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by fosk 4y ago
When you have more than a billion dollar spent every year on homelessness, do they really want homelessness to end? Think about it. They call it “homeless industrial complex” for a reason.
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by fosk 4y ago
Contrarian signal, for the sake of having a conversation: - I think we will experience a massive deflationary bust. The inflation narrative is over, it’s all about a potential recession now. - By Summer 2023 we will experience YoY deflation
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by fosk 4y ago
Fun fact: Silvio Berlusconi, who has been the controversial prime minister for Italy many times, sort of revolutionized football in Europe in the 80s when he acquired AC Milan and started spending like no tomorrow in an unprecedented way fo
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by fosk 4y ago
Good riddance.
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by fosk 4y ago
You are right, most certainly not everything is corrupt and not everything in the “system” is wrong. And yet, OP’s point of view is a very common one among people. So why is that? I think dismissing this as “nihilism” it’s not a clever cont
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by fosk 4y ago
I find Prop 47 is insane, and I find lack of law enforcement insane, but to each its own.
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by fosk 4y ago
This is mostly a function of policies that explicitly allow and tolerate this sort of behavior as a sort of “pay back” and “release valve” for the poor, addicts or generally speaking under represented social classes. As the wage gap and opp
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by fosk 4y ago
And even there you can get access to options trading for quicker - and riskier - ways to make money using the traditional stock market. At least if you lose the money is not because somebody in the Bahamas decided it was time to retire earl
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Wood-Powered Turbojet(thedrive.com)
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by fosk 4y ago
> because they're going to do a mock-landing over the ocean before attempting a real landing, so even if it goes perfectly all those are going into the salt water) Are they going to pick them up or let them sink?
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by fosk 4y ago
That payments are increasing is not good, but the US owns its debt in dollars, which gives a lot of flexibility in the long term to do all sorts of shenanigans since the US controls the dollar supply.
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by fosk 4y ago
I used to be younger and I used to love being in the middle of the “local mess”. As I got older, I just need a relaxing place with a place that meets my expectations. I traveled across 40+ countries around the world and on every continent b
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by fosk 4y ago
Okay great, let’s build housing for addicts. What do you think happens next? We are talking about people that get kicked out of shelters because they are dangerous and can’t act coherently. Why is the solution everything else but the obviou
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by fosk 4y ago
Zynga did this a few years ago.
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by fosk 4y ago
> but the tenderloin wasn't some beautiful panacea 25 years ago either, nor the mission, nor the dog patch The dogpatch was a waste land 10 years ago, it got redeveloped thanks to new money and the new tenants that were willing to p
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by fosk 4y ago
I am frankly tired of hearing this non-sense. NYC is more expensive than SF and it is very much a vibrant place. For a decade SF complained about tech and actively drove companies away, because they wanted “their culture” back. Fine, then t
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by fosk 4y ago
It’s inevitable that the advance of technology will both improve the world and potentially be a vector of potential misuse. Ultimately, it has always been like that, since the dawn of civilization. The answer is not fighting technological a
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The Afghanistan war and the breakdown of the Soviet Union [pdf](faculty.washington.edu)
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by fosk 4y ago
You are also running with an assumption that whatever investment they may have used the same funds for, would have netted a gain (or a lower loss). The opportunity cost argument is only valid if in the alternative investment you actually en
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by fosk 4y ago
This is a great lie, since homelessness is - often and especially in San Francisco - not the result of lack of a home, rather the result of mental illness and drug addiction. This is also reinforced by the great amount of non-native homeles
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by fosk 4y ago
I wish they did a 15” air.
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by fosk 4y ago
Does anybody know if Russia produces any more chips in any meaningful capacity? Are there any Russian investments in this space?
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by fosk 4y ago
Humans used to exhaust their prey. Once the prey is exhausted - in the absence of better tools - pick a rock and hit the head of the animal until it dies. There are videos of animals (like deers) so exhausted they just sit there while a lio
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by fosk 4y ago
Ah, it seems like the crypto industry has borrowed the “too big to fail” book that also decentralized the losses to the taxpayer. Some things never change.
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by fosk 4y ago
Sports cars like Ferrari 488 don’t have one. You press a button to go in reverse, and use the F1 paddle shift behind the steering wheel to go in drive mode (one push of the up gear lever) or neutral (simultaneous push of both levers).
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by fosk 4y ago
Let me get this straight: the FDA is banning e-cigarettes but not actual cigarettes? What a bunch of clowns.
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by fosk 4y ago
Probably a country with cold weather (free air conditioning) and cheap access to natural oil and gas reserves.
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by fosk 4y ago
Buy a Ferrari if you want to race, buy a Lamborghini if you want to shop on Rodeo drive.
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by fosk 4y ago
There is value in a global blockchain with the level of participation of crypto. And sure there are scams, there are scams in the real economy too. Ponzi is not an acronym for “I don’t understand its value therefore it’s a Ponzi scheme”.
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by fosk 4y ago
But it did, Instagram Stories immensely limited Snapchat’s growth with now limited upside. Imagine the scale of IG stories today, without it all these people would have used Snapchat instead. Sometimes copying a feature doesn’t have to kill

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