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by fsckboy 4mo ago
you can buy S&P 500, and short the component companies you don't like, but caution, this will achieve the solvency you want, but you will likely remain irrational
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i hold the steering wheel with my knee all the time, and make reasonable corrections, curves on highways are pretty gentle. the key is to be disciplined about paying attention to the road ahead.
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
the pied-a-terre tax is simply and perfectly "taxation without representation" that is how it was designed, it only applies to people who are ineligible to vote in New York City, there is no way to push back. As such, it's re
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> LBOs but they aren't entirely devoid of value LBOs are encouraged by tax law. Stop it by stop making interest on debt tax deductible. Equity is an investment and represents ownership interest, and so does debt. From the company&#
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
I wish HN would split into two "subreddits", /r/HN and /r/AI > There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes, like cloud computing (runaway costs
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> You've probably heard someone say something to the effect of "renting is just throwing your money away". Don't believe it. It's a glib statement that simply isn't true. There are so many hidden costs to ho
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> Your traumata? That's a level of intrusiveness crossing into "rude" territory OP didn't say that, he said "hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges" and then characterized it (his opinion) &#x27
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> It would be redundant and awkward to literally say “… at work” at the end of every question. It’s totally 100% the intent of the interviewer. you are stating your opinion as fact, and I don't think there is a basis beyond your op
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it is not easy with a quick search to ascertain the subtleties of the CLOUD Act. the example case on wikipedia entails a US citizen storing data with Microsoft, a US company, data that Microsoft offshored from the US. So in that case, the U
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they've just spun off the first quantum computer pure-play, the highest of techs, the greenest of green-fields, and your observation is "IBM doesn't do this"
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> Andrew Gleeson designed Analog Mono, “fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.” There used to be this classic pixel font that you’d see everywhere in the 1990s on hi-fi equipment: VCRs, TVs, camcorders, etc. One of its challenges was a low b
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auri imbres
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economic efficiency does not refer to productive effiency, it refers to having prices that allow people to make optimal purchase decisions, and whether competition ensures prices will reflect costs. so, according to you, you are not arrogan
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
again, nothing that you are talking about has anything to do with the conversation I initiated. (IBM used to be a monopoly, now they're not. How much power did they do they use? we don't need economics, we just look at their power
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> That’s an overly simplified model. AI companies spending results in infrastructure beyond the company such as manufacturing capacity, power lines, software systems, and even individual expertise. in a competitive marketplace, economic
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
I know what i'm talking about, and you don't. That does not come from me being rich, it comes from me being raised as a far left-socialist, and being on the spectrum, and then studying economics and finance in graduate school and
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> The ubiquitousness of and here I was thinking ubiquity was ubiquitous for this concept > ubiquity of bash is among the few reasons... I guess I'm getting older than I thought, I feel uneasy pangs every time I use a bashism be
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it's mostly actors who traffic in tropes, and also actors who travel in troupes... coincidence? i think not
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> Let me guess: you’re doing relatively well for yourself? Let me guess, you sit down next to Kobe Bryant and start by saying you're going to tell him about winning basketball?
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> Treating the entire economy as a single company gives nonsensical results trust me bub, I've studied much more econ than you. If a competitive market sets the prices (check, that's what is happening), and you want to analyze
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
HN deletes certain words at the beginnings of submitted titles: could we add "It's time to talk about" and potentially also "my"?
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> infrastructure beyond the company consider all the companies in a market and those that feed that market to be one virtual mega company, add up all the valuations and revenue streams, costs, etc and aggregate all the investors into on
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
if these companies go bankrupt, they will have spent (not lost) all their money, the large amounts of money that they got from investors. That money generated profits for other companies they bought stuff from, and income for their employe
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> He takes decisions almost as random as a 20 side dice I'll bet he knows it's a "20 sided die" though, or is he that dumb?
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since any given day here there will be a majority unconcerned or actually defending code bloat, well now, this uniinteresting topic is just chickens-coming-home-to-roost. All the benefits of Moore's law are not gone, today's price
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
if it's a fallacy that if it’s OK (or at least negligible on a small scale), then it must be OK on a large scale , then the alternative "it's ok at a small scale but not at a large scale" starts to slide us down a slipp
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> He often needs to ask people to smell him during the day tell him to use Dry Idea antiperspirant (I'd say unscented), the stuff blows anything else away. no need to thank me. (no I don't work there, long term user who ever n
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
another similar "business model" for transportation also did not get invented till "late": a "packet ship" is a ship that sails between ports on a schedule, independent of whether it's fully loaded. I don&
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Sørenity now.
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> So we ditch the philosophical puzzle and focus on the reality we can perceive and reason on. The problem is that consciousness is a philosophical invention (and a slippery one at that) whether or not matter was continuous and could be

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