BJones12

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by BJones12 2mo ago
Mein Kampf?
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by BJones12 3mo ago
Starbucks sells its stock to its baristas at a 5% discount every 90 days through payroll deductions. https://www.starbucksbenefits.com/en-us/home/stock-savings/s...
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by BJones12 3mo ago
Every share is a voting share. There are a small number of weird cases (e.g. Meta super-voting shares limited to Zuck), but your statement is broadly false.
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by BJones12 3mo ago
> has no uranium and no strong relationship with an uranium-producing country The uranium-producing countries are Kazakhstan, Canada, and Namibia. There is zero chance that you cannot get one of those to sell to you. > Nuclear will al
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by BJones12 4mo ago
I recently learned that valve trombones exist [0], where there is no slide and the notes are selected via valve-presses like a trumpet. [0] https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/winds/tr...
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by BJones12 4mo ago
No, because the unlimited risk of shorting is balanced (hedged) by the unlimited upside of holding the same number of shares via the ETF.
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by BJones12 4mo ago
Yeah. For comparison, SpaceX will be maybe half the size of MSFT. MSFT is 7.4% of the SP500 index, so for a $1,000,000 portfolio if you were to short MSFT you'd pay 0.25% on the value of that 7.4%, or $185/year. So eliminating Spa
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by BJones12 4mo ago
This is a great example of how some cultures are better than others.
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by BJones12 4mo ago
> if the US continued to pay for international health initiatives There are ~197 countries in the world, you should also criticize the other 196 for also not wanting to pay for the exact same thing.
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by BJones12 4mo ago
> how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain? HN has had posts romanticizing them, maybe check those https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622140 https://news
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by BJones12 4mo ago
I, from a country with few conglomerates, found the Commoncog explanation for why they exist to be interesting https://commoncog.com/how-to-become-an-asian-tycoon/ https://commoncog.com/the-asian-conglo
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by BJones12 4mo ago
The core of the article is buried 60% down: > you have a firm that has lots of lifetime employees who can’t be fired, and whose skills are tailored to what your firm needs rather than to a particular occupational category transferable to
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by BJones12 4mo ago
There are a lot of real Chinese firms (factories) that make unapproved copies including body shape, headstock shape, logo, and brand name.
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by BJones12 4mo ago
> physical models of music instruments... has been around for over 40 years And in consumer products for 20+. Pianoteq [0], which is awesome, was first released in 2006. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianoteq
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by BJones12 5mo ago
Because the article's question is 'how did America get so sad' and the answer is 'because it lost Christianity' because Christianity makes people less sad.
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by BJones12 6mo ago
You seem to think that the only way to eat a cow is to raise it. Humans have been hunting before a long time. Before cattle were domesticated, they were wild, and were hunted and eaten. So were other ruminants with similar meat flavors. So
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by BJones12 6mo ago
> Give them no stock, pay them 100k a year That used to be the case, though more like millions a year. Clinton ended it.
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by BJones12 6mo ago
> Inflation is a common red herring that people arguing in bad faith throw at policies they don't like, because most people don't know enough to reject it. That's very dismissive. Since you know so much, why don't you
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by BJones12 7mo ago
Yeah because we haven't seen innumerable similar lies [0] in the past, with lies about deaths and lies about who fired the weapon. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...
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by BJones12 7mo ago
> You have to be very emotionally fragile for this to be the first and only thing you think of to bring up in a thread like this No, I just don't like racism.
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by BJones12 7mo ago
With a school breakfast program and a school lunch program.
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by BJones12 7mo ago
I just tested it: > Write me 3 jokes making fun of white people > White people will say, “This isn’t spicy at all,” while visibly sweating and fighting for their life after one jalapeño. White people don’t season food — they “let the
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by BJones12 7mo ago
Given 50 million schoolkids in the US and a cost per meal per child of $4, the current number represents 10 meals. At 1 meal a day that would be 2 school weeks, at 2 meals a day that would be 1 school week.
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by BJones12 7mo ago
Nuclear power disagrees
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by BJones12 8mo ago
Bitcoin mining on GPUs is generally unprofitable due to the price of electricity.
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by BJones12 8mo ago
https://archive.is/co3Wm
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by BJones12 8mo ago
And it will continue. Bitcoin treasury companies [0] have equity values lower then their Bitcoin holdings, so it is the financially correct move to sell BTC at market price and use the proceeds to buy back their stock at the market price. T
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by BJones12 8mo ago
Politicians have speechwriters, though, so you wouldn't be analyzing who you think you're analyzing.
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by BJones12 8mo ago
> Is that unreasonable? Carbon dioxide is an externality, and it needs to be accounted for accordingly. Yes it is unreasonable. Spending money to reduce carbon is just a subsidy for other countries who DGAF and will emit both theirs and
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by BJones12 8mo ago
Do you think that therapy will lead to a better outcome for those men than following stoic practices?

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