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by cascom 5y ago
I’ve been the beneficiary of wearing a helmet - but ask professional hockey players why they don’t wear face masks or why concussions are less in rugby rather than football, and you start to see that there is a seed of a point.
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by cascom 5y ago
Nothing in the above negates what you said - Russia wants to expand beyond its borders, and create a buffer with Western Europe - and given population and hydrocarbon based economy, it’s now or never…
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by cascom 5y ago
I wish I could recall the reference (as the below is not my original thinking), but I’ve Heard something along the following postulated: 1. Russia has a deep seated psychological worry about invasion from the west across the open plains of
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by cascom 5y ago
You don’t need to be an owner management in welding (though that is definitely the better path), but you have to be great welder and you have to be willing to work long and hard (most people I know wouldn’t make it through a shift working o
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by cascom 5y ago
I’m of the opinion most startups are best served by either their local bank or credit union (where they can go talk to someone - but usually have antiquated tech ) or just the basic business checking from a large money center bank (BofA, C
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by cascom 5y ago
Think it’s 75x not 7.5x
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by cascom 5y ago
This takes place daily in any ER on a low intensity basis (broken arm can wait for the heart attack), but hospitals specifically consider the 100 people dying 20 beds situations when they train for mass casualty events (with specific doctor
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by cascom 5y ago
I was under the impression that this was already a solved question in the medical community (essentially boiled down to: who will benefit the most from treatment) Or are you talking about other considerations like vaxxed/in-vaxxed?
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by cascom 5y ago
I don’t have the numbers at my fingertips but I believe it’s institutional money (pensions, endowments, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, etc) that are the real drive asset prices, not the marginal high net worth buyer
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by cascom 5y ago
Fair point, but Procreation + divorce / kids in multiple marriages will typically exponentially whittle it down (not crazy to think that a trust could go from 3 to 40+ beneficiaries over 60 years) + trust fees / poor management
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by cascom 5y ago
Not sure how we are defining wealth here, but for 99% of Americans this is a non-issue given the estate tax exemption of $12m/individual $24m/couples. Perpetual trusts are a boon to the super rich, but doesn’t change the math for
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by cascom 5y ago
Not sure how we are defining wealth here, but for 99% of Americans this is a non-issue given the estate tax exemption of $12m/individual $24m/couples. Perpetual trusts are a boon to the super rich, but doesn’t change the math for
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by cascom 5y ago
It’s the company and supervisor’s job to manage the success of that team, if someone leaving with standard notice of 2-3 weeks creates such a problem, that’s on management. a good supervisor should be proactively ensuring that key individua
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by cascom 5y ago
few disjointed thoughts: 1) ditch the friends that aren't self aware ("I made a $1m on my house in one year") but not the ones that want to spend time with you and are just talking about their life 2) its relative, all relati
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by cascom 5y ago
I've seen this myself as well and really can echo that it's all relative...funnily enough i think a lot of the OPs friends probably talk about material things because they're in just as much of a "keeping up with the jon
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by cascom 5y ago
not to mention that I know people with way more money that me that if asked, would you want to trade places with them its an easy "no-way"
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by cascom 5y ago
is self moving a good indicator? wouldn't it only represent a limited segment of the market?
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by cascom 5y ago
What’s so stupid is this isn’t the problem - the amount of fuel oil heated buildings in Manhattan is astonishing
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by cascom 5y ago
But some advertiser can’t put you in prison
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by cascom 5y ago
First of all, the reason people view the government using the data as different is that the government has coercive powers (and a monopoly on Violence) that other actors don’t. Secondly, the government making use of an unethical or nefariou
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by cascom 5y ago
Fun with statistics…my gut tells me that if we looked at all fatalities on road miles driven basis, I’m not sure these statistics would look so impressive how much of that number is due to people wearing seatbelts, airbags/safer cars?
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by cascom 5y ago
my two cents - bookkeeping (the act of doing all the transactions that result in financial statements) is quite boring, but at the end of the day the purpose of accounting is to provide information around the financial condition and results
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by cascom 5y ago
haha, few things from my experience: 1)its terrifying how many people in c-suite roles (including purported CFOs and CEOs), and commercial/sales/product development roles don't actually understand accounting and finance basic
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by cascom 5y ago
Isn’t this just a question of ease of substitution? If it’s a trivial to substitute hang yourself from x vs y or substitute Hanging for handful of pills - is the marginal benefit really there? I suspect not, but I do think from an administr
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by cascom 5y ago
But it’s only one or two steps removed = Israeli company, acting with the approval and protection of the Israeli state, enabled and facilitated spying on the US by a third party.
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by cascom 5y ago
Seems like there is a difference between passive spying (say monitoring radio transmissions from international waters or taking pictures from space) vs active spying (conducting intelligence operations on foreign soil or hacking a network)
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by cascom 5y ago
Define large risk.
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by cascom 5y ago
This looks like it’s in reference to some credit card? Why would a credit card offer comprehensive cyber insurance? Side note: I have a homeowners insurance policy through Chubb that actually has very comprehensive cyber coverage.
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by cascom 5y ago
A couple of thoughts: 1) I think that the redistributionist view of taxation is still quite controversial (at least in the US) 2) I think redistribution via taxation is exceedingly unpopular if you are paying for it (I.e. people are all for
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The Billionaire Tax: The Worst Tax Idea Ever?(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
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