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by shagmin 3y ago
As for the Korean war, it's kind of a fuzzy topic. There was no formal peace deal, just an armistice that became the status quo. And there are still occasional clashes. These probably aren't the kind of sources you're looking
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by shagmin 3y ago
Guessing the comment is referring to the heavy US involvement in South American countries when they chose the "wrong" economic policies.
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by shagmin 3y ago
The website was probably created as a subtle way to promote their startup.
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by shagmin 3y ago
When I first read the headline China immediately came to mind. Just recently the US started investing in ports in other countries, just like China has done. And now the US will probably start competing on another front that China has taken
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by shagmin 3y ago
I think other comments have already answered this. But in the back of my mind I imagine if companies abused it much worse than they did, they would've gotten much more unwarranted attention, and it was already deeply hated amongst tech
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by shagmin 3y ago
There are probably multiple layers of feedback loops going on, who knows how things will pan out. There's a sufficiently large enough pool of investors out there that will buy broad ETFs like SCHB, SPY, VT, VTI, etc., on any dip or jus
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by shagmin 3y ago
I don't have a source on me but I've read plenty about wealthy people in other countries buying large amounts of Canadian real estate as a store of value, even if it sits vacant. Mostly people in countries where there aren't
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by shagmin 3y ago
The tech sector is big on innovation and that probably seems orthogonal to government contracts to many. It feels like IBM is a dinosaur using the government to stay alive meanwhile companies like Microsoft and Google have contributed to th
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by shagmin 3y ago
Are you possibly conflating hard drugs like crack with drugs like marijuana? I don't see people going to rehab over marijuana or even psychedelics.
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by shagmin 3y ago
Just guessing here, but I'd guess out of that ~16m US citizens, you're more likely to find people that have started a multi-billion dollar business than compared to the general population. And the other demographic that tends to b
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by shagmin 3y ago
Someone with some spare cash for seed funding could file with the SEC to create an ETF that does exactly this.
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by shagmin 3y ago
The article focuses on the writing, not so much the actual understanding. I've wondered if there's actually an advantage in understanding when reading English documentation, sources, etc., in that some native English speaker might
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by shagmin 3y ago
How so? I could see in some ways. But in some aspects they seem like opposites.
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by shagmin 3y ago
Stopped at the paywall. But is this likely a case of the number of driverless taxis skyrocketing itself, and the number of incidents per driverless taxi mile being more or less constant?
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by shagmin 3y ago
This post reminds me of exactly the balance I've been toying with. One particular service I work with has ~6 main jobs it does that are all kind of related in some way but still distinct from each other. That could've been designe
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by shagmin 3y ago
Crash as in what? Get delisted from the Nasdaq and go bankrupt or just have a bad bearish couple years or something? Their cashflow had pretty consistently improved since their IPO, they would've maybe had a couple bearish years, would
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by shagmin 3y ago
Could probably find it in Google but I think there was a study that show Harvard (and some other similar universities) do offer an advantage in that it's the only way many people from disadvantaged backgrounds can mingle with people wi
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by shagmin 3y ago
Typical fruits people eat are probably the ones that were the easiest to domesticate and have the most sugar, not necessarily representative of more variety in nutrition. And what you might consider a variety of vegetables is in fact just t
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by shagmin 3y ago
It doesn't feel like such a bold claim to me. Dividing neighborhoods (i.e. redlining) lead to ghettos, inner city violence, white flight, etc., Today there is barely any remnant of the middle class in major urban areas and more traffic
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by shagmin 3y ago
It's pretty marginal but there are a couple instances where I'm at that are slowly being addressed, where some really large, poorly located parking lots are making some areas more flood prone and holding up development in their vi
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by shagmin 3y ago
I've started doing this (materialized views denormalizing data) at work more recently and it's been immensely helpful. Surprised more people don't do this.
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by shagmin 3y ago
It really doesn't matter, but relative to what? She's older than the average CEO by almost a decade.
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by shagmin 3y ago
The first example that comes to mind is the textile industry starting in the northeast US where unions are strongest, then moving south where they still had some unions but were much weaker, and eventually going overseas. Could argue the sa
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by shagmin 3y ago
I think the idea is there's a curve where the less business friendly the unions are willing to negotiate at, the more likely businesses outsource. And there's some point where so many of the businesses have outsourced everything w
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by shagmin 4y ago
Why not only tax finite resources like land & oil or sin taxes only or something else instead? Main differences that come to mind are tax collecting efficiency and value judgement. Is it better to punish the poor by having all their inc
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by shagmin 4y ago
The thing is poor people have to spend all their income, wealthy people don't. So poor people have all their income taxed, while wealthy people surely aren't spending their last dollar on yachts for the most part. Wealthy people h
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by shagmin 4y ago
What's an example of a society that's more human-oriented, that doesn't have capitalism? I feel like when people push to end capitalism, what they really mean is they want a large social safety net, higher pay for low end wor
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by shagmin 4y ago
Not saying this is wrong, but it's kind of misleading the same way electoral college maps are misleading. People moving to the south working in tech aren't moving to the vast areas that are plagued with issues. They're moving
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by shagmin 4y ago
According to the article Elon Musk could've been even more Elon Musk. He reduced his investment by $900m because he thought it was fatally behind Google's effort.
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by shagmin 4y ago
Just curious, why do you think they want to destroy nations? It seems like if banks want to destroy the economy they have the means to do more effective things than trying to get governments to embrace green policies.

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