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by hueving 8y ago
What is a handful of years? That sounds like FAANG pay to me.
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by hueving 8y ago
>i don't see cats as any more problematic than other wildlife The massive numbers of them are the problem. The only other pet as common is a dog and they don't hunt birds just for the sake of hunting like many cats do.
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by hueving 8y ago
Cats hunting is a problem regardless of whether or not there are fed. It has zero to do with their 'morality'. The problem is any cats that wander around killing multiple birds. So many people have cats that even a small percentag
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by hueving 8y ago
Janitors were providing value whether or not Bear's long exposure to MBSs were too large. The same applies to traders, etc. My dentist fixing my toothache still provided value to me even if I die of a massive heart attack in two months
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by hueving 8y ago
>It's just that, security. You can be sure you will have healthcare, you will have housing and you will have food, and so will all your dependents. That's certainly better security, but it's still nowhere near the level I&
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by hueving 8y ago
Economies aren't zero sum. Fractional reserve banking means your 100 dollar example is wrong. Additionally, someone who truly provides net positive social utility will improve the average persons life even if they make a bunch of money
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by hueving 8y ago
Rich peoples' reference group isn't limited to a single country though. There is no way we can apply the same rules to all, unless there is a new global order I haven't heard of. See: the disaster of the US yatch manufacturin
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by hueving 8y ago
FFS that $10m figure isn't about being comfortable. It's about never having to work again and never having to be concerned about paying for things in an upper middle class lifestyle. You might be happy as a PhD student, but your h
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by hueving 8y ago
Retirement, buying a home in the bay area, saving for kids college funds. You're right, spending 40k for a couple is plenty to live on. It's all of the above that sucks up the rest if you want to retire (let alone retire early).
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by hueving 8y ago
I don't think you are fully grokking "not worrying about finances". Your scenario requires consistent outsized market returns to give you less money than the poverty level. You will be wiped out by inflation, a recession, a n
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by hueving 8y ago
Bear Stearns employee comp is solely about the value the employees provide to the firm. The ones making that kind of money would easily be bringing in a multiple of that in sales, etc. Just because the company got wiped out by a black swan
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by hueving 8y ago
Any miners paying less or the same as the lowest have no motivation at all. And dirty energy (e.g. unscrubbed coal) or energy from backroom dealings (tons of mining arrangements in eastern Europe and China) will always outcompete any legiti
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by hueving 8y ago
Because lots of things were stores of value that aren't anymore. Can I interest you in a share of Bear Stearns?
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by hueving 8y ago
The comment is just a direct rebuttal of the claims from CPLX for the reason that gold is so valuable.
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by hueving 8y ago
>How is this a problem with indoor/outdoor cats? It's answered in the same post you just quoted. They hunt so many birds they are destructive to the environment and are driving some to extinction.
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by hueving 8y ago
I don't think you understand what the term unemployment means. AOC made the same mistake.
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by hueving 8y ago
Complexity and publicity. Complexity: Single purpose apps built with a very specific threat model in mind for a boring, established usecase tend to be more secure. K8s is a fast evolving labyrinth of complexity with contributions from thous
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by hueving 8y ago
The only dissonance is your own. Nobody is making the Chinese the bad guys. They are criticizing the Chinese government, which is certainly not representative of the Chinese in any way given that it is not elected and it crushes critics. Go
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by hueving 8y ago
> Nobody in the tech community cared until the dragonfly thing came up and they all went on wikipedia looking for reasons to hate China Speak for yourself. I've been working on privacy projects like TOR for years and have been criti
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by hueving 8y ago
>And their big foreign policy power play consists of building infrastructure for other third world countries. We'll ignore the whole part about stealing everyone's intellectual property as a matter of business and that activity
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by hueving 8y ago
>We don't shoehorn the Iraq war into everything about America Yes, we do. Anything gushing about a country always brings people out to point out the flaws in fawning over it. The only thing that seems to be unique is using whatabout
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by hueving 8y ago
You also withhold from them all of the extra shit it collects in the background when you're done with your ride.
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by hueving 8y ago
Advancements in user tracking are not the same thing as general technology advancements. Apps that suck up location data deserve all of the flak they get.
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by hueving 8y ago
Nearing the end of a business cycle, possibly. But the economy wasn't particularly strong, it just wasn't terrible. GDP was okay, but employment still wasn't great, inflation was weak, and wages stagnant. It really feels like
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by hueving 8y ago
>which will result in exponentially rising debt and inflation as the government prints money. This analysis is missing something because inflation is a good thing for country debt denominated in it's own currency. Inflating away the
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by hueving 8y ago
You don't have to directly suffer from genocide to know genocide is bad.
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by hueving 8y ago
Right, it's best to keep those discussions amongst everyone who stands to make heaps of cash by ignoring nagging morality. This is why in any legal proceedings against companies they only allow the jurors and judge to be made up of emp
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by hueving 8y ago
Google attracting idealistic engineers != All Google engineers are idealistic. Like you identified, the idealistic ones will protest and maybe quit. Google will still likely be okay, it just won't be the place where idealistic engineer
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by hueving 8y ago
Well the country is going to commit genocide anyway. Why not try to sell them the weapons because we make much better weapons and US companies haven't been able to break into their weapons market yet. The potential benefits could be su
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by hueving 8y ago
Your comment-stalk sample is bad though because that could easily refer to the administrators of the study or everyone who ran the study. The sentence you are trying to link to it is about the friend being involved in the study, not being t

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