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by exelius 8y ago
I see the 7% return figure trotted out as average equity returns; but I think that number reflects a lot of “easy money” from the asymmetry of global industrialization in the post-WW2 era. Europe and America spent the 1920s through 1940s bu
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by exelius 8y ago
There are a number of factors that basically require a local monopoly for terrestrial telecom. This is a feature of the market — not anything the government has done. #1 is the universal coverage requirement — anyone receiving a local monop
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New York (Manhattan in particular) is unique among American urban areas in this way. A big part of the way American cities grow is the interplay between the quality of the various local school districts.
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I was thinking about this recently — the path to owning a small business in the 2020s goes through social media. Which means that the founder has to put an uncomfortable amount of their personal life on display in order to “sell” their bran
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by exelius 8y ago
I had a philosophy degree and taught myself to code as a teenager. I was able to secure a full time job with a highly respected software company upon graduation, and they didn’t give a fuck what degree I had as long as I had one and could c
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by exelius 8y ago
Discrimination is rarely about “one thing”. That’s why the concept of intersectional identity exists, and how the various components of who you are (age, race, gender, parental status, etc) get weaponized against you. The more marks against
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by exelius 8y ago
As the oil money has dried up (thanks to mismanagement, incompetence & corruption) they’ve replaced it with drug trafficking. Because again, you don’t need much other than a large group of men with guns to make a ton of money from drugs
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by exelius 8y ago
Quite a few on many different sides -- Venezuela is a de-facto narcostate at this point, and they're in deep with everyone from the Mexican cartels to Islamist terror groups in North Africa. The military is getting rich off drug money
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by exelius 8y ago
Yeah, I’ve seen restaurants serve water in cardboard boxes (think a bigger juice box). There are options, but yeah; we like to be able to see through our water.
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by exelius 8y ago
You know how there is already a divide between people who live in cities and people who live in rural areas? It’s about to get a whole lot worse.
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by exelius 8y ago
I've known a few CEOs of publicly traded companies, and they seem to have a "trap phone" with a rolodex of all the people they're not supposed to be talking to. Such as CEOs of direct competitors who they totally don&#
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by exelius 8y ago
Brawndo, the thirst mutilator. It’s got electrolytes!
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by exelius 8y ago
Citizens United was the nail in the coffin. What potency the state has left is now designed to funnel tax dollars into corporate interests at minimal expense. That precludes any public works projects that don’t directly benefit corporate in
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by exelius 8y ago
Yeah, it took me a long time to realize that my sweet spot is organizations between 100 and 1000 people. Any bigger than that and I don’t have the patience or attention to detail to deal with the bureaucracy / politics; any smaller and
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by exelius 8y ago
Prostitutes likely wouldn’t have access to the tools and care needed to make their voice sound good. But ultimately, most trans women are not prostitutes. I know a trans woman who is an executive at a major tech company and you would not ev
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by exelius 8y ago
You can train your voice to speak convincingly like a female. Transgender women do this all the time. The training does not take that long (a few months) and would be good for disguising your voice in a number of ways, so it wouldn’t surpri
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by exelius 8y ago
I remember last time I went to Bangkok, there was a condom themed restaurant that was pretty good. It was on the first floor of the ministry of health, which I thought was pretty interesting. Still a really weird concept for a restaurant th
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by exelius 8y ago
I personally have a “burner” phone I take when traveling internationally (usually an unlocked older iPhone). If it’s stolen / seized I don’t really care.
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by exelius 8y ago
This is Service Management 101 and why “free” services don’t exist offline. There is always a catch.
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by exelius 8y ago
Jack Ma summed it up pretty well — the US spent something close to $15 trillion fighting wars over the last century. China has been taking that money and investing it in building future economic advantage instead because it believes the war
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by exelius 8y ago
Another spin on this: I grew up in Texas. As we all know, Texans are really proud of Texas. Part of this is because the schools spend 3x as much time teaching “Texas history” as they do teaching US history or world history (lol). Almost a
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s more like HBO, but yes, I agree. In fact, Netflix has largely become HBO while HBO was becoming Netflix, so they’re largely the same at this point. VOD services are here to stay, and the catalog shifting will continue in order to maxim
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by exelius 8y ago
In Machiavellian power politics (which is how the Communist party operates), you want to keep all potential usurpers under your control. If any can escape, they will, and they will come after you. This is China reminding them that even thou
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by exelius 8y ago
> I would ask why a little boy identifies as gay in the first place, a bit young to be making such a big life decision. It’s not about the little boy who identifies as gay in the moment; it’s about the little boy who realizes he is gay l
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s more that you shouldn’t use that word in the first place — it doesn’t matter if your friends are gay or not; the fact it’s a hateful insult that tells gay men they are lesser is enough. Imagine the young little gay kid who hears “f\
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by exelius 8y ago
Management consultant here; this is literally what I do probably 50% of the time. Our buyer has a strategy they want to implement, so they hire us to help them sell it to their boss. Usually we improve them of course; but our buyers can gen
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by exelius 8y ago
Likewise — and people often miss this angle — Comcast is a bit of an upstart itself in comparison to the two major incumbents, AT&T and Verizon. The two basically hold a duopoly on nationwide last-mile access, and they are using all the
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by exelius 8y ago
But what you call “the left” is this disjointed set of — not even ideologies but desires . Guarantee that not everyone in BLM is an LGBTQ ally, for example. Nor is everyone who is upset about college tuition pro-choice politically. But Pet
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by exelius 8y ago
My biggest criticism of Peterson is how he attacks “the left”. “The left” is not one unified, cohesive group because it’s not centered on a single defining characteristic like white nationalism. “The left” includes everyone from teachers to
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by exelius 8y ago
Jordan Peterson is espousing the same tired homophobic, xenophobic arguments dressed up in modern clothes. He’s a hack who appeals to people because he tells them the things they’re already feeling without actually advancing the conversatio

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