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by jellicle 9y ago
On the contrary, the largest factors of luck, such as being born a white male in a first-world country to wealthy parents, can all be achieved while you are playing Xbox and won't disappear even if you do spend your days on the couch.
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by jellicle 9y ago
It usually goes the other way around: people who say that luck isn't important are precisely those that have been very lucky. They have no self-recognition of it. Rather, because they've achieved success with little effort, they
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by jellicle 9y ago
Incidentally, the error was here: "The project was meant to save costs by firing 1,200 employees handling payroll at various departments around the country and replacing them with about 500 people in a centralized location using Phoeni
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by jellicle 9y ago
Hah, no. The USA typically allows about 0.3% per year. Canada is around 0.8%. Per capita, Canada allows many more immigrants than the USA. (Since the USA's population is so much larger, USA allows more in absolute numbers.) About 21
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by jellicle 9y ago
> Eldridge What actually happened is that he put nets near the whales, and then left one of them entangled in the cut off nets (so, probably killed this member of an endangered species due to his recklessness). http://www.cape
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by jellicle 9y ago
So if you actually read what the program is here: Provide families with a average of $179/month if and only if they jump through a whole bunch of hoops, from doctor visits (which they have to pay for) to school attendance to working mo
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by jellicle 9y ago
> Generally speaking, aren’t poor people poor because either they don’t know how to be not poor or can’t execute being not poor? No. Generally speaking, people are poor because their parents were poor and because they are in a system wh
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by jellicle 9y ago
I'm afraid the doctrine of "if it looks bad, it must be good!" is not in fact true or generally applicable. And it's not what Graham is saying, for that matter. If you read a bit further: "It also reminds you that
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by jellicle 9y ago
> then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistently user-hostile business practices Once upon a time in the USA, and in some nations today, there was/is regulation in the public interest. Why not try it in the USA?
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by jellicle 9y ago
If Tether's balance sheet was truly simple ("here's our escrow account with Citibank with $2 billion in it, see?") then you can be assured the auditor would have been happy to see that. No audit = run away fast.
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by jellicle 9y ago
But if you can buy a new Tetherbuck straight from Tether for $1USD, issued in unlimited amounts, why and how could the value of a Tetherbuck ever exceed $1USD? And on the flip side, if Tether redeems any Tetherbuck for $1USD, on demand and
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by jellicle 9y ago
Sure, it's child-friendly. How many children do you think I can have in my studio apartment? Park Slope has a median real estate price of close to $2 million, and average family incomes well into the six figures.
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by jellicle 9y ago
The main connotation of "loophole" is that the result is accidental rather than intended, which is fictitious propaganda. "It's just crazy, but somehow, accidentally, we passed this big tax law and hedge fund managers do
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by jellicle 9y ago
The SEC probably has about 5 employees working on ICOs, if that.
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by jellicle 9y ago
Lyft and Uber actively encourage and assist drivers to purchase, rent or lease vehicles in order to drive for them. How many cars have they put on the road? Ride-hailing services have massively increased car traffic in major cities: https
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by jellicle 9y ago
I don't think you have any idea what "libertarianism" is, as most of your post describes a well-functioning social democracy, which is the exact opposite of libertarianism.
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by jellicle 9y ago
Which cities is Uber serving that didn't have public transport?
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by jellicle 9y ago
It's rare to see a company destroy itself so quickly and thoroughly. "Hey, our company does exactly one thing: saves people from paying a bunch of processing fees to send someone $1 a month. Let's get rid of that!" That
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by jellicle 9y ago
It's hard to get people to see this is an expensive and deadly problem when their paycheck depends on them not seeing it.
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by jellicle 9y ago
Try playing a D&D game where one player is level 20 and everyone else is level 1. "Hey, we're all on the same side so it doesn't matter"... no. "Dave paid the DM $50 so he gets the level 20 character. That&#x2
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by jellicle 9y ago
Garbage like this is what happens when people reason from first principles without any reference to what they are actually trying to do. It's a parenting philosophy composed by someone who has never met a child (and has no interest in
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by jellicle 9y ago
It's not exactly subtle (watch the video): https://labor411.org/411-blog/1688-this-is-the-anti-union-vi...
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by jellicle 9y ago
But they aren't.
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by jellicle 9y ago
Of course it's possible . No one said it wasn't. I said it will be gamed. Which it will. Sell the land under your 90-story building to an offshore trust in the Caymans for $1, now you have a firm data point that the land is w
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by jellicle 9y ago
The driving force behind this idea is a tax cut for people who own large buildings. "No, my land at 5th Avenue and 42nd St in Manhattan is not valuable; all the value is in the building, you see." "Okay, we accept your argu
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by jellicle 9y ago
But in fact UBer has cleared the way for any other taxi company. Uber's drivers can all (within one single day) download the app of any new company, and switch to driving for them without a hiccup. Uber's riders can all (within
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by jellicle 9y ago
A lot of that is largely fictitious. If an employer health insurer doubles their prices, supposedly my compensation has increased a lot, but in fact, I'm poorer, because my share of the health insurance premium has increased and my co
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by jellicle 9y ago
Do you mean that people aren't concerned, or shouldn't be concerned?
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by jellicle 9y ago
That ship sailed a long time ago. The current status quo IS micro-payment per article, only it comes from advertisers instead of readers.
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by jellicle 9y ago
> Workers lose ground for 50 years straight > Corporate profits now higher than ever before in human history > Recent news says workers may lose slightly less ground this year than in previous years > Panic! Quick, raise intere

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