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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> the battery life on my Apple 2 is leaps better than the 1 Having to charge a monitoring device almost every day defeats the purpose, at least in my opinion. My Garmin needs charging once every 7 or 8 days.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
I'd hardly consider an ownership stake in your company to be "free", with or without voting rights.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Trying to focus on anything else (e.g. sustainability or long term plans) This is such a tired meme. Public companies do all kinds of long term planning. I love the fact that Silicon Valley thinks there's nothing better for the
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I think we should go down of our cloud of righteousness and learn to laugh of ourselves once in a while. No doubt. The headline is ludicrous: why should we tolerate? Because being tolerant is a positive trait. Buffet has done more
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> you report the $ increase instead of %, without a base value. Think of the $200k in terms of average annual household income, which is relatable.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Plenty of other fish in the sea who have no problem completing a simple assignment. And yet companies have an incredibly hard time hiring talent, even with so many other fish out there. Odd, that. People need to start understanding t
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> revisit one of the HN comment threads where gender roles come up and marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers. As someone who's hung around this place along time, I'd love to see
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> This is something you have literally no defense against. People can be on either side of any trade. If you are worried about inflation, be short cash.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
What about rising household net worth?: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TNWBSHNO
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Female employment is the result of central bankers targeting full employment, which lead to inflation 1. Your citation says: "It follows that if the government intervention aims at achieving full employment but stops short of i
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> How is consentual making out at a party in Miami can in any way be considered a bad thing? I agree with this in principle, but if it's an official Uber event, HR rules of "appropriateness" would still apply. It probabl
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> So "how do you value"... The same way you value anything. AR might be "new", but "new" things aren't new; they come out all the time, forever. > It's hard to look at an early click-wheel, mo
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> How do you value that? It's a pair of glasses that stream video from a camera. I'm not saying it's not cool, but what is so crazy about it that it's hard to value? > What's that worth? If you're buyi
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Every single student in the high school I teach at uses Snapchat. All day. Every day. Are high-school students a lucrative market (and I'm not talking the mobile ad ponzi)? I was pretty poor at that age.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> so shorting basically anything is probably a strong play. I'm positioning myself for massive fiscal stimulus (that was denied the Democratic president) and higher stock prices. I guess we'll see.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Employees are the ones who put in the work to actually build the company. Company and work that, in most cases, wouldn't exist without a capital investment.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I mean, blaming your purchase of an expensive car on Uber? Really? You're bankrupt because you put all your eggs in one basket buddy, not because Kalanick is an asshole. I'm curious how many people here agree with this senti
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Growth of economic activity and population is a collective choice Collective choice, not government mandate as the person to whom I replied suggested.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I have an immigrant in my family who's just like the driver. He's not interested in "fighting over a good idea You may want to rephrase that, because it sounds an awful lot like you're attributing "stubbornnes
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> key concept: inflation is a policy, not a rule of the universe The money supply has to grow with the growth of the economy and population, and it's better to have excesses than shortages. Or should we infinitely divide a single
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
We live in a world of fake news, but anyone who questions an anonymous blog post during a media hype-cycle surrounding Uber's sexual harassment allegations is flagged? It's important to be more diligent in these times, not less
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Says the three minute old throwaway account. Are you trying to be ironic by dismissing the critic's anonymity while accepting the author's?
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Don't forget, TSLA is an energy company. Boy are people going to have to do some explaining if Tesla winds down Solar City, which I see as a major possibility. > But long term their products are going to be as ubiquitous as ho
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
Yeah, the top comment on the last article was some schadenfreude filled piece talking about "shorts losing their shirts". Stock is down almost 10% since then.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> This is just Goldman trying to get better terms for their loan. In the vaunted halls of Silicon Valley, maybe. But people in the finance world are starting to wonder if this thing can hold up. Others have been wondering for a while.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> why didn't you just talk to your favorite charities instead of deferring that judgement to Andreessen No doubt. Paid $100 to ask Andreeesen what his favourite charities are? The SV hero worship is so intense.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> it was just a convenient topic of conversation while they watched to see if I seemed nervous or otherwise suspicious. Is this acceptable? Is there any correlation between "criminal" or "terrorist" and "acts n
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> also Student Debt cannot be forgiven in bankruptcy so you essentially have an entire generation of indentured servants who will never actually own property outright. This is an issue, but can vanish with the stroke of a pen.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> What could possibly go wrong? Americans are the wealthiest people in the history of mankind. Fortunes ebb and flow, but there isn't much to worry about.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> With this attitude, you might as well just give all your money to the bankers now and just be done with it. With what attitude? Having knowledge of accounting, and that the balance sheet has two sides? If anything, ignorance of finan

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