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by nemo44x 3y ago
Then your understanding is misinformed I’m sorry to report. CEOs are generally top level business people and most business people can’t play at their level. There are exceptions but the system cycles poor performers out much like the NBA do
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Why does LeBron James make so much more than the ball boy and concession stand workers and ushers? A CEO that delivers alpha deserves a big cut of that. The board exists to hire leaders that can deliver alpha. A good deal fail to. But the o
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by nemo44x 3y ago
The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
What that means is that it takes parents and extended family and the close-knit community you'd find from a church and from schools, for example. Millions of people do this today. It's odd to see people think this is a revelation
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by nemo44x 3y ago
You need to go back a bit further than that. By the 1970s single motherhood was already being incentivized through policy. Once initially for rare hard luck cases, policy went from supporting single mothers to essentially encouraging it. St
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Pretty much. All in all they’ve been a very poor investment for home owners in America. At best you break even after ~20 years if they’re even still functional. Could change as tech improves but as of today they are pointless for most peopl
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by nemo44x 3y ago
It’s just another way of increasing margins and justifying it with platitudes about environmentalism. Corporations co-opting things for profit. It’s why you can’t get a paper bag at many grocery stores today. Those bags cost them a lot of m
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Rich people pay almost all the taxes. America isn’t perfect but it’s pretty good overall. The government is made up of the people. Complaining about it like it’s the cable company not delivering good enough service is ridiculous. Get in the
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Food isn’t speech.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
No they don’t. There is no case law or constitution or bill that says you have this right. You have no rights to this private property. The state can have all the interests it wants but we have laws including property laws. The state can’t
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by nemo44x 3y ago
All the people holding trillions in treasuries. The people invested in USA markets. Etc.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
In terms of saying racist things, it is. It’s just words. Despicable words but just words none the less. I’m not saying being offended is wrong but rather you have no right to not be offended. If someone wants to stand on the street corner
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Actually all my comments in this thread are at 1 and one of them at 2. It has been all over the place up and down. And just because a comment is downvoted here doesn’t mean it’s bad or wrong. In fact look at all the engagement it has create
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> So maybe the point where we disagree is that I literally believe that e.g. a person who has been born with a dark skin has the right not to be discriminated against — and that it is the job of a government to ensure that these rights a
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> What philosophical, moral, or economical principle are you basing this off of? The Enlightenment - free speech and liberty. They are a speech platform and should not be infringed on upon by the government. The people, ergo the market,
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Corporations are made of people and are protected from government tyranny. This is case law. No one has a right to not be offended. Race, sex, etc are arbitrary things. Why not add weight, hair color, accent, etc to the list? No - what it m
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> Or would you rather they just continuing applying their own unaccountable and secret moderation with no consequences or oversight? Yes, it is their business. If people don't like that and advertisers, etc don't like that then
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by nemo44x 3y ago
I didn't realize how draconian and big brother-ish the law was: > AB 587 passed in September 2022, requiring social media platforms to submit a "terms of service report" semi-annually to California's attorney general,
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by nemo44x 3y ago
The backing implies the military. A strong military is necessary for any independent, thriving state. The USA economy is the most dynamic and powerful in the world by a large margin. People want their wealth backed by this and will pay a pr
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by nemo44x 3y ago
One of the secrets to NYC style pizza is flour that’s not only super high in gluten (14%+) but also bromated. All Trumps flour is commonly used since it’s so stretchy and manageable and creates great pizza dough. Of course the issue being t
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by nemo44x 3y ago
You can make just about everything in a home oven except Neapolitan.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Yeah, every town has this style. And it’s fine but it’s sort of been overexposed and I’m not sure why it has a “Chicago Style” name other than people covering for their more famous deep dish style which is at once terrible and amazing.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Those handrails are incredible. That’s the kind of thing worth paying for custom work if you own a fine home.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Pick up some MIG welding gear and an angle grinder and watch a few YouTube videos. You’ll be making crazy things in no time.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Isn’t the issue the screws tearing through the soft wood and/or engineered wood?
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by nemo44x 3y ago
You can get great furniture today that is made from stain grade hardwood and uses high quality fabrics. But it’s expensive. It always has been. Quality, heirloom furniture was never the domain of regular people. It’s through mass production
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> To get grants in academia now (particularly in some spaces), you have to justify how it will have some form of social justice impact. Correct. You need to show that your grant can “change the world” which is just another way of saying
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> I see the modern era as directly linked to the machine age. Agreed. I'd qualify further and say the mechanical machine age was to modernism as the digital machine age is to post modernism. From steam to screens. > we are in the
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by nemo44x 3y ago
I wish architects could design decent residential houses at scale but alas, costs are often the overriding driver. Even still, it seems like many houses are designed from the inside out today. Some of the ways post modernism has influenced
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by nemo44x 3y ago
I hope you enjoy it. It’s really great imo. I was stuck in the hospital for a couple weeks when I read the book. It’s remarkable and Robert Hughes was one of those rare critics that was a sort of teacher and philosopher who loved the things

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