lintiness

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by lintiness 10y ago
i have no idea what i've just read. is this a book review, a scholarly article review, what? about the only thing i have gathered from it is the author doesn't like wolfe's ideas very much.
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by lintiness 10y ago
the phones were great because they were universally unlocked (rare). the camera on my nexus 5 is trash, however.
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by lintiness 10y ago
my nexus 5 camera is absolute garbage.
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by lintiness 10y ago
with terminal cancer, you get time to set your life in order, say goodbye to your friends and family, and try to make a difference (pertinent given the example set by p).
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by lintiness 10y ago
of course you don't. romney's probably the single most experienced, best qualified candidate for president the nation's ever seen. that you believe a woman who's ridden the coattails of her husband to office is somehow
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by lintiness 10y ago
let me guess, romney was "too robotic" and "didn't stand for anything" ... ?
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by lintiness 10y ago
uh, you couldn't know what was going to happen a year later when voting in 2000.
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by lintiness 10y ago
libertarians are far more "liberal" than democrats.
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by lintiness 10y ago
he didn't oppose the right to vote; he said not everyone should vote. and please, just because you think we'd never have heard of hillary if her husband hadn't been president does NOT make her "comically unqualified&qu
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by lintiness 10y ago
the argument the article made was that financial barriers made science inaccessible. ubiquitous exposure (google news) makes the argument nonsensical. if you think you can't master high school science today (the argument) without bun
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by lintiness 10y ago
i'm pretty sure that's exactly what i said.
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by lintiness 10y ago
i'm sorry, but technology is making access to science easy enough that "my high school can't afford to offer that bio class" excuse just doesn't work anymore. hell, even news aggs like google offer a science sectio
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by lintiness 10y ago
the virtue in doing is that it's a lot harder than not doing.
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by lintiness 10y ago
there is NOTHING magical in thinking that managing global interest rates PREDICTABLY impacts economic behavior.
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by lintiness 10y ago
you're the one who posted the return on these bills. it's pretty clear they need to figure something else out anyway, right?
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by lintiness 10y ago
your post reminded me of a very salient point: tolkien's artwork / drawings are AMAZING. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/tolkien-artist-illu...
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by lintiness 10y ago
maybe it was so obvious it didn't need linking.
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by lintiness 10y ago
you don't think "political instability and so on" are related to chasing charity?
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by lintiness 10y ago
goddamn am i boring.
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by lintiness 10y ago
are you arguing against the gospel of the up every year forever s&p500?
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by lintiness 10y ago
sorry, but "always be in the market" is a rule predicated on a period of history that's been especially kind to the good ole' usofa. there is absolutely no guarantee or even reason to believe in a guarantee of the same
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by lintiness 10y ago
i look at linkedin once a week or so; my "feed" has become some strange alternate universe of political nonsense masquerading as professional networking.
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by lintiness 10y ago
linkedin has become something very weird.
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by lintiness 10y ago
not sure why, but the use of the word "wrong" just bothers me. why can't a gambling addict be an experimental variation that MAY result in something game-changing (i'd bet a lot of the greatest entrepreneurs are basical
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by lintiness 10y ago
your response intrigued me, because on the one hand you said we needed to spend endless hours overcoming our mental weaknesses, then described how you'd overcome it by devoting next to no time to it at all. most professionals in the m
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by lintiness 10y ago
or buffett, "be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."
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by lintiness 10y ago
more along the lines of: the government that can't seem to make anything cheap ever and that is mostly lying and full of shit all the time wants control of my WHAT?
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by lintiness 10y ago
what you pay for advair should have little / nothing to do with your plan deductible. you should still get a negotiated, lower than retail price for drugs.
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by lintiness 10y ago
you don't see high interest rates because the banks are undermining the currency by buying their own debt (lowering their interest rates). not sure what the rest of your post is addressing. i'm familiar with deflation.
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by lintiness 10y ago
another way to think about high asset prices is fear of owning currency. it's not irrational given the willingness of central banks to debase money.

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