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by klipt 2y ago
Are you complaining about Vanguard's tiny fund management fees? I think they are worth the convenience to not have to buy 10,000 different stocks myself. Vanguard is not a for-profit business, it's more like a credit union, it is
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Yeah I know the dollar is intended to lose value on average: > we know they target 2% inflation on average That's why you don't put all your long term savings in USD. But it's good to have your emergency fund in USD becaus
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> multiple lakefront properties Let me guess, bought on credit, he over leveraged > Cash is literally an article of faith and nothing else. It's not backed by any asset. The US dollar is backed by the federal government, a behemo
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> They operate a casino. On average you lose money at a casino because it is a business designed to make you lose money. My vanguard funds on the other have gone up very nicely on average. Because they are invested in businesses designed
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The whole concept of "retirement" where old people are allowed to relax and be supported by young people, compared to the old days when people just worked until they died, requires enough surplus productivity from young people to
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> Imagine what it could have been if it was designed for programmability from the start. Circle C++ compiler was designed for that: https://www.circle-lang.org/quickref.html
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> The US Congress allocates budget money to the NIH for funding research, he adds, so “the will of Congress will be challenged if we don’t change what is going on”. How much can the Executive Branch mess with the laws Congress has passed
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Elon Musk found that if you throw billions at getting our low propensity rural voters you can sway the election by enough percents.
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Was Citizens United a huge mistake?
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America is only 5% of the world's population. Do you want Silicon Valley to hire the best of the world, or only the best of America? Without immigration, an American only Silicon Valley would surely lose out to places like China and In
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Yes, we've established Wikipedia is biased.
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> DNA studies
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Arabs like Syria's Assad have murdered half a million people but it would still be incredibly racist to call all Arabs "ArabNazis" on that basis.
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They're both native to the land.
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> What would an unbiased but complete introductory sentence look like? The goal of Zionism is to create a safe haven for Jewish refugees, to prevent another situation like the Holocaust where millions of Jewish refugees were murdered.
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A lot of Israelis literally had their (or their parents') homes stolen by Iraqis, Egyptians, Moroccans. In total, Mizrahi Jews had land around 4x the size of Israel stolen from them (and they still have the deeds to prove it). A peace
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by klipt 2y ago
> Do you have any evidence that a large percentage of that population is refugees? Have you not heard of the Holocaust? The majority of Israelis descend either from refugees from Europe (Ashkenazim), or refugees from Arab/Muslim cou
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> The vast vast majority of Jews in Israel now are Ashkenazi Wrong, Mizrahi are the majority. > Ashkenazis are from Khazaria I don't know hope you did it, but wrong again, DNA studies show Ashkenazim have a large Canaanite DNA co
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by klipt 2y ago
And yet the British still hold Northern Ireland. France still holds a piece of South America. The US still holds Native American land.
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I'm sure you could find 17 citations that Muhammad had sex with underage girls but that's not the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Muhammad, is it? Point being just because something is cited doesn't mean putting it
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> No one doubts Hamas’s numbers Hamas hasn't admitted to a single combatant dying. Is that realistic?
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> 23 percent of the Jewish majority as of 2018 was foreign born You know what population is usually foreign born? Refugees! > even the Israelis themselves do have ties to their own personal homelands. What ties do Yemenite Jews who fl
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A UN envoy says there are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct. 7 https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-rape-oct7-...
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Spoiler: it won't help much. Liberalizing zoning and taxing land would do more to improve housing affordability.
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You could also argue that every Spaniard moving from the countryside to the cities takes away houses from Spaniards born in the cities. Seems like an argument for internal visas like China's household registration system to prevent exc
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by klipt 2y ago
Surely the commonly referenced "food coma" affects more than just narcoleptics. I imagine narcolepsy is only diagnosable when it causes major issues in your life. In the same way that being "a bit obsessive" isn't O
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Scolyer is in the relatively fortunate position of being a world class cancer researcher before getting cancer, so he had the resources of an entire oncology lab to give himself a speculative treatment.
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> Since 2020, especially after the 2024 election results came in, theres now even more evidence to suggests democrats rigged the election. Really, what evidence? Are you just assuming that 1. swing voters don't exist so each person
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That's democracy for you, the majority can vote to criminalize or decriminalize anything...
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Do we have any idea of the true cost of cleaning up microplastics / forever chemicals (PFAS) pollution?

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