TuGuQuKu

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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Please follow this rule when reading my posts: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." You've disappointed me with your disingenuous m
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
I'd love to see some proof that any of the wild claims made are remotely factual. I don't want to donate to charity (I have my own reasons for that, don't ask) Although they managed to do a pretty plausible portrayal o
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Capitalism is the most efficient economic system.
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
The article, your comment and the argument they make, that this effect -- if it exists -- should be highly visible across all strata of society, are taking a ton of assumptions for granted. There are a number of plausible scenarios in which
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Fuck the "bipartisan plan". M4A now.
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Imagine if we lived in a society where these stories were about housing startups, not hotel startups. Food production startups instead of food packaging startups. Public infrastructure projects instead of scooter renting apps. Actual cr
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Cult has only recently (etymologically speaking) become a pejorative in English
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
1. You generally require a charismatic, authoritarian leader who has strong central command over the group and whose word is law; tenets that actively lead the congregation to act against their best interests; and a dogmatic belief system w
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Who hasn't???
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
I donate much more than 1.2% of my net worth to charity, and every 2 weeks to boot. Somehow I also manage to do it without publicizing it on dozens of media outlets every time or blowing tens of millions on a disgustingly wasteful luxury li
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
So brave of him to donate 1.2% of his vast fortune to a PR project with his name on it! This really makes up for the whole FOXCONN-level human despair harvesting labor practices thing imo. Hell, we don't even need to go through with th
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Living standards, calorie consumption, GDP, literacy and life expectancy skyrocketed higher and faster for more people anywhere in history under the early years of the USSR and PRC but we tend to only talk about those metrics when they&#x27
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
>Apparently we are to hold every rich person to some esoteric standard because every wealthy person made their money by exploiting others; none of them were positive-sum contributors to society. Yes, that's correct. What, you think
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Uh, yes? I give a higher percentage of my income to charitable causes than any of these "philanthropists" and I manage to not waste an insane amount of money on a disgustingly wasteful life of luxury at the same time, but for some
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Doubtful; I make more money than you, and I only make high liquidity investments, so I came away looking pretty nice the last time (too young to have made any money from 2008 though)
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Never read my posts again lol
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Sounds miserable -- maybe just get a job you enjoy instead of eating lentils every day so that you can squirrel away an extra $3 into a retirement account? Either way, enjoy watching your plan to get rich doing nothing crash and burn when t
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
Wow, they made a deliberate effort to design glyphs that all look exactly the same. Every single letter written in cursive would be indistinguishable from 5-6 others.
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
It is maddening that there is even still a "discussion" happening. Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. Didn't even get mentioned in the article. All the pros, zero cons. Enough of this. Enough, enough. "Use tabs
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by TuGuQuKu 8y ago
The parent comment just left out the 大 (big/great) from the sentence example 好き - like 大好き - love (lit. "great fondness")