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by viscanti 7y ago
> $22,500 might as well be nothing for all of the people involved It looks like the $22,500 is just for 9 named plaintiffs ($2,500 each). The other victims get nothing.
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I don't think many people should expect to get into the top 1% of assets by just sticking money under a mattress. Presumably most would invest it and expect an average rate of return of 7% or so from decades of investing. Eventually th
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> Okay, perhaps. But that could also be them jumping on a popular bandwagon. How could there be a bandwagon when twitter is banned in China (so no one could have ever seen the tweet), and immediately after the tween all Chinese social me
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They're also a big proponent of bothsideism. For some topics that makes sense (because there are two legitimate or legitimately absurd sides). For other topics it just pollutes discourse by elevating an illegitimate side.
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> We will improve the planet by doing multiple things. The problem is that people don't have infinite time or attention. So if you raise awareness and guy buy-in for something like straws, you took away time and awareness from thing
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> Just because we cannot read them and interpret their emotions doesn't mean they don't feel love, comfort, fear, amusement or terror. What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria? Can lab grown alg
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> obviously America will be able to make these products American entrepreneurship doesn't mean all the manufacturing would take place in America. Entrepreneurial people are already moving to build more manufacturing in other countri
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> They could have survived and had run way to make changes if PE didn't burden them by taking out loans against the company's assets and taking that out of the company in the form of management fees. Sure. This downplays how po
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> No, I think this is a fine metaphor. If an engineer can understand a problem, identify a solution, and then implement, document, deploy, and support it in production for project after project, it’s completely legit to say they’re good
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> A bus driver that “meets expectations” is the perfect bus driver By what standards are Bus Drivers evaluated? Near accidents are OK as long as they're lucky enough to not be involved in a real accident? If so, I'd prefer they
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> concern then falls off to zero as you approach closer to the dam! That is, the people living immediately under the dam, the ones most certain to be drowned in a dam burst, profess unconcern. It's a fun story but it doesn't pr
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He also knew he was on-call and went somewhere where he didn't have reception. It sounds like he knew that might be an issue so gave his wife's number as a backup. That's basically training the person who has to escalate to u
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There's also the opportunity cost of the years of additional schooling. Their tech counterparts in the Bay Area are making six figures a year for several years while doctors are racking up additional debt.
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How long would we have to wait for one? Free is great, but sometimes I'd pay for an alternative if there are limited Waymos on. I'm not sure that I'd want to wait 30+ minutes longer for the Waymo.
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I wonder if Google will end up buying more of those $999 stands than any other individual customer.
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That's a reasonable critique against an implementation of short term shareholder value maximization. That said, it doesn't show a different definition for fiduciary responsibility. It does, however, illustrate my original point th
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> this is being done by Facebook which has a person like Mark Zuckerberg, who has again and again shown that he has no moral compass and has complete disregard for people privacy rights Sure. But think about all the money they can make f
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The article mentions that the trait is observable at only 4 weeks old. It might not be crazy to think that Humans are more likely to select the puppies that demonstrate the trait. It might not be "natural" selection, but if Humans
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> he never ran for Any elected office until he won the Presidency What about his failed presidential campaign in 2000? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential...
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> but paywalled Thanks for calling this out. As a fellow internet user I share your believe that we're entitled to high quality FREE journalism. If content providers wanted to get paid they should do something else. We don't ca
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> Do you really think there's $25M in profit by operating one of many scooter rental services in San Francisco? How many of Bird's other moves seem to be driven by profit? They seem to be at a point where they're fighting
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We have no way of knowing what the incentives were as well as vesting schedule. But you're right. It's incredibly unlikely that it was anywhere close to that number.
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> As indicated by the terrible stock performance after the IPOs of Uber and Lyft. The Lyft price is down but it looks like Uber has kept pace with the overall market since their IPO. I think we'd struggle to find many people who wou
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> This is both absurd and obscene. Someone with less money than you could say the same thing about a lot of your purchases from your discretionary income. The people paying for a $13m Bugatti are likely spending a lot in taxes which is g
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Only 50% of the homeless in San Francisco have been in the city for more than 10 years. Housing prices play a role but don't tell the full story. When looking at the homeless who are still on the street, they're there because they
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Right. The idea that someone can become tougher by subjecting themselves to stress is silly (or at least misguided). That path leads to burnout which is crippling. It doesn't lead to tougher people who can keep burning themselves even
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Cumulative stress is cumulative. One doesn't recover from burnout with more burning.
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> The real problem, if you look at it from first principles, is the lack of US government protections/services for all workers. This is so true. If traditional jobs (not gig economy jobs) were better, no one would ever accept a gig
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The U.S isn't a monolith. Tech is the thing that made places like San Francisco really successful. But people in the midwest haven't really benefited from big tech companies (outside of access to those products - they can google t
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They're investing in growth. It's unclear if that investment is good or bad, but looking at quarterly accounting numbers won't tell us. All we can see here is that they're investing more than they're making. If you

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