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by snarfybarfy 5y ago
I'd love to RTFA but I am paywalled! You guys all have subscriptions, or what?
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by snarfybarfy 6y ago
Trump/Putin/Jong Un/... forever? Really? I think that would be monstrous. No matter how unfair things are in life, in the end we are all food for the worms. Already better educated people live longer lives, but once science r
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
In my opinion taking a percentage cut on something that is not strongly correlated with any special effort, borders on scam. And yes the scammers are everywhere: your bank, broker, recruitment agency, financial adviser, real estate agent, e
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Maybe they should not have let crapware onto their platform in the first place? It did not passively sneak in, it was actively let in by Steam.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Like the saying goes, if you want to get rich: 1. No 3rd house 2. No 2nd wife 3. No 1st yacht Yayy, now that you made it you can get all of the above!!
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I don't think they are second class citizen. I think that a lot of Swiss women are more privileged than their spouses. A woman with kids can choose whether to stay at home or work (full or part time at their discretion) and plenty of w
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Which consensus are you talking about? US? Northern Idaho? Thailand? Saudia Arabia? SV?? Where I live the long term average is 6-7x household incomes.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
If nukes start to really hit Switzerland then it will look pretty grim everywhere else as well. Might as well just get it over with and enjoy the light show.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I think this is brilliant!! This gives political clout back to the normal people. Cleaners and trash disposal workers on strike for 2 months?? Country comes to a standstill. Investment bankers on strike for 2 years? Nobody noticed except fo
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
There is the same correlation in regards to vehicle occupants. At some point the kinetic energy becomes so great that the body of the car is unable to absorb it sufficently and then the remaining energy kills you. No straw men anywhere in m
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Well I would argue that currently the economy is limited by consumption and not investment. Google "asset price bubble" and compare this to the general inflation.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Are you by any chance one of those people that still believe seat belts are for sissies? Because you can just hold tight to the steering wheel? And yes the kinetic energy per se does not kill you. It's when the kinetic energy gets conv
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
And what kind of right would breaking the speed limit push that citizens could possible want to have changed? I am all for hardcoded speed limits. Why sell cars that can go faster than $MaxSpeedInYourCountry ??? Other than that I think you
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
While I agree with your general point, I have to take objection to your car analogy. Whether a car is travelling at 30 or 40mph makes a huge difference. Kinetic energy is the square of the velocity and it also affects reaction time: Total
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
One can also argue that rising minimum wages directly benefit the economy as this money will be immediatly consumed. Giving $10 to a poor person will result in $10 more goods and services demand. Giving $10 to a very rich person will probab
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Being obscenly wealthy is so obviously wrong that many aspiring 'american dream' (TM) candidates can't even conceive of alternatives. While Jeff has undoubtedly worked hard and he is probably even above avarage smart, he is h
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
In these games of high level 'politics' I always assume nobody in the public really knows anything. Any claims produced by anyone involved are just claims and not facts that can be verified by me or any of those so called journali
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I also had to laugh out loud when I came across this statement: Facebook is truly the only company that’s singularly about people. Switch of the fucking ads and the stock price goes to zero.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I suspect that sales of expensive sneakers will take a hit while this Fortnite craze keeps going. It's the same insecure teenagers that previously spent inordinate amounts on clothes and shoes that are now going to spend tons of money
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Well duh, it's a whole house in a millionaire city?! Seems rather cheap. Where I live an 900 square foot apartment can also set you back by $2m. The seven apartments currently listed are all above $1.6m with several having undisclose
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
But they are NOT any old ad-tech company. They were built and grew out of their initial 'don't be evil' culture.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
> I really dislike cars and being around cars. They are noisy. They ruin the air quality of a city. I guess you are not alone. Given a certain location, the singlemost important indicator of your house price is the amount of cars driving
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
The numbers might work out for HER, but maybe not for her kids that inherit a wreck of a planet.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
A Price-to-Rent ratio of 45 is indeed crazy. Implied total return only slightly above 2% with quite some downside risks AND running costs + depreciation. Rents are also quite high and it would still take 45+ years to have it paid off! Any r
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
All this talk about nanotubes, when the real question is: What kind of music are they going to play on the way up???
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
We could have had nice electric cars like 10 or even 20 years earlier if legislation had limited normal cars to something reasonable like 40 horsepower / 30 kW. (yeah go on and tell me about your family of 9 that needs to go up a 20% i
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Naturally the lenders should be held to higher standards?! The lenders are highly paid professionals that do this 40h / week. The borrowers are normal people that do this once or twice in a life and might only have a very basic underst
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Reminds me of the studies that claim that putting lead in our petrol for decades also decreased the average IQ globally by 2-3 points.
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
Which market value of labor are you speaking of? This seems to be a common fallacy, because people call it the 'labor market'. However I would claim that there is no labor market in the classical econ 101 sense. A market needs to
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by snarfybarfy 8y ago
I also remember reading this. I think even safer (i.e. drivers keep more distance while overtaking) than no helmet was pretending to be female by wearing a wig with long hair.

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