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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
And not just a craigslist clone, but a much much better one too!
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
I'll explain it to you in one sentence: There IS NOTHING else. There's only 4 main assets classes: 1) Equity valuations are at all time highs by nearly every objective measure out there 2) Fixed income is really vulnerable to the
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
personally, i find the 9 day battery life to be pretty darn impressive in this day and age. i also like the heart rate monitor, great for runners.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
people keep assuming that technology just needs to be developed when in actually it's the cost that matters most. No technology will ever see widespread adoption without a low enough cost, not to mention it needs to be allowed legally
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Yes, oils are pretty bad for you but Red meat is a class 2 carcinogen. So, neither are good for you.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Isn't the whole idea of "money" for the government to provide a "stable currency", as a store of value and means to make financial transactions? How is it a good store of value when you take 2 to 3% of the value aw
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
getting tech out of SF would actually do a lot of people good. I've worked at countless software companies and always wondered why the companies had to be located in the most expensive city in the US.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
it's so ironic that people would have fallen prey to a disease that is so easily mitigated. Vitamin-C is one of the most abundant vitamins out there. Lemons and oranges get all the credit for vitamin C but actually, there's coun
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
there are still some major fortune 500 companies who can't even make their website work properly, let alone begin any kind of automation. I don't think we'll see major parts of the economy automated in our lifetime. Maybe s
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Indeed. I mean, just look at product hunt. Nearly every failure is due to lack of demand because there's already way too many competing products built. And there are a lot of failures. What is the percentage of apps that end up get
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Government already owns 40% of what everyone earns in the US (see government spend as % of GDP is about 40% now). If that's not enough to pay for stuff, nothing ever will be. And it's much much higher if you're living in a
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Beware: if there are markets that appear uncompetitive, there is a damn good reason for it. And it's never becaues no-one thought to look there. If you do find uncompetitive markets, it'll most likely be because someone has regu
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
And a lot of regulations make it worse than it needs to be by limiting number of kids per classroom/teacher, it just drives up the expenses even more. Here in CA Daycare costs 1800$/mo and 3000$/mo in SF. Out in Houston, whe
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
I hear this all the time: deflation causes demand destruction for consumers. But, how many consumers check the inflation numbers before buying a pizza? how many consumers even know what inflation is? (many do not). I really think we need
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
and i know this is technically fully legal. but conceptually, it seems like fraud. I mean, they're just creating money at will and buying up assets. if anyone else did that, they'd be in jail.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
and when you take into account the enormous potential for inflation the "saftey" of bank accounts is completely undermined. The market is acting rationally. You have no choice but to go all in on the market or inflation protected
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Thank you so much for mentioning this! I didn't know about it. And, it's great to have alternatives. I've been looking to diversify my viewing away from YouTube and am interested in viable alternatives.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
What this article doesn't understand is that some people like myself would like to have fresh vegetables that are bred for nutrition and taste, not something that's been bred for maximum shelf life. From big Agg, When those big op
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
i heard somewhere it was 60% subscription 40% ad, though I'm not sure.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Yup, same here.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
if he really was a spy, don't you think he would have remembered his cover story a lot better. What he told the CBP isn't even in contradiction with his application: "Associate Professor in Medicine in the PLA" vs "
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Imagine for a second, that you're filling out a visa application and you've stopped working for the army and started working another research job. Now, if you're still being paid, on retainer you could say that you're s
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
>> Wang is alleged to have made fraudulent statements on this visa application. Specifically, in his visa application, Wang stated that he had served as an Associate Professor in Medicine. seriously, that was the fault they found? it
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Yup, lack of societal wealth and scarcity are driving the decisions of where to work. Personally, I might have become a teacher (instead of an engineer) if COL wasn't so high. High COL is a sign of societal wealth deprivation.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
That's less than 8%. 8% is tech. 75% of Sf is on rent control.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
It's the CA dream, to be able get out and escape from the Bay area and CA but no one has been able to realize it. But, with covid-19 and the subsequent possiblity of work from home, it reignites the possibility of that dream.
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
>> These are all either basic human rights that the richest country on earth should provide universally no questions asked as a matter of principal, That would be true if we were actually "rich". We're often sold this
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
The answer is given, immediately in the first paragraph: "If the market is all-knowing and all-optimizing, how can this be?" This is an assumption we have about the world, and it's a true assumption for competitive markets, w
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
There isn't nearly enough wealth to make that work. I've already run the numbers on this. Even if you taxed every last billionaire in the US and stole their entire net worth and divied up all their wealth among every US citizen,
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by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
I mean, it has not micronutrients: minerals and vitamins.

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