jonknee

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by jonknee 8y ago
You do not get 3,641 letters asking you to vote in each of the companies that make up VTI. If you own shares of a company directly you will get a letter and you may get a letter about governance of the fund you own, but not for the individu
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The pressure to increase profits exists regardless of ownership, if anything having large institutional funds own the majority lessens the pressure (vs an activist fund or something similar). If they're leaving money on the table someo
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> Life is so much better if you just do what you evolved to do. There's no way to hack life and make it better in any real way. Pair up, get a trade, build a home, and enjoy that for what it is. That's where we differ. It'
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It probably would in Buffalo, but not in Manhattan. The median home price in Manhattan is nearly $1.3m: https://www.zillow.com/manhattan-new-york-ny/home-values/
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Here is why you should charge more (for your product, time, service, whatever). Payless is a low budget shoe chain and opened a fake high end boutique and put in their $20 shoes: > One shopper spent $640 for a pair of boots, which repres
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Payless fools influencers with a fake store(cnn.com)
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by jonknee 8y ago
You can redirect through Facebook and read it: https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
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It's a poor headline as it's not just the wealthiest: > But agents said the slowdown extends beyond new condos, hitting every segment of the market. While the cooling is more significant at the high-end, smaller units also are
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Because that's not user data? That's code...
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> I actually can't imagine wanting to live in the same house for more than 10 years. But can you imagine knocking it down and building a new one every 10 years?
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> all of these articles are advertisements for mundane shit What do you think hacker news is supposed to be? Anything that isn't mundane to a lot of people isn't interesting enough for those in the target audience. Amazon is ha
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When the largest cloud provider takes time to create and market a new product it's probably worth thinking about for more than a "lol".
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I'll take the opposite side and wager that few people in Chicago know about it and that it will never be built.
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That would be disastrous for YouTube. Imagine embedding a video on your website only to find out later that it had been replaced with spam? So little gain for a huge abuse opportunity.
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I think it has to do with size/status too, I couldn't imagine ever wanting to spend my life making a couple of the richest people in the world a tiny bit more marginally wealthy. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page and Brin all still want mor
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by jonknee 8y ago
> It's a sad state of affairs, really. The only people who have enough money to play the game are either corporations or are in their 90's and bought the ground when it was $30/acre. I don't think it's sad, more
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by jonknee 8y ago
Because there are lots of climates and many of them require constant watering to have a green lawn? Sprinkling systems are a huge business.
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What does that have to do with development? My point was nearly everyone uses libraries that are written by strangers from the internet. It mostly works.
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> you’re trusting random strangers on the Internet to run code on your systems I mean that's pretty much how the world works. Even running Linux is trusting random strangers on the internet. Most of the time it works pretty well, bu
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I thought sports betting. It's pretty generic.
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Well it's certainly enforceable in that you won't be able to use it for your Amazon account. They are free to reject any email address they like.
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Probably more likely that nearby land that's within a decent bus ride of LIC will increase in value and higher density housing will be built there. The land that was right next to the existing subway stop was obviously already quite va
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That is very different from getting to it from browsing.
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This sort of action is very infrequent and I'd be shocked if there wasn't solid reasoning behind it. Tumblr has been passed around several times and is currently ultimately owned by Verizon. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon
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The safest way is probably to sell futures on CBOE or CME (those are the exchanges, but you'd do the transactions through your broker). I say safest because you don't have to worry about counterparty risk from a sketchy offshore B
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Well they are relatively good space heaters at least...
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You might as well get used to no headphone jack, they're not going to make a come back.
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's not the same thing at all. You don't pay AWS for support, you pay AWS to use its bandwidth, software and hardware.
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> Imagine a restaurant that could see you operating an illegal handgun market out of the corner booth and just decided that was fine as long as you tipped your server alright Imagine a better analogy because telecom service providers hav
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by jonknee 8y ago
Aren't mental effects like pain problems? From your problem paragraph 4: > Depression, back pain, chemotherapy-related malaise, migraine, post-traumatic stress disorder: The list of conditions that respond to placebos — as well as t

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