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by mypastself 2y ago
What’s the conspiracy theory? The practice in UAE has long been a matter of public record.
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by mypastself 2y ago
So when you write it’s “all you need to know”, seems like you’re saying that the incorrectness of their methodology is self-evident, which isn’t that obvious to me. Is your objection primarily based on disagreement with the inflation metric
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by mypastself 2y ago
> the fact their graphs show boomers as poorer than X, millenials and Z tells you all you need to know Which graph shows that? All I see is employment, income, and wage increase graphs at the same stage of life for each generation. It sa
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by mypastself 3y ago
Frankly, I didn’t get the purpose of the website at first either. I guess I have an arachnid intellect.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Very interesting, and the likely culprit. Thanks!
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by mypastself 3y ago
Can’t wait for the inevitable book on this topic a few years from now, or at least a Darknet Diaries episode before that. I do wonder when they’ll settle on a likely culprit. A few hours ahead of GMT and doesn’t work on Eastern European hol
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by mypastself 3y ago
I can’t access the web archive link, but is there any further context beyond the headline? Why would we not expect a production company to give editorial notes?
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by mypastself 3y ago
A lot more centralized, in my view.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Was he convicted of that?
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by mypastself 3y ago
Except that even then, an investor can sell their shares. If they couldn’t, no company would ever be able to raise money in a public offering.
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by mypastself 3y ago
The filing references dividends in addition to buybacks, stating that their ratio to R&D indicates anti-competitive behavior.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Discussions on the morality of buybacks are unrelated to the question of whether or not Apple’s ratio of R&D to buybacks (and dividends, which are also referenced in the filing) indicates lack of confidence in the company’s prospects.
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by mypastself 3y ago
If the company (and the industry) is maturing, then buybacks and dividends are indeed a sign of confidence.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Perhaps they aren’t pressing those charges precisely because they believe they wouldn’t have a strong case, then.
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by mypastself 3y ago
“These people” is presumably a set of people quick to find fault in anything a corporation does, which could be a superset of those two groups. Not sure what kind of fallacy that’s supposed to be.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Without getting into whether or not FT’s analysts are correct, wouldn’t redirecting budgets from human employees to AI development also be part of a free market at work? Even more so than responding to zero interest rates and subsequent inc
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by mypastself 3y ago
As another commenter pointed out, you’re essentially betting heavily on tech, which may or may not work. But why bother picking individual stocks if you can get lower expenses and higher rebalancing efficiency for your factor tilt by pickin
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by mypastself 3y ago
Yes, it’s possible that this man is only telling us these things because he wants them to be true. It is also possible most people vehemently opposing the view here are doing the same thing.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Have you tried this for yourself? It’s an approach I assumed would work when I did my first setup, but since there’s really no such thing as primary and secondary (or tertiary) resolver, I quickly realized it did not work consistently on mo
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by mypastself 3y ago
Yes, but e.g. even though the gravitational force exerted by my body affects you only in miniscule amounts, it’s still there. (Miniscule until I manage to stuff my face with enough donuts.)
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by mypastself 3y ago
> [On] 23rd August 1994, the chaotic music duo and performance artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty burned £1m of notes behind a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura. They are not alone in attempting to reduce money’s power… They li
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by mypastself 3y ago
That’s exactly what a GenZ introvert would say!
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by mypastself 3y ago
Moreover, the fact that his later stances seem to ridicule “himself and the Occupy movement” doesn’t make them incompatible with anarchism. It means he reconsidered his earlier beliefs.
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by mypastself 3y ago
The claim that art’s core purpose is societal impact seems to be a common refrain in today’s media, and I completely disagree. Its principal purpose is provoking emotion in the individual. This idea of art teaching you a lesson is likely wh
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by mypastself 3y ago
Because there is no such thing as a totalitarian company, apart from those owned and operated by the state.
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by mypastself 3y ago
I’d lump that group in with preppers, given their conservative political leanings. These seem to hew closer to New Age cults that rose to prominence in the ‘60s and ‘70, except with a more secular bent.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Is anyone else recently getting the idea that these doomers are wishing for a collapse, same as preppers, only on the other side of the political spectrum? I’m not qualified to speculate on the psychological underpinnings of such behavior
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by mypastself 3y ago
There’s also Pi-hole…
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by mypastself 3y ago
I still don’t get it. A fund of what? As the article rightly states, a normal ETF consists of a basket of different companies’ shares. I’d understand if this was marketed as a fund containing various cryptocurrencies, but this is… just Bitc
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by mypastself 3y ago
There’s a solemnity to it that I’ve rarely experienced elsewhere. There’s even something sorrowful about the acoustics of the space, than I wasn’t able to fully grasp rationally.

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