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by tryitnow 7y ago
I hope so. But I think this may only hold if firms think that these tariff disputes will be an ongoing thing, only then will they make capital expenditures in developing countries.
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by tryitnow 7y ago
It is something to be ashamed of for employees to leave their employers? Where? I've worked in a few places in the US and I never sensed any "shame" when an employee left. I have sensed that employers feel shame when layin
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by tryitnow 7y ago
I think it's very hard to "pretty pleasant" - I'm glad that your educational experience was that way, but for a lot of people education is a form of work. In fact, I would bet most students would prefer work to educatio
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Good point. I don't see any of the politicians addressing why the didn't also ban cigarettes. My guess is that banning cigarettes would go too far. It's unrealistic to expect cigarette smokers to quit over night and start us
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Is that 5% of the risk of cardiovascular disease or 5% of risk from any disease?
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by tryitnow 7y ago
I think that explains only part of the problem. The other problem is that for-profit media would never have an incentive to hire journalist with quantitative skills. There's very little demand for it outside of trade and professional
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Bingo. Although I don't know about rich people wanting to park their money away from banks. It's more like we have a massive capital glut, there's so much capital sloshing around we don't know what do with it. So some
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by tryitnow 7y ago
This is an example of how to write a good article, I think the first sentence answers your question: "Germany sold 30-year debt at a negative yield for the first time, as investors desperate for safe assets bet that further falls in yi
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Judged by who? By parents whose children were slaughtered. Alex Jones intimidated, harassed and lied about those parents. They deserve our empathy. And you know what? So does Alex Jones. But extending empathy to someone does not mean yo
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by tryitnow 7y ago
You're 100% correct. Joe Rogan's popularity has nothing to do with the fact that he's not adversarial. I was shocked to read that too, American interviewers are laughably tame, no one is ever held to account for egregious i
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by tryitnow 7y ago
My understanding is that amazon was basically cash flow positive, but ran GAAP losses and never really "struggled" financially. Whereas Tesla does indeed have some systemic financial issues. In other words Amazon could have been &
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Did you read the memo? The author describes a specific scenario where a co-worker brought up these issues as work. So, yes, it sounds like for this person it was work-related. However, I disagree with the author's recommendation to pr
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by tryitnow 7y ago
I honestly don't understand your comment. It's pretty clear that the author is bringing these issues up precisely because other employees at Google did not heed the advice you give: "“Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-worke
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by tryitnow 7y ago
OK, you changed my mind. I still think buying an electric car is better than doing nothing, but I also see the emphasis on individual consumer decisions as a serious distraction. Sure, electric cars and other consumer decisions could maybe
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Whenever I hear about a particular technique that is supposedly backed by evidence I wonder what specific protocol was used in the studies supporting it. I also wonder how many studies have been conducted and for how many years. For those
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Do you have any customer testimonials? It would be good to link to them. This is definitely something I would never consider doing unless I've heard other people doing it, I would never want to be the guinea pig here. And honestly, if
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Buy put or sell calls on an asset that's highly correlated with the overall economy. This is honestly the least controversial claim the OP is making.
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by tryitnow 7y ago
Should we start entertaining the admittedly simple-minded notion that it is not tumblr that is under-valued, but everything else is over-valued?
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by tryitnow 8y ago
Paying prisoners absurdly low wages teaches them that honest labor doesn't pay. Isn't this exactly the opposite of what we want them to learn? I readily that my emotional side wants to prison to be as punitive as possible. But m
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by tryitnow 8y ago
"So what happens if you are trying to lose weight by adopting conventional advice to reduce the dietary fat and calories, and eat 6 times a day. By doing so, you keep insulin levels high because you are eating lots of low-fat bread, pa
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by tryitnow 8y ago
I think the future-self theory is an attempt to explain the pain-avoidance.
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by tryitnow 8y ago
Good point. The scare-quotes should actually be around the term "birth-control" since this app clearly has no solid supporting evidence from unbiased 3rd party researchers. So it's not really birth-control, it's "bi
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by tryitnow 8y ago
In my experience ""hiring people you'd want to have a beer with" is exactly what many people on the business side mean by "cultural fit." I think your definition is true for technical hires for tech firms. For
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by tryitnow 8y ago
I highly recommend reading "The Paypal Wars" - I think Musk learned a lot from his mistakes at Paypal, but I also think there are elements of his personality that are still problematic for managing a going concern. Nonetheless, I
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by tryitnow 8y ago
"In one post, Little said he would livestream himself destroying an unspecified Holocaust memorial in the U.S." Ugh. Did you even bother to read the article? This has absolutely nothing to do with "bad ideas." MSFT as
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by tryitnow 8y ago
Thanks for providing this study. This reminds me of the Iron Law of Evaluation: https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1987-rossi The Iron Law refers social program interventions but I think it is applicable to a lo
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by tryitnow 8y ago
I don't know if that's it at all. I think the more likely explanation is that all of these companies are competing for a single, finite resource: human attention. Maybe the opportunities for developing new ways to exploit human a
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by tryitnow 8y ago
I don't think it's about ideas, I'm not sure where you're getting that from. The article explicitly says he's banned because of TOS violations. The article is not clear about what those are, but I assume they fall
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by tryitnow 8y ago
What exactly is wrong with encouraging parents to talk to their kids about historical context? Isn't that something we should encourage? I am utterly bewildered by the contradiction in your response. On the one hand you cite a warnin
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by tryitnow 8y ago
Is it common? Or is it just common among your peer group? There's a difference. I know a lot of "woke" people and none of them would advise against reading the classics, you really need to find different people to converse

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