citrablue

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by citrablue 6y ago
Just to be clear here, you have internally discredited the group that says "its racist to depict black people as animals in a zoo"?
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by citrablue 6y ago
It sounds like you believe people can behave more in line with the Rational Human used to model older economic theories. I'm not so sure confirmation, affinity, or proximity biases can be held down. What we need is a system that is e
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by citrablue 6y ago
But they were genetically related to him. I don't think this is a good example.
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by citrablue 6y ago
It rarely seems to have the effect of promoting healthy and respectful discourse. Instead it appears to always inflame.
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by citrablue 6y ago
One example from your own experience is not generalizable.
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by citrablue 6y ago
This does not hold water. Did the left occupy the Capitol building in 2016 or 2000, when they won the popular votes but lost the presidency?
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by citrablue 6y ago
It's kind of a MJF signature word - I heard this in his voice. He says it in several of his roles, IIRC.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Of course, you miss out on real estate for a number of years while you do this. Time in market and leverage are important.
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by citrablue 7y ago
If time and date are unpredictable, what's the use? Suppose you switch to conservative investments now -- say, bonds. You're going to be hit less hard by the recession, but you also will have missed out on gains. So, unless you b
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by citrablue 7y ago
Worth noting that the FB acquisition of WhatsApp was a massive unicorn success for the WA team. While the point doesn't hold, the "breaking" of it is the best case outcome for the people who build the product.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Sure, but you aren't getting 5x leverage in an index fund.
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by citrablue 7y ago
What does your pre-code design process look like? Might beef that up; its what has helped me quite a bit.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Ah, I understand what you're saying. You are right - meaningless is too strong of a statement. If I could edit my comment, I might say something more accurate, like "trying to evaluate this number without more context is not usef
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by citrablue 7y ago
For comparison, the stock market has done 9.1% during that time. $40k in an index fund back then would be worth around $390k today. Leverage is the biggest benefit, I would imagine. Although paying half as much in rent sounds really nice
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by citrablue 7y ago
Is your argument that a CSV file of everyone's data should be publicly accessible? Because that's not what I understand the fee to cover; it covers extra personnel to field and review the requests, computer systems to process it,
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by citrablue 7y ago
Is that a lot, or a little, when compared to the cost of providing the service? Without context, this number is meaningless.
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by citrablue 7y ago
The problem is that many problems are so because of their scale. For instance, you have billions of harmful bacteria in your body, but are (presumably) not afflicted because they can be handled by your immune system. It would be bad to el
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by citrablue 7y ago
What are the differences between good and bad CEOs? From my vantage, companies sure seem to be awful at identifying these before hiring someone...
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by citrablue 7y ago
I agree with some of your underlying sentiment, but this is a textbook "no true scotsman" example.
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by citrablue 7y ago
It seems pretty clear he doesn't want FB to be the decision maker. Guessing his reasoning is probably more projection than anything else. But back the "punting" metaphor -- he only has the ball because the US government neve
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by citrablue 7y ago
This article appears to have some fundamental misunderstandings. Their description of the review system is not stack ranking, in which employees are ranked in a hierarchy and the lowest on the totem are fired. Instead, the "meets&#x2
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by citrablue 7y ago
Wouldn't it be expected that companies who are targeted by PE are more likely to go bankrupt, independent of any actions by the PE firm? They say they're targeting poorly run companies, after all. (Not to disagree with your larg
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by citrablue 7y ago
180 is mid senior according to levels.fyi.
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by citrablue 7y ago
You basically load the cartridge in by hand every time. If you leave some space between the powder and projectile, you risk the gun blowing up.
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by citrablue 7y ago
San Diego and the Lockheed contract team determined where to put cameras based on where they thought the maximum revenue stream was, instead of danger to others. One light -- at an intersection that is frequently gridlocked because it&#x27
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by citrablue 7y ago
How about when traffic rules are created not for safety, but to maximize revenue? 6 years ago, San Diego finally dropped red light cameras because they were installed as a revenue generation device, not a safety device. https://
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by citrablue 7y ago
It becomes cheating when it's an unfair advantage that isn't available to other people. The fact that it was cheating based on race makes it problematic. The fact that black applications likely faced other unfair difficulties ma
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by citrablue 7y ago
This is a common misconception. Beane did use statistics, but the central point of Moneyball was how he found market inefficiencies and exploited them. Other teams were using statistics as well, but it was Beane who applied market princip
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by citrablue 7y ago
I live in San Diego, and have followed this with great interest. From my understanding, they are only doing this for scooters that are parked illegally: e.g. on the shop owners property, blocking vehicle access, etc. It's very interes
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by citrablue 7y ago
Isn't it just as plausible that early adopters bought BTC because that's all there was, then bought altcoins as they appeared in order to diversify their crypto portfolio? It'd be interesting to find out if there are more in

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