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by jboog 6y ago
I was clearly talking about in the US. Literally the previous sentence I was talking about the danger in the US of fossil fuels, then I wrote about the danger of nuclear and then move on to worldwide. Nothing I wrote was false at all. It&#x
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by jboog 6y ago
I'm not a nuclear engineer, although I have a couple friends that are and have assured me the risk is incredibly low. The scientific literature backs this up. What annoys me is climate change activists that paint nuclear power as some
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by jboog 6y ago
Coal kills thousands of people a year in the US (13,000 if you believe the extreme estimates) Less than 20 people have died in Nuclear related accidents in the history of this technologies use. And almost every single one of those were unre
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by jboog 6y ago
What would you propose the federal solution would be?
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by jboog 6y ago
"luxury" is one of the most meaningless and oft misused terms in housing/real estate. It's not legally defined as anything so any developer can build a shoebox with a bathroom and a murphy bed throw in a nice countertop
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by jboog 6y ago
SF also has some of the most ridiculously onerous zoning laws in the country. A HUGE portion of the city is just giant single family homes or 2-3 story buildings and you are absolutely forbidden from redeveloping them into dense, affordable
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by jboog 6y ago
This is interesting and we can definitely learn something from the Vienna model but it isn't a super dense city so what works there might not translate as well to other cities. Manhattan for example is about 7x as dense as Vienna. Ther
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by jboog 6y ago
The people who believe GME is worth $1000 a share are 100% absolutely wrong. That's FIFTY TIMES what it was valued at ~2 months ago. They sell video games in malls for fuck's sake. Based on what? "I like the stock"? Like
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by jboog 6y ago
Are we still punishing short-sellers now? Because most of the major HFs and shorts closed their positions or hedged several weeks ago now and GME is still being pumped all over WSB And that's not even getting into the fact that 99% of
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by jboog 6y ago
The very idea that someone would argue that GME at $1000 a share which is almost FIFTY TIMES what it was valued a few months ago is a reasonable price for this stock is just absolutely bonkers. I'm talking about what the company is ACT
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by jboog 6y ago
Generally writing should be judged based on what the author was trying to accomplish, as in this case, does it make a compelling case to its intended audience? And the intended audience is clearly people who care quite a lot about the &quot
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by jboog 6y ago
I totally disagree! I thought it was a well-written account of his experience.
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by jboog 6y ago
This guy has been writing for the NYT for decades. Has tons of prestigious accolades for his writing, was up for a Pulitzer this year and you claim his writing is "poor quality" based on....what exactly?
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by jboog 6y ago
I hear what you're saying but go on any social media today and you'll find hundreds, likely thousands of people claiming people are sexist, racist, ageist etc. because of the most innocuous comments. These are full-grown adults do
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by jboog 6y ago
As someone relatively well educated in finance and capital markets the whole GME fiasco has further convinced me of just how foolish and easily manipulated the average person is. It was pretty incredible what happened with the whole pump an
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by jboog 6y ago
I wasn't claiming the technical interviews require some genius, but they are way tougher than IB interviews.
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by jboog 6y ago
Yeah but you need to be a top engineering/CS kid to get those high-paying tech jobs. All you need to get a job in IBD is go to a top school, have a high gpa, and be able to memorize some basic accounting and finance and not blow your
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by jboog 6y ago
I don't work in Investment Banking but I've heard a ton of anecdotal reports that in IB at places like GS the "Work from home" has made their already long hours even worse. Even before Covid they worked 80-100+ hour week
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by jboog 6y ago
I'm talking about the conventional fight. Once you get into nukes it's another ballgame. How does the F35 or its cool successor prevent MAD? Iraq and Afgh were counterinsurgency fights. Any China or Russian fight will not be the s
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by jboog 6y ago
I'm not saying China can't sink a carrier or two. What I am saying is that if they do we have a backup of about 40-50 more. And that's not even counting Nato. Or the fact that hundreds of other ships and subs led by Navy folk
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by jboog 6y ago
China can't even field a blue water Navy and their Air Force is about 20-30 years behind the US and its allies. We don't need an F-35 or another 2 Trillion dollar procurement process to sink literally anything China wants to put i
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by jboog 6y ago
~1.7 Trillion dollars so we can have a bleeding-edge Ferrari while our "enemies" in the PRC and Russia are still driving around in Yugo 45s So many people seem to still buy into the Cold War mindset that we just need the latest bl
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by jboog 6y ago
The US and NATO is so far ahead of China and Russia in the conventional fight it's comical. No one outside of the US or its allies even has a blue-water Navy. China has ONE carrier and it's a pile of shit compared to what we have.
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by jboog 6y ago
Big if true but I'm super skeptical. First of all how many years have we been hearing about how we'll have fully autonomous vehicles just around the corner? At least a decade. How many years have we been hearing that human-like AI
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by jboog 6y ago
Wow. even worse. This is one of the things that really annoys me about the anti cancel-culture warriors. I get it, there has been some excess, some poor decisions made, but the hyperbolic, bad faith, and often dishonest framing they often u
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by jboog 6y ago
So you have one example of someone being fired at...Evergreen college or whatever And some guy who was temporarily suspended and then immediately reinstated. And this proves profs with tenure have the same or worse protections than employee
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by jboog 6y ago
In what world do shareholders believe that firing the principal talent, creative director, and founder of a new acquisition--within a YEAR of acquiring the company!--is "good for business"? Only if you believe businesses are run b
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by jboog 6y ago
I know EA is the evil empire and whatever else but it doesn't seem obvious to me that Garriott threatening to resign means he would just get replaced. I'd say more likely they would give them more time. The Ultima fanbase has alwa
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by jboog 6y ago
You genuinely believe that there is no large group of people curious about trying a drug that supposedly offers the most euphoric feeling imaginable "better than sex" as many have claimed? What if people tell them it's not ad
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by jboog 6y ago
I'm not sure we can take the results of a single experiment in an incredibly homogenous tiny country in Europe to mean an outcome is replicable across the world.

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