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by notfromhere 2y ago
It’s overvalued relative to its actual business, which is by definition hype
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by notfromhere 2y ago
It’s relevant to the subject since he owns it.
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by notfromhere 2y ago
also trees are wet inside, houses are not. fresh wood doesnt burn easily
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by notfromhere 2y ago
You’ve never seen a first world house with central air?
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by notfromhere 2y ago
We did. The U.S. is really more of a low volume, high end manufacturer. We don’t have the ability to do the same kind of industrial mobilization we did in ww2.
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by notfromhere 2y ago
If you’re moving around and walking, you don’t get as hungry. Outside of a handful of cities in the us, most of the country is basically designed to limit walking
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by notfromhere 2y ago
Banks in the us usually just originate them then promptly sell them to Fannie May. Otherwise they just handle payments, etc.
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by notfromhere 2y ago
That’s a sentence you can say if you don’t find yourself or a loved one on that plane.
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by notfromhere 2y ago
There is this notion that white collar crime is complicated but it’s really just lying, stealing, or cheating
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by notfromhere 2y ago
It’s the natural end result of the consumer price standard for antitrust
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by notfromhere 2y ago
Yes, very easily. Go to a second or third world country and you will see what a bad government looks like. The stability of western governance breeds the idea that this is just the natural state of things. Same thing with anti-vaxxers think
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by notfromhere 3y ago
I grew up in Soviet style housing and every apt building had a playground for kids right outside of it. Traffic really wasn’t an issue, the main roads were in front of the building and the playgrounds behind them. It would not be hard to de
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by notfromhere 3y ago
U.S. house districts are like 700k persons. The local community knowledge is already not happening
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by notfromhere 3y ago
It’s not a nerve. Using a poorly run company as an example of success is very bizarre.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
You mean the place that lost half its revenue, is down 70% on valuation, and its team unable to release any meaningful updates or maintain platform stability?
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by notfromhere 3y ago
European party coalitions change all the time, what are you even talking about. You can easily go start a new party and get into parliament since many EU countries have proportionate representation.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
In Saudi the monarchs wild real power. In Europe, its window dressing.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Social media personalities aren't replacements for actual journalism. Tons of Twittermill journalism just ends up being dead wrong, misinformed, or missing a ton of key context.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
There is no evidence that those mechanisms will last longer than the pollution from the landfill. Nor should we base plans on "nothing bad will definitely happen"
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by notfromhere 3y ago
People knock intellectuals because they don't give straight answers and say things are complicated. So they elect the first idiot that offers them an easy, feel-good solution to problems despite how dubious those solutions are. I guess
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Human-driven climate change is a scientific consensus at this point. Denying it is like arguing the world is flat.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Slicing the state to zero and instating hard right social policies is not going to fix anything. Argentina needs a steady hand at the wheel, not this nut job.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Have you looked into his policies at all?
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by notfromhere 3y ago
It's a wrecking ball. These far right politicians always start and end the same way.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
I like how CEO performance has no null hypothesis
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Honestly no coping strategy worked until I got medicated. Then it all became so simple and easy to do.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
This isn’t accurate. Holding down a job is not a criteria because people learn to compensate. But those compensation mechanisms eventually stop working and I guarantee that persons life outside of their job is a complete dumpster fire.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Unless they’re hiring exclusively other Thiel fellows, a complete red herring. The type of deep knowledge to do things and not just form startups requires an actual education.
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by notfromhere 3y ago
Luck is definitely something you can increase to a point. Luck is basically seemingly random events going your way in a positive way. If you do more things, you’ll have more interactions and more chances those go well. Luck is just probabil
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by notfromhere 3y ago
White working class people don’t, others definitely do. You can’t just generalize like that. Working class people aren’t even inherently apolitical, they just don’t vote and aren’t taught that voting changes things like middle and upper cla

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