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Part of the problem might be that it became harder for folks to obtain debt (mortgages specifically).
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i find it hilarious that this is a 118 year old technology! Ferdenand Porsche in 1900 presented a sportscar fitted with four electric wheel-hub motors, it was the first all-wheel drive passenger vehicle. Where is the progress? The cars shou
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well the game will continue until you cant service your debt payments anymore. Then you default. Crisis, pain, recession. Rinse then repeat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises
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8y ago
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_total_debt
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Consumer debt is at all time high as well. https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html
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8y ago
more like paying off one credit card with another that has higher APR. Next big crisis might be a sovereign debt crisis on a global scale. The only question is how long this can continue...until SHTF.
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8y ago
it is though. steve jobs treated it and designed it as functional art. unlike most other manufacturers. he did borrow/utilize many ideas from german artists and industrial designers (bauhaus/german modernism/braun design etc.
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8y ago
Is google too big now and may have to be broken down? Is having someone as big as google a good thing for the rest of us? Would society, economies etc benefit from google broken down into several smaller independent companies?
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8y ago
Goldman Sachs limits intern day to 17 hours haha https://www.salon.com/2015/06/18/goldman_sachs_reduces_inter...
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Many just starting out in the finance industry are pulling 80-100 hour weeks with no overtime. If you calculate per hour wages - a waitress gets paid more. BoA intern collapsed and died at work from over working not too long ago. Life goes
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There simply is no way to predict what life will be like in 1 trillion years. We are still riding horses in many parts of the world, we are still killing each other.. its like asking a caveman what the next update to windows will look like.
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8y ago
with opportunity for employees to pick their own lunches.
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8y ago
haha. seriously?
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8y ago
"The scale of America’s opioid epidemic is shocking. It is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history. In 2016 alone, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War and car crashes, gun violence, and HIV/AI
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8y ago
What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... :( You cant overdose and die from MJ use (or its highly unlikely). This whole war o
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8y ago
Even if this was correct thesis you could still lose money on a solid trade idea. Trading is not easy. Plenty of folks were correct on a 2007 market top ... they still managed to lose money ... because they were too early among other things
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8y ago
this is how it starts...
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>> Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? i dont see how they are different from 2017, 2016 ... etc. There is nothing special about start ups its just another business so consider it like one. I'll distill it down
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8y ago
Have you ever watched his shows? There is a sad dark thread going through all of them.. dark humor, his comments on life, interactions with other people etc. She time He made it interesting and very real. The world is not all roses and I th
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8y ago
Oh I hope not. It's going to be worse than Trump.
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8y ago
God damn it Anthony.... The only guy for me worth watching on entire TV. This. Sucks.
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8y ago
Imagine Zuckerberg in jail...?
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8y ago
amazing work on just pi!
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8y ago
honestly $10000 is not a lot of money these days to make someone move to a different state. Make it $50,000-100,000 in tax credits and people will consider. They have to be more aggressive with their offer in order to have any decent amount
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8y ago
They should name the feature smart cruise control. Case closed. IT does not imply self driving capability but rather more advanced cruise control system. Which is basically what it is. Nobody is going to set a cruise control to a certain sp
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ditto
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cruise control - means just controlling cruising speed. thats all. Constant 55mph or whatever speed you desire. Auto pilot literally means vehicle operation without human participation. The name autopilot should be banned.
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how is autopilot feature still allowed to be called auto pilot? it mistakenly leads people to believe that it can drive itself. The name literally means - a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-o
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8y ago
Crazy thought: Hearing loss starts at higher frequencies- so is it possible that we have a large portion of population with hearing issues due to years of abusing technology? (I.e. Loud music in headphones, cars, homes?)
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8y ago
is there a great alternative to gmail for instance that does 99% of what gmail does for very little amount of money?
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