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If by unfairly characterized you mean every white guy and their jewish grandmother having been called a Nazi in the past year, then I might consider it.
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What's the point of putting an argument out there and then saying not to nitpick your points? Your entire argument is based around definitions. Of course your definitions are loose and biased, you know that. You're just venting an
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That the value of the land might go down? Risk means financial downside, you can lose money on real estate on a multitude of things, millions of investors do every year. Real estate is not as easy to diversify as stocks and bonds, certain u
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1+ 23 = 24 7 + 89 = 96 4 + 56 = 60 The second "+" isn't registering because the animation tied to the operator buttons for some reason only blocks other non-numerical inputs for the duration of the animation. I don't eve
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How is it a hidden gesture? It's literally shown in every marketing video and advertisement since demo day.
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You want to build or you want your co-founder to build while you do "marketing"?
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So what's stopping anyone from downloading the phone app and getting your BankID and 2FA code? Is there a verification process to be able to use the app?
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Travis is Darth Vader and Benchmark is Palpatine a.k.a "the Senate"
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I get rear ended about twice a year in LA traffic by 4500 lb SUVs going 40-50 mph. I've learned to adjust the headrest on my seat properly so my head only jerks back an inch or two and I don't get whiplash anymore. I think collisi
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Hmmm something about a tiny automotive vehicle with a top speed of 62 mph and maybe a 80ft braking distance makes me feel more comfortable with getting into one. Certainly a higher error tolerance and lower risk of fatality as compared to a
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Why single payer health care is a terrible option
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I'm sure the SoFi salesperson was also chuckling when you signed off on a magic loan that supposedly made half your principle disappear. Anyone with a calculator can tell the numbers don't add up. You're either embellishing o
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I'm afraid your scenario isn't possible or you've been taken advantage of for your lack of financial fluency. There is no way your loan payments were reduced and the remaining term cut in half at the same time, unless your or
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[1] https://www.avant.com/ [2] https://www.upstart.com/ [3] https://www.lendingclub.com/ [4] https://www.prosper.com/ [5] https://www.marcus.com/us/en
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Sunk cost fallacy. Investors put in $100 million in 2011 when the mere concept of Fintech would give venture capitalists chubs. Back then, it wasn't so clear that millennials and personal finance are like water and oil -- and that you
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I don't understand the value of this company. What services do they provide that existing internet companies don't provide at a lower price and higher level of quality in its separate service lines (personal loans, student loans,
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> It's also a way to ensure that you go through with the transaction because now your credit is worse and going somewhere else would lead to worse financing. There is no need to spread misinformation. While it is true that a hard in
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Honestly, none of those things matter to me. I vote on the second amendment and fiscal policy. As a libertarian, I am an advocate for civil rights, clean energy, equality, and so forth. I care about those issues, but you can't be a mod
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You are aware of what you're doing and the reactions it will incite. What do you think happens to parked cars with MAGA stickers in California? Well you don't have to wonder, there are more than enough "social experiments&quo
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When the tax code was 90%, the effective tax rate was 10-15%. You clearly aren't informed in your history of American industry. For an individual to make $2 million a year for himself at a 90% tax rate, he would have to own 100% of a c
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Exactly, a flat tax society would end up being a cash-under-the-table society.
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Bernie Sanders has three big houses, a boat, several cars, and multi-million dollar book deals. What does he need half that stuff for?
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Yeah, it never would have lived up to the hype. Explained nothing.
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Society also pays the Realtor 6% and the sports betting website 10%. Just because a transaction has historically occurred at a given price doesn't mean it should continue to be worth that much in the modern services market. Accounting
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I'm not convinced this novel idea would work in practice, but the investment banking industry should be disrupted. Too many Harvard grads being paid too much money to work too many hours to add too little societal value.
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Why wouldn't you take the loan on your van? Interest rates are under 3%, which is definitely cheaper than any mortgage or student loan you might be carrying. Auto loan risk is significantly mitigated by modern advancements in GPS &
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There is no evidence of this.
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How can you not see applications where replacing humans complements another human's life? I'm sure if you thought about it, you could see how self driving cars, real time translation, image to text for visually impaired, could be
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You may be paying off the note and it shows up as a different line item on the balance sheet, but it's not paying the debt.
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Overnight success is a misnomer because it's impossible to demonstrate true success overnight (or in a few years) as it relates to a business. Just the headline of this article should make a good argument to be wary of startups that ap
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