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by joeax 9y ago
> At the 50-75 year timeframe we are talking about at least hundreds of billions of dollars of economic value, if not trillions. The clustering effect of becoming Silicon Valley 2 cannot be overstated. Back in 2004 when I was working at
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by joeax 9y ago
Not only did he pull out of stocks but he was shorting the market.
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by joeax 9y ago
These articles slowly chip away at an entrenched status quo that "all drugs are bad" and gradually shift public opinion. Just look at California who just legalized recreational cannabis today.
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by joeax 9y ago
What's worse, mass incarceration has become the status quo with the American public. Writing new laws and jail seems to be the standard response for every problem in America. This is evident in the current opioid epidemic, where politi
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by joeax 9y ago
The War on Drugs and the Prohibition are two very separate things. While what you say is true about the Prohibition bringing disparate groups together (Church groups, women's' groups, big tobacco), the War on Drugs was an inherent
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by joeax 9y ago
The point is that "jail" shouldn't be the default punishment for every criminal act. There are lots of ways you can punish people. Take away his ability to game for 20 years and make him pay one million to the family, worked
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by joeax 9y ago
Normally I'd agree but the US already has the largest prison population in the world. By far. We are obsessed with long and lengthy prison sentences even for the most minuscule non-victim offenses i.e. 20 years for pot possession (mean
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by joeax 9y ago
Ironically, in Winnetka IL where they supposedly live, they are probably looked down on and viewed as "typical".
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by joeax 9y ago
One innocent person killed by police is one too many. Especially when they are acquitted every time.
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by joeax 9y ago
Because talking to them on even the smallest matter can land you in trouble, since lying to federal agents is a crime. TurboTax has this audit defense insurance add-on when you submit your taxes. If you read the verbiage, it explicitly stat
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by joeax 9y ago
> but you cannot be put to death in the US by the government without a trial and legal representation I agree with you mostly, but um, if you pay attention our cops shoot and kill thousands of people per year, many of them unarmed. And w
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by joeax 9y ago
> City officials said the cameras are a safety tool in order to prevent accidents at busy intersections. When I hear something is "for my safety", I take it to mean I'm about to lose some freedoms or some money.
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by joeax 9y ago
I don't think you should take stock picking advice from any writer on SA. A lot of articles are conjecture and a fun read, nothing more.
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by joeax 9y ago
He is drawing comparisons to the dot-com bubble, specifically adding "Blockchain" to the company name vs added "e" or "com" in the 90's to dramatically increase valuations. I worked during the dot-com bubb
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by joeax 9y ago
> Which would you prefer in general: Being forbidden from doing something at all, or allowed to do it at high cost? This is market economics at its best. If you don't like the $40 toll go back to alternative routes you were using be
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It's Not Just a Bitcoin Bubble – It's Far Worse(seekingalpha.com)
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by joeax 9y ago
I was tasked with writing a undo/redo framework for an existing client app a few years back. It's basically an HMI system (a tool typically used in manufacturing to visually model an industrial system) that used SVG+HTML. I could
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by joeax 9y ago
My takeaway was that they wanted to show that anything can be made draggable, i.e. isometric blocks created using CSS transforms. The browser actually maps mouse/touch events from the transformed space back to the untransformed cartesi
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by joeax 9y ago
That's pretty much most of us. I couldn't imagine sitting around at 30 with nothing to do.
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by joeax 9y ago
Try to quantify each commute kilometer, for example, each km costs 1,000 GBP in lost time, car expense, and psychological damage. Plug that into an equation then ask yourself if it is worth it to live closer to work or not.
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by joeax 9y ago
In a perfect universe. But along the way unintended expenses happen, hospital bills, car accident, getting sued, or just drifting away from your original goals. Bottom line though is just keep saving, and don't worry so much about a ha
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by joeax 9y ago
I'm going to extend my comment. I've been reading James Altucher's books like "Choose Yourself" and his blog. Altucher's philosophy is somewhat similar, except he focuses on tapping into your creative mind and
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by joeax 9y ago
I've been reading his blog for a few years, and he does some have some insightful advice on shedding unnecessary expenses and living on a frugal spending diet. I've been able to get down to one car that is almost paid off, and dou
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by joeax 9y ago
Just to be clear, it isn't that it's taking the top few listings and randomly marking as sold, but that the code is going out and retrieving what appear to be already sold listings (as stored in the urgencyMessageListings variab
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by joeax 9y ago
This article is little more than an argument about semantics. Whether prime or subprime, the real culprit was mortgage-backed securities. At the height of the bubble, banks were merely underwriting loans and they couldn't sell them fas
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by joeax 9y ago
Regarding (2), I don't disagree totally, but from what I saw, the person in question was originally charged $5,000 (the fee was eventually reduced) just for the hearing/plea deal. If she wanted to go to trial, he told her $20,000+
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by joeax 9y ago
Good question. It's rare to be reimbursed. You can sue for malicious prosecution after you have been aquitted, but many times these cases don't prevail.
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by joeax 9y ago
I personally sat in a courtroom and watched this unfold. In some cases the PD shows up at the last possible minute with some scant details about the case, asks the defendant how they want to plea, converses with the judge, then leaves. I ne
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by joeax 9y ago
Many are good people. I talked to one through the whole ordeal who wanted to help, but he was forced to recuse himself from the case. And that's the issue: you are assigned a defender, and if it's an unsympathetic one there's
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by joeax 9y ago
I don't see how it would be different than any other insurance product. If you're an established criminal no adjuster would recommend you be insured. Or maybe the premium would be astronomical, like thousands per month.

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