marcusverus

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by marcusverus 3mo ago
Do yourself a favor and DCA in from here. SpaceX was "only" valued at 210 Billion back in June 2024, around 11% of its current valuation. A return to that valuation would take it down to ~$16/share! SpaceX is a phenomenal com
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
If these figure represent actual deaths (big if), those people will have died because literally nobody on earth was willing to pay to keep them alive--yourself included.
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
L̶a̶u̶n̶c̶h̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶F̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶.̶ ̶ ̶F̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶n̶’̶t̶ ̶e̶c̶o̶n̶o̶m̶i̶c̶a̶l̶.̶ ̶ ̶M̶e̶g̶a̶c̶o̶n̶s̶t̶a̶l̶
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
If you remove the word abject, the argument is: > half of the US is living in poverty This statement is also false. > I encourage you to try to live on anywhere from $7 to $15 an hour That's the bottom quintile, not the bottom ha
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
It's actually far better than that! When people hear "poverty rate", they think "the percentage of people living in poverty". That's not what the census data on poverty is reporting, though. The census data is
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
The United States doles out >$30K/year in welfare spending for each person (not household, each person ) under the poverty line. And that's just HUD/SNAP/Medicaid. The idea that any significant portion of the US is l
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
"Don't leave us or we'll kill you" isn't the pro-EU argument you seem to think it is.
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
Ah yes, economists are famously capable of accurately projecting a decade in the future.
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
Nobody has to condition me to see a useful robot as being worth 20K+. Being able to offload domestic labor would be a huge win. So would the more subtle benefits of living in a home that is always in pristine condition. Once they're ab
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by marcusverus 4mo ago
DCA
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
The Democrat election messaging that caused border encounters to ~3X immediately after Biden was elected, obviously. https://archive.is/QKk0l#selection-923.73-930.0 https://dgcjnpzq7j07id.archive.is/QKk0l&#x
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
Democrats actively encouraged more than 10 million illegals to pour into the country during the previous administration. They lied about it and downplayed it for three years, and then (when election season rolled around) they talked tough a
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
> 10% of the population being able to put major policies to a referendum is a bit silly. I think it's fantastic, actually. If the US had such a mechanism in place, we'd get term limits passed in a jiffy! In the absence of such
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
> I’ll cut against the grain here and say it’s ABSOLUTELY appropriate for taxpayers to pay the bill here. It's one thing to agree that he should be compensated (I agree), but the figure doesn't make much sense. Per the article:
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
Both can be true. Democrats tend to dominate the lowest income quintile, while Republicans tend to win the second and third quintiles. So if you're only looking at the bottom quintile, Democrats would win that cohort. If you combine th
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
Who said anything about revoking drivers licenses?
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
You have successfully rebutted my use of the word "mass". What about the substance of the argument?
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
This rude reddit stuff, this snarky ignorance-as-an-argument junk, is just so demeaning. The role of the entrepreneur is to organize labor and capital in pursuit of their goals. The achievement of said goals can obviously be attributed to t
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by marcusverus 5mo ago
The first catch of Super Heavy by the chopsticks was 18 months ago. Tesla started mass production of a dedicated, steering-wheel-free robotaxi five days ago. The first flight of the new Raptor 3 engine should happen any day now. Elon is doi
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
The definition of usury hasn't changed in 200 years. From Webster's 1828 Edition: U'SURY, noun s as z. [Latin usura, from utor, to use.] 1. Formerly, interest; or a premium paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money.
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
There is something insidious about the state forcing a citizen to pay for its services, only turn around and insist that the use of said services entitles the state to further control of the citizen.
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
Only if it could be done in an apolitical way, which seems impossible in the current political climate. The legitimacy of the US Federal Government depends on the perceived continuity of the (now mythical) constitutional order. If one party
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
The power of the judiciary to "interpret" the constitution was a huge chink in the armor of the Constitutional order. A handful of unelected judges can effectively amend the constitution via simple majority, but can only be "
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
On being interrupted, "It's difficult to describe. Something like a physical sensation." This is extremely relatable. I'm pretty confident that this physical sensation is related to my (rather severely) limited working m
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
(100%, 100%)
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
> the current administration is hell bent on undermining and underestimating everyone and everything Welp, that's enough reddit for today.
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by marcusverus 6mo ago
Carriers are OP against middle powers, but they would be toast against another major power.
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by marcusverus 7mo ago
Yep, I think you're spot on. If you're familiar with Ray Kurzweil's work, I wonder whether this phenomenon might be related. Kurzweil notes that better technology begets better technology in a self-reinforcing and ever-accele
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by marcusverus 7mo ago
The trick is to acknowledge the market as the main mechanism at play, and have the sense to work around the margins. When the tinkerers get too enthusiastic, they tend to do more harm than good.
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by marcusverus 7mo ago
I think you're both right. Those were great opportunities, but the proportion of such opportunities which are made available to retail traders has greatly diminished over time. There's a great chart out there somewhere (I couldn&#

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