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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I think the other person just mistook your point and thought that you were implying that marijuana use _hasn’t_ actually gone down.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
Car designs have converged because there are certain properties that are better than others for safety, performance, efficiency, and so on. Those concerns are arguably much more important than aesthetics or the ability to express one’s indi
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I assume they don’t have a lot of F-150s in Paris, either.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I don’t think anyone’s saying it would be automatic. But the risk of running afoul of laws and regulations is non-zero, and if the penalties are too steep, then it may be a wiser choice to stay out of small markets entirely.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
Isn’t it normal and human to be sad about someone’s passing, even if it’s expected?
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/6WgklDqOnH4 I think his personal involvement in any given project is already quite limited. He’s created a huge, soulless machine that churns out videos for the sole purpose of achieving some
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
School shootings are horrible and scary, but the US is a huge country, and your kids are not likely to experience them. They’re much more likely to be hurt or killed in a car accident, but you won’t hesitate to drive them around, do you? Th
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
> If you're in eternal debt to the society you were fortunate or unfortunate enough to be born into since before you were lucid, when exactly is the cycle going to be broken? Never. No human being has ever thrived in total isolation
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
But is it realistic to get to a point where laymen across the board have a clear understanding of every facet of the law, even with great communication? Or is it so complicated that you’ll just have to defer to those that have spent years t
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
> Do people just pull random numbers out of their ass with no actual experience? That’s a weird question to ask someone who stated their relevant experience in the first sentence of their comment. I just looked him up on LinkedIn and it
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
> The nice thing about UBI is it is universal, and simple. The second your income goes below a threshold, you start getting a little bit of money. The second it goes above, you stop. UBI is typically not envisioned as means-tested (hence
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index In this index, the Nordic countries are up top, and the US down at number 27. A lot of people move to the US because it’s a large and very rich country, with v
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
That’s all fair. It’s an inherently difficult problem. In a healthy organization, leadership is aware of this, has reasonable expectations and factors in the risk. Unfortunately not all organizations are mature in this way.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
Yes, we should all live in reality and use our best judgement. If estimating based on story point velocity is literally useless, then no one should be doing it. However if it does help make planning more accurate, even by a little, then i
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
It’s extremely useful for a business to have a rough idea of when they’ll be able to deliver something. Budgets, contracts, client relationships, marketing, etc are affected by it. So should Engineering give a best effort to estimate that,
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
> Investment is hardly a zero sum game. If it were nobody would make anything buy investing passively either. So how is that a reasonable analogy? I think you’re reading too much into the analogy, which is maybe my fault for using an ana
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
You’re missing the word ”expect” in the original claim. You can beat the house at blackjack, but you can’t reliably expect to do it.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
Individual traders beat the market all the time, it’s not impossible . But you can’t expect to do it reliably, because in practice it’s essentially gambling, unless you’re Warren Buffett, or those firms that utilize sophisticated quantitat
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
You don’t need discipline and rigor for the fun parts, and you won’t get them there either. You develop them through the grind and the sacrifice, which may or may not be something you’ll want your child to endure.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
If they’ve already told you that they’re recording, hasn’t consent already been established? You don’t need to ask again. It’s not like they’ve gotten consent for themselves to record, but not you.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
How much do you think the lives of Walmart’s employees would change if Suresh Kumar would forego those 4.5 million and distribute it among them instead? When you have 2.1 million people working under you, you don’t need to skim much from ea
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
His two first successful business endeavors were web-based services (i.e. software), and he had no real experience with or education in cars or rockets before he joined/founded Tesla and SpaceX respectively (he’s got a bachelor’s degre
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s monopoly and colluding practices are what’s enabling them. Going after them definitely accomplishes a whole lot. Additionally, if artists were to continue the high prices in a more transparent manner without them,
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
The point being made is that it isn’t all or nothing, you can buy half the vested options and forfeit the rest, should you want to.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I don’t think you’re fully getting what they’re trying to say. They’re not asserting that dividends and voting rights are somehow inextricably linked or that you can’t have one without the other. They’re simply listing the two things they t
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I agree with you, as indicated by the second paragraph I wrote. I was just paraphrasing and tried to answer what I believe the other person was asking (I’m happy to be corrected if it was not).
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I think you can rephrase the question as “where is the value in owning stock? If it’s only that you hope to sell it to someone else at a higher price later, isn’t it just a pyramid scheme? At least with dividends and voting rights there are
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
If you look outside the 99th percentile, you won’t find anyone living off their music career.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
I wasn’t suggesting anyone do anything, I was mostly trying to point out that large acts can make a lot of money on touring. Most make very little, if any at all.
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by StackRanker3000 2y ago
> Even for huge artists, from what I've heard merch is where the money is, not ticket or record sales That’s not quite true. It’s an extreme example, but Taylor Swift’s personal earnings from her current tour is expected to end up i

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