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by david927 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. I was actually referencing a Tolstoy tract: http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/whatthenmustwedo.pdf
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by david927 6y ago
Beautifully said. What is to be done? (What then must we do?)
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by david927 6y ago
The Premier League needs to focus on match-fixing a lot more than illegal streaming.
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by david927 6y ago
I think it’s really inspiring but it will be hard to pull off. I think watermelon sized pods in a pneumatic tube system that can deliver to every apartment/house food and packages could be amazing. And if roads are underground, it coul
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No cars, no streets: Saudi Arabia's The Line(neom.com)
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by david927 6y ago
I think it's a bit like the coastline paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox Most maps fairly accurately measure the coastline of a place. Their granularity of topographical measurement is good
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by david927 6y ago
Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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by david927 6y ago
That's actually fascinating.
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by david927 6y ago
Those are the same thing
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by david927 6y ago
It’s really akin to doctors centuries ago who would bleed out patients. Their cure is worse than the disease.
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by david927 6y ago
Because it’s going to crush the markets and the institutions. If you watch the media, there’s a serious panic going on. There is a serious chance this will cause a sort of financial Armageddon.
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by david927 6y ago
I think the author needs to integrate into these arguments the Nixon Shock of 1971 and what’s happening with inflation in the US since 2008. There’s a reason the Dow just hit a record high and it’s not because the fundamentals of those firm
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by david927 6y ago
And it will go much, much higher. GME is a short squeeze of epic proportions. It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
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by david927 6y ago
I think social media has made us such narcissists that we demand the beauty as an ideal and eschew the vulnerability of sex.
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by david927 6y ago
> US Federal Reserve data ... around 13%. No, it's 37%. And they can't pay an unexpected expense of $400. They have no data on $1000. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2020-economic-we... You
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by david927 6y ago
It's not an advertisement and it's not about "savings account." It specifically uses wording to avoid that. CNN: Only 39% of Americans can afford a $1,000 emergency expense https://www.cnn.com/2021/
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by david927 6y ago
> If the interest rates start going up, the bubble is going to burst and a _lot_ of people are going to end up on the street Yeah, I hear you. That's the whole world, though. Here in the US, too, interest rates are prohibited f
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by david927 6y ago
> obviously false assertion Maybe you need to spend time outside of your gated community and get your data from multiple sources. The BLS numbers are not handed down from God and can be wrong. This survey below, for example, (which the
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by david927 6y ago
It's out of 82 here and it's nearly at the bottom of the industrialized nations. Also I said it's becoming a third world country.
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by david927 6y ago
I don't think "second world" is really used and saying "former soviet" nations means nothing. In the 30 years since that change, nations have developed so differently that it doesn't add much to group them toge
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by david927 6y ago
Sorry! No disrespect intended. They both just have a lower GDP and one might think that America with its higher stated GDP could do better. I apologize and have removed it.
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by david927 6y ago
It's a "gamma short" and it can happen.
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by david927 6y ago
Sure. I didn't mean that as in actually zero cases. I mean, go to Portland and then go to Oslo. Go to Philly and then go to Copenhagen. The difference is night-and-day.
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by david927 6y ago
You dislike the numbers so you literally make up numbers in response? It doesn't work that way. Calling it lies because European counties have a middle class is crazy. Having a middle-class is an incredibly important part of mobility
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by david927 6y ago
Almost at the bottom of the industrialized nations. Trying to spin it as a "near-win" is disingenuous. America is closer to Kazakhstan than it is to Germany or France.
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by david927 6y ago
America is 27th in the Global Social Mobility Index. The propaganda that you can "work hard and succeed" is no longer working, especially for the youngest generations. They're seeing that America is becoming a third-world na
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by david927 6y ago
How long before this could invalidate existing video legal evidence?
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by david927 6y ago
Thank you so much for doing this. It's really needed. I once had an HP Envy laptop which was so poorly made that I refuse to buy anything from HP again.
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by david927 6y ago
A deer jumping in front of your car and totaling it doesn't imply that the deer is keeping the car running. That said, I'm all for what's happening with $GME. They've been cheating the public for years and now the publi
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by david927 6y ago
Edit: "smoking" --> "on fire"

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