motioncuty

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by motioncuty 5y ago
Yes. The planned directive is a fiduciary duty to maximize profit for shareholders in combination with a lack of protection for those who face the externalities of these incorporated entities. We are maximizing for capital growth rather tha
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by motioncuty 5y ago
The retina screen alone would cost $400+ for a windows. And the Mac is much more of a pro tool when doing creative work. My windows machines always crash on me.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Our democratic Governments are ultimately held accountable by voters and not their fiduciary obligation to maximize profit for shareholders. There is a more humanist element to governments.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
A metaverse is just the republic of facebook. Its really uncomforting for such an entity devoid of humanistic incentives(and rather a asocial ceo with a fiducial obligation to his share holders) will be able to create a plane of virtual rea
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by motioncuty 5y ago
And this is where interviewing gets hard. Are we really going to not hire someone because hash table is O(n) in the worst case but O(1) on average. It seems like half the time there isnt a match, the interviewer is just as wrong as the cand
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Hey, lets link up. Does HN have dm's?
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Yup, mortgages are around 3% and the fed rate is near 0 for the next year or 2. If inflation averages over 3% per year, you are getting paid the difference to borrow.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
But when you take out a morgage you can leverage 800k of the banks money at negative real interrst rates, effectively paying you tens of thousands over the course of the loan and any appreciation of that asset gets multiplied by 5x on your
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by motioncuty 5y ago
How is that possible, its surrounded by a national forrest necessarily creating a regulatory interference.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
The issue is that all the business models in Tahoe seem to be failing, you can't have a modern town without a coffee shop, but the business cant generate enough to pay a few year round employees to live in comuting distance. A town can
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by motioncuty 5y ago
These towns are owned in many ways by Vail resorts. Economically and politically.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
And then you are stuck at the will of that one company. My first roommate in a mountain town was not like by his manager, got fired and kicked out of company housing. Many people will take shelter in their cars in the national forrest for t
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by motioncuty 5y ago
I was built to work a lottle bit everyday as part of a loving tribe, with a wide variety of skills and a direct experience of the fruits of my labor. Get me that and work becomes a blessing.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
"carefully thought through what it is you want to do with that freedom" I used to think this way, now I severely disagree, I think nowwhat you want in life cant be anticipated with thought, it can only be hewn out of a rough stone
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by motioncuty 5y ago
The most applicable knowledge I ever got was from a seasoned vet seeing promise in me and taking me under their wing as a mentee. 2 people in 2 different careers helped shape my path and gave me a perspective of the world that my parents an
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by motioncuty 5y ago
I grew up wanting to be an architect, so I became a software engineer. Theres less red tape and more funding in the ether. If you do UI, its essentially the abstraction of the architect profession. Looking forward to an immersive vr web whe
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Where do people get off with this no real world use argument. There are traditional financial institutions at this very moment using ethereum, private blockchains, to run financial services.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
And home owners tend to vote in elections, especially local ones.
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Is a bathtub full if it just got started filling at a high rate?
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Combustion creates all sorts of carcinogens. Even wood. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
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by motioncuty 5y ago
Do you see no value in throwing these "dumb contracts" out there and seeing what happens? An expensive experiment for the speculators, but we got to the moon on a roman candle iterated a billion times, so I'm personally just
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by motioncuty 5y ago
I think you are missing the point of these high protein diet fads. It's structured to replace conventional highly processed carb diets with something appealing/tasty and ultimately filling. It's a ween off the bad habit diets