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by nverno 5y ago
yes, taxes for example. The Fed has power to print and destroy
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by nverno 5y ago
It's more comparable to people taking a shortcut down a switchback or through a garden. If a few people do it, no big deal, if everyone does it the whole thing falls apart. When I hear about insider trading I don't care one way
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by nverno 5y ago
"I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling." --Malcolm Gladwell The author of this article is operating on the wrong premise- in his own words Gladwell considers himself more a st
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by nverno 5y ago
Well that is certainly true. I seriously doubt anyone is being "targeted" however. Were you unable to vote for some reason?
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by nverno 5y ago
I've never met someone that wanted to vote but couldn't for some reason. Does this actually happen to anyone in reality? This may be a case of preemptive optimization.
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by nverno 5y ago
> there are no other programs out there like Emacs Emacs is the most organic feeling software I've used- it really feels like it has evolved like something in the natural world, with all sorts of warts and wrinkles. Kinda like a p
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by nverno 5y ago
There's a difference between news that is trying to enlighten vs. trying to convince. When I start to feel like the news is doing the latter, I would call it biased.
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by nverno 5y ago
I'm not sure the general trend accounts for this entirely. Annualizing the high 2.7% monthly (??) rate from the WSJ article is still only half that mentioned here. [[ It may actually be yearly, in which case it is barely a dent in the
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by nverno 5y ago
I think you're implying the rich are powerful, which seems rather obvious since being rich is usually the result of being successful in some fashion. I took a quick look into the African American stats you mention from https:/&#x
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by nverno 5y ago
If it was just about political power it wouldn't make much sense given we've had a darker skinned person as president half this century (slight exaggeration), not to mention the current vice president, etc. etc.
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by nverno 5y ago
Well not nothing, we got a nice lesson on how the world works :D
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by nverno 5y ago
They are saying rich people are indirectly financing poor peoples' debt by owning stocks and bonds because corporations are then stockpiling cash. Not very convincing as a causal reason the middle class got buried in debt. Just takin
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by nverno 5y ago
how do you dig a well if you live in the city? Buy water from the grocery store to take showers? cmon, this is ridiculous
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by nverno 5y ago
Yea, it's BS, but the reasoning behind it is the accepted medical uses of cocaine, and none for LSD
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by nverno 5y ago
I don't buy this for a second. As long as people have had homes and been able to store alcohol they've been drinking alone. Just read any piece of literature from the past 2000 years.
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by nverno 5y ago
The best thing about quitting is having that occasional cigarette
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by nverno 5y ago
They are just creating more useless work for lawyers. These policies should be judged by the incentives they create not whatever their stated purpose
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by nverno 5y ago
> "according to a new Harris poll commissioned by Paradigm, a diversity consultancy, more than two-thirds of adults in America want to be able to discuss racial-justice issues at work" Of course it does, they are a diversity co
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by nverno 5y ago
Life is just an ongoing chemical reaction. Maybe in the future people will start empathizing with metal and feel a moral prerogative to stop its oxidation. Larry David may be onto something when he asks 'Do you even respect wood!?&#x27
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by nverno 5y ago
How about just like an Eisenhower or Kennedy or Mandela? Competition isn't a good sign in politics, it just means people havent reached a good consensus.
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by nverno 5y ago
I get the feeling the people behind the proposal aren't doing it for political gain. It sounds like they are fully resigned to their group's lack of political power in the region, and just want some respite. Less competitive elec
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by nverno 5y ago
The only useful stat in the graphic is the bottom one "were injured in a suicide attempt that had to be treated by a doctor or nurse", which seems easily quantifiable and interpretable. Sadly, since they don't show longer te
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by nverno 5y ago
Stopped reading after first line 'Advertisers are motivated by a singular goal, and that is to turn every facet of human existence into an opportunity to show you ads.' I realized this is click bait, but it could still be improved
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by nverno 5y ago
I liked this book as well. Going into it, I was pretty baffled by some of the recent stories I'd heard from academia- Evergreen and the like. This book makes a compelling case that the post 2013 or so era of college kids are victims
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by nverno 5y ago
"systemic racism" is intentionally deceptive language. I think you'd be hard-pressed to constructive uses of this jargon where people are actually trying to solve specific, well-defined problems.
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by nverno 6y ago
Well just make sure you are selling credit spreads and the risk of such events is mitigated
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by nverno 6y ago
The self-righteous arrogance of this author is comical.
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by nverno 6y ago
The article discusses this- excess buys and market volatility lead to increased capital requirements by clearing houses, so it wasn't necessarily specific to robinhood.
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by nverno 6y ago
Simply a general mistrust of big centralized government doesn't sound so negative.
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by nverno 6y ago
Agreed. It sounds like the author is envisioning a society where regulators have a hell of a lot of power- would every price change a company made need to be given the OK? I guess the litagators would have a field day. Doesn't every p

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