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by bedhead 8y ago
There are 3.5 million truckers in the US. Think about that. Politically, I'm fairly conservative/libertarian, and I generally accept the economic realities of things like creative destruction. And even with those overarching views
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by bedhead 8y ago
The difference between the two is that even the majority of the right dismissed the birthers as idiotic nutjobs, while today the Russian election conspiracies are basically mainstream among the left. It's crazy
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by bedhead 8y ago
The right had Obama birth certificate conspiracies, the left has Russian election hacking conspiracies. Different sides of the same idiotic coin for stupid people.
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by bedhead 8y ago
The problem is human nature, not Facebook.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Number of subscribers who won't renew because of this? Zero. Netflix delivers the most hours-of-entertainment-per-dollar of anything in the world that isn't free, it's not even close.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Where does the money go? Aside from the waste and fraud, two places. First, we pay for convenience. We want to see a doctor now . We want immediate access to all the best equipment, and specialists, and drugs, and we don't want to wai
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by bedhead 8y ago
These are profit-seeking enterprises, not political activist organizations. I don't know why more people confuse the two. This is a rabbit hole companies need to be very careful about going down. Besides, this whole thing is irony of t
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by bedhead 8y ago
Pensions get abused because they can be. (I'll limit this to public pensions) When a municipality issues a bond, that bond has an indenture which is a contract. It has a very specific set of rules about what the municipality can and ca
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by bedhead 8y ago
This is Skechers' entire business model
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by bedhead 8y ago
Like, the living of some drug middleman who is a leach on the system and only exists because of some lobbying or other screwed up structure?
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by bedhead 8y ago
Hacker News posters are the most hyperbolically negative folks on Amazon that it's almost funny. I always groan when clicking on Amazon-related comments because I know it's just going to be people complaining about god-knows-what.
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by bedhead 8y ago
So true. There just aren't any shortcuts when it comes to learning a new language, and while creating cards/decks in Anki is a huge chore at times, it's also super effective in jack-hammering that information into your brain
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by bedhead 8y ago
There was a hedge fund manager named Mark Sellers who blew up his fund in 2008 by following the Kelly Formula exactly, which had told him to put 90% of his fund in a single stock, which was a small offshore oil/gas driller. It was real
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by bedhead 8y ago
He’s a good man for doing this but it’s addressing the symptom not the disease. The travesty of college tuition inflation will only be fixed with government regulation, there is simply no other mechanism to fix it.
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by bedhead 8y ago
You didn't even need to fax, you could call. That was literally the only way I would go after my first trip when I stood in that miserable line. Originally you could call in a takeout order anytime. Then he limited it to weekdays. Then
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by bedhead 8y ago
Yeah, would be nice to try it but the wait make Hot Doug's look brief.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Bad Apple has been the best burger in Chicago for awhile. Amen.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Au Cheval is easily the most overrated burger (and perhaps restaurant) in Chicago. Hey guess what, if you make a 12oz burger, put three slices of cheese on it, place it on a buttered roll, then put pork belly, a fried egg, and mayo on it, i
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by bedhead 8y ago
Good one, forgot that.
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by bedhead 8y ago
You're right, one of these things is not like the other. However, I think in the next ten years, Apple will regret having neglected this product category, and Ubiquiti is making inroads into consumer-grade products as well as service p
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by bedhead 8y ago
I think it's pretty clear that online video slipped right through their fingers. They were early with Apple TV and Steve Jobs' assertion that he had "cracked" TV back in 2011. And what happened? They did almost nothing a
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by bedhead 8y ago
They could've claimed he broke his employment contract (I'm assuming he had a contract - he almost certainly did) which presumably had some "bad boy" clause in it, thus firing him for cause and not paying him anything. B
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by bedhead 8y ago
Twitter is like a free lifetime supply of the alcohol of your choosing. Yeah, some people can handle it just fine and not turn into full-blown alcoholics, but for many people there's just no way to not give in and have their lives ruin
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by bedhead 8y ago
I would agree...and many of these pension boards are so bad they can't even to that .
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by bedhead 8y ago
The placement agent would be powerless if not for the pension board's incompetence and corruption, otherwise it wouldn't matter if the pension was being pitched by the marketer or the fund manager itself. Don't get me wrong,
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by bedhead 8y ago
Kentucky's pension is screwed for all of the same reasons many other public pensions are (in order of importance): - Overpromising of benefits - Underfunding mechanisms that allow deferral of contributions - General mismanagement (I ca
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by bedhead 8y ago
Banksy is like the Malcolm Gladwell of art. He's really good but crossing over into the world of pop culture has garnered an unwarranted amount of scorn. I like Banksy and I like Malcolm Gladwell, both are really good at what they do.
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by bedhead 8y ago
The hedge fund? Wrong. I have those returns too. Ever wonder why neither he nor anyone talks about his returns? It’s not a conspiracy... It is insane to me. We detest more than anything the notion of the high fee hedge fund manager who gets
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by bedhead 8y ago
I have Chanos' returns since inception in the 1980's. I have talked to Chanos a bunch. The guy is the biggest enduring fraud, figuratively speaking, in the investing world. His returns are dreadful . There is no money manager in
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by bedhead 8y ago
I still don't understand the appeal of wireless charging...it always struck me as a solution in search of a problem. Is the half-a-second act of plugging in a phone really so burdensome to people that we need to "solve" it? A

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