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by danhak 5y ago
The government does not have a shoe mandate. As far as I know, individual businesses are free to have whatever policies they wish regarding shoes.
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by danhak 5y ago
I understand, but consider how different your situation might be if those corrections had occurred at the end of your career rather than the beginning.
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by danhak 5y ago
> With a disciplined approach to investing, I think that it's very much possible to reach financial independence with a typical tech salary in the US Bear in mind that you have been the beneficiary of an exceptional bull market
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by danhak 5y ago
Yeah, the current fee ($695) is a bit eye popping. But I am actually using every penny of the airline, Uber and Equinox credits ($200 + $200 + $300) so it’s effectively free for me and all the extra benefits like lounge access are icing on
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by danhak 5y ago
My life changed so much for the better once I got lounge access. Unlimited free food and beverages (restaurant quality at The Centurion), free WiFi to do some work, and a clean relaxing space to decompress a bit or even shower before a flig
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by danhak 5y ago
It just stopped being fun. It went from being a mostly euphoric, relaxing and sensory-enhancing experience in my teens and early 20’s to one mainly characterized by anxiety and paranoia.
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by danhak 5y ago
> but the CPI covers both owners equivalent rent (if you owned your house) and rent (if you rent)? The hypothesis is that folks have dropped out of the rental market as well (e.g. rents have hit a threshold that's caused people to l
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by danhak 5y ago
Perhaps cost per square foot hasn't changed much. But that's irrelevant if there's no more entry-level inventory left for folks who are just starting out.
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by danhak 5y ago
> I posit the "housing" part of the CSI is almost completely inelastic and only reflects what people pay in rent/mortgage, not the cost of entry. This is a really interesting point. A longstanding criticism of the reporte
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by danhak 5y ago
> 1. It was definitely zoonotic, and suggestions otherwise are racist conspiracy theories. How is the zoonotic hypothesis (“virus originated in Chinese wet market” / “due to Chinese dietary practices”) any less racist?
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by danhak 5y ago
Seconded, this is one of the loveliest parts of the country if you can tolerate the winter. Twin Cities and Madison are both incredibly pleasant, livable with lots to offer and surrounded by some beautiful forests and nature. Madison is a
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by danhak 5y ago
It's not just shipping -- I am moving into a new apartment and every single furniture company is backed up like crazy. My sofa isn't expected until December! People are definitely on the move. That, plus supply chain issues and
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by danhak 5y ago
> we have a deflationary currency we trade for goods and services. Such a vanishingly small percentage of cryptocurrency activity is actually used for trade (as opposed to speculation) that it is a novelty and newsworthy when it actually
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by danhak 5y ago
I remember growing up in the 90's and happily learning in school and on TV that it was my civic duty to recycle. One of the biggest catastrophes of environmental policy was to shift the burden of plastic waste away from corporations an
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by danhak 5y ago
There was a massive spike downward literally the minute Musk sent the tweet. When the price is stable for hours then collapses after an event, you can pretty safely infer the correlation.
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by danhak 5y ago
Could you please expand on how keeping interest rates artificially depressed, causing the prices of homes to skyrocket, advances the goal of preventing homelessness?
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by danhak 5y ago
Do you believe taking a psychotropic drug for the very first time before a big pitch--before having any sense of what a proper dose might be--is on the the reasonable side of the spectrum between "risky" and "reckless"?
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by danhak 5y ago
There are many, many successful bootstrapped software businesses out there. It's not as though founders in this industry don't already have a choice about whether or not to seek outside investment, and to consider all the relevan
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by danhak 5y ago
But this notion is incompatible with capitalism itself. The idea of capitalism is that capital accumulates in the hands of those who figure out how best to deploy and protect it. Investors, not Zhu, are the ones with the track record and e
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by danhak 5y ago
Very curious about what the breakdown of that 20% is by manufacturer. A friend of mine traded his i3 for a Model Y and said the experience has been like night and day. Access to Supercharger network is a game charger. No other fast charg
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by danhak 5y ago
Why are processed foods automatically bad so long as the macronutrient / sodium profile is otherwise in line?
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by danhak 5y ago
There's debate about whether Apple's technologies are truly novel, that doesn't mean they aren't a good business.
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by danhak 5y ago
It seems like the discourse has shifted to describe even legitimate businesses that are overvalued in the opinion of an author as "pump and dump" or "ponzi scheme"
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by danhak 5y ago
They’re not really “giving up” anything if they attract a business that otherwise wouldn’t be there at all. It’s still a net gain to have a major employer in your locale, along with all the other economic benefits and tax revenue that entai
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by danhak 5y ago
*immiseration of those who don't hold assets Which is precisely what's been happening. Just take a walk around any major urban center in the U.S. There is misery in the streets. The opioid crisis is another manifestation of the
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by danhak 6y ago
This organization wants to crowdfund the purchase of Facebook at current market value by soliciting donations via PayPal? Are they aware that there is already a mechanism in place to buy companies called the stock market? Hypothetically the
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by danhak 6y ago
This is the third rail of Covid discussions. But you are correct. The area under the curve was exactly the same in all the "flatten the curve" vs zero mitigation models. The rationale behind flattening the curve was never to de
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by danhak 6y ago
I’m not suggesting that this fear is part of conscious reasoning.
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by danhak 6y ago
We came of age in an era when HIV / AIDS was finally acknowledged and taken seriously by society, and recognized as something that could affect anybody. I think the attention placed on STDs during our Sex Ed classes may have something
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by danhak 6y ago
This article seems to me an extremely negative spin on a business relationship that appears to have progressed in a very standard way: - Palantir's U.K. head of sales meets with NHS Chief in 2019 over dinner. Apparently there were som

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