bmmayer1

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by bmmayer1 4y ago
I do not get these calls. Must not be doing that well :)
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Agreed with this. The story written from Alex's perspective would probably be: "how I blew a once in a lifetime shot to be the best business banker in America but I took the opportunity for granted."
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
This is an awful excuse. The whole purpose of public education is to give students who don't have support at home an education. Passing the buck to parents makes the whole point of public school moot -- if kids with involved parents re
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
The failure of public education in this country is a national scandal. It should be the number one concern of everyone, and yet there's no outrage, no political wedge issue, no media -- what's going on?
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Do we really think this is much better?
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
How come 78% of low income fourth graders in NJ can't read?[0] [0] https://acnj.org/newsroom/news-releases/nj-4th-graders-score...
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
100% this. > I ended up joining Shopify as a Fullstack You're already employed. After you have work experience, not a single employer will care about your GPA or your degree. Some of my best coworkers were high school graduates. The
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
> I'm not sure that the total danger of conflict to any individual would have been that much greater to any individual then than now It is, in fact, much safer to be alive today than any other point in history. And a much lower chan
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
> Land used to exist without a monetary cost to access it. That was the natural way of things prior to the private property system and monetary system. We created poverty as we know it. This is silly. First of all, only wealth can be cre
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Russia’s Electronic-Warfare Troops Knocked Out 90 Percent of Ukraine’s Drones(forbes.com)
9 points by bmmayer1 4y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
This is a stupid question but I don't know anything about fusion: How is it possible for X energy to create X+Y energy in output? Doesn't that violate some fundamental law of physics?
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European teams ditch pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar World Cup(politico.eu)
40 points by bmmayer1 4y ago|72 comments
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
It's a great, easy read for the uninformed.
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Yes and no. That's why third party auditors exist. It's not like you're just asking people to trust your bank balance screenshots.
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Not necessarily -- you can create a profitable exchange by having a standard taker fee or commission. That's how exchanges have made money since the dawn of time and there's nothing wrong with it. The issue with FTX etc is that th
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Mind-bending read that made all the principles that had previously confused me (relatively, thermodynamics, entropy, etc) clear and awe-inspiring.
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
This. If an exchange cannot 1:1 fund withdrawals it is not an exchange, it's a ponzi scheme. Full stop. All real exchanges should be releasing evidence of 1:1 backed customer deposits ASAP like Coinbase has. And if they don't, it
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Yes but these were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform#:~:tex... .
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
China's unprecedented generational explosion into the middle class happened only after Deng Xiaoping instituted market reforms. Economically, China is certainly more socialist than the west, but far more capitalist than it was in the 1
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Aren't there going to be likewise complex manufacturing processes behind the chemicals and machinery, including plastics, used in water treatment and piping? It's turtles all the way down. That's the point.
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
What does MCOL mean?
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Pardon me saying so, but it seems awfully convenient to adopt morals only when you can afford them. What about people who aren't as well off as you are...do you think it's immoral for them to make a living from providing housing?
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
If you believe profiting from housing is unethical, why did you buy and rent housing to tenants at a profit in the first place?
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Lukoil chairman dies in mysterious fall from Moscow hospital window(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bmmayer1 4y ago|1 comments
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
@dang please tag (2020)
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Eternal September(en.wikipedia.org)
95 points by bmmayer1 4y ago|50 comments
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
> we need a publicly owned internet. Ok, I'll bite. The privatized internet has failed us...compared to what? There's two prime examples of a publicly owned internet in the world today. One is run by the CCP and is sardonically
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
This does not seem like a charitable interpretation of the point OP is trying to make.
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Is this like when we reached peak oil 10 times in the last 50 years?
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At 83, I Decided to Develop an App (2016)(medium.com)
5 points by bmmayer1 4y ago|1 comments

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