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by prewett 1y ago
What is "concentrated cash"? Do you have to dilute it down to standard issue bills before spending it? Someone hands you 5 lbs of gold, and have to barter with people to use it? "He didn't need the money. He wasn't
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by prewett 1y ago
I guess if all you have is a hammer... It's certainly easy to blame the rich for everything, but the rich have a tendency to be miserable (the characters in "The Great Gatsby" and "Catcher in the Rye" are illustrati
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by prewett 1y ago
> We don't know that there's anything like our rich inner world in the mind of a chimpanzee, let alone a dog, let alone a lobster. If be "we don't know" you mean we cannot prove, then, sure, but then we don'
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by prewett 1y ago
The article pointedly does not go into why the decrease happened, or what the trend has been. It would be consistent with the facts in the article if the City of Seattle saw Trump's actions with other cities and said, "we don&#x27
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by prewett 1y ago
Lack of technical leadership?! I guess I must be missing something, because from the outside, they've got best CPU, the best battery life, the best VR system, the best privacy, and they seem to have gotten Intel's WiFi chips to wo
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by prewett 1y ago
Neither defaulting on the debt or starting a major war are effective ways to hold on to power, sheesh. He already tried to hold on to power, so you could just look at how he tried last time, that's one of the typical strategies. The ot
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by prewett 1y ago
Debt pulls future income into the present, so yes, the $38T is what we owe to our future selves. The thing is, your present self already knows if your future self is owed something (you own a bond). So writing it off is taking that person&#
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by prewett 1y ago
I didn't say you had to treat the person the same way; you might not like the guy and might not hang out with him. But part of professionalism is being able to work productively with people you strongly disagree with.
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by prewett 1y ago
I note this "tolerance" seems to only go one way. Tolerance means supporting the people I like (e.g. "diverse" people), but it never seems to mean tolerating people I don't like. True tolerance is the reverse: toler
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by prewett 1y ago
> Isn't that rational? If you found that a colleague had views you found personally abhorrent AND you had the luxury of being able to walk away from the job, wouldn't you? I consider that to be immature and highly unprofessiona
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by prewett 1y ago
He might not have been an engineer.
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by prewett 1y ago
The sad part is that they had to do a study to find out that information. I don't think Sam Walton would have needed a study.
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by prewett 1y ago
Another reasonable conclusion is that many people are foolishly over-leveraged. If you buy the biggest/nicest/best house and the priciest you can possibly manage, you will be living paycheck to paycheck almost by definition, since
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by prewett 1y ago
> The ISS is crawling with bacteria. So is your skin. Everything related to Earth is crawling with bacteria. The concentration and species of bacteria on the ISS are what is relevant.
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by prewett 1y ago
My understanding is extorting the government as the single-supplier contract winner is the standard aerospace business plan, apart from SpaceX. Seems to me that if they're going to re-open SpaceX's contract because it's late,
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by prewett 1y ago
If one picture is unimaginative and vulgar, I don't see why doing it 30 years somehow makes it "art". It makes me think he's just angry and rude, just like I'd think about someone who goes around flicking people off
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by prewett 1y ago
> Windows Pioneered "drag and drop" I don't believe that it did. MacOS 1 had drag and drop. You could always drag a document onto a program to open the document with that program. Also, notably, to eject a floppy disk perm
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by prewett 1y ago
Old skool "Sesame Street" was engineered to attract eyeballs, too. They had kids watch an episode and if their attention wandered, they changed the episode. It wasn't pablum, though, so I don't think one implies the othe
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by prewett 1y ago
I think it's hard to argue Trump is going for church-state control, when he never goes to church, practices no Christian virtues, and only ever talks about himself. The guy never partners with anyone; there are just subordinate loyalis
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by prewett 1y ago
I shocked when I tried out the 2019 MBP speakers, they were almost as good as my (low-end) studio headphones. I was even more shocked with the M2 speakers, which are arguably better (although not as flat frequency response, I think, there d
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by prewett 1y ago
Having lived through those days... well, it was good for the time, mostly. MacOS was definitely better than Windows 3.11, and a lot more whimsical, both the OS and Mac software in general, which I miss. The featureset, though, was limited.
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by prewett 1y ago
> Windows only saving grace, as a developer, is WSL. So, Windows' saving grace is being able to run a different operating system inside it? Damning with faint praise if I ever heard it...
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by prewett 1y ago
Feelings are uncorrelated with accuracy. Last year, the US revenue was $4.7 billion [1]. The US population is estimated to be 342 million [2]. If we had no government, we could UBI everyone $13,742/year. This is the maximum we could UB
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by prewett 1y ago
That only works if the stock buyback increases the price permanently. Intel stock buybacks at $50 don't look so great now, but the dividends you got are still worth the same. Buybacks of overpriced stocks also do not benefit investors.
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by prewett 1y ago
It does not lower it in any long-term sense, because, unless it's a one-time dividend, there's another dividend next quarter, and generally assumed to be continuing payments for the foreseeable future if the company is healthy.
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by prewett 1y ago
I like having a dividend. A company like NVDA forces shareholder returns to the whim of the market price, but dividends stabilize things because the stock is actually tangibly worth something. It also forces a certain discipline in the comp
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by prewett 1y ago
Because you were 25 years younger. When you are, say, 20 years old, people >= 20 years old are likely to be interesting, which was pretty much everyone with a web page. When you are 45 years old, writings from 20 year olds are much less
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by prewett 1y ago
There are many ways to use the financial markets that are not gambling. Buying an index fund or Coca-Cola isn’t gambling; it is not even very risky. Nor are individual stocks gambling, as you can get a reasonable idea of what a company’s pr
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by prewett 1y ago
But all your numbers (except maybe top 5% one) are completely made up. Strong beliefs don't prevent one from being completely wrong. Neville Chamberlain has a strong belief that he had ensured peace; Einstein had a strong belief that q
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by prewett 1y ago
Having lived in China, the whole control part that's part of Communism (and Chinese dynasties) drove me nuts. The market economy part, though, that was great. In the late Hu years China seemed like a place where you could get anything

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