turc1656

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by turc1656 8y ago
I've always found it fascinating how people are still willing to risk life imprisonment for a third strike after getting caught twice already. It really boggles my mind. I'll never quite understand this mentality. Whether the p
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by turc1656 8y ago
I'd agree that this means firearms in the UK are much harder to come by for criminals and that this results in a higher risk to officers in the US. However, this risk also applies to all citizens (and non-citizens) in the US as well.
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by turc1656 8y ago
Yes, this is precisely the point I'm trying to make. The standards that are applied are not equal, yet police officers are not only allegedly held to a higher standard, but they are also bound to follow all the existing laws because t
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by turc1656 8y ago
That's possible, yes. If someone was acting completely, absolutely bonkers then I think there's a decent chance...maybe...if there were witnesses. Anything other than that, I'm pretty confident the DA will "let the cou
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by turc1656 8y ago
I get your point, but I have to disagree. The fact that the UK can have its officers not carry by default and armed officers only show up for the most extreme situations is a testament to how they are conducting their operations. They had
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by turc1656 8y ago
Exactly. We've seen countless examples of "I thought he had a gun" and "I feared for my life" from cops. Can I shoot someone if I think they have a gun but, oops, it turns out I was wrong? I'd be fine, r
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by turc1656 8y ago
The real issue here is whether or not this same logic will apply to the average citizen. And we know it won't. Nor should it. At the end of the day, we are responsible for our actions with only very, very few exceptions that are a
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by turc1656 8y ago
It said that they invest your money into US treasuries. I assume since they are doing this instead of providing mortgage/loan services and having to employ an army of loan and compliance officers, this would theoretically make it poss
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by turc1656 8y ago
Amusingly enough, The Gulag Archipelago was already the next book on my list of books to read. Interesting coincidence that it's his 100th birthday. Or maybe not. Maybe I've been running across his name this year for that exact
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by turc1656 8y ago
I think my other comment to someone else in this thread addresses most of what you are asking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18572584 Anything deeper would require an actual lawyer to weigh in.
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by turc1656 8y ago
Think of the 500 (or any index strategy) as being like a story and the methodology is like the book that tells the story. You can't rip off our story and write your own book that essentially plagiarizes the 500 and claim it as your ow
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by turc1656 8y ago
People are used to thinking of votes in terms of integers, but if you think of it in terms of points then fractions don't make a difference, really. If you own 100 shares of a stock you get to 100 votes. That's been the standard
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by turc1656 8y ago
This isn't exactly accurate. One of the requirements for publicly traded funds (ETFs) is that they need to be "replicable", meaning that anyone should be able to read the methodologies (which are required to be public) and u
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by turc1656 8y ago
You would not be able to legally recreate the 500 and just not use the name. We once had a problem within our Custom division (where clients retain the IP but pay us to do everything for them) and one client basically created something tha
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by turc1656 8y ago
jkulubya's comment is largely correct. And you most likely do understand what an index fund is. It's just that most people don't realize there are two sides to the product - the theoretical and the real. The index is a th
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by turc1656 8y ago
Interesting idea. But you could never know in advance what the results of a vote would be. The only way to do this would be another alteration to law to allow such behavior. However, I am fairly certain this would violate the capital str
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by turc1656 8y ago
I work in this industry. I'm on the indexing side of it, not the ETF/fund side. We obviously have relationships with all the major fund providers, especially the three big names mentioned in the article. And I happen to work fo
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by turc1656 8y ago
We're not talking about normal people - we're talking about businesses. It's been outlawed for regular people across the board. But because they can still apply to businesses in a few states, we end up with this. Busines
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by turc1656 8y ago
Totally agree. You have no control once you sign that paper if the other side will be honest or honorable in any way. And since there is no incentive for them to not screw you, and actual incentive to screw you (since they get a higher re
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by turc1656 8y ago
"If Bogachev had been more careful about not using his real name when registering for accounts, he might not now be the FBI’s most wanted cybercriminal." I'm not sure he cared about being discovered given this information..
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by turc1656 8y ago
This is kind of the equivalent of waiving your rights. For example, you've probably heard of contracts where you sign away your right to sue someone in civil court and agree to go to arbitration instead. That's signing away your
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by turc1656 8y ago
I know, right? I was always wondering how it could be that a company which has virtually every single large corporation licencing its OS and Office products on a recurring basis, not to mention an increasing number of cloud services/s
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by turc1656 8y ago
Very fair point, but only from one perspective. Yeah I gave them my money, but they did have to pay at least 4 hours or salary+benefits for at least one person just talking to me on the phone. That doesn't include anyone else behin
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by turc1656 8y ago
You're not kidding. I recently booked a Disney trip for the family and ran into issues at every single stage. First, there was a problem with the airfare not displaying the proper pricing. Then I was told that I had to remove the ai
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by turc1656 8y ago
Why do you "need" female candidates? And why, in general, do you have a desire to "interview some women" ? Why do you view your candidates by group association rather than as individuals? I don't understand why
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by turc1656 8y ago
That wasn't me who made the initial argument. In any event, the original comment was regarding journalistic misrepresentation. The comment I responded to brought up the issue of relevance given an apparent solution. My comment mere
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by turc1656 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Sarcasm is sometimes very hard to relay over written text in a comment section like this.
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by turc1656 8y ago
How could you ever do that realistically? You can't consistently know which farm/grower the produce came from. Sure, sometimes it is labeled. But a lot of times it is not. Or a brand buys multiple farms and uses their combined
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by turc1656 8y ago
Is this sarcasm? Doesn't seem like sarcasm in context but the phrasing and "WTF?" reaction I had make it feel like sarcasm.
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by turc1656 8y ago
" I don't understand how "it had never actually started in the first place" is relevant at all. There were plans to help address this problem, but those plans were delayed by the Trump administration. " It's re

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