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by padobson 11y ago
I love running and I love praying. I can confirm that there is some overlap in the benefits of each.
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by padobson 11y ago
From the article: “I live by morals, I don’t live by laws,” Hotz declared in the story. “Laws are something made by assholes.”
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by padobson 11y ago
2. If none, what channel or mechanism is perpetuating something that everybody knows is a bad deal? This. As I said in another reply to my OP, the government is backing these loans, which makes everyone think they're golden - and tha
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by padobson 11y ago
This may be the big problem. That said, it's possible we end up with a timing problem. What happens if Medicare, Social Security, and the Department of Education all become insolvent at the same time? The political pressure will almost
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by padobson 11y ago
I thought the article did a good job: Sofia is one of 7 million former students in default on a record $115 billion of federal loans Education Management settled with the government in November for almost $100 million over alleged illega
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by padobson 11y ago
Take notes. There'll be money to be made shorting some of these public companies when the student loan bubble bursts and/or everyone starts to realize a university education isn't the only path to prosperity.
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by padobson 11y ago
[...] the 3 million total would have to mean Sony only gets a <5% attachment rate. Not likely. Attach rates for hardware add-on to a video game console are historically horrible. They might be lucky to get 5%. And for gaming, it's
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by padobson 11y ago
I run a 4plex. It's not really passive income, but the income:time invested ratio is much better than my programming salary. The single best piece of advice I can give is to provide a great experience for your guests and have a high pr
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by padobson 11y ago
Based on my experience, there doesn't seem to be much overlap between the type of charismatic pitch founder capable of raising money and getting people to work for less than their market rate, and the bean counter-oversight founder cap
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by padobson 11y ago
Isn't using the right projection for a certain geography a solved problem in cartography? This article seems like it's saying: "Here's a common problem for mapmakers that you didn't know!"
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by padobson 11y ago
I can't read this article, or others like it, without feeling like something is wrong. What kind of society would force someone to travel from Paris to New York to Sioux Falls, where they have to take up residence for 90 days, so they
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by padobson 11y ago
I completely agree that if the purpose of a marriage (or life in general) is to maximize enjoyment, then you definitely don't want to build it around self sacrifice. An equally commendable goal, I think, is to become a more caring, emp
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by padobson 11y ago
The beauty of making Swift open source means that changes to the language will be influenced by the broader community. If Apple finds this kind of thing useful, then perhaps the APIs will get the same treatment and we'll start to see a
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by padobson 11y ago
Let's say I wanted to prove to a future employer that I had learned how t build a distributed system with a practical example, but my current employer doesn't require a distributed system. How could I go about doing this in a side
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by padobson 11y ago
In a new code of conduct, the EU insisted that all members (as well as those jurisdictions that wanted equal access to its market, such as Jersey) tax local and non-local companies the same. This was the turning point for Jersey, in case
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by padobson 11y ago
Co-dependency is definitely something to watch out for. I've read a number of books on the subject, and I'm a little surprised I was interpreted that way. There's a huge difference between healthy support and enabling bad beh
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by padobson 11y ago
Marriage requires time, energy, empathy. It requires mental, physical, emotional and spiritual support. A successful marriage forces two people to put the success of the marriage above their individual successes. No institution that I know
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by padobson 11y ago
Without knowledge of NBC/CBS/Fox's internal balance sheets, this seems unlikely. I'll concede that I don't know them any better than anyone else speculating on the matter, but I know for sure that all three networ
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by padobson 11y ago
NBC, CBS, and FOX are all as reliant on cable subscription revenues to pay for their NFL contracts as ESPN. ESPN isn't losing subs because people are calling their cable companies and saying "I don't want ESPN". They&#x2
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by padobson 11y ago
Don’t buy ESPN’s PR talk that its 7 million-household dip in subscribers is just a blip. When ESPN was adding subscribers, the $6.50 per-month-per-subscriber it charges to every cable operator meant $78 of additional annual profit for ea
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by padobson 11y ago
Automation is constantly eating the need for human labor, but every time that happens, the entrepreneurship barrier to entry is reduced. We spent the last 50 years working to making the biggest barrier to entry for entrepreneurship (wrangli
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by padobson 11y ago
Required viewing: https://youtu.be/X48G7Y0VWW4
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by padobson 11y ago
Completely agree. If these companies were impacting the culture as much as their products, entrepreneurship would be the career path dujour, but entrepreneurship rates are actually in decline.
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by padobson 11y ago
This bit: Singular they was Word of the Year back in 1365, when it first appeared in English as a gender-neutral English pronoun. It won again in 1885, when it was praised in the Atlanta Constitution for triumphing over the ignorant opposi
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by padobson 11y ago
Any materials out there on ways implement this? I'd love to read up on it further.
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by padobson 11y ago
You can't be serious - there isn't any unowned land out there. You can buy land for less than $2,000 per acre in just about every inland state in the US. A cursory glance at Zillow shows that even Rhode Island has sub-$100k&#x2F
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by padobson 11y ago
Which is why I find the "base income" suggestions so prevalent in this thread somewhat disturbing. The government is more likely to exacerbate this problem than solve it.
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by padobson 11y ago
If not, you'll end up paying your decentralised returns back and more in rent. Property is the ultimate centralised store of capital. I think this would assume that decentralized investments won't be able to afford autonomous, o
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by padobson 11y ago
Optimist: Look how good things are getting, we're only a few generations away from universal prosperity! Pessimist: Look how good things have been, we're clearly only a few generations away from this prosperity bubble bursting.
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by padobson 11y ago
Capitalism is about the flow of capital. Most people don't have capital, so they have to trade their labor for a small amount with people that do have capital, who are only trading it to get more capital. Articles like this assume that

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