bloodyplonker22

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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
sorry, but fractional reserve banking is no longer used in modern banking. It was done away with several years ago. Here's a little explainer for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDNSNX48Kmo
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Wow this article is just flat out wrong about Milton Friedman. He was not an Austrian school economist. He was part of the Chicago school of economic thought. Also, he was not for moving everything back to the gold standard. They could not
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
What you just wrote is a lot of verbal diarrhea without any examples or backing at all.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
The "smarter" fake news bloggers usually post things that have some degree of truth and are much harder to prove as actually fake.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Many things wrong with your comment, starting with the fact that firing beings to be discussed only after a year. It actually begins to be discussed immediately after the employee is assessed to be an underperformer. It's only after a
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
You can read it in the exact tone of the Tech Lead. This way, you won't know if parts of it are really satire or not.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
The problem with your assumption is that you think everyone is equally poorly skilled in choosing startups to join.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Think about what you just suggested. If I could arbitrarily disable airtags around me, I could go around in public and disable everyones' airtags.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Government intervention is not the answer to everything. It is slow and inefficient.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Minimum wage is not the problem as this article seems to imply. People move up from those starter jobs, they don't stay there forever. The problem is that the politicians and local governments have enacted strict building and zoning la
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
I believe the topic of this thread was to post contrarian ideas, while also implying that they would be at least somewhat smart ones.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Many people can't even figure out easily what to fill into the boxes, even with software.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
I heard some woman with a fake deep voice is on trial now.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
True, except for LinkedIn because you can't post your drunken ragers and be professional all at once.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
I had a VC friend who switched to an iPhone, from Android, because of FOMO on Clubhouse. Now, after he realized that Clubhouse has naturally degenerated into a bunch of random people spouting off, with only a few rare pockets of quality con
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
This was because, in the emails at that time, they thought it would be a 10-15M acqui-hire and to "block yahoo" purchase only.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Just like all the billionaires that bought the total supply of tulips when they were falling, right?
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
I once interviewed an internal candidate who failed my interview miserably. I am not a manager, I am an engineer. In the coming months, whenever I saw her walk by me in the hallways, she would put her head down or not look at me. A few mont
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Video game parts? This is probably the most naïve comment I've read on Hacker News. Have you heard about what is happening with cars now and everything else with microchips?
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
The contract to hire approach is great for the company if the applicant accepts it, but any good applicant would not because the applicant would simply take another full time job with benefits instead. Especially in today's market.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Peter Thiel, himself, mocked this type of behavior from Google when Eric Schmidt couldn't find anything else to do with Google's hoards of cash rather than buying back shares. Thiel likened paying a dividend to admitting that your
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Not a problem for this kid, she just asks her daddy.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
I'm not a socialist, but we also have to adjust for what being a "millionaire" is today.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
What happened to WeWork is almost exactly the hypothetical scenario that you are describing for Uber.
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by bloodyplonker22 5y ago
Yes, profitable, but Uber's valuation would tank if they were just scraping by on this kind of revenue with no hopes of automated driving or other things in the future to increase margins.