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by vba616 4y ago
I got a personalized postcard with my name and a picture of my home, from my local XXXXXXX insurance agent, telling me I could pay as little as $XXX for homeowner's insurance. Since I already had a policy with him , and just like the
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by vba616 4y ago
Is he even renegotiating anything? If he tweets to the world that he's "putting the deal on hold", that doesn't mean the army of people who are working on it have been ordered to stop. His twitter followers are completel
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by vba616 4y ago
Well, you never know, because people exploit ambiguity or even just blunder into it. Sometimes people don't even know what they really mean. Going around saying "you idiot, don't you understand the 'use-mention distinc
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by vba616 4y ago
It sounds to me like you are asking why you don't like what you are supposed to like; why aren't you good at what you're supposed to be good at; and why don't you like the people that you are supposed to respect. You cou
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by vba616 4y ago
Because it's so far beyond hopeless, getting into the weeds of how someone is supposedly doing things wrong is irrelevant to normal life. If you're a homeowner, then your name and address are public (at least in the US) despite ph
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by vba616 4y ago
>It is explictly illegal to discriminate against you for your mental health conditions If the mentally ill are so privileged, it's ironic that people have fought for generations to not be defined as such (e.g. in the DSM).
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by vba616 4y ago
An alternative viewpoint is that the issue is not so much the right system of ethics as having a sense of proportion . It sounds like you are in favor of that, but then your first two examples (Amazon vs the Caymans) are confusing - what
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by vba616 4y ago
But you won't "have" possessions in a "collapse". Imagine arriving at a concentration camp or whatever future euphemism they come up with. You could try to bribe a guard with a Rolex. Then he has a Rolex, and smirks
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by vba616 4y ago
>focusing on the .00001% chance of collapse is foolish But...there's a 100% chance of "collapse". What's just stupid is preparing to live forever as a retiree in perfect health. Even a perfectly average life expectanc
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by vba616 4y ago
That is the official advice from "Brad Jones, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas". What's unserious about it? Reportedly, six power plants were offline, accounting for "roughly 2,900 megawatts of electricit
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by vba616 4y ago
>CEOs almost always report to a board who can and will fire them for poor performance Maybe? It's not an infallible deterrent and it doesn't remove the incentive to avoid the consequences of bad management in the first place. &
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by vba616 4y ago
> It's a miserable job unless you really enjoy it because everyone will (and should) blame you when things go wrong The idea that intelligence or hard work or danger justify executive pay defies common sense. People keep arguing it
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by vba616 4y ago
A theory I stole from someone is that he's not being paid for doing the hard work, he's being paid for not destroying the hard work (and the company). Like a driver of an armored truck that you pay extra, not for driving it be
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by vba616 4y ago
I have no idea who exactly is or isn't a dictator, but there is a Spanish word for the situation when a democratically or legally elected leader acquires dictatorial powers by breaking down institutions: it's called an "autog
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by vba616 4y ago
>Where I think the key point is is either side willing to go to court to expose the dirty laundry. This was all covered in the other half of the column: "As one merger arbitrageur put it to me, “If you’re reading the contract, you’v
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by vba616 4y ago
So far, the column has been thoroughly misrepresented to wind people up. Levine, the "lib reporter" in question, made it very clear that despite Musk not having a legal, ethical, or logical leg to stand on, it's quite likely
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by vba616 4y ago
If you look up famous economists, it's quite surprising which ones became wealthy and which didn't. For instance, I believe one of the following was good at making money - can you guess who? Adam Smith Ludwig Von Mises Joh
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by vba616 4y ago
Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has to learn everything for the first time. I would suggest the fundamental problem is that nobody considered looking for counterexamples to assumptions in "legacy" financial markets. Like, how
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by vba616 4y ago
>how big a movement would be required to break the $1 peg This is the sort of question that's important if you are managing capital for the long term and need to ensure that you remain in the black rather than being grounded on the
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by vba616 4y ago
>4% adjusted A lot of times false precision bugs me but here I think you are comparing fine differences and need a bit more. Using your figures, (36/33)/(329/309), I get 2.5%, not 4%.
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by vba616 4y ago
I'm not clicking on the link, but here is a very strange Japanese concept car that I ran across recently when I was reading about 8-wheeled vehicles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliica
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by vba616 4y ago
>Their scale is insignificant. What does that mean and who told you so? Do you mean a lot less people died? That cities weren't being blown up? Casualty estimates for the Chechen wars vary wildly, but seem to be in the mid-5 to mid-
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by vba616 4y ago
>There is "everything crash." If everything crashed simultaneously at exactly the same rate, there would be no change in any prices at all. The Earth is travelling around the sun at almost 20 miles per second and yet you don&#x
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by vba616 4y ago
How do you know Ukraine is "on that continent"? By which I mean, all the talk about Ukraine being in Europe seems to imply it's common knowledge that none of Georgia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Moldova, Ossetia, Chechnya, Ichker
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by vba616 4y ago
It is perhaps a reference to a libertarian themed science fiction novel published in 1966, called "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". In it, inhabitants of the Moon were called Lunatics or Loonies.
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by vba616 4y ago
Fiat currency can be and is used by people who don't live in the country that issues it. Think of prisoners using cigarettes for currency - it's not necessary for the tobacco companies to be involved or even care.
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by vba616 4y ago
>offering legal aid That phrase makes it sound like their actions represented an expenditure rather than a revenue generating operation.
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by vba616 4y ago
I got a new hybrid for around $23K in late 2020, when it looked like I might be commuting again in the near future, and car sales and gas prices were both in the toilet. For some incomprehensible reason people were buying the nearly-identic
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by vba616 4y ago
That may be so, but the business of online used car sales seems to me like a scam on the face of it. No matter how much they insist you can return a car you don't like, it obviously is just a manipulative way to get people to commit
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by vba616 4y ago
>Most people have no idea how abrasive sand is. Imagine sandblasting... Sorry, I can't imagine sandblasting because I have no idea how abrasive sand is.

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