leifaffles

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by leifaffles 9y ago
This isn't funny. Not only is CloudFlare's CEO scheming about going after the FCC chairman, but also those who live near him. This is the second time in recent memory that this guy has been worked up by his political feelings and
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by leifaffles 9y ago
This is really damning stuff. It's not healthy when CEOs of major internet companies are scheming with activist journalists to use their companies to punish people who they have personal political disagreements with. Full exchange repr
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CloudFlare CEO Plots to Slow Service for Political Opponents(twitter.com)
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by leifaffles 9y ago
"Make government programs work": An issue politicians seem incapable of prioritizing over giving the government dominion over more areas of American life.
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by leifaffles 9y ago
I think politicians in places like New York should lead by example and show us that much-hyped, long-awaited "smart government" before they angrily demand I support the latest government program.
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Holy moly!
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Two things you miss: 1/ Student loans are not dischargeable in bankrupty. 2/ Today, the government IS the lender. The government has created a system of incentives (even before the student loan industry was nationalized) that enco
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Oh brother. I didn't ignore everything else you wrote. You presented hypotheticals and I explained how we need fewer hypotheticals and more grounding in reality.
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by leifaffles 9y ago
I did. "death due to lack of health insurance" 4 results. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but I think it is important to ground this broader discussion in actual specifics. I keep hearing all these insane stories of people dyi
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Do you have any examples? Which people, which diseases, and who denied them care?
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Or we just avoid this whole mess and create a free market in health care.
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by leifaffles 9y ago
How about on the axis of "believes in white racial superiority"? The claim of the "alt-right" is that Western civilization is intimately tied to the white race. Here's a video of Jared Taylor explaining the "al
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by leifaffles 9y ago
The careless bundling of everyone under the sun into the "alt-right" category is getting out of hand. I don't care what you think about the shitposters on r/The_Donald or Mike Cernovich, but they aren't anything clo
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by leifaffles 9y ago
This is a particularly naive understanding of markets. To restate your argument: there are sometimes unpredictable health care events that arise for which one cannot negotiate, bargain, and price compare in advance. Therefore, price transpa
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by leifaffles 9y ago
TLDR: less rigor, more dogma
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by leifaffles 9y ago
How accurate and complete are measurements across these time periods? Are more recent periods inherently going to have more hurricanes because we now have the capability to detect more hurricanes? How has measurement changed over the past 1
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by leifaffles 9y ago
If the issue isn't fairness, how do you differentiate this view from an embrace of punitive envy politics?
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by leifaffles 9y ago
I still don't think you're appreciating or demonstrating an understanding of how debt affects people's thinking and behavior. I have dozens of friends and family who are in the top 5% of the US population in terms of math ski
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Everything you say is 100% factual. (Except the part about how debt is "how you get rich") And yet, I'd wager than 90% of people who attempt to replicate your success story would wind up worse off for having tried it. The pro
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Some recommended resources: reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ (check out all the links in the sidebar). The advice on this sub is generally much higher quality than r/personalfinance (although less newbie friendly) See
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Also, debt is bad. Debt is the ultimate "blue pill". Ignoring the obvious issues with compound interest in reverse, the far more consequential problem is that it fucks with your head in ways that normally require CIA-style brainwa
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Here are some things that help: * Frugality: deeply understanding the things that bring you satisfaction and skipping the rest * Aggressively saving and investing money * Building a mastery in personal finance But becoming a millionaire isn
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Not much has changed, unfortunately. =/
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by leifaffles 9y ago
This entire article is responding to a straw man. "We can say flatly that there is no evidence that women’s biology makes them incapable of performing at the highest levels in any STEM fields." That's nice. But that's no
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Again, what should he apologize for? You seem to really want him to repent for something. What is it?
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by leifaffles 9y ago
The intentional blurring of the difference between "individuals" and "group averages" is out of control. Here some quotes from the essay that underscore this distinction: > Many of these differences are small and ther
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by leifaffles 9y ago
What should he apologize for? "I'm sorry for telling the truth."?
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Yes, there was misrepresentation. Google's CEO said: “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not O.K.” He said no such thing. This is a cruel smear. Google
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by leifaffles 9y ago
No he doesn't. Please read the memo.
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by leifaffles 9y ago
Nobody is arguing that he is a victim of his "free speech rights" being violated. People are arguing that Google is acting like a thug.

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