financypants

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   by financypants 3y ago

   This is kind of a silly question. In essence you're asking why people do things that other people find stupid (I agree it's pretty bad to see that).
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   by financypants 3y ago

   I want to recommend two books on this subject, of contrasting if not tangential subject matter. “Debt: the first 5000 years” by David Graeber and “This time is different” by Reinhart and Rogoff. They differ drastically in perspective, but b
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   by financypants 3y ago

   Reminiscent of gyms that say they won’t raise the monthly rate but charge a “rate guarantee fee” every 6 months equal to a few months rate.
4. 64.▲
   by financypants 3y ago

   Perhaps. I have no idea and am not purporting to know.
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   by financypants 3y ago

   This person is not saying success -> more success. I think they’re just pointing out that Altman is smart and is surrounded by smart people and a company that understands the demand because they make up the majority of the demand (and th
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   by financypants 3y ago

   We don’t care what is fine by you
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   by financypants 3y ago

   Yeah, the brightness needs to be regulated. We’re all going to go night blind at this rate.
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   by financypants 3y ago

   I buy all my books paperback, even if I listen to them on audible, for posterity’s sake.
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   by financypants 3y ago

   This is such a silly issue on a governmental level. Shouldn't the parents, who spend more time around their children than the Florida House of Representatives does, worry about and monitor their own children?
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Is this landlord savior complex common? I’ve never come across it. It’s a silly perspective even at face value.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    I’m not really addressing greedy corporation shitbags. I’m talking about the relationship between rates and prices. If you need someone to vent to about shitbag greedy corporations, go elsewhere. (I’m not disagreeing that corps are shitty g
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    by financypants 3y ago

    I am personally very curious to know when interest rates are not perfectly offset by increased purchase price. I believe this is a popular belief that is wrong. That can’t possibly be the case, not even in the majority of mkts.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Good point. The used market would likely be much more active and valuable.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    I guess they’re not doing a great job then? Because of the auto-filing/IRS-backed filing system being developed?
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Problem is sometimes you can get by with an off-off-brand product (it’s hit and miss). Many folks don’t buy the “spend more and you will get something MUCH better that will last you for years!” sales pitch. Also a lot of people wouldn’t be
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    by financypants 3y ago

    When would candidates compete to work for less? I haven’t seen that demonstrated anywhere. I have seen firms compete on pay.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Speaking of illegal fireworks… this hilarious thing happens in Hawaii on 4th July/NYE type holidays where people shoot off fireworks nonstop, cops driving around doing nothing, even though fireworks are illegal everywhere in the state!
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    by financypants 3y ago

    The dogs argument is the weakest argument.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Yeah I think high retention is pretty nuanced. I anecdotally know/worked with many blue collar workers who continue to complain about their jobs, have opportunities to swap, and don’t take them.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Yeah, “growing”, but they’re kind of filtering by growth because they looked at top 100 by market cap
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    by financypants 3y ago

    So is YouTube storing somewhere in the realm of 50-100EB somewhere? How many data centers is that?
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Unfortunately if you have VCs on your capitalization table you can pretty much never issue dividends as a private company
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Thanks for this. I’ve been thinking about “lightspeed leapfrog” for many years but never searched it up!
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    by financypants 3y ago

    I wonder if this same law applies to distance satellites like Voyager get away from earth. Like we sent out voyager 46 years ago, but in 100 years, we will send out another satellite that will very quickly catch up to Voyager and outpace it
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Can someone explain the consisten use of “Facebook are” instead of “Facebook is,” is this proper grammar?
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Wow, Utah has quite the history of bad air! First the downwinders (southern utah), then the chemical/biological weapons testing, and now the inversion (salt lake valley) and refineries existing around rapid housing development.
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    by financypants 3y ago

    I’m really interested in an implementation of this that adjusts for something like pitch. So it could tell when someone is mimicing a speaker, and could even grade them on how well they did. Or even a celebrity voice matcher that tells you
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    by financypants 3y ago

    What do you currently use? Just a text message group? Is it because signal is e2e encrypted?
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Why did you turn it down then regret that? I don’t hear that often, that’s why I’m curious
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    by financypants 3y ago

    Would you say the majority of people who claim to be contrarian aren’t actual contrarians, in your experience? I’m not sure you can infer this in general.