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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
Absolutely. In the food delivery industry.
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
Chuck Prince from Citigroup. "When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing" His explanation of the quote: '&
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> We had a real heyday in the late 90s where a Barnes and Nobles would have a copy of almost any book you could reasonably be looking for, plus multiple rows of magazines. I don't know if there was ever a bookstore that ever had
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
Seizing the means of production does somehow sound vaguely Leninish to me. Not to you? The Overton window, it moves!
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
Government owned liquor stores were put in place because the free market was too good at supplying people with liquor, and governments wanted to put restrictions and guardrails around people's access to it. Is that the case with grocer
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
Looks like you could have made a lot of money shorting Herbalife over the last 5 years.
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Nuclear Tourism: When Atomic Tests Were a Tourist Attraction in Las Vegas, 1950s(rarehistoricalphotos.com)
3 points by rufus_foreman 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> Sure, but that's a small fraction, doesn't really move the needle Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world at the beginning of the 1900's. What does "r > g" say happened to his wealth? What actua
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
I've been a developer for close to 30 years now. Voice has never worked for me. I tried it when I was young and naive. It didn't work. There is of course, in addition to "exit" and "voice", an option of "
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
It was the accountants. CapEx vs. OpEx.
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> if returns on inherited wealth outperform growth, then the percentage of growth captured by the wealthy grows over time This is a non sequitur. There are many situations where returns on inherited wealth outperform growth, and the
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> Reminder that economist have predicted 9 of the past 7 recessions Historically I think the reality has been the opposite of that, economists have been extremely reluctant to make predictions of an oncoming recession. This was certa
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Fubo Starts Removing Channels You Dont Watch Unless You Ask for Them Back (2024)(cordcuttersnews.com)
3 points by rufus_foreman 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
There's more than Netflix. You can bankrupt yourself paying for things you can't afford. Every streaming service you subscribe to has a negative expected value.
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
It's being taken care of.
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
In 2023, 54% of the housing units in the US were single family detached, https://eyeonhousing.org/2024/10/owner-occupied-single-famil... . I guess some of those could not have yards, but that is pretty rare to not
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> Gambling has a negative expected value Subscribing to Netflix has a negative expected value. Ban Netflix.
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
If you want to restrict advertising on gambling you want to restrict individual liberty. I want to restrict individual liberty. Do you want to restrict advertising on gambling?
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> the move for card people back then was to wait for the card show and just buy the cards you actually want from a card dealer That's still the move. Unless you want to gamble.
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by rufus_foreman 11mo ago
>> It feels like banning advertising for gambling would be a sweet spot between harm reduction and maintaining individual liberty No. If you want restrictions on gambling, on advertising it, on participating in it, on making money fro
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Long-Term Asset Return Study – The Ultimate Guide to Long-Term Investing(dbresearch.com)
1 points by rufus_foreman 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
For some people, good news is always bad news.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> There is no such thing as antifa That's like saying there is no such thing as communism. There is such a thing as communism, it is an ideology, not an organization. The Communist Party USA is an organization, not an ideology.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
"My general theory since 1971 has been that language is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the Word Virus …
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Which hand?
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Have to agree with this. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV new
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Growing up in the 80's it always meant all 3. You used to have to do a little more work if you wanted to gamble though.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> anyone still watching will be doing it for campy or ironic entertainment like professional wrestling "The 1877 Louisville Grays scandal was an incident in which members of the Louisville Grays baseball team accepted money to l
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
I get a 32 ounce fountain drink in the US sometimes, which is roughly a liter. It is usually 22 ounces of ice and 10 ounces of beverage.

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