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by vkou 9mo ago
The index fund's counterparty, which is selling the stocks is divesting 90% from X, and 10% from Y, though. There's always a counterparty to a trade.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Nothing. He could drop a nuclear bomb on Madrid and FIFA would give him a second peace prize.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Don't forget the decades of fragmentation and civil war. People that take power in those kinds of environments rarely trend towards genteel treatment of their political enemies in the peace that follows.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Or maybe one of them is responding to another human being in their life over their phone, and as that results in a break in conversation, the other person starts using theirs.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Don't worry, it's worse. Half the country has branded her as a terrorist, and her killer as a hero.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Citation needed.
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by vkou 10mo ago
The killer stepped in front of her car to shoot her. That's not self-defense, that's murder. And ICE does not have the authority to detain a citizen for a traffic violation, any more than I do.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Nah, they'll still be able to kick down your door. It might not be the right door, but that doesn't matter to them.
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by vkou 10mo ago
> Guns are a part of the constitution. Those aren’t going anywhere. So is due process, but that went out the window last year. It turns out that the constitution doesn't mean shit if the executive doesn't want to follow it.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Why is deep-red-rural America so concerned about the 'migrant fiasco' in the dem cities that they don't live in?
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by vkou 10mo ago
> is not the same as a system that supports the lawful arrest That is not the system that the US has had since 2025, and the executive has made it very clear that it is not the system that it wants the US to have. Meanwhile, SCOTUS has
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by vkou 10mo ago
> The more efficient I made the technical part of the job, the more time they had to spend doing the manual labor part of the job to keep up. So the more I reduced cycle times, the less time they had to sit around and chat. The faster th
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by vkou 10mo ago
Canada.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Correct, but in any functioning society, it shouldn't be the school's job to provide them.
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by vkou 10mo ago
So, TAs. The other half of the mission-critical staff that keeps a university running.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Elon's the only reason the company is worth what it is. If a meteor landed on him tomorrow, their stock would crater. Not because his presence makes it a better business, but it does make it a better stock .
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by vkou 10mo ago
Any of them would run me over to make the line go up, but some of them are loudly putting their foot on the accelerator. Publicly signalling that you support awful shit is more likely to make that world a reality than quiet private support.
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by vkou 10mo ago
I assure you, oral exams are completely scalable. But it does require most of a university's budget to go towards labs and faculty, and not administration and sports arenas and social services and vanity projects and three-star dorms.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Generally these kinds of private monopolies also have public-set prices. Which is a huge disaster for expensive things (like your power bill), but is much less of one for a token that takes 50 cents of human labour and 0.5 cents of computin
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by vkou 10mo ago
Nobody's forcing US pharama companies to sell to those countries at those prices, they choose to, because it makes them more money. Foreigners aren't the reason American healthcare sucks. Stop looking for people to blame abroad, a
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by vkou 10mo ago
It's possible that Americans are all about free markets (I have severe doubts on this point, but let's accept it), but Trump and his MAGAts are far more concerned about fucking with people weaker than them. If given two options, t
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by vkou 10mo ago
And do those subs justify their valuation? They don't, the only thing that can justify it is if they get themselves into every business workflow. That's what the investors are counting on.
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by vkou 10mo ago
You and the other hobbyists aren't what's driving valuations. Enterprise subscriptions are.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Any serious shareholder with a significant investment in it is surely aware that it's an overvalued meme stock that will continue to print money as long as the reality distortion field is maintained. They'd be utter idiots if they
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by vkou 10mo ago
Stock valuations are not a democracy of public opinion, they are the product of investors putting their money into the stock. Musk is a shit human, but to an investor, everything he touches turns to gold. Whether his companies make anything
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by vkou 10mo ago
BYD makes good, cheap cars. There's a reason why the US raised every protectionist barrier against it - it would destroy Detroit.
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by vkou 10mo ago
BYD's exports are not subsidized, and are, in fact, a massive cash cow for the firm. They are also way cheaper and at comparable quality to western cars.
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by vkou 10mo ago
There were, of course, no economic disasters back when the world operated on gold-backed currencies. The goldbugs won't be red in the face, though, because they are never wrong and are constitutionally incapable of feeling any shame.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Have the TSA disappeared a lot of people? Flown them out to foreign torture prisons, and thrown away the key? Ignored judicial orders to return them? (I'm also not entirely sure why they are touching your junk, I've not had that h
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by vkou 10mo ago
Half the country violently doesn't want you here, and you should oblige them by taking your money and attention elsewhere. There are plenty of more deserving locations.

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