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That’s true. And it’s also true for any stock that doesn’t pay dividends as well. Should people not invest in those stocks? Or should we ban non-dividend stocks for being Ponzi schemes?
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And here yet again an example of how the system is rigged against the poor and stacked in favor of the rich. If you have enough (and get stolen enough), then you get help, otherwise, too bad. I understand that there’s a resources allocation
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Similar to what the company Spinvox used to do. Artificial Artificial Intelligence, they would break up audio recordings and have different people transcribe them, then piece the transcriptions together. They sold the service to wireless co
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> the agent we use has been involved in several sales and a purchase for our extended family in a few years, and we've referred other people to her, too. Great, so you are wealthy and have wealthy friends and family. Cool. That stil
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> That sounds insightful, but there's no point in screwing a buyer for a tiny today payday. Except: 1) most people will only buy a property once, so there’s very little potential downside for the agent, and 2) is not about screwing
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> Listing prices are almost totally meaningless. At most they're just a starting point for initial negotiations. Not sure if you have no experience in real state at all, or just want to play devil’s advocate. The listing price can h
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And, at least in California, realtors will always push prices up. It’s pretty much never in their best interest to lower the price. Even the buyer’s agent gets paid a percentage of the sale price, so if they try to lower it they’d be essent
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> but it's presented and marketed in a way that makes it interesting. And I’m not even sure about that. At least the info on the link seems very scarce and the featured video was mostly a bunch of people talking and very little game
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Yes. And the reason for that is the cost of lawyers to setup and run the structure. Lawyers could actually charge less and open access to more people, but then it wouldn’t be as exclusive.
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Very interesting concept. This happens with lawsuits. If you have enough money/assets to be an attractive target for a lawsuit, but you don’t have enough to pay to defend the lawsuit, you are also “unprotected prey”. An example: in SF&
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And nothing will ever come of this
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> Social Affairs Minister Wouter Koolmees told Parliament there was little the government could legally do to force Booking.com to return the money because the bonus provision was not immediately included in the rules. He said it was mor
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Who buys NFTs? And who buys NFTs for millions of dollars? What is the point? How does this scheme work?
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> When people cry for help on the internet, I can't offer my assistance anymore. So you can’t offer your assistance, but you still spend your time offering criticism in the form of judgmental comments to their stories. That doesn’t
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> working to address the root causes and cultivating a sense of agency and ability to change one's situation in life. Have you considered that people with issues might not even be capable of doing this? That they could have a very l
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> and all pervading among the upper and middle class. Do you have any numbers/stats or links to backup this claim? What does “all pervading” mean here according to you? Also, please don’t be so quick to dismiss or trivialize other p
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> Otherwise, you can't suddenly expect the general public to treat you with sympathy, particularly if you're among the hyper-rich or otherwise elite. Why shouldn’t everyone treat everyone else with sympathy? Why should people b
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> extremely privileged but obsessed with their own psychological frailty which they flaunt like it's something to be proud of This type of judgement about mental health is what drove Naomi Osaka to withdraw from Roland Garros yester
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+1 on getting a good shareholders agreement from the start, even without investors. It’s good practice in case there are issues between the founders. However, in regards to angels, the shareholders agreement won’t work if they invested mone
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This is essentially talking about the same findings from The Monopoly experiment ( https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-talk-monopoly-makes-peop... ) In that experiment, one of the players would get more initial money and two
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> Whether both designs are flying in a decade or simply remain smart but fantastical concepts is anyone’s guess. So the 70% reduced fuel consumption has not been tested with a built plane on a real flight. Got it.
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https://youtu.be/tybOi4hjZFQ You can also download the Wim Hof app for free, which has a feature to guide you through the breathing exercise in a more personalized way.
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You are spot on. In fact my account had been inactive for almost a year when I got the suspension notice. Also, while active, I stopped accepting any of their automatic “improvement” suggestions, as they inevitably lead to increase spending
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And at the same time that Google supposedly can’t catch these guys, they randomly suspend my ads account without even an explanation. And of course no recourse or way of getting in touch with a human.
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What is Docusaurus? It is not very clear from the announcement nor from docusaurus’ homepage. Would love an explanation from someone who uses it. Thank you.
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One thing that is inconvenient about Apple’s AirTags is that you can’t share them with other people. So for example, if a husband/wife share car keys, and the car keys have the wife’s AirTag, but then she misplaces her purse with both
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> we'd find out if running a company in Zhu's manner works or doesn't. But we already know it does. He brought the company from 0 to $2b valuation, steadily growing for 8 years. I do agree though that it would be great for
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I don’t know about Ayahuasca in particular, but with psychedelics in general, one of the most important aspects for the experience, is the setting that you are in. It is well known that whatever the setting and how you feel about it in that
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> we're addicted to change, and we have no judgment about how much change we need and where. ^ this
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Reminds me of this slime mold video: https://youtu.be/GwKuFREOgmo The mold “operates” in roughly two modes: exploring and exploiting. It explores to find the food and then it exploits the best paths to the food to consume i
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