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by robswc 4y ago
Assuming he's innocent, what was a better course of action? I'd probably do the same thing. It may have been 2 hours before this story but he's been putting out "controversial" tweets for months. I also have someon
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by robswc 4y ago
Realistically, what is the other option? Seems that would be just as expensive and risk public attention (even if its completely false).
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by robswc 4y ago
He's been "laying the ground work" long before this happened, not at all the first time he's taken shots at "leftists." Insider says they contacted him 9am yesterday.
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by robswc 4y ago
Does it say when Insider contacted Musk?
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by robswc 4y ago
Fair. I think it just comes down to preference. Not sure if you can say one is better than the other. I had always just assumed everywhere had AC. Oddly enough, seemed like lots of buildings had it while the houses/apartments didn&
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by robswc 4y ago
Yep, that's another good example. Plumbing has always been an issue in the older houses I've been in mostly because it's next to impossible to change it.
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by robswc 4y ago
Haha nice, respectable, you're crazy for that though! Perhaps its the climate too though. There's a cottage I stay at sometimes and it's so old, has no AC and practically suicidal when there's humidity.
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by robswc 4y ago
I used to think this was silly advice but every day I only agree with it more and more. Something about online comments (twitter in particular) gives off the vibe that they're more reactions than well thought out comments.
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by robswc 4y ago
What sort of structures? And how are you deciding "nice" ? I do believe you, its just when I think of a nice structure to live in, good HVAC is a must and lots of place in Europe simply don't have AC... can't speak as to
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by robswc 4y ago
Very respectable. On a side note though, I often see people complain about how things aren't "built to last" anymore and sometimes I wonder (as a person naive to construction) is that even a good thing? I've lived in a
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by robswc 4y ago
This just demonstrates how silly ESG really is. Could really care less if a company has an active PR effort. Who even says that's a good thing? Can't count the number of tone deaf press releases that just make the company look
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by robswc 4y ago
> Oil companies rank high on ESG metrics because they don't actually burn the petroleum oil that they extract. Seems to just make ESG look ridiculous. Drug cartels rank high on my "Community Benefit Metric" because they pr
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by robswc 4y ago
Ah yea, the beacons of non-planet destroying companies like Exxon...
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by robswc 4y ago
ESG reminds me of those awards that are basically pay to play. Seems like you get a high ESG if you just check some boxes and play nice. Completely subjective/ridiculous metric.
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by robswc 4y ago
Normally I find these frivolous but I can attest to those alerts being really, really loud lol. I get why they have to be loud though, just maybe have an 80% setting... That said, if they can prove it was really the AirPods then by all mea
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by robswc 4y ago
Gets even better, scrolled down a bit and saw this entry: https://www.winknews.com/2020/01/31/state-troopers-respondin... This database is counting _this_ as a Tesla death. The source being used in that very
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by robswc 4y ago
Yea... I imagine sports cars are going to have deaths due to pure reckless drivers in addition to deaths that just happen because they aren't as safe. I would wager the average Mustang or Corvette driver doesn't drive the same as
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by robswc 4y ago
Honestly... this is just comically sloppy lol.
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by robswc 4y ago
This just seems weird, clearly bias too... Looking at that chart, not even touching on the other issues, it says the source is tesladeaths.com. Going there, just using the first 10 entires makes the entire data look bad. This database wou
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by robswc 5y ago
>I do remember when news media outlets owned by the very wealthy claimed the French wealth tax failed because Gerard Depardieu left. Why are you listening to news media outlets? You just have to look at the reality of the situation. We
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by robswc 5y ago
>This chart provides a false picture of R&D spending as European countries do in fact provide a lot of R&D to the global economy in ways that benefit regular people. Even if you consider defense RnD spending "useless" (
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by robswc 5y ago
>The concentration of the majority of wealth to a smaller number of people is definitely a factor, it's the hallmark of a corrupt system... How? >This is not irony We're on a developer news site, talking about the US not hav
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by robswc 5y ago
>Simply letting your money or real estate idle is a much better bet than actually investing it in an economy with slow population growth Do you have anything that points to a majority of billionaires doing this?
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by robswc 5y ago
That's fair... I would argue that a significant % of people are arguing for this though, or at least open to the idea. I mean, would you say a significant % of people believe that Q nonsense?
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by robswc 5y ago
No. But I'm glad you seem to be familiar with this. So its funny you left out the countless proposed, failed and later repealed attempts at wealth taxes in Europe. If you want a very simple example, just look at how Sweden killed thei
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by robswc 5y ago
Why does it have to be someone with real power? I've seen several people on forums/twitter (yes, real people not bots) advocating or doing the math on what we could do with the "1% wealth" ... there's also this htt
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by robswc 5y ago
Yea, go ahead and start your decent into hating successful people. I have 0 doubt if you got rid of billionaires, problems would remain and then you would go after millionaires... The biggest irony is that you'll chase the most produc
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by robswc 5y ago
Why is this fallacy used EVERY single time someone points out the absurdity of liquidating every billionaire. I would make the same claim. I'm not rich. I just don't want people with "good intentions" creating "ba
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by robswc 5y ago
Are you trying to imply that these other countries have those things you listed because they have no billionaires? There's millions of reasons why that isn't happening in the US. Billionaires are almost certainly not one of those
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by robswc 6y ago
>The idea that two wildly different people with different points of view can't even exist in the same social network is nonsense I agree. However I do see this happening. Its kinda crazy. I remember being on the internet as a kid

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