the_gastropod

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by the_gastropod 11y ago
I think this problem comes from something a little deeper. The U.S. is still very classist, giving prestige to "white collar" jobs, and considering "blue collar" work to be inferior. I think college education is often th
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
This is pretty interesting, given the article about NY's poor being healthier than other poor Americans that was on the front page of HN yesterday [1]. I wonder how much of this can be attributed to environmental factors (long commutes
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
This is an argument PG uses, and one I keep seeing crop up in discussions about his post. It's malarkey! Wealth didn't just appear in Bill Gates bank account—it came from people less wealthy than him buying his company's prod
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
It's controversial because it's largely a strawman. Income inequality is not a binary thing—it's a gradient. There exists a level of income inequality that any reasonable person would agree is bad. PG seems to be trying to mu
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
Do you make this yourself? Or are there products on the market? Sounds interesting.
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
That's effectively like saying the murder problem isn't because of ONE murderer. Why bother arresting a murderer? If Exxon-Mobil is guilty of falsifying information, they should be held accountable. Period. Whether other companies
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
Asthma, for starters. Pumping your car's exhaust into your cabin is probably a poor idea. It's not harmless when you, instead, pump that exhaust into the air we all breath.
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
> I take issue with a society that would ever allow them to be sued for climate change. I'm curious where you draw the line here. You must acknowledge that the price of gasoline, for example, is subsidized by the public dealing with
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
Yes, the top funds consistently outperform the market. No, the top funds are not the same year-to-year. Predicting which funds will out-perform is the hard (aka impossible) part.
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by the_gastropod 11y ago
Shame on you guys. Perpetuating the notion that "experts" can consistently beat the market is criminal. Instavest appears to be a typical sleazy financial business capitalizing on misinformed customers.
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by the_gastropod 12y ago
What research? Even over this anecdotally chosen timespan, the S&P 500 returned 3.98% / year on average. That completely squashes GDP growth over the same period.
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by the_gastropod 12y ago
(I did not downvote). But have you read Pikkety's book? It pretty thoroughly explains how capital grows more rapidly than GDP.
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by the_gastropod 14y ago
What percentage of video game players make a living from it? Skateboarders? Gardeners? Musicians? Poker players? Actresses? Hobbies are rarely viable career paths. What separates SOME hobbies (computer programming, for instance) is that the
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by the_gastropod 15y ago
I don't know. I looked at the source code, and it pulls in from Facebook. I think it might be legit.