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by turc1656 8y ago
As someone in the financial industry, I can throw out a few suggestions. These vary substantially depending on your level of interest, time, and risk-tolerance. I am not a financial advisor, nor should you consider any of this professiona
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by turc1656 8y ago
First of all, it is almost certainly not his spare time. Nearly all of these events are held on weekdays during normal business hours. So this guy probably requires permission to not be doing his regular job to go to this. Second, there
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"The net result is that less food can fit in the stomach, and there’s much less time for that food to be turned into calories before it exits the body. The vertical sleeve gastrectomy, the most popular surgery in recent years, only t
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Why would the manager be a shitty person if they saw no upside for the company, possible downside, and decided against that action? If we were talking about a decision that didn't involve another human being and their desires, I suspe
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Exactly my thoughts. If this to be done during normal work hours when this person would normally be in the office and working (almost certainly the case), then the manager would definitely need to approve this, especially since there is us
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Yes, the danger I was trying to caution you on was the well known causal relationship of carbohydrates producing blood sugar spikes. That could lead to obesity and diabetes. The article you site is quite old, published 40 years ago in 1978
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This is my vice. I eat pretty healthy and do a high fat low carb diet and am in pretty good shape, but this is my one cheat item. And I consume it regularly. It's basically the only bad carbs I still eat, generally speaking. I&#x27
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This sounds dangerous. I am not on this diet and don't know anything about it but I second the recommendation to closely monitor your blood sugar levels because the science on that is clear. While I do the opposite (high fat low carb
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1. Stopped using Facebook (don't have Twitter, Instagram, etc. This includes removing the FB app from my phone (very important for security reasons). 2. No email on my personal phone. Work phone is a must but I use it exceedingly s
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"recommend" is a bit strong. Yes, two people recommended it. But another indicated that DocSend is disliked by investors and an actual investor chimed in to say they don't usually open DocSend links and never open them if t
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I'm not sure there is much of a market for this. Seems geared towards business users, as I can't imagine what the average person would need this for. As far as the business potential goes, I work at a company where we have many
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I am embarrassed (yet again) to admit I am part of the Millennial generation. My generation has effectively destroyed every aspect of both privacy and human interaction. It's truly pathetic.
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Yes, yes they did/do. It's a move straight out of the mobster playbook. It's the modern day equivalent of paying for "protection". Yelp has also been sued by investor's for allegedly misleading them into beli
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Those regional monopolies you mention are granted legal rights to the physical property they use to obtain those monopolies. In the case of Comcast they have physical infrastructure that they were granted permission to place onto public an
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Yes, I probably am expecting too much from my fellow countrymen. And that's the issue. I think what we can most likely both agree on, after reading our back and forth, is that the issues you raised are more of the symptom of the illn
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Luck is a factor, but usually a small one. I certainly do not agree that it's a major component. But let's say for the sake of discussion, that it is. Just because life isn't fair doesn't mean someone else should be a
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"How do we fix bad laws when the wealthy are paying good money for those bad laws?" The wealthy only account for a small percentage of the overall population. It is very easy to change the law if and only if people care enough
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No. I definitely don't mean that. The vast majority of producers (myself included, and most likely you as well) create value for society. I know that I don't disingenuously accumulate wealth or exploit anyone. But I am a produ
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"Essentially the wealthy would be deciding at which threshold upward human progress gets to stop..." No, that's not what that would mean. It means the producers of society get to determine at what point they wish to stop p
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And don't forget this bit - "By comparison, car ownership cost $11,783 per year, most of it depreciation." He's including what is basically an accounting measurement, not an actual out-of-pocket cost! I wonder what his
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You don't get "all the gratification". Since you are focused on the purely physical aspect, I'll talk about that first - it's not an equivalent orgasm, scientifically speaking. Studies have shown that the quality
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I was not aware. Never even heard the term until now. At first read, I thought this might have been in some way related to, or an offshoot of, MTGOW. However, based on reports of actual, extremely serious violence and being so bad they a
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Doesn't this violate standard vertical tying laws? "The basic idea is that consumers are harmed by being forced to buy an undesired good (the tied good) in order to purchase a good they actually want (the tying good), and so woul
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by turc1656 9y ago
So what happens when, for example, a US court or a court of some other jurisdiction in another country rules that their free speech laws say that a court cannot legally force them to pull results globally? What do they do then? I assume t
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How was it possible, then, for millions of immigrants to come to this country with absolutely nothing and in many cases escape poverty, or at least set up their children for decent, middle class lives? They had no multigenerational wealth
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This sounds like racism and discrimination (which I mentioned as separate issues). And they are indeed separate. A country need not have had slavery as an institution to have racism and discrimination. EDIT - I would also like to point ou
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Would you mind elaborating a bit? What am I not understanding? The way I see it is that tens of millions of immigrants came to this nation since slavery has ended, most with little or nothing and were able to make lives for themselves and
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The quote specifically mentions American inequality. There are no legal slaves in America currently. The closest thing is sex trafficking, and that is very clearly not what the author was referring to. EDIT - I would also like to point ou
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The first sentence already contains a lie. "A lot of factors have contributed to American inequality: slavery, economic policy, technological change, the power of lobbying, globalization, and so on." Slavery ended more than 150
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I agree with that general concept. The larger society becomes and the more densely populated an area is, combined with expanding government in nearly all areas of life, people seem to have this attitude that everything is someone else&#x27

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