teamwork007

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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   Why's that?
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   I suppose it's highly personal, but I'd say Carl Jung is pretty good. Also Schopenhauer, Tillich, Niebuhr, Emerson, Thoreau, Kierkegaard, St. Augustine, Will Durant, Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche.. Plato and Socrates are usually goo
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   I'm actually not clear on Thiel's intent with his 'political project' or how it relates to Girard. Is it that Thiel believes Trump is an ideal scapegoat to break the cycle of violence in US politics? Or does he see Trump
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   Has anyone else noticed a trend where people who tend to have an affinity for Peter Thiel tend to also profess having their mind blown by the ideas of Girard, specifically mimetic theory? It seemed like shortly after it became well known th
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   If you like Rilke, you'd also really like James Hollis' The Middle Passage (1993). As for as books from the past decade go David Brooks' The Road to Character was pretty good. His follow-up The Second Mountain would have been
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   There isn't much clarification around what will happen since it hasn't happened yet: http://vietnamembassy-usa.org/basic-page/land-regulations
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   I hate using the terms capitalist and communist since they are both pretty loaded, but I think in the case of Vietnam and China it does have something to do with their recent Communist or Socialist histories. Property rights are usually see
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   With that said, 50 year property rights are likely a stepping stone to something "better" since no one has hit that point yet, so the laws could change before then. However a lot of other things could change before then that might
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   by teamwork007 7y ago

   Because you wouldn't get your money back at the end of that 50 years. If you sold it after 35 years, you would essentially be selling a 15 year contract to own the apartment, which would likely be factored into the resale price.
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    by teamwork007 7y ago

    One piece of information the article doesn't acknowledge is that property rights in Vietnam aren't the same as they are in the US. So if a foreigner "buys" an apartment in Vietnam, they can only have it for up to 50 year
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    by teamwork007 7y ago

    I've heard many times before that under Giuliani, NY gave homeless people a one-way bus ticket and a sandwich to get rid of their homeless population but have never been able to find information online confirming it.
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    by teamwork007 7y ago

    I worked with a company that worked with Away, Steph in particular, and her abrasive style bled through to our entire company. Without diving into specifics, she wasn't able to manage her own expectations on an important issue and thre