ashalhashim

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by ashalhashim 3mo ago
These chefs are effectively being held hostage. One had his passport withheld. Another was executed for giving a kid a stomachache. This isn’t careerism.
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by ashalhashim 3mo ago
I ended up going back and reading the article. It’s not bad that it’s bad writing, it’s that the opening is sloppy and turned me off from reading the article instead of pulling me in the way a good lede should. The subject is interesting, w
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by ashalhashim 3mo ago
No, they did not. Arendt’s point about evil being banal is that the perpetrator’s behavior is motivated by the banal. A chef isn’t the perp. They’re adjacent to the monsters and they might be motivated by and fixated on the banality of doin
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by ashalhashim 3mo ago
> “It goes back to Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil a bit,” says director Andrew Neel. “These everyday things that are beloved to us, like food, can take on an entirely different dimension within the context of a dictatorship.” That’s n
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by ashalhashim 5mo ago
I see another explanation. A generous take would be that digital marketing agencies generate mixed results. But many would have far worse things to say about the ROI these agencies produce. I don’t know anything about the author’s agency, b
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by ashalhashim 1y ago
I assume this comment is trolling. But to be clear to readers, the link states psilocybin 50% increase in lifespan of human skin etc. not human lifespan.
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by ashalhashim 1y ago
The ideal business co-founder has to be strong in distribution AND eliciting product feedback. This is why the “MBA types” and ex-McKinsey consultants fare so poorly - they’re used to companies spending loads of money to hear what they thin
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by ashalhashim 3y ago
“Cecil - No civilization in history has ever considered ‘chief hydrological engineer’ a calling.”
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by ashalhashim 4y ago
Dear Operator With a Vision, Please do more of the same thing that used to make me money and less of the thing that is risky. Sincerely, Know-nothing Investor
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Miami Is a Lie(twitter.com)
11 points by ashalhashim 4y ago|2 comments
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by ashalhashim 4y ago
“Between 2006, the peak of the previous housing bubble, and 2019, average home prices have increased just 13%, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. In that same time period, the S&P 500 rose 125%. In other words,
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by ashalhashim 4y ago
Taxicab companies don’t have to pay the Bay Area salaries of engineers, data scientists, MBAs, etc. nor do they have massive advertising and marketing overhead.
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by ashalhashim 5y ago
“Let me explain why crypto is bad by showing how it doesn’t fit neatly into the definitions of any of the monetary instruments that preceded it”
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by ashalhashim 5y ago
The price of a catalytic converter is much higher. My friend’s catalytic converter was stolen from her late 2000s Accord, and her car was totaled as a result.
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by ashalhashim 6y ago
The title of this post in his newsletter was “Financial Devil’s Dictionary.” Wonder why he changed it.
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by ashalhashim 6y ago
Why would this be illegal?