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by soniman 7y ago
A draft raises the cost of war, making war less likely.
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Do you have any good data on this? Maybe those people are right!
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I wouldn't say the language is flowery. It's not. It just piles a lot of details on the reader. "Taxonomically speaking, a lobster is a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae, characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, t
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by soniman 7y ago
This is a trollish comment but do the DFW articles hold up?: radio article - talk radio is for stupid people cruise ship article - cruise ships are for fat people Maine state fair article - tourism is for boring people How much of his appea
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by soniman 7y ago
You're half way there. Investments promise a return to investors by creating value, or that's the goal, at least. Speculation does not create value; commodities, options, and shorting do not create value, they are zero-sum.
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by soniman 7y ago
The Tobin Q ratio is market value / replacement cost of assets. The problem is, what is the replacement cost of an Twitter or Uber of Amazon? The cost of the software itself is trivial, and yet it would be near impossible to replace ei
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There Is No Global Fresh Water Supply Shortage(petergallagher.com.au)
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I wonder if some of these from the "Arlington" hotel were actually from Arlington, VA? Arlington used to be part of the District before 1847. It's impossible to search for the answer, too many Arlington hotel results.
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Warren Buffett has some comments about this. Apparently people like reading about themselves or people they know and it significantly increases circulation.
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It wasn't stolen it was ransomed. Half the money in the till was probably a fraction of the value of the company.
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I had the same impression as the author. Google was tiptoeing up to the line of antitrust scrutiny with its search dominance (95%), the Google Play Store tax, and Youtube demonetizations, but when I saw it was banning ad blockers on Chrome,
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by soniman 7y ago
I tried to read this book a few years ago and my first thought was, "This book would be much better as a video." Look forward to watching this.
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She mostly follows english speakers on Twitter. Twitter is a useful way to improve language skill because there is a "Translate" button right there, and it's already part of your routine if it's in your feed. It's k
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by soniman 7y ago
Where do you get clients? Or is it your own property?
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Any decent grad department will give the grad students a tuition waiver and stipend so it's actually the opposite of a pyramid scheme. In a pyramid scheme, you pay to join the pyramid. In academia, the pyramid pays you. I spent two yea
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by soniman 7y ago
Ammon Bundy is the example they use? Ammon Bundy supports migrants because he's a rancher and wants cheap labor on his ranch. He wants taxpayers to bear the cost so he can privately profit. That's why people are suspicious about &
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by soniman 7y ago
"America succeeded in spite of Americans" - Immigrants
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by soniman 8y ago
"Capitalism is boring,” said the founding father of National Review, William F. Buckley. “Devoting your life to it,” as conservatives do, “is horrifying if only because it’s so repetitious. It’s like sex.”
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by soniman 8y ago
There was a period when the internet was new for everybody, and everybody was discovering it at the same time. It was like the first few weeks of college, except it was the entire world. And that's not going to happen again. Somebody w
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by soniman 8y ago
The real solution here is, Don't go into an industry where supply vastly outnumbers demand and employers can delete half the resumes for no reason.
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The price / rent multiple is not analogous to a P/E ratio. Rather, it is similar to an Enterprise / revenue multiple. The distinction is important because, as an investor in apartment properties, I can tell you that the Net o
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by soniman 8y ago
An article like this is worthless if it doesn't mention immigration, which it doesn't. It's basically a way to say "LEARN TO CODE" when the real problem is an unlimited supply of cheap labor via uncontrolled immigr
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by soniman 8y ago
Aswan Dam also lead to the prevalence of schistosomiasis, or bilharzia. Kind of a big unintended consequence.
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by soniman 8y ago
Bloomberg or WSJ rewrites this same "trucker shortage" article every month, like clockwork. It's amazing. I've read this same article every few weeks for the last twenty years.
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by soniman 8y ago
Isn't Twitter really for link sharing?
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The best thing about Firefox is that the browser is separate from your Google account so you don't have to worry about your bookmarks/extensions getting synced behind your back by Google and messing everything up. Google requiring
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by soniman 8y ago
That was one of the few books that made me genuinely dislike the author. By the end of it everybody at the company hated him, he didn't do any work but wouldn't quit, he thought the job was beneath him and was contemptuous of th
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by soniman 8y ago
It would be really surprising if alcoholism were not genetic but height and IQ and homosexuality were. "I drink because daddy diddled me" is not a great scientific hypothesis, but we have tons of evidence that pre-1492 populations
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Aborigines are alcoholics because they haven't had enough time to build the genetic resistance to alcohol. It has nothing to do with trauma.
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by soniman 8y ago
jottit.com was the original Aaron Swartz project

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