a kid, that kid has a way-better-than-aver
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by bedhead 7y ago
The delusional paranoia among the catastrophists never ceases to amaze me. Fwiw, you people do more to hurt the cause than anything else.
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by bedhead 7y ago
If they want to target illegal activities such as that, I say go for it. Otherwise for things we simply don't like, provide users some filtering tools and leave it at that.
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by bedhead 7y ago
Yet another reason to stop trying to have a central authority, in this case Facebook moderators, police speech. It can't be done effectively or without major side effects. Let people filter on their own, we all do every day in the real
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by bedhead 7y ago
There were multiple times when we were either in a park visitor center or the RV park's pool and I realized I was the only American. It was all (in order) German, Dutch, and French. Everyone was really friendly and we made some good fr
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by bedhead 7y ago
I just returned from a three week RV trip to some of the national parks out west, including Death Valley. Two of the things I noticed were (1) Europeans outnumbered Americans in the RV parks and (2) Europeans seemed far more inclined to bre
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by bedhead 7y ago
He says this because the kool-aid is flowing and he is financially/emotionally/reputationally incentivized to believe it.
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by bedhead 7y ago
There's an easy and obvious solution: have extremely high estate tax rates for estates valued above some threshold like (just picking a random high number) $100 million. I have no problem with Bezos being worth over $100 billion - he e
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by bedhead 7y ago
Oh I read it, you're just wrong, unconditionally wedded to politics. I can't argue with people who insist the sky is red, why waste my time...it's a nice day out.
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by bedhead 7y ago
The signs are all staring at you in the face. Real estate values are some of the worst performing in the country. (see Rodkin) Taxes keep skyrocketing. (Thanks JB!) Pension underfunding keeps increasing. ( https://wirepoints.org )
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by bedhead 7y ago
I've lived in Chicago my entire life - the city is in a death spiral. When my youngest kid graduates high school I'm out of here. The finances of the city will inevitably end in some combination of bankruptcy and ruin thanks to to
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by bedhead 7y ago
Peloton has better legs than most, but the reality is that every fitness craze has eventually died whether it’s equipment (eg Bowflex) or method (eg Tae Bo). It’s just human nature, this and diet (eh Atkins) aren’t sustainable things with h
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by bedhead 7y ago
I still have my first-gen iPod and it works great. Battery life isn't too terrible all things considered, I get about 2-3 hours from a charge which I've been told is great compared to others. The looks I get from people are pricel
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by bedhead 7y ago
The intellectual dishonesty of this from allegedly smart people continues to astound me. Amazon has little-to-no taxes mainly because they have such low taxable income in the first place because they spend so much in R&D and other thing
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by bedhead 7y ago
Isn't this a solution in search of a problem? I remember Robert Pera, founder of Ubiquiti Networks, poking fun at Facebook for floating [pun intended] the idea of a giant hot air balloon to provide internet access while pointing out th
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by bedhead 7y ago
I remember about 7-8 years ago seeing John Doerr give a talk somewhere and he literally started desperately fighting back tears because he thought humanity was imminently going to go extinct because of climate change. I realized he'd
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by bedhead 8y ago
Do you want an honest answer? Does anyone?
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by bedhead 8y ago
There was a made for TV movie about this in the late 80’s...it was one of the things that first got me interested in aviation. Wish I could find the name of that movie - any help?
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by bedhead 8y ago
The author clinging to a 100% literal translation of "self made" is mind-numbingly stupid.
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by bedhead 8y ago
In economics this is called tacit collusion
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by bedhead 8y ago
Old saying about boats is the two best days of ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Buybacks don't "get around" income tax since buybacks in no way affect taxable income or tax rate at the corporate level. However, buybacks could (hopefully) boost the value of the stock, in which case shareholders pay more i
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by bedhead 8y ago
Do you have an opinion on to what extent simulators can help? I've heard a range of opinions on this, and while there is no substitute for the real thing, I can't help but notice that full flight simulators seem freakishly good th
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by bedhead 8y ago
Amplifi from Ubiquiti has by far the best networking gear if you just need a simple plug-and-play mesh network for your house.
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by bedhead 8y ago
John Elway, who is the GM of the Broncos, gave an interview a few months ago about Kaepernick after he had given a deposition as part of Kaepernick's lawsuit against the NFL. Elway knew he'd get in some trouble since I guess he wa
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by bedhead 8y ago
If it is so awful, why do so many people use it? Most critics don't understand the depressing reality that payday lenders are often better than the alternative. I would also point out that the companies vary in profitability, and they&

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