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by rkk3 5y ago
not sure why you would solely put the 08' financial crisis on Goldman... Not that that they really offer many consumer services anyway.
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Surprised they didn't mention anything about nomadic tribes vs farmers.
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Seems like you buy into the media narratives more than data... For most of Covid Florida's performance has been middle of the pack in the US despite having a large elderly population. They've slipped recently but still are only th
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Neither of which were public companies.
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It's common for people to join before funding and be compensated in stock.
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Many people join companies early enough to be compensated in equity, not options and also don't have the title/requirement of "co founder". People also early exercise.
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> This is mostly going to affect not employees, but individual angels. Not sure why you would think this, early stage employee's (ignoring co-founders) are going to have a much larger stake in the business than most angels.
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> Bootcamps have failed one after another. Crowded space and the businesses were service oriented (not infinitely scaling like software) so very different success & risk profiles. For the students... Most were lied to about the outco
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The dataset on Covid is so wildly incomplete to invalidate the objectivity of your entire argument. > competing against such beacons of healthcare and wealth as the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo has had 1.23 deaths per 100k
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> I don't think it's obvious that retail financial services should be added to that list. Neither do I especially, I was only questioning your reasoning for opposing it.
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and selling the exact same product to consumers for widely different amounts.
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> the next entrepreneurs in the field have to compete with the government. So your real problem is that the government offers a service? So we should get rid of public fire departments, police, schools, and roads?
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> the nationalization of things that drain the entire economy. Not sure how you would draw this line. Do we nationalize the apple/google app stores because they are taking 30% cuts? Or Visa/Mastercard/Stripe because they t
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> Nationalizing something is bad because the next entrepreneurs in that field know they won't make money, so they won't build. There is noting implicit that means they don't make money. The process of nationalization doesn
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The police should be enforcing property crime. > The apps failed and bought each other, and now three giants remain: DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub-Seamless "failed", this line of thinking has always been confusing to me give
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Your response is somewhat unintelligible... I was saying what is the impact (damages) if this guy can't post about his software on facebook to his friends and family. Do you even think this would be in the top 100 ways to crush the com
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> Funny how the "safety-ism" after 9/11 was pushed by the Republicans and now the Republicans are complaining about Democrats pushing safety measures against Covid. So your answer is to go sophist ad-hominem, by putting me
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> I doubt this description of "mild" fits most people's concept of the word Hence the ' around mild in the title. But honestly sure they were sick but they did not seriously fear for their lives or require medical att
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> at our current covid death rate, that 45K people happens about every 10 to 15 days. call it two weeks for simplicity's sake. Your math is wrong, 45 /1.5 = 30 But so what? 8,000 people tragically die a day in the US under acce
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It doesn't have to be a conspiracy, there just has to be incentives to keep the fear up.
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> Wearing a mask and social distancing doesn’t preclude you from new experiences. You really can't think of any activity that is diminished by wearing a mask ? 210 Million people (64%) have already been vaccinated in the US, and chi
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> you could have no symptoms at all. you could die. you could suffer serious cognitive effects which eliminate your ability to work, read books, or even watch TV. you could get sick and stay sick for the rest of your life. we don't
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> have the Kardashians (or whoever is the biggest influencer) impacted the world the same way that someone like Rudolph Murdoch has? believe you are referring to Rupert Murdoch. They do have some similarities... both are billionaires wit
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> Gaius Julius Caesar came from an old but not especially wealthy family (his was a cadet branch), worked his way up the system (elected a tribune etc — didn’t start at the bottom!) but made his fortune in the usual way, by running Spain
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> Several hundred thousand people could have been saved in the US if these measures had been taken seriously That is baseless speculation. > Social distancing, closing schools, etc. were proven methods that showed the difference betwe
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Personal attacks aren't welcome on Hackernews. > The ludicrous and horrible price - of wearing masks? Of shutting down schools? of closing borders and separating families, which since you want to trivialize things I didn't brin
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There is a cost, clearly. Also what is benefit? Now the projects creator can't talk about it to his friends and family it's doomed to fail. lol.
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It sounds like you are arguing that there is no level of risk low enough to be ignored, and that there is no such thing as negligible risk. So if there is 2^-500 chance of an alien invasion, lets put a team on it!
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> I remember thinking, well, he smelled and I tried to avoid physical contact, but was there really a need to make him leave A homeless person was going through the garbage in the middle of a fast food restaurant... yeah, I assume that w
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> Yet, it does present a non-negligible risk, Negligible: so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant. The first page of search Mastodon results for me are all about a heavy metal band from Atlanta. Sounds like

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