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by bequanna 4y ago
Painful as it is, this is still just a correction. Reverting to more realistic valuations after a period of hyper growth and reckless speculation can hurt but it’s not the end.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Looking at the US specifically, what do you think about the Federal govt ceding power to groups “closer” to the individuals? Dedicating more budget and leaving more laws up to localities like States, municipalities, etc.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> and still lingers behind some smaller countries in QoL. I hear this all the time and it’s a silly comparison. Some small homogenous country in Western Europe with citizens who subscribe to an empowering philosophy and share the same cu
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by bequanna 4y ago
You have to take calculated risks to earn returns. FOMO at your own risk. If you are 30 and don’t need the money you put in SPY until 70, don’t sweat it. You’ll be fine. But let’s not pretend blindly taking risk is OK because some return
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by bequanna 5y ago
I think “collapse” is a bit dramatic. We’re not talking about WeWork here. Revenue will continue to increase, but at a slowing rate. Stock price correction != company collapse.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Labor will only get more expensive if: 1. We are too restrictive on immigration 2. Politicians keep pushing to hand out freebies for votes. Stealing the gift of purpose and motivation from many. Forcing them to be state dependents who live
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by bequanna 5y ago
If you can get those five countries to agree on anything, the lobbyists/politicians running those countries have found some way to benefit from that message.
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by bequanna 5y ago
As someone that has been on the other end, I can tell you devs don’t want to use selenium or inspect requests to reverse engineer your UI and wish there were more clean APIs. Have you tried making your UI more challenging to scrape and ad
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by bequanna 5y ago
I am beyond convinced that our phones are hot mics to the point that my wife and I make a conscious effort to move our phones to another room when we have conversations. There have been far too many “anecdotal” examples of me mentioning som
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by bequanna 5y ago
> As an aside, this idea of autonomy here is a psychological reflex to control something about a situation that you have absolutely no control over. It may be difficult for some to accept, but we as individuals have essentially total con
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by bequanna 5y ago
> Also, you apparently have no idea what "arbitrary" means. Ah, right. They were just highly intelligent people "following the science". Not at all obsessed with stoking fear so they could seize control and consolidat
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by bequanna 5y ago
How you choose to see what separates the two "sides" is quite interesting. You'll in fact find that it is not Vax/Anti-Vax but: 1. a group that needs the comforting reassurance of authority for security vs. 2. a group
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by bequanna 5y ago
> most of retail and individual investors had puts or shorted the market Most retail investors absolutely do not own puts nor are they net short the market. The actual situation over the past few months seems to be the exact opposite of
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by bequanna 5y ago
It is trivial to do a google search to find examples. A couple recent and high profile would be accounts locked because they tweeted "learn to code" which was, of course a joke at the expense of the (very sensitive and unemployed)
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by bequanna 5y ago
> Do you think that's how it works? I have no idea, what's your evidence? Do I think that people leverage their positions of power in the govt to strike blows when they are offended or threatened? Absolutely.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Regarding the CA issues, as I noted on a similar comment: > I'm sure this is all 100% true and in no way backlash for Musk's decision to shift operations away from California and very loud criticism of CA's politicians&#x2
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by bequanna 5y ago
Ah, all super balanced sources, but I'll bite. So your logic here is that because he fired subversive or insubordinate employees he will do the same on Twitter?
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by bequanna 5y ago
I'm sure this is all 100% true and in no way backlash for Musk's decision to shift operations away from California and very loud criticism of CA's politicians/bureaucrats.
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by bequanna 5y ago
> ...Billionaire Tax legislature No such thing will ever happen. This is just political theater for the sake of appeasing the "sour grapes" faction on the left. There is no political will to tax unrealized gains, tax wealth, et
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by bequanna 5y ago
What ideology is that? Musk has hinted that he views Twitter as a public forum and should be moderated as such. Until now, I think Twitter's not-so-slight political lean has been viewed as detrimental to the company (and public discour
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by bequanna 5y ago
> it totally makes sense to point out that this politician who builds cool stuff isn’t necessarily a good guy. Ok, and you're doing this why? To "save" the rest of us from being corrupted by this bad man? No. You're d
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by bequanna 5y ago
What is with this compulsion some people have to categorize people based on their political leanings? God forbid you ever utter something someone with a bunch of followers will interpret as wrongthink.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Ah, got it. Someone doesn’t pass your arbitrary purity test so we should ignore everything they have to say? What he built is really cool and exactly the reason I come to HN. I don’t care at all about his or your lame politics in this conte
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by bequanna 5y ago
This is simple virtue signaling meant to soften Apple’s image and remind you what a hip, cool company they are. They consider it part of their marketing budget.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Why not just put it back into the ocean? Obviously, some distance away from your inlet.
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by bequanna 5y ago
I don't at all buy that the rage is "intentionally manufactured". I also live in a rural area. The majority of the people here are conservative, see themselves as individual family units first and members of a community secon
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by bequanna 5y ago
One side is doing whatever they can to force everyone to not only accept but live their views, impose their restrictions, and snatch up as much "emergency" power as legally possible. All because they see themselves as morally supe
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by bequanna 5y ago
I agree, but I think the size of public/private debt is a guarantee that rates will stay historically low for the foreseeable future. It’s only a bomb if rates go up.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Every person in the US who has had their purchasing power destroyed over the past ~18 months. Unfortunately, most people were/are too drunk on (maybe temporary) housing and stock market gains to care. Cheap money, free money and rampan
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by bequanna 5y ago
Could they go any slower? The consensus seems to be that this is far too little way too late.

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