resters

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811.
by resters 7y ago
Cognitive biases and the vast cultural/religious narratives around cosmogenesis make it next to impossible to reason about the universe in this way.
812.
by resters 7y ago
I agree with Sam. It's just stupid that people are rooting for the failure of one of the most brilliant and ballsy entrepreneurs we've seen in many years. Those rooting against him deserve to stay in the dark ages.
813.
by resters 7y ago
The negative externalities of Warren Buffet's fortune are truly cataclysmic for the environment.
814.
by resters 7y ago
My point is that this is not the case. When you take out high Federal and State taxes, high rents, tuition, etc., it's about equivalent to $80K/year income without kids. Seriously.
815.
by resters 7y ago
For the past few years I've driven a car that cost under $1K.
816.
by resters 7y ago
The problem isn't the adversity score, it's the admissions practices that reward mediocre performance in rich public school districts. Colleges already weigh a GPA as better if the school district is more wealthy (competitive). S
817.
by resters 7y ago
It depends on where you live. In my case the decision was rational and not due to some desire for status signaling.
818.
by resters 7y ago
Try raising a few kids in a major city and paying private school tuition and child care fees. It easily eats up most of $500K of income.
819.
by resters 7y ago
The US IC and DHS clearly have strategic reasons for wanting to crack down on Russia, as evidenced by the strong level of centrist support for doing so. Crowdstrike decided to make a series of announcements expressing confidence that there
820.
by resters 7y ago
It’s hard not to draw that conclusion.
821.
by resters 7y ago
How many FAA officials used to work at Boeing (or related lobbying firms) or vice versa?
822.
by resters 7y ago
This has been getting more and more clear for a while. I had already lost a lot of respect after Google decided to become a defense contractor, but this is just greedy and antithetical to the values that made most of us start using Google i
823.
by resters 7y ago
It certainly wasn't intended as a troll, fwiw.
824.
by resters 7y ago
Does this include deaths from oil wars?
825.
by resters 7y ago
People who do that kind of thing are just intellectually lazy and most likely prefer an environment where game playing and politics is more important than clear thinking and rationality. Life is too short to work with stupid, intellectually
826.
by resters 7y ago
No, I said it is too soon to tell, and that it has more to do with the balance of power going into the IPO.
827.
by resters 7y ago
> It sounds like the correct conclusion is they still over estimated the market price The bank has every incentive not to do that. The bank must juggle the needs of its various constituencies, preferred investors (who provide capital exp
828.
by resters 7y ago
The investment bank sells a lot of shares to its own preferred clients. If the price then drops (because the initial offering price was too high) those preferred clients lose money. So the bank has every incentive to price it low, and usual
829.
by resters 7y ago
why is that? performance?
830.
by resters 7y ago
> The company that bends over backwards, much farther than the law requires, to enable the surveillance state. This is the key point. Google came of age during the GWB administration, when the folly of trusting government was more clear
831.
by resters 8y ago
> history of tribal and religious warfare in the Middle East Are you claiming that with no US involvement, Al Qaida would have received training and ammunition? > This is even less true... <etc> You are correct about the start
832.
by resters 8y ago
You are overlooking the most significant item. Why was all the information in the war logs classified in the first place? The power to classify information is only legitimately used for very narrow purposes. The war logs show that the US
833.
by resters 8y ago
It's bizarre to have my views characterized as alt-right. > People who blow up Americans are our enemies. The groups doing those things have been funded by the US government quite recently, and would likely not exist if the US gover
834.
by resters 8y ago
And you think the dollars spent on the wars have actually done anything to prevent future attacks such as the ones you mention?
835.
by resters 8y ago
You miss the point of my comment. The group our politicians call enemies may or may not be. If we have actual enemies, we can be sure that they want us to waste as much money as possible on futile wars. If we have actual enemies, we can be
836.
by resters 8y ago
You are assuming that the groups we are told are our enemies are actually enemies, and that they are the most significant enemies.
837.
by resters 8y ago
Not true. So called whataboutism is used to deflect a valid critique and defend an indefensible position. I think people claim whataboutism because they lack an understanding of scope. Assange published secrets, ok. That is possibly a crime
838.
by resters 8y ago
Exactly. Assange tried to help the American people learn about dishonesty and fraud committed by elected officials.
839.
by resters 8y ago
What better way to give aid to our enemies than to conduct an expensive war on false pretenses and illegally classify information that would have likely led to public distaste for the war? Imagine if the leaks showed that the officials wast
840.
by resters 8y ago
What better aid to our enemies than spending trillions on a futile war?

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