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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> What would that gain you? Wouldnt the same capital holders pool their wealth into a newly minted corporation to continue exploiting the resources they have accrued? And the small-timers, with their meagre holdings and pension funds wo
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Interesting (and probably appropriate) that the market is pricing I'd be cautious in considering the valuation at last funding round to be "the market".
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> To say heroin and alcohol/tobacco are equivalent would be stupid. It doesn't sound like you have any experience with drugs or medicine outside of what you learned in D.A.R.E.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> If these people are going to brigade every post about this topic with the same hollow rhetoric I think the " these people " rhetoric you use is worse. The same people who would be enraged at the usage of the term if it was i
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> There is no policy proposal that could even theoretically offset the damage he is doing. Among those he has actually proposed, I'm having trouble of finding a single issue that could reasonably be considered "not evil"
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> You select the disaster first and then offer your housing, which means the hosts are informed about their potential guests. Yes, you do. What is AirBnB's role besides providing the platform?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Airbnb should run a promotion for free nights at hosts who live within a mile of a Trump property. How much longer do you think AirBnB's regulation flouting would last if they went to war with the President?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Makes me wonder what a "hacker" portfolio might look like Lots of concentration and no voting rights.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Thus he was thrown under the bus to deflect attention Why is it so hard to imagine someone doing this without direct order? Why do we assume the "executive" is evil, but the lowly worker is "good"?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> yet the executives from many of those banks that caused the crisis left with multi-million dollar bonuses and zero jail time. Can you point to the actual crimes or specific cases? Because, fortunately, we don't throw people in j
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I personally found this comment to be interesting and relevant. You find off-topic strawman arguments constructed against "people like the author" interesting and relevant?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I suggest not waste your time on it. I don't understand this. Why not? You recommend a documentary with opposing views instead; should we only read and watch things that we agree with? > Whoever lives in a cosmopolitan city k
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> It just happens that most women are not that physically attractive This is a pretty bold assertion. On what do you base it? Seems to me that the average woman is average looking.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> but the different genders operate differently I agree. Add to that list different cultures, societies, levels of wealth, occupations, upbringing, personality quirks, fetishes, randomness ... The expectation of finding someone who &q
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Bingo. So many macroeconomic prognostications in this thread, none of which will be correct. The fact that "smart hedge fund" guys are making stupid bets on a market crash is hilarious. Put money in diverse holdings and let it c
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> All in all, I'd like to hear what others think I think that "command and control" and "free market" economies are the extremes of the spectrum, neither optimal, with lots of room in between. Trump has talked a
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I wish that we could just drop the Dow entirely and focus on the more modern indices like the S&P. I don't get it. Is someone forcing "us" to use the DOW in some manner? It is what it is, use the information how y
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Thanks for letting me know you have cool firearms, ammunition, and god knows what else. I'm pretty sure many of those card carrying NRA members would love for you to show up on their doorstep to take possession of their firearm
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> society can make a comeback from pretty much any conceivable catastrophy I agree. Where disaster preparation matters is in that period between "catastrophe" and "recovery". How long before things are normal again
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> A company that doesn't hire MBAs is one I want to work for. Can you point to all the successful companies that make a conscious effort to not hire MBAs? Tough slog. Maybe these companies know something you don't? But any c
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Right. That and the birth certificate thing wasn't a "lie", it was ignorant, dog whistle politicking. Telling people you are going to strengthen whistle blowing laws to empower workers, then prosecuting a record number of pe
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
So it's more acceptable for politicians to admit to their lies at a later date, that to stick to them? Hmm...
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
It's completely intentional, and very effective. Mix big lies and small lies with truths and half truths. Lie about friends and enemies, and that's what the media will focus on. So much misinformation that nobody knows was what is
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
A new trend ? You think Trump is inventing Whitehouse lies, right before our eyes? Politicians have a looooong history of lying, big lies that get peole killed ("Iraq WMDs are a slam dunk!") . Where have you been?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Startups are "cool", not "nerdy".
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
It depends on whether "nerd" is defined by personality or hobbies. If it's the latter, you're right, but so are they. If it's the former, what are the new nerds doing?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> LOLOLOL yah, trust me that Fluor, Parsons, Jacobs and all the other oil and gas engineering firms would love this and have been trying to build or integrate things like this for a long time. This is the same site that, for the most pa
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
I'll take the "Over". This site is now writing "articles" about every Musk tweet?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> your skills of inference and general personal skills to glean into what sort of answer the particular interview is looking for at the time. Interviews beget interview skills. How does this translate into job performance?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> If you have a demanding job and are raising kids, your rare, few hours off are very precious Then you'll pay slightly more for your vehicle. Just like you'll pay more for a shorter commute or nicer school. No big deal. Life

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