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by conjecTech 13y ago
Running an airline is an enormously fixed cost business. At 75% occupancy, you are barely covering the costs of renting airplanes and terminals, paying personnel, etc. Once you are clearing enough to pay all of that, your marginal profit ma
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I think enjoying something you spend 40 hours or more a week on is probably a good ideal to have, and that is what being passionate about what you choose to do ensures.
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Then how have we been able to get by without this for the vast majority of human history? How has America been able to create and sustain the world's largest and most vibrant economy without such policies?
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>If you think it's worth it to pay these fees, then so be it, but no need to use fallacious arguments to veil their impact. You've yet to really address any of my original statements. I never claimed that paying someone a percentage of
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Who exactly is paying for this? I honestly don't see how something like this is economically viable or desirable.
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Yes, we would all be richer if everything was free, financial services included. If Vanguard can provide cheaper options, so be it, but in that case, they shouldn't need fallacious claims feeding on the public's current hatred of the finan
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This is fundamentally wrong. The statement assumes the whole of the management fees is being reinvested at 7%, when in reality it is being used by those who have jobs in the financial sector to pay their bills. That is quite literally like
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>When you try to invent your own environment to live in, there's a good chance you won't be well adapted to that environment. I guess this statement would necessarily include wearing clothes, living in houses, using glasses, taking anti
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Honest question: How well do good academic scores in high school correlate with success in non-scientific majors? I go to a top-tier engineering university, and I know of multiple individuals who had perfect SAT scores and GPAs in high scho
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by conjecTech 13y ago
Say I sell you a house and allow you to finance it with a mortgage denominated in Bitcoins. The house would normally sell for $250,000, so as of yesterday, I would have accepted 1,000 bitcoins for it. Let's then say that over the course of
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Long overdue. I've done some research on trying to short Bitcoins and could not come up with anything better than a naked short position or something with tremendous counterparty risk. I'm more interested in Bitcoins as a legitimate means o
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by conjecTech 14y ago
It's interesting that the number 4 seems to keep coming up in the topic of work personalities. The head of innovation over at Wells Fargo, who happens to be the father of a good friend of mine, actually wrote a book on the topic and came to
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by conjecTech 14y ago
Did you honestly just compare a shooting spree to a job in the financial industry? I am honestly astonished statements like this get absolutely no rebuttal. Please, enumerate for me the individuals who you believe are guilty and the crimes
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Every generation claims this, yet life continues to become cheaper and more comfortable. Where is the economic evidence for what you are talking about?
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Here's an idea: How about not arguing about whether or not age or sex or anything like that matters? The product is what it is and age does't change that. However, knowing the age of the person is invaluable to telling them how they can imp
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You don't get a person to act a certain way over any appreciable amount of time by demanding they should. They have to understand and appreciate the reasoning.
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I found it frightening that you would approach such a topic as property from a historical perspective rather than a philosophical one. Simply because something has been the case throughout most of history doesn't mean it should be.
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I've actually envied people with cochlear implants for having this ability. The idea of being able to turn on and off senses at will is kind of an amazing thought. I personally have a hypersensitive sense of touch, and it is an almost const