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by brvsft 3y ago
This is part of why I don't trust CPI data. Take Warren Buffett's house as another example from 1958: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/warren-buffett-lives-in-the-... > The Berkshire Hathaway CEO
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by brvsft 3y ago
Yes.
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Counterpoint, they should just get rid of the FDIC. And if you flagged me, fuck you. The blatant adversarial tone of this comment means it should be flagged just on its own. Flagging my comment without flagging this moronic nonsense is clea
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by brvsft 3y ago
This is HN, not MSNBC. Russia isn't touching US soil any time soon.
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It seems the trillion dollar coin idea is being spoken about more seriously than both raising taxes and cutting spending at the same time. I do wish we'd do that though. Seems like the adult thing to do, and it's the sort of compr
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by brvsft 3y ago
I save most of my money, but supposedly I was going to spend it anyway so actually it should be taxed? Infuriating take. Edit: Forgot to mention the obvious, if this is how you feel, why isn't a higher sales tax on certain items ideal?
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by brvsft 3y ago
Not totally on topic, but another form of 'advertising' I would like to see banned is branding on fast food packaging. It bothers me when I see that someone has littered their bag of McDonald's (or whatever else) and this beh
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by brvsft 3y ago
I used to go on a casino cruise routinely with my friends in college because the drinks were free, you'd just want to tip the servers. And you had to be visibly gambling, so we'd sit at nickel slots and play slowly. If you measure
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by brvsft 3y ago
The gambling ad style that bothers me the most is, e.g., YouTube channels doing paid advertising within a video. It's typically in the tone of, "Join me and my subscribers who are winning $X on Sports Betting Dot Com!" I know
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by brvsft 3y ago
Not remotely the same as digital marketing companies that do their work creating ad campaigns for clients. Google and FB are ad platforms whose primary products are software.
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I tend to view marketing as an industry where it is easier to 'fake it til you make it' versus tech or software engineering. But I definitely can see some arguments otherwise. I just view being able to sustain oneself purely on &q
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To your 2nd point, I'd venture an uneducated guess that the reason we were doing this was largely a part of the arms race between USA and USSR during that period.
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by brvsft 3y ago
Very cute way of conveying this information. Love it.
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How about, "What do you know about Joe?" "I know that guy Bob over there says Joe is a pedophile."
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by brvsft 3y ago
Lol of course the hypothetical Nazis swarming all over Substack. Next thing you'll tell me Matt Taibbi is one.
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by brvsft 4y ago
Making unethical business decisions that negatively impact customers is a bit different from jaywalking.
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by brvsft 4y ago
To be fair, I don't think those people think about any concept of "ownership" of society or culture, except perhaps that they 'own' society and you will do as you are told. They presumably look at everyone else as c
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by brvsft 4y ago
We will have to create a new underclass.
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Think of the gay children.
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by brvsft 4y ago
So first I was told that Russia blew it up to cut off natural gas supplies so that some European nations would have a very cold and bad winter. Now it's discredited even before it was blown up. Okay.
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by brvsft 4y ago
> That it is Ukraine bombing their own cities just to make Russia look bad. So you know how I feel about people suggesting that Russia bombed the Nord Stream pipeline.
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by brvsft 4y ago
Yeah, I don't see the big deal. He's the new CEO and appears to be setting the tone, informing people of one of his first efforts. Stating it publicly seems uncontroversial for a business with publicly-traded stock. I also don&#x2
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by brvsft 4y ago
That's way too much time. More than enough to allow some disgruntled workers to plan out and execute an assassination of the CEO.
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by brvsft 4y ago
Why even make any statement? That would seem more suspicious to me.
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by brvsft 4y ago
SFB? You mean SVB? SBF?
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by brvsft 4y ago
> We recently went through that cycle faster than we thought possible with regards to a bank which responsible people considered very safe. According to the official record, one of the institutions went from being financially healthy one
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by brvsft 4y ago
> hundreds of millions of dollars are burned in the process Not burned. Those dollars went to lawyers, advertising platforms, etc.
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by brvsft 4y ago
This reminds me of every cute little store I've lived near that is frequently closed due to the owner(s) being on vacation. I'm not sure how many others have experienced it, but when I see this, it's clear to me that the ow
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by brvsft 4y ago
> (so as with most issues regarding our spaces in north america, what we need to make them better is more density. :) Then we raise the problem that this is not longer some simple, happy little shack where I get my coffee and relax. High