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6y ago
> These “activist investors” have singular goal of short term profits while killing perfectly good companies. Despite the 3rd party transactions being ethically dubious, Icahn lost a bundle on his equity, so I'm not sure there was
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> Is that legal? Could Carl Ichan be civilly or criminally liable? Potentially go to jail? Ichan is one the world's most famous financiers, rest assured he's got an army high paid lawyers poring over the fine print of these tr
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6y ago
> The press can only talk about your accomplishments if you actually have some. Why is it that Elon Musk fans claim to be about these overarching, prohumanity missions ("Accelerating the transition to renewable energy! Enabling peo
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6y ago
> has accomplished squat Accomplished squat? They're building rockets and engines, mostly out of the public eye, with private money. How is that nothing? Because it isn't the exact path SpaceX is taking? BO wants to land on
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> So combined US assets are worth a great deal Aggregate US household net worth is now upwards of $100 trillion. That puts the $25 trillion in US National debt in perspective.
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> If you had funded your 401(k) and IRAs with an engineer's salary for this many years you should have many millions to live off of. And then what? Believe it or not, some people consider programming a blessing and fun. If it kee
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> MMA governing bodies could revoke licenses from fighters, refs, doctors, etc. participating in events on the island if things aren't up to spec. The governing bodies are utterly toothless. What would be the point of "bannin
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> Why is his podcast good? High profile guests, long form content. Rogan's not really a great moderator (for example, he doesn't even read the books of his guests). He's not asking insightful questions. He can even be a
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> Shock jock radio hosts are nothing new. Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, etc. If you classify Joe Rogan as a 'shock jock', then I can only assume you've never listened to the show. The content is nothing like those you men
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> The most puzzling thing is they already beat piracy with netflix You expect them to hand their content over to a middle-man (who is also a competitor), when building a streaming service is trivial with lots of capital? We were obvious
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> is an African immigrant. He came from privilege and wealth from colonial South Africa to Canada. Bit of a stretch to paint his story as an "African immigrant moving to the US to pursue the American Dream."
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> In my last post I estimated Rogan was making around $64MM/year. Colour me skeptical. I have a hard time believing that Joe (who has been in show business a long time), or the business people he surrounds himself with as advisors,