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by marnett 9y ago
Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises is an amazing novel for anyone who has not read it. Some truly amazing characters and social dynamics are laid out in that book. I finished it in one sitting when I read it a few years back, it was a pag
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words are thought. thought forms knowledge. knowledge is power.
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> We" (the government) didn't build it or pay for it. This is not and has not ever been true. Here [1] is an open auction with ~$2 billion in federal aid attached - "a total of $1.98 billion for 10 years." This was la
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Do you recommend Aurelius or Seneca for Stoicism texts? I read a small amount of literature on Seneca and really fell in love with Stoicism.
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> the proof is in the housing prices. I feel like this statement gives more backing to the arguments on luck. Those lucky enough to by an apartment in the peninsula in the 80s, who are gaining the most off of soaring housing costs, are n
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I think he is not interested in epistemology. But I always find discussions on the origins or human knowledge just as fascinating as you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It sounds like you may have already been exposed to it given the con
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You are trying to instigate a bickering match with someone who is trying to educate you on epistemology. Dial down the toxicity and stop letting intellectual discourse fly over your head so swiftly.
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Unfortunately that is an overwhelmingly large amount of people.
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I completely agree, unfortunately the social pressures of most college institutions are pulling many into another direction. I was fortunate enough to have friends who enjoyed nights of stimulating conversation as I do, but many find themse
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> Modern day big-pharma the polio vaccine was released in 1955. My thought experiment literally cannot be "error, wrong, incorrect." I'll solidify my thought experiment to Valeant. Valeant would have bought the polio vacci
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by marnett 9y ago
Have you lived in any of the progressive social-democratic nations? Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, Norway? I think their societal structures are much better suited for the technologically advanced world we live in today.
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What about a social-democratic nation?
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The sample size is 2000 families over 20 years. Better submarine piece here [1]. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324662404578334...
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Modern day big-pharma would have shelved the polio vaccine in place of a daily pill one must take for the remainder of one's life.
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The 'feudal lords' are not the 1%. They would be the .1% or the .01%. I imagine the latter two remain a much more static environment. Also, the 1% in this article is not even defined. After some digging it looks like it is Gross A
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I tried multiple times to try to refute all of the assumptions made in this post, but I gave up. 1) One does not have to be intelligent to be wealthy. 2) Those born wealthy do not have to be intelligent to remain wealthy - they just need no
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Most opportunities for mobility were linked to America being a nation of rapid growth, not because of the kindness of some national ethos. As our growth opportunities slow, you can be sure the haves will do everything in their power to prev
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This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this!
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I think philosophy and sociology are still poor examples - for the most part those subjects are reading, writing, and thinking. When I think of tedious fields that require mostly memorization, I think of medicine and law.
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I was more so pointing out who would be interested in which agencies for influence. They are young and invigorated. We'll have to see how they recover from their big loss on the CFPB Arbitration Rule after the joint resolution from las
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Yes, the standard strategy was not applicable to an industry lacking regulation. This revolving door strategy seems to have been hinged on enacting a regulation that Ripple desired (in order to protect their lead in their market) for a job
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The typical practice of U.S. regulatory agencies is "I'm going to stall all efforts of change and push to repeal previously instated regulations." Then they go and get a massive salaried position at a firm they helped make mo
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This is statement is unfortunately true for every regulatory agency in the U.S. government. - CFPB -> all consumer corporations - FCC -> tech - FTC -> corporations spanning many industries - SEC -> finance - FDA -> big-pharma
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Why not both Goldman and Google? I can't see how knocking off the leader of corrupt capitalism and the infrastructure of the surveillance state wouldn't be a good thing.
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Facebook's literal book of faces will be used by law enforcement to establish/verify alibi, establish/verify presence at the scene of a crime, etc. These tools, no doubt, are being built out with heavy support from the State.
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And now they get to do it again, brought to you by the financial-media institutional axis - now supporting Crypto™!
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That sentence says more powerful, not most powerful. I do believe Goldman Sachs is the more powerful institution of the two we've been discussing - listing off other influential financial institutions doesn't really support th
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Market cap is not everything and saying 'politically connected' is a massive understatement - they are politics. Goldman is the more powerful institution - Google wishes they could have entire administrative cabinets flooded with
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exactly the book I was thinking of when writing my comment! (:
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I think that has a lot more to do with prosecutors never going after executive because they are buddy-buddy. Martin Shkreli is a perfect example of a CEO that can get canned when it is decided he should be.

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