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by yucky 4y ago
One thing to consider now with the traditional advice of "just put your money in index funds" is that this has led to empowering 3 firms beyond belief: BlackRock, State Street & Vanguard who control over $20 TRILLION (with a T
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by yucky 4y ago
This is surprising to hear, considering how big Shopify has gotten and how much resources they've put into Ruby.
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by yucky 4y ago
> the bush jr wars Small correction, we can't call them the Bush Jr. wars when they survived and thrived for 8 years under Obama. These were FULLY bipartisan fuckups of monumental proportion that proves how much both part
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by yucky 4y ago
> Inequality isn't the inevitable result of anything It literally is. Statistics are a thing, and we see it always. It's one of the laws of nature.
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by yucky 4y ago
Who better than the US government to understand how social media can be used to manipulate the masses to support a specific agenda. Or maybe we're different :)
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by yucky 4y ago
For sure, I nominate TikTok so we can accelerate the inevitable app based government debacle.
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by yucky 4y ago
Are you asking why anybody would steal? Or just why people who steal would do so in this manner instead of putting an item under their shirt even though they're on camera, or just running out of the store with it?
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by yucky 4y ago
And the reason for this is because Vitamin K (a major clotting agent) is at its highest levels in humans around the 8th day of their life. Ancient societies didn't know what Vitamin K was, but through trial and error they no doubt disc
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by yucky 4y ago
Some people benefit from nepotism, therefore there is no such thing as succeeding from talent or hard work so why bother. Sums up the direction of society pretty succinctly.
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by yucky 4y ago
Student performance on standardized math/reading tests has been decreasing almost every year, since roughly the launch of iPhone. Not saying there is a direct correlation, but I would feel comfortable in saying it certainly isn't
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by yucky 4y ago
Exactly. Soviet style apartment cities are on the menu. Highly efficient and affordable.
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by yucky 4y ago
Great plan! Tell us how..
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by yucky 4y ago
All you're doing is driving wages down and hurting poor people. You're not helping who you think you are.. As illegal immigration increases, so does inequality leading to inevitable results like this. And we all sit and pretend th
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by yucky 4y ago
Did they get the state wrong? Ohio, Kentucky and a few other states are experiencing rolling blackouts. Texas seems to have been fine.
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by yucky 4y ago
Their timing tells you what you need to know. This isn't new information, their decision is motivated by something other than a new set of facts on self driving vehicles. So they were wrong, and they stayed wrong (for money) long aft
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by yucky 4y ago
Comparing Elon to Ford is quite a compliment, after all he lifted millions of people out of poverty, including entire swathes of the black southern population who migrated north for the jobs he created.
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by yucky 4y ago
Nope, I'm in the US and here in the US Google acts as an extension of our intelligence agencies so we have no recourse. They're effectively part of the surveillance state, thus untouchable.
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by yucky 4y ago
> Should have happened sooner. Which tells you everything you need to know about California's government.
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by yucky 4y ago
Anybody that turns everything into something "intensely political" is a toxic person, and should be avoided. Spending quality time with friends and family is more valuable than trying to force them to think like you.
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by yucky 4y ago
> I'd imagine nearly all of those are because the mom's life is in jeopardy. Seems like if we had a law that allowed for exceptions if the mothers life is in danger, we could agree on banning 3rd trimester abortions th
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by yucky 4y ago
I've been locked out of 17 year old gmail account for awhile now because I refuse to sync my phone to it. I only want to login to delete the contents and deactivate the account. It still forwards to my Thunderbird which is how I notice
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by yucky 4y ago
> It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people. If it's a fallacy, then why has it always proven to be true, 100% of the time?
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by yucky 4y ago
> One third of incarcerated folks in the US are there for possession charges. This is a wildly inaccurate stat, where on earth did you get it? The number of people sentenced on just a simple possession charge is minuscule. Alm
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by yucky 4y ago
Not OP, but I think the smart play would be Mexico. They share our border, logistics is much cheaper, common language is far more likely, they're stable enough, and the additional stability provided by an influx of manufacturing would
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by yucky 4y ago
Sounds like we need a Ministry of Truth to make sure we aren't exposed to wrongthink.
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by yucky 4y ago
> 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias' In related news, Facebook just prompted me after not logging in for years if I wanted to change my gender to one of around 50+ choices. What an odd reality we live in...
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by yucky 4y ago
Abortion is legal all the way up to delivery in 7 states + DC. I don't exactly have a dog in this fight, but I do find it interesting how many people don't realize just how few restrictions exist on abortion in some states like Ne
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by yucky 4y ago
> Same in America. Certainly illegal. The question is first trimester abortions. Each state makes their own laws on abortion, and even just saying "same in America" on any state laws doesn't make sense. There are
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by yucky 4y ago
It happens on /worldnews which is a huge sub and shouldn't (in theory) be hyperpolitical. I've even seen it on subs like /nhl that have have nothing to do with politics at all, banning people for posts on other subs that
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by yucky 4y ago
Their market cap still makes them one of the largest companies on the planet and their PE ratio is still way higher than would be expected for an almost 30 year old company. Their PE ratio is also still 3-4X higher than other tech giants

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