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by moolcool 6y ago
The "BY" in "NIMBY" gets larger with nuclear imo. Nobody cares if a coal plant is built miles out of town, but sentiment is big that nobody wants a nuclear plant in their state
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by moolcool 6y ago
Because NIMBYs
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by moolcool 6y ago
And what if instead of paying those people to d̶e̶v̶e̶l̶o̶p̶ ̶w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶s̶ be in the military, we paid them to develop tech and infrastructure that would provide utility to every day people?
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by moolcool 6y ago
The implication of my post is that those wars were not "because there were malevolent people in the world who posed a direct threat to the nation". The US could just as well not have not gone to war in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afg
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by moolcool 6y ago
Oh I agree, but during the Trump years he (and even W. Bush) were lionized as these "class act" figures just because they didn't tweet recklessly, as if there's any class to their foreign policy.
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by moolcool 6y ago
Beware "rough men" who project themselves be "compassionate and wise", lest you end up with a John McCain-type who says all the right things at home, but then wants to kill people overseas for profit.
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by moolcool 6y ago
The last time the US went into a war because there were malevolent people in the world who posed a direct threat to the nation was in the 1940s
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by moolcool 6y ago
With 10 years of experience, and ability to solve most problems given (even if it is hacky), I think junior is WAY too uncharitable.
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by moolcool 6y ago
Besides all of the other reasons this is a terrible product, it's name is also way too close to that of the defunct Toyota offshoot "Scion".
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by moolcool 6y ago
Remember in the 90's when conventional wisdom was "Never use your real name on the internet"?
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by moolcool 6y ago
Does this factor in home heating as well? If your house uses electric heat, the power used by a mining rig would pretty much 1:1 offset the power used by an electric heater. There's even people who build miners specifically to serve as
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by moolcool 6y ago
I fell down the Soviet photography rabbit hole, and it's so much fun. You can just experiment with different lenses, cameras, and focal lengths for a fraction of the cost, and usually without sacrificing much quality. I picked up a Zor
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by moolcool 6y ago
Payola laws should be extended to include Spotify pay-to-play IMO
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by moolcool 6y ago
https://i.imgur.com/iAPlVCr.mp4
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by moolcool 6y ago
"Support business which rely on ads to reach customers" Well if you put it that way... still no.
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by moolcool 6y ago
I can't find any documentation that a short squeeze is illegal. Can you?
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by moolcool 6y ago
I hate this sentiment so much. As if it's a bad thing that Wall Street gangster hedge funds are finally feeling the squeeze that they put on everyday working people, just because some of the money they control is pension money or unive
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by moolcool 6y ago
I swear, GME is the feel-good story of the year.
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by moolcool 6y ago
"To be clear, this was a risk-management decision, and was not made on the direction of the market makers we route to." Uh huh...
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by moolcool 6y ago
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1354839676482367488
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by moolcool 6y ago
Literally this case
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by moolcool 6y ago
Some of them are really intelligent investors who know what they're doing, and some others are jumping on the bandwagon and don't really understand what's going on.
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by moolcool 6y ago
You can make that argument about literally any retail investing. Of course it's a gamble, it's right in the title. Wall Street Bets .
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by moolcool 6y ago
So what?
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by moolcool 6y ago
Where have you been? TSLA was one of the biggest meme stocks and WSB won big.
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by moolcool 6y ago
Every thread about WSB has comments like this, pretending that tons of stupid kids haven't made fortunes rolling the dice on meme stocks. You ignore or misunderstand what's going on at your own peril.
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by moolcool 6y ago
Just because PG/YC has success doesn't mean that a lot of those posts aren't "third beer" observations. PG's essays didn't start the companies, and they're fair-game for criticism IMO.
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by moolcool 6y ago
It's not a fool-proof link though. Tons of public access points, work/school networks, and multi-tenant home networks.
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by moolcool 6y ago
Similarly, remember the conventional wisdom in the 90's of "To stay safe, don't use your real name online"? But today real-name policies are in place apparently to "keep us safe online".
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by moolcool 6y ago
Facebook's impact on the world today isn't sensationalized (quite the opposite), nor is it exclusive to American politics.

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