dreamdu5t

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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
Using company funds to hedge against personal risk is shady and selfish, even if it might technically be legal. It’s as close to embezzlement as you can get. I can’t imagine explaining to investors why I needed to loan myself company funds
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
“In 2012, Google also lent Mr. Rubin $14 million to buy a beach estate in Japan. “ Sounds like the culture of embezzlement everyone knows corporate executive management is.
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
Its not a business decision, it’s simply the culture of executive management. It’s because they can.
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
TLDR Not so simple. First, purchasing power is not considered. If wages are stagnant, but most consumer goods have gotten cheaper, then the bottom 50% with stagnant wages is capturing productivity gains. Second, there’s no account for econo
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
None of the $100B companies started with the goal of being $100B companies...
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
Let's see, Republicans are for denying healthcare to people who can't afford it (a free market). Democrats are for ensuring access to healthcare for everyone, including those who can't afford it (using taxes, so everyone who
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
No. Politicians favoring policies that deliberately exclude the poor have failed us for 30 years. We have never been able to make extensive progress on healthcare because voters elect politicians that fight against government health insuran
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
Yeah, good points. I've never worked with a company that even had a promotion system... :)
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
There's a fourth explanation: Engineers don't get paid more for producing features faster (or on time), they just get more work. A smart/rational engineer eventually realizes they don't get rewarded for finishing tasks q
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by dreamdu5t 8y ago
Why did you raise money? How will you make money? Is there a similar service that’s not involved with VC?
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Dopamine is not uniquely associated with social media. Furthermore, dopamine isn’t addictive and “In studies with rats, where dopamine was suppressed, rats showed “normal hedonic reaction patterns,” and still showed normal pleasure response
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
People should be treated equally because it’s the compassionate and the right thing to do. I assume you want to be treated equally as well? Regarding the problems you attribute to people simply moving to the area you live in, those problems
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Regardless of the solutions chosen to make cities a better place, closed borders and immigration quotas are descrimination. People should be treated equally.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
The US enacted descriminatory and racist immigration policies which they still have now.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Closed immigration policies and immigration quotas are descrimination - plain and simple. They’re a violation of human rights and treating people equally - whether in China or the USA.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
The problem isn’t migration it’s clearly the conditions and wages they’re to allowed work for, as you admit. Free movement of human beings should be a human right. Restricting immigration is nothing more than descrimination. In China or the
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Many of the pesticides may be destroyed during combustion. Similarly with stomach acids. But in both cases of ingestion some pesticides can enter the blood stream. They also don’t have to enter the bloodstream to be harmful.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
So pesticides are allowed on food consumed by kids with no label or warning, and no testing required yet they’re not allowed on a product meant to be incinerated and inhaled and used as a recreational drug by adults? Okaaaaayyyy....
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
So why not just hold dollars?
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
“If there are no consequences, then the world is seriously broken.“ The world is broken when people make 100’s of millions of dollars and spend it on villas, expensive art, dining, etc while others work their asses off just to scrape by on
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Why pegged to the dollar? Seems like a fatal flaw.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
What’s the point of having passwords at all? If there’s a password reset mechanism they provide no additional security. Just send a one time login token to the email. Having a password just increases the odds of a hack by the user accidenta
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Fund managers are just scammers - plain and simple. He loses his clients money, he makes money. He earns his clients money, he makes more money. Either way he wins. It’s all sales and bullshit. Source: worked at a hedge fund
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
More stupid? Alcohol kills 16,000 people in car crashes alone. 88,000 alcohol related deaths a year making it the third most popular cause of preventable death. Then there’s it’s relationship with sexual assault and date rape as well.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Best thing I did for my sleep and my life was quit drinking alcohol and caffeine. I feel like I sleep twice as good and feel twice as better throughout the day. No exaggeration. But the social pressure to use these drugs is intense, as most
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
I recommend reading “Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond“ It covers MKUltra’s LSD experiments.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Maybe in China Sam had less opportunity talking with people outside his bubble. If the purpose of the visit was to meet and see entrepreneurs then of course he’ll not run into people opposing these ideas. Especially when he doesn’t speak th
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
No college should not be a time for dumb mistakes. That should be earlier. 20 year olds should be treated like adults not children. College should not be a place to party, recklessly use drugs, recklessly have sex and sexually assault women
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Mine: Digital democracy.
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by dreamdu5t 9y ago
Bitcoin is what’s wrong with our society: An obsession with money over health, community, housing, food, etc. Bitcoin epitomizes our embrace of the new capitalist dystopia.

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