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by kgantchev 5y ago
People can afford those things with the cash that the market generates for them. And the free market solution to "the problem" is higher economic prosperity of society and thus fewer people in poverty. There is no other answer.
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by kgantchev 5y ago
Growth is the result of value generation. One of the ways to generate value is through technological innovation, which leads to higher economic growth. At the end of the day, you're saying that technological innovation is not infinite.
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by kgantchev 5y ago
Real life pen testing... live with it.
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by kgantchev 5y ago
Social Security is a sham. That's making people live poorer after retirement. Many of them don't receive anything close to the money they earned while they were working. That's not the case if they had invested the same money
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by kgantchev 5y ago
I recommend reading "Never Split The Difference," the book is great and it has served me well in negotiations. Where you're right: yes, you need to foster the conversation. It's a skill that one develops with practice. W
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by kgantchev 5y ago
The difference in footing is not based on objectives but the means by which funding is obtained. In the case of private companies, the funding can only by obtained by providing services that the market demands. The government obtains its fu
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by kgantchev 5y ago
Sure, but is that actually good for them?
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by kgantchev 5y ago
Sure, but is it good for the person to not work? I get that you don't care what happens to the business, but the question isn't about the business - it's about the person. We get that this is the best economic decision for th
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by kgantchev 5y ago
I don't know if companies don't "pay well," but the government certainly pays well enough for people not to need a job. Is that good? :) It is certainly a goal that some people strive for and we certainly have realized t
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by kgantchev 5y ago
The main reason why real-estate agents are a thing is because of logistics. a) The buyers want to look at multiple properties as quickly as possible; b) The sellers don't want to or don't have the time to be manage all of the req
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by kgantchev 5y ago
They get it from the rich people who are now expected to sell their stocks. So are those rich people going to buy their own stocks?!
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by kgantchev 5y ago
> Most stock is held by people worth less than $50m. All of those large pension funds and institutional investors invest on behalf of the "little guy" who are worth $10k-10m. That's a massive amount of wealth. If the super
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by kgantchev 6y ago
But the existing investors are the ones whose wealth is being taken and being put up on the market. :) So who is going to buy the existing investor's wealth? Are they just going to buy each other's wealth?
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by kgantchev 6y ago
I will add one more thing to your analysis of the possible negative outcomes: the market effects of the government selling the stocks of a company. I suspect these two things will happen on the market: 1. You'd need to have a wealthy e
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by kgantchev 6y ago
I think his argument is that we shouldn't just let the US companies essentially work for the Chinese government, while they're seeking to be conscientious observers in the US. In other words, we should do more to block the Chinese
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by kgantchev 6y ago
I think the point he was making is that the government shouldn't allow the private companies to work with the Chinese government while refusing to work with the US government. I don't think he's saying that the US government
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by kgantchev 6y ago
Which title?
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by kgantchev 6y ago
Turns out that it's not about Nixon...
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by kgantchev 6y ago
Cancel culture is predominantly a left-wing phenomenon. To say it bluntly: "the left" labels speech they disagree with as violent and clearly wants it banned. "Extremism" is in the eyes of the beholder. We saw 6 months o
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by kgantchev 6y ago
I use the mobile browser versions of Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. I dropped the apps a long time ago. So yeah, one can easily survive without the app stores.
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by kgantchev 6y ago
SO doesn't have the content requirements of a modern Social Network: images, video, and streaming are huge factors. Especially with modern smartphone capabilities.
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by kgantchev 6y ago
In the 1950s, employee benefits became non-taxable. Prior to that, employees would get health insurance as individuals and their plans would never be tied to a particular employer, kinda like how it currently works in Switzerland. So that o
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by kgantchev 6y ago
That's not true. A trademark costs around $300: https://www.uspto.gov/trademark/trademark-fee-information Enforcing it is free: you can send your own cease and desist for free. The only time you need a lawyer is i
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by kgantchev 6y ago
It represents an opportunity to MacStadium as well, since they too would be able to sell the hardware by the hour. Currently, the only reason they can't is due to the EULA. There is no other reason why a mac hardware hosting company co
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by kgantchev 6y ago
This one!
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by kgantchev 6y ago
Macminicolo appears to have been Brian Stucki's company (as he said in his original post) and it was acquired by MacStadium: https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/macstadium-and-macminicolo
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by kgantchev 6y ago
> Macstadium competes against other short-term rental companies but also against real Macs, Hackintoshes on physical machines, Hackintoshes on virtual machines (inc EC2), and non-consumption. MacStadium isn't doing short-term rental
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by kgantchev 6y ago
Microsoft didn't lose anything. > It is Southwestern Bell, which bought the AT&T brand in the bankruptcy fire sale and renamed itself. Southwestern Bell was the same subsidiary that broke off from AT&T Corporation. AT&T
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by kgantchev 6y ago
> This is not true at all. Anti monopoly regulations, for example, exist for the sole purpose of privileging new entrants over incumbents. The actions against Microsoft, or the breaking up of AT&T certainly did not help the incumbent
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by kgantchev 6y ago
> Would I be correct saying that you're happy because in one stroke Apple has moved you from grey area to explicitly permitted, and part of your competition from grey area to explicitly forbidden? I don't know how any competiti

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