IanDrake

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by IanDrake 4y ago
You guys talk about Biden like he's running the show. You've seen him lately, right?
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by IanDrake 4y ago
How could it not mean that? Are you arguing with my 1% figure or the concept I was trying to relay? The concept is correct IMO, the percentage is a guess.
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by IanDrake 4y ago
Before everyone gets upset, this is a known fact and it's not a bad thing for women either. The skew only means the smartest 1% of men are smarter than the smartest 1% of women. On the other side of the curve the same is true. The dumb
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by IanDrake 4y ago
This author has no idea what a government overthrow looks like. Hint, it's not a bunch of unarmed Larpers and undercover FBI agents storming a lightly guarded capitol building.
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by IanDrake 4y ago
Property taxes are regressive, so I'm not sure how that would help. You know what really killed the rich? SALT deduction limits in the Trump tax plan. That policy actually caused the rich to pay more in taxes. That's why CA tried
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by IanDrake 4y ago
I think that's true too. Home prices should work like bonds. However it will likely keep going and then crash more than fizzle. As long as the interest rate is below the rate of inflation, you'll make money by borrowing money and
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by IanDrake 5y ago
Never, never start a business that solely depends on another business that you don't control. I learned that one the hard way too a long time ago.
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by IanDrake 5y ago
How many places have virology labs in China doing this kind of research? Now many places have wet markets? Now calculate the probability that a virus would happen to naturally mutate in a wet market next to a virology research facility. A
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by IanDrake 5y ago
How could Taiwan - a country not in the North Atlantic - join NATO?
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by IanDrake 5y ago
The circle drawn on the map and the description don't match. The circle indicates south of the shore off second beach. Goat island is north of second beach and the wreck is supposed to be north of Goat Island.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Yeah, I see what you see. People are delusional. I have to laugh when I see people calling this an insurrection. I mean, did they see these larpers in their costumes? A true insurrection would be scary and look much different. There woul
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Interesting read until you hit section 3. Then it goes off the rails. Discussing the paradox between code elegance and complexity is interesting, but then to segue into don't code for certain companies is strange.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
"but laws and norms of good behavior are always a balance between rights freedoms and safety / efficiency." You must be not from the US. In the US, our freedoms come first and our founders constrained the governments` abilit
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by IanDrake 6y ago
For me bitcoin fixed my misunderstanding of fiat currency. The "bug" in fiat currency (inflation) is actually a feature. I never understood the destructive nature of deflation but I do now thanks to bitcoin. In any case, the resu
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by IanDrake 6y ago
The media has ignored calls for political violence on Twitter all year long. And so, we now have this problem, an obvious double standard. The left has failed to constrain, condem, or even recognize its extremists. That has emboldened the
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by IanDrake 6y ago
If a politician can't block people because it is considered official communication, how can Twitter block politician's official communication?
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Accusing people of doing exactly what you're doing is a well worn and bazar tactic that I'll never understand. Does it work? You even provided a "quote" of something I never said. Good on you. You made a statement &quo
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by IanDrake 6y ago
"Oath Keepers in particular seem to have had a large and heavily militarized detachment" Source video? Larping in camo and a helmet doesn't make you militarized or an oath keeper.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Yes, it was clear security was needed. But this wasn't any of those groups.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
I haven't tried, I make things, not destroy other people's things.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Perhaps a history of burning and looting might have had some influence in that difference. Sometimes I wonder, and serious question here, when the reporter on TV stands in front of a burning building and exclaims the protest is mostly peace
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by IanDrake 6y ago
I hadn't thought of that, yet I see the sense in the thought. However, I don't think providing adequate police presence for a planned protest would have been showing your hand.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
"Trump incited an attack on congress." Evidence of Trump telling people to storm the capitol? "I remain horrified at the right wing community's ability to rationalize violence" We'll, I'm right of center a
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Really? Can a weak man lose an arm wrestling match to a stronger opponent and truly say "I let you win?" Either the authorities were capable of repulsing an hundred unarmed civilians or they were not. I'm unclear how both ca
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by IanDrake 6y ago
I think this is overplayed at this point. You must concede one of only two possibilities. 1) The capitol building has all along been an easy soft target that could have been infiltrated by a small contingent of terrorist. 2) The police purp
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by IanDrake 6y ago
I think we'll see more actions like this in the next few days. It's like when Obama set a date to allow transgenders serve in the military after he left office.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
I for one prefer surveillance capitalism to surveillance socialism. At least in one system you can opt out.
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by IanDrake 6y ago
Two years ago I left IT and started my own wealth management company...and now I'm back. I can tell you, the regulations on the retail side of finance are nonsense and help no one. Like gun control, bad actors don't care about yo
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by IanDrake 6y ago
How dare you!?
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by IanDrake 6y ago
And 34 years is a blink of an eye in geological time.

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