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by bko 1y ago
It seems ridiculous if you think about it. Imagine you're running a market and as part of that you allow vendors. The vendors have to pay some percent of sales to you, either credit card or cash. And then you start selling things in cr
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by bko 1y ago
> Competition is how you get to the best product. Lack of competition leads to malaise of product improvements as the market dominators are owning the space and happily exert their power over people. I think the malaise is when you requi
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Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems entirely reasonable to me to have different models for an ecosystem and market. Android exits, it's relatively open. I can download an APK and easily install it on my device (unless this c
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> If Mark Zuckerberg didn't exist, we'd still have Facebook. Yes, because multi-trillion dollar companies are completely natural and spawn almost at random to whatever nerd happens to be working on a particular problem at any g
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by bko 1y ago
So my explanation is stock market bump and nft/meme coins coincided with checks going out and unemployment benefit bump. Also personal savings rate jumped to 30% during that time due to covid stimulus. Your retort is some moral argumen
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Why did the stock market go up 20% relative to pre pandemic levels? Have another explanation? Who was buying these shit coins? Where did the money come from? It really doesn't matter if it was the "very poor". I guess inflati
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> if the government could provide something like a universal basic income for unemployed people when the economy was flatlining, could they not afford it during boom times What happened when the government started writing stimulus checks
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> I think the hard truth is that if we want meaning, we have to be honest that there is no unquestionable source of meaning in life. I agree, but children are one possible source of meaning in life. I haven't found a compelling one
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I agree with everything you wrote. But the real harm with most of these regulations are the unintended consequences, and second order effects. Say you don't really think <10k cars belong on the road. Sure. But that could just lead t
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I dealt with a little bit of what the article describes, the burden of too much leisure. I ended up getting a masters part time and another certification that ate up much of my 20s. But after that I still felt anxiety growing older. It was
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So now they sell less merch and their movies and TV shows gross a lot less. So who does this benefit?
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It was never saturated. The peak was probably Thanos. Everything since then has been pandering to a more female driven potential audience that was never there. It's not just female super heroes, which always existed and were popular to
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> Kennedy also criticized the fact that the authors did not compare vaccinated and unvaccinated children to determine whether any aluminium exposure causes harm, even though they had some data on unvaccinated children. I'm not a sci
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by bko 1y ago
I worked at places with "points" you can give to other coworkers, but no reward. I would love to have traded some of my points for monster merch. This can almost read like an advertisement for working at Monster
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This is from the post: > "Monster Green shoppers are likely younger (Gen-Z/Millennial/Gen-X) male, lower income & Caucasian (skews Hispanic)." Later in the post: > The scariest part wasn't the training por
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by bko 1y ago
Not that I agree with bail-outs, but 2008 financial crisis that resulted in a number of bail outs actually netted the treasury a profit. > In total, U.S. government economic bailouts related to the 2008 financial crisis had federal outfl
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I don't think that's the same thing: > The DHS statement says that Ms Kordia had overstayed her student visa, which had been terminated in 2022 "for lack of attendance". It did not say whether she had been attending C
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I don't know if that's really it. In the US, sure, there was a direct line of communication between all the large social media companies and the federal government. It was used to censor what was deemed "conspiracy theories&q
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I heard things about UK arresting people for social media posts but thought it was just a few cases cherry picked. But I recently looked up the scale of arrests and it's really insane. Police are arresting over 12,000 people each year
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Isn't that what speed cameras are about? Seem a lot more efficient and cheaper. I got a few tickets, nothing too serious just ran the yellow a little too close and 40 in 25. And if def changed my behavior
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I think another framework is blank slatism. For instance, you can look at two countries and if one country has a higher prison population, that country over polices because every country and its people should have the same criminality level
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Yes
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What do you mean "this just doesn't work"? You do understand that an overwhelming majority of crime and overall anti social behavior is done by a tiny percentage of people. Remove those people and you spare the rest of us. Fo
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Sure I want a safe neighborhood. Wait until you learn about HOAs...
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As a homeowner you have a right to put locks on your door. Don't expect others to protect you and don't ever think you have the right to take away what others can do to your neighborhood and public school
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> 100k invested in the market - untouched - will decay a certain percentage a year in purchasing power due to inflation but will outpace it due to returns. What's your point? That inflation is a thing? The S&P 500 has delivered
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It's really hard accepting this, which is why I believe younger people are more naive. It's easier to believe everyone is a victim, but with enough life experience and experience a larger variety of people, you learn that not ever
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Cash windfalls can absolutely build wealth. Think of it another way, I hear that big cash expenses can destroy wealth. For instance, if you have no cash reserves, that means you may rely on pay day lenders. You can't afford a Costco me
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> Homeless people, new mothers and low-income Americans all over the country received thousands of dollars. And it's practically invisible in the data. On so many important metrics, these people are statistically indistinguishable f
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by bko 1y ago
I don't know, I just can't get fired up about this, I'm sorry. I don't think children have an absolute right to VPNs. There are a ton of things children can't have access to. They don't have full rights as adul

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