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by yibg 6y ago
I would go the other way. What can China do to me unless I go there? Vs what can the US do to me since I live there, and even if I don’t live there, the US government reach is a lot wider.
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by yibg 6y ago
I would argue if you are American nor Chinese, the US has a greater ability to negatively influence your life. Chinese government has full control domestically but can’t (currently) do too much outside of their borders. The US on the other
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by yibg 6y ago
I understand there is social pressure, but then pretty much anything can be bucketed under investment by this standard. Is a nice car and nice house also investment so the kids don't get rejected at school? At certain level of income,
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by yibg 6y ago
Yes absolutely. Definitely different trade offs to be made depending on circumstance.
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by yibg 6y ago
We definitely weren't at the very bottom of the ladder. We had some stable income, a roof over our heads and food on the table. Looking back the financial position we were in was clearly temporary. But at the time it wasn't so cle
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by yibg 6y ago
I think it's also about trade offs that are made. For example, TV dinners (from an article in another thread here) for us was not a staple, it was a luxury. They kept for a long time, but they were also high cost to calorie ratio. We
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by yibg 6y ago
I grew up poor (first gen immigrant family, the poor kind), so I empathize with the points raised. At the same time I don't really understand how some / a family can be (outside of some circumstances like health issues, disabiliti
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by yibg 6y ago
AMC is started going up around the same time, although at a lower magnitude.
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by yibg 6y ago
The threshold isn’t just “it’s possible”. There needs to be some evidence. All sorts of things are possible, doesn’t mean we go around thinking they are true, or even assume they are potentially true. It’s not Impossible I’ve murdered someo
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by yibg 6y ago
sailboat apparently also floats like a sailboat would: https://imgur.com/a/2DwYh0j
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by yibg 6y ago
Big difference between the general statement of "vote rigging is impossible" and "this last election wasn't rigged". The usual claim is the latter, not the former.
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by yibg 6y ago
I don't know if it's that black and white. The risk calculus changes based on stage of the startup for example. Joining doordash pre IPO is still more risky than google, but I there's some reasonable confidence it'll be
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by yibg 6y ago
That's a very blanket statement without any backing. I've been on opioids several times for pain management and haven't experienced any withdrawal symptoms.
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by yibg 6y ago
Is it just a matter of degrees though? Lots of people have ruined lives (sometimes ended lives) due to alcohol as well. We expect people to use alcohol responsibly, and there is social stigma and other consequences when it's not used r
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by yibg 6y ago
Interesting. Is this a common definition? Heredity as far as I understood referred to genetic inheritance. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heredity Including religion and language as part of the definition seems to
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by yibg 6y ago
Aren’t all hereditary traits due to genetics?
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by yibg 6y ago
Would this not just lead to a fragmentation of whatever industry? e.g. if google / apple can't legally do business in Pakistan or some other countries because of these laws, presumably someone like China will step in and provided
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by yibg 6y ago
What are you expecting as proof exactly? Government issued ID and payment from a gig?
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by yibg 6y ago
I recall seeing some places (forget which exactly) where the default options start at 18%. Something like 18, 20 and 25. And this is for a place with no real service I think (you get your food, find your own table and put away your own tray
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by yibg 6y ago
Tips have become so detached from their original intention too. I've been to so many places (pre-covid) that asked for tips upfront during checkout before I've received any service. How would I know what the service would be like
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by yibg 6y ago
Problem with TSLA and GME is they are only meme stocks in hindsight. You may have gotten lucky on those and gotten in early enough, but that’s not a strategy. Hypothetically let’s say analyzing sentiment on some narrow range of data like WS
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by yibg 6y ago
I don't see how those lessons are actionable? I mean yes to make money in stock picking all you have to do is buy low and sell high. Question is can you do that consistently enough to make a better return than index funds?
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by yibg 6y ago
same can be said for investing in lotteries. Also more upside, and if you're lucky, well that's all you need. So why not put 90% of your money into index funds and use the remaining 10% to buy lottery tickets?
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by yibg 6y ago
Even 25k is a huge amount of stress gone compared to 3k in the bank. With 25k I can ride out some emergencies. If I lose my job I’m not at risk of being on the street. If I total my car I can still get to work. I’ve lived pay cheque to pay
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by yibg 6y ago
Maybe there are reasons other than technical ones.
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by yibg 6y ago
Seems like a potential confirmation bias here with regards to GME. GME may be in a feedback loop right now, but how many other stocks had the beginnings of a feedback loop but fizzled out? How many companies started to win but didn't a
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by yibg 6y ago
Taiwan’s borders aren’t closed to non nationals?
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by yibg 6y ago
To me the difficulty of estimating software projects isn't about estimating the time / effort to build the thing. The biggest uncertainty is trying to estimate what it is we're trying to build in the first place. i.e. the det
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by yibg 6y ago
HR is not your friend, but sometimes incentives can align. One of the goals of HR is employee retention, and in that incentives do align. I’ve seen HR really go out of their way to accommodate for personal situations during covid times for
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by yibg 6y ago
Resume based development.

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