chowchowchow

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by chowchowchow 3y ago
What…? You brought it up. And you brought it up further in this comment. It’s your baggage pal.
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by chowchowchow 3y ago
Wow dude. Way to bring that way out of left field into a discussion about vaccines. Preoccupied much?
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Another point is it’s facile to try to make arguments based on semantics. “Their name has public in it” is not a serious rebuttal to “It’s not government media.”
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Someone better tell Public Storage about this!
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Yup. Small time crimes aren’t as important to law or tax enforcement as big time ones are. At least that’s the idea I guess.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I’d know for sure that higher income people by nature of their higher income are capable of committing larger tax fraud. Is it unfair that police patrol for speeders on the highway more than on bike paths?
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
The better analogy is should police pull over someone going 120mph or going 80mph if they have to choose. Clear answer IMO. Similarly should the government prioritize more serious offenses over lesser? It's a bigger crime to evade $1,0
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Had they been marking their holdings regularly they would have sold their depreciated holdings sooner when losses were smaller, instead of waiting until they had to to cover withdrawals. Deposit interest is not fixed so that wouldn’t make t
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Not necessarily, since the gap in finances accumulated over time. They would have had to acknowledge asset price drops on their balance sheet much sooner. Basically they were allowed to build up a bigger integration risk with their accounti
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I think that’s right. If the RSUs had a 7 year window and they are expiring this year it means they started granting them in 2016.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
RSUs do expire if they do not have the qualifying events to convert to shares in time, with a window similar to option expiry. It sounds like Stripe is going to declare a qualifying event which will convert outstanding RSUs into shares whic
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I'd say the real moral issue would be if anyone makes life or death decisions based on what the chat bot says. It's definitely not ready for that, as we've covered in this discussion.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Framing it as “stop an atrocity by uttering a racial slur” is totally imbalanced though. This undercover agent would’ve had to say a thousand racial slurs in lower leverage situations to even get the point of stopping a terrorist attack by
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I mean, if you are undercover in a white supremacist gang but you refuse to say racist things your days as an undercover agent are probably pretty limited. I also think this isn't even like an unrealistic hypothetical, as there's
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Alright bud. I see the self righteous ego defense. Good luck to ya.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
You refuse to outline what you mean by due process, and only point to the constitution. Just name a standard, man. "Any concept of due process" is meaningless if the only reference you're able to produce is the constitution.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
So it is a gap in your argument as stated then. Like, you need to do some work to explain why principles which are important in extreme circumstances, dealing with the use of force by and punishment power of the government, apply in less ex
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Your argument demonstrates absolutely no awareness of context and how a principle can be more important, or one might even say urgent to the point of needing to be spelled out in the constitution, in some contexts than others.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
Due process is a valuable principle yes -- but it is a gap in your argument to say that since the constitution specifies citizens' rights to it under the most exigent circumstance, namely, when facing criminal penalty by the government
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
what does the 3rd amendment have to do with anything if we're just agreeing it's bad for private companies to do it? Like, the 3rd amendment specifically exists to specify it's _also_ "bad" (and illegal) for the gov
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
You have no interest it seems in considering it, but your analogy is flawed. The only institution which _could_ conceivably quarter its soldiers in your house under the law is the US government, as it would be illegal for McDonalds to send
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I just don't get it. To me "ideological capture" would imply no alternative in the market, basically there is an inefficiency which is explained and maintained by ideology. And yet, this entire anecdote about the Hallmark cha
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I guess I figured there was some import to the idea of ideological capture. If by that you mean leaders can set direction of their company, some can disagree and leave and found a competitor, and the winner can prevail in the market, then,
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I don't even understand, if the guy was able to leave and create a new channel to serve this audience how is that an example of what you call ideological capture. An important part of business is targeting your offering to the intended
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
This isn't a refutation. If the markets for christian stuff and <everything else> are sufficiently disjoint then it can and probably is perfectly rational to choose the bigger <everything else> pie rather than trying to com
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
I think raising money does imply dilution. How can the company raise money from employee share sales?
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
You are correct. Grandpappy’s portfolio would have lots of defunct businesses and no Apple, Google, or Microsoft, to name a few.
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
If there are going to be media/influencers pushing tips to achieve a FIRE lifestyle, I can’t imagine what I’d prefer they encourage besides low cost broad market index funds. Don’t really see the problem there: investing like that real
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
This is a very tabula rasa approach to personal responsibility. He was compelled by enforcement of a prior binding agreement that he entered into freely. More than freely. That he proposed and originated!
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by chowchowchow 4y ago
And? Neither of those quotes mentions metaverse spending.

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