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by kolbe 5y ago
> Power is given by the people. Kinda? I know that's the supposed cliche, but it doesn't really ring true. The "people's" will as defined by some collective subset of the population has certainly been a powerful
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by kolbe 5y ago
Huh. And yet Pelosi chooses to enrich herself instead of benefiting society. Which moral framework does this fit more neatly into? Maybe what you think of as morality is actually just a set of dictum from powerful people that helps them enr
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by kolbe 5y ago
> and you should feel ashamed for it But why? Telling someone they should be "ashamed of [their] own lack of self-awareness" sounds like you don't know how to answer the question, so you just hurl insults instead. History
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by kolbe 5y ago
‘Open Source’ has no implications about whether the writer gets paid or not, but I’ll set aside this semantic criticism. There are many many FOSS projects where contributors get paid a great deal of money. Universities sponsor contributors.
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by kolbe 5y ago
By their own data, it’s less effective against Delta than the targeted strain. And the massive spike in excess deaths within heavily vaccinated states/countries this past fall was a pretty good sign we would have benefitted from an upd
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by kolbe 5y ago
DDG is still bad, though. I use it out of principle, but whenever I'm doing a deep dive into some technical topic, DDG fails me badly. I almost always have to just search a second time on Google. Google may corrupt the top results, but
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by kolbe 5y ago
Unfortunately Apple's autocorrect has totally hijacked the meaning of "Go duck ___"
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by kolbe 5y ago
Hi. Welcome to America. The laws/rules are different here. I have a feeling German unions aren’t run by literal mobsters, either. Please learn the definition of “excess profits” before harassing me more. Every company you mentioned is
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by kolbe 5y ago
The world is changing rapidly year by year. And if change is necessary to accommodate it, we’re better off realizing all the negative consequences sooner rather than later… especially if later means it has snowballed into something far larg
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by kolbe 5y ago
1. userbinator was discussing the impact of exceptional people on society, and you're citing average behaviors of a people in one narrow educational sphere. Nikola Tesla has zero relationship with the middle of any curve. 2. Children a
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by kolbe 5y ago
I bet the same people who make these rules are the same ones who will lambast “the rich” for having the resources to actually educate their children
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by kolbe 5y ago
So you propose we handicap the geniuses to make the rest feel better? Who do you propose will invent great things to keep our world thriving if you’ve made all the geniuses average?
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by kolbe 5y ago
Not true. Tesla could also profit more per car than all others. They could achieve this simply by being non-union. Or they could achieve it by winning the autonomous vehicle wars. They could even achieve it by not being a car company (e.g.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Unions have, and always will, take the excess profits of Ford/GM for themselves. Even if Ford is a better car company, its shareholders will never get to see the money from it.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I've been researching Consumer Reports survey methods, and it doesn't appear they do anything to verify whether they're talking to an actual car owner or not. Can anyone corroborate this?
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by kolbe 5y ago
Explain why Ford’s electric SUV, which has existed for maybe two years, is even being rated then?
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What Is an Operating System?(signalsandthreads.com)
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by kolbe 5y ago
They attract investment from younger people (especially after a year where millions of wealthy elderly prematurely died of Covid, triggering a massive wealth transfer), but that doesn’t mean they’ve discovered sustainable business purpose.
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by kolbe 5y ago
There wouldn't be such a robust secondary and black market for these things if they would just price them appropriately to begin with.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Better sleep habits are CORRELATED with better college grades. This was not a causal study.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Also think about the thing they’re doing to compromise their ethics: they’re buying stocks with an ‘unfair’ advantage. This isn’t exactly sending kids to war for kickbacks.
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by kolbe 5y ago
“The Fed” as in the Federal Reserve: no. “The Fed” as in the Federal Government: yes.
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by kolbe 5y ago
GM is currently in need of being revived. It was not back in 2014. Tesla just exploited the whole industry’s complacency and incompetence.
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by kolbe 5y ago
But he’s implying that the leader of one of the most innovate companies in the past decade is a mindless corporate robot? But Sheryl Sanberg (an ex-McKinsey playbook follower) is more than that? It’s such an absurd assertion that I feel I m
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by kolbe 5y ago
Mary Barra bought a 10% stake in a company for billions of dollars that was a blatant fraud. Also weird how your chart didn’t include Tesla. You must be genuinely comparing her to her competition and not cherry picking the lowest performers
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by kolbe 5y ago
Lisa Su is absolutely amazing. And I love the context of her success. She is kicking ass because she really is the best leader in hardware. That she is a woman is incidental. She doesn’t play identity politics or milk her femininity. She ju
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by kolbe 5y ago
I don’t even know what you’re trying to say, but I’m not gonna lie, it doesn’t sound very good.
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by kolbe 5y ago
The US is not up 150% in the last 10 years. Look at real data, not clickfarm articles. From Sep 2011, it's up 85%. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/csushpinsa So, sure during the greatest bull run in home price
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by kolbe 5y ago
Welcome to 2021. In a few years, Chase Coleman will pick up large stake in this company, take it public and financially engineer it enough to stuff it into the S&P at a $500bn valuation.
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by kolbe 5y ago
This is not a cheap/neglected form of "total shit." They put a lot of man hours into this cartoon.

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