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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Your question doesn't really make sense. What business isn't driven by the goal of making money ultimately?
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
The Bending Spoons business model is right out of the private equity playbook. Buy a business with good revenue, cut cost to turn this into a consistent revenue stream, generate annual returns. This is not like making a small 20 person self
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Urban areas conserve far more resources than suburban or rural per person. They also use less land per person, allowing more land to be used for natural processes and agriculture. Imagine if all 30 million people in Shanghai moved to the su
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Then they are misusing the 22% argument. The 22% to win argument, is a specific arrangement of votes that is an argument against the electoral college. In that if someone were to merely win a the electoral college with 51% of the votes in e
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
If 3 people vote and 1 million are eligible but dont vote. Then 2 people vote for A and 1 person votes for B. A wins with 66% of the vote not .000000001% of the vote. Effectively those million people surender their votes to the other 3, or
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Who cares what the non voters say. They didnt vote! They voted for “whatever happens is fine by me”. Trump received over 50% of the vote.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Everything involves performing and actually proving what you know. If this is such an issue, then its something you need to fix. I have never actually met anyone who has this “perfomance anxiety” where they are so brilliant but do poorly on
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
22% is unlikely. The electoral college, the senate, the house, the state legiatures for constitutional ammendments. These are multiple layers that are meant to act as a check against a popular mob in a heat of passion.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Maybe those people just wont get as good of grades, and that's acceptable. It is strange that the educational system determined it wasn't acceptable. If I go to a university and try to walk onto the NCAA Division 1 Basketball team
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I had some take home exams in Physics that you could use internet, books, anything except other people (but that was honor code based). Those were some of the hardest exams I ever took in my life. Pages and pages of mathematical derivations
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I do not use the app or scan and go. But I have a walmart account, and if I use my credit card at walmart all of those purchases show up on my online account. My email is of course intimately tied to my credit card (I am not in payments, so
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
The US constitution is working great. Democracy isn't necessarily good. If we had a national vote where 51% of the people voted to kill 49% of the people, that would be bad . More democratic institutions also have a tendency to favo
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
The app is more hostile, I agree. Its a bad idea, and a good way to get beaten up.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
> I'm loving the fact that battery technology will eventually eliminate weed wackers. I've moved to all electric lawn equipment. Snow blower, lawn mower, weed wacker, leaf blower. They all work great, are quieter, and I don&#x2
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I have seen fights break out in the subway over people being loud. People playing loud music in public often seem to be the types to be looking for trouble, they want someone to tell them to turn it down, so they can say no and escalate. In
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I do know quite a few people with expensive trucks who insist they "Need one" that I rarely see doing work with them.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I wish I could buy a cheap ford ranger from 1990 just to have for home improvement things. Go pick up furniture, sacks of dirt, lumber. These massive trucks are just so expensive and gigantic.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Building Codes and Zoning are orthogonal concepts. Japan has more lax zoning than the US at large more more stringent building codes.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Lack of engagement in local elections and politics is a major issue in the United States, there is a huge amount of low level corruption like this because its really easy to game things when 20 people vote.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Actually yes, that is by design. There is a reason the US had property ownership as a requirement to vote in the constitution. Whether removing that requirement was correct or not is up for debate. But there is a distinction in a democrac
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
So in my city there used to be some clubs, like the Ukrainian Lounge, the Polish Club, etc. which was a club where people paid dues and the only real requirement was to be part polish, ukrainian etc. It was basically just a bar to hang out
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I knew cul de sac was french for bag end, or end of sack or whatever the translation was. One time reading lord of the rings after learning Tolkien explicitly avoided french loan words, I realized Bilbo living at Bag End is kind of a joke.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
As far as 2 goes: As far as churches go. The type of church matters a lot. If you go to a Universalist Unitarian, or progressive Lutheran Church, yeah itll probably be 80+. Evangelical/Baptist, Latter Day Saints, Orthodox, Catholic (mo
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
You just have to become the most friendly ultimate host in the world. Start up random conversations with those people at the grocery store or on the street and invite them to your bbq you are having this weekend. But ultimately, if a man is
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I live in a suburban neighborhood with a couple bag ends, our neighborhood is pretty social. couple of neighborhood bbqs a year, kids all playing together every day, dinners, etc. It is quiet and not a lot of traffic with long term resident
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I guess we need to delete the internet and tv from existence. I think that the more people getting out and putting effort in the better, it helps create a knock on effect.
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I think that there are a lot of people that are kind of waiting for other people to pitch something to do. Maybe you want to call them type A and B, leader and follower, I think of it as the Host and Attendees. The more of the Hosts the mor
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
People need to purposefully and intentionally do things. Sitting home on an app, watching TV is easy. There is no fear or rejection, there is no work to get out of the house, there is no risk. But there is also no reward. My thoughts on thi
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
So the goal post moved from ICE or Federal agents being stationed at polling stations to any individual at all?
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Bet. Lets see if we can get this up on polymarket, bet on it.

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