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by kolbe 7y ago
I think, when companies say they support ‘free speech’ they are adopting the stance that they will not punish their users for actions that the US government protects under the first amendment.
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by kolbe 7y ago
Checking one of those boxes: a friend of mine made an app called MicChek (iOS only) that will tell aggregate the events going on for a certain date. It's actually useful when you find yourself with a free night, especially in a strange
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by kolbe 7y ago
I feel like Apple missed the point with this relaunch of the SE 2. We want SMALL, not necessarily inexpensive. This is just the same inefficiently large phone that pushed me to the SE to begin with. What I think most SE owners wanted was a
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by kolbe 7y ago
The US government has done some of the greatest technological accomplishments in history. The people who did them are largely the Jews who had immense gratitude and pride for being a part of the nation that halted Nazi Germany. It's th
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by kolbe 7y ago
Marx was so popular because he's really great at identifying problems. He could pinpoint exactly what was wrong with far more insight and acuteness than you did. What he never ever could do was propose a better one. We have tried his p
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by kolbe 7y ago
"does anyone doubt that with massive, publicly-funded investment we could not achieve them?" Yes, I very much doubt it in the US at least. We are many generations deep into an extremely nepotistic and corrupt bureaucracy. I have n
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by kolbe 7y ago
How many do overs does socialism get? You can only say "that's not how REAL socialism is supposed to happen" so many times.
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by kolbe 7y ago
I don't think it's too unfair to read deeper into Marc's motives. Salesforce has never been interested in noble pursuits like making high quality products. They've been interested in creating moats to rent seek off of. T
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by kolbe 7y ago
I think one glaring hole is that it’s very hard to incentivize people to maximize someone else’s utility. You don’t just say the words “maximize utility” and it just gets done.
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by kolbe 7y ago
From the article you linked: "The economists calculated that a 10 percent reduction in daily PM2.5 could save $1.1 million in crime costs per year, which they called a 'previously overlooked cost associated with pollution.'&q
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by kolbe 7y ago
Here's the thing about statistics: the effect doesn't need to be seen across everyone. If 50% of people with low cognitive skills experience high income volatility, but only 20% of people with high cognitive skill do, then you&#x2
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by kolbe 7y ago
> Shaw has been said to purchase tickets for several different flights on the same day in case his plans change. Hard to reconcile that with David not choosing to fly private. Maybe he has environmental concerns, but I would guess he exc
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by kolbe 7y ago
Football teams are coed.
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by kolbe 7y ago
LOL. That's a shame. I like children, so I guess I'll just have to stay locked in this naively blissful void that I've been mischaracterizing as a 'brain' my whole life.
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by kolbe 7y ago
It is unjustifiably mean spirited to Julia programmers in general. I admit that it is an unfair characterization of everyone who programs in trendy languages. I just got irritated that he commented with pure snark to what looks like an amaz
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by kolbe 7y ago
I want to learn Julia but I have a very big concern: does it actually alter your personality in a way that makes you condescend to everyone about their inferior programming languages, or is it just that people who already are condescending
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by kolbe 7y ago
Spoken like someone who has never owned a Ferrari.
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by kolbe 7y ago
Do you understand that 'studies' are not necessarily reality? I know the "I fucking love science" crowd has replaced priests with professors, but professors, their data and their logic are also highly fallible. How about
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by kolbe 7y ago
If you think everything is just random, you should educate yourself the impact of superior information sources or technology on producing returns. Are you telling me someone who runs the fastest market data feed between Chicago and New Jers
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by kolbe 7y ago
> When you factor in the money they saved from dodging taxes and how they managed to compound the growth on that money, their returns end up being no more impressive than any other hedge fund. That's a bold claim that you should be
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by kolbe 7y ago
In the time frame tested, Brazil's equity markets fell about 60%. I'm sure more than just 'day traders' failed to make money.
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by kolbe 7y ago
This is just not true, at least in the sense that the LTSE is trying to use the term 'tenure voting'. Right now, every share of a particular security is equally fungible. When Person A sells security X to Person B, the security do
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by kolbe 7y ago
It sounds like the article is about the (proper noun) Long Term Stock Exchange, and whether or not it will make a difference. I tend to think of problems like that in the context of first asking "what is the Long Term Stock Exchange?&q
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by kolbe 7y ago
i.e. there is no exchange that offers tenure voting, and it's not clear that there ever will be one.
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by kolbe 7y ago
But they didn't propose tenure voting. "With respect to CII’s concerns about tenure voting rights, the SEC noted that the LTSE had not yet proposed those rights and that, as a registered exchange, it would be required to file with
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by kolbe 7y ago
Since the LTSE didn't appear to put any of the 'innovative' ideas into their SEC application[1], it shouldn't make any difference for now. [1] https://cooleypubco.com/2019/08/01/ltse-propos
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by kolbe 7y ago
Yep. So, you don't just own the top 500 stocks by market cap. You own a set of stocks that resemble that idea, but are in fact still choices made by S&P. Also notice that stocks don't immediately get dropped when they fall bel
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by kolbe 7y ago
Reminder: "index funds" are also managed by humans. For example, all stocks in the S&P 500 are chosen by Standard & Poors. Stocks are added and removed as they see fit based on various criteria such as profitability, float
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by kolbe 7y ago
> debit cards in the US sound like they're not much better than credit cards the are all better than paper checks
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by kolbe 7y ago
I don't deny that these other systems may be better than the US's, but you do a disservice to your own argument when you intentionally leave out parts of the US money transfer system that don't help your argument. We all know

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