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by hash872 3y ago
Because speculative startups require a lot of investment/venture capital, but the VCs need a defined return at some point. They need an exit with a sale, an acquisition or an IPO in order for the whole process to make financial sense.
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by hash872 3y ago
Agreed. Here's my question (because I'm assuming Spotify's ToS also includes mandatory arbitration): What happens if you try to challenge insanely overbroad terms in arbitration? Because you almost certainly signed away your
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by hash872 3y ago
>given that it's been the subject of numerous scandals regarding quality control of the physical components manufactured there They're very young as far as automotive manufacturers go, and this is a pretty normal part of the &#
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by hash872 3y ago
>but perhaps we could have negotiated a peace during a conference at Minsk a decade ago or in Feb 2022 at the outbreak of hostilities Ukraine negotiated nonstop with Russia from 2014 (when Russia first seized some of their territory) unt
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by hash872 3y ago
My understanding is that analysts frequently include not just the debts of China's central government, but also all of the provinces, which are much much more heavily indebted. Under the argument that the Chinese central government is
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by hash872 3y ago
Matt Stoller should investigate and write a slightly hysterical, loose-with-the-facts piece about this troubling monopoly
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by hash872 3y ago
>If you get ill or injured in the us you could be more than the $20K in debt for hospital bills If you're on a visa and you lose your job and thus your health insurance, you're probably going back to your home country anyways.
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by hash872 3y ago
>Our political (electorally and procedurally) system does not favor having a multitude of regionally distinct parties We use FPTP, which famously does favor having regionally distinct parties. Smaller parties can get outsized seats in th
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by hash872 3y ago
The UK, Israel, Canada, and New Zealand all don't have written constitutions. 'None of these, for example, allow the PM to act as an absolute dictator' is not an example of the separation of powers, that's not what that
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by hash872 3y ago
>nothing is gonna change that living in Montana is nothing like living in Florida The problem with this argument is that Montana and Florida vote for the same political party, and then their representatives generally vote the same way on
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by hash872 3y ago
>The only way to have a sustainable government is to have strong checks and balances and putting multiple factions with different interests against one another Completely American myopic POV. Stable, healthy democracies that are unicamer
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by hash872 3y ago
US life expectancy is (slightly) lower due to guns, opioids, and traffic deaths- none of these have any connection to 'massive financial deregulation' (or China). US wages have not stagnated, and it's worth noting that the US
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by hash872 3y ago
Respectfully, this is par for the course in discussing public policy with populists. It's just a Gish Gallop of random disconnected arguments. OK so now you concede that Reagan and Thatcher weren't responsible for the rise of Chin
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by hash872 3y ago
How did Reagan and Thatcher 'empower' other countries to rise up and compete with the US & Europe? If they passed the right combination of laws, we would've prevented billions of smart, hard-working people from daring to
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by hash872 3y ago
What is the body of evidence that leads you to think you can't exceed a (totally unrelated) benchmark when investing in privately held companies? Can you cite some studies? The reason we know EMH 'works' for public markets is
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by hash872 3y ago
If you don't have data on private investments, how can you say anything about how they compare with an index fund? As a passive investor in a local business, my losses are pretty limited by their corporate structure. I've been sel
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by hash872 3y ago
>SP500 is risk free I'm sorry, what?
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by hash872 3y ago
>If your only contribution to a business is giving it money, you are essentially always better sticking that money in the stock market.... the idea that you can beat the market with no special benefit that you bring to the table is a fan
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by hash872 3y ago
In a previous similar discussion on HN a few years ago, someone made the same point- and lots of people said that supplementing magnesium permanently changed their mental state for the better. So I started supplementing with magnesium-threo
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by hash872 3y ago
Countries spy on each other constantly, it's just that articles about the US doing so receive far more clicks. Europe does a similar amount of spying on the US, here's a couple articles where it's revealed or they admit it: F
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by hash872 3y ago
The US spends over a trillion dollars on Social Security annually, plus I believe another $1.4 trillion or so once you add up both Medicare and Medicaid. (Fun fact no one knows, the US now spends more on healthcare for the elderly than the
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by hash872 3y ago
As an American I constantly hear about how the Nordic model of social democracy is superior. I feel like it's underdiscussed that the Nordic countries have very high wealth inequality though. According to 2019 Gini numbers, both the Ne
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by hash872 3y ago
I've already driven a rental car that warned me when my eyes were narrowing slightly? Is this just me? This was I think a few years ago now
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by hash872 3y ago
Was just thinking the same thing. I remember that they went through a long time period to get their algorithms to work, so maybe that's what OP means. I also remember that they found some algorithms that work but they don't know
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by hash872 3y ago
The EU is free to fine Clearview though, and surprisingly developed countries do tend to recognize judgements from other developed countries. It's a few extra steps to get the fine registered in the US court system, but it will eventua
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by hash872 3y ago
Worth noting that about 30% of active fund managers have beat the S&P 500 going back to 1993 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4096205 They may not do so for their investors - this is before fees
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by hash872 3y ago
>One of the big lies Big Pharma tells you is that R&D is expensive but the actual R&D is done primarily by government funding and research at colleges Not an expert, but my understanding is that the kind of basic science R&D
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by hash872 3y ago
This whole idea is totally fake (and I'm not sure you get the difference between a FSBO where the seller is paying a buyer's agent, versus one where they're not). Real estate is a high-turnover job with a bunch of stressed-ou
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by hash872 3y ago
>for my money Sure- what are you paying the buyer's agent?
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by hash872 3y ago
Why would agents show a FSBO home for free? They're independent contractors on 100% commission, paying for their own health insurance and retirement- why would they work for free? Do you work for your employer for free? Buyers are free

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