foldingmoney

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by foldingmoney 7mo ago
>the tells are in pretty much every paragraph. It's not just misleading — it's lazy. And honestly? That doesn't vibe with me. [/s obviously]
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by foldingmoney 8mo ago
as depressing as it is to say, i think it's a bit like the year is 1906 and we're complaining that these new tyres for cars they're making are bad because they're no longer backwards compatible with the horse drawn wagon
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by foldingmoney 9mo ago
exactly. when you're new, virtually any type of lifting you do is going to create sufficient stimulus to trigger maximum muscle growth, because you're going from 0 to 1. unfortunately, since the only people that researchers can us
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by foldingmoney 1y ago
>I'm not saying that pleasure-seeking for its own sake is inherently bad or wrong, but how would you compare and contrast the behavior of a drug addict and a high-risk climber, if you were explaining it to an alien anthropologist? t
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by foldingmoney 1y ago
(not the Ada Lovelace book of the same name)
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by foldingmoney 2y ago
>My understanding is that evolution is specifically directional change in response to a pressure, not random drift or coincidence. Evolution just means change, and it includes genetic drift. In common parlance, 'evolution' gene
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by foldingmoney 2y ago
iirc the pilot retirement age is at least in part due to radiation exposure.
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by foldingmoney 3y ago
>A more fair approach would be a special assessment on net worth. how would a wealth tax incentivise people to save more and spend less?
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by foldingmoney 3y ago
>Higher interest rates won't stop greed. we've just come off ~15 years of stubbornly low inflation. if the cause is greed, did companies only just become greedy in the last two years? >It'll hurt families who need to bu
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
yeah won't allow promotion on either mobile or desktop
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
>If you take the entire sum of your own unique talents, and find a way to combine them properly, you can become extraordinary simply by finding a new way of looking at the world, even if the individual talents you have are not outstandin
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
Most of the people criticising my points are glossing over the key word of my post, which is listed . Not every business is listed, and those can be run for all sorts of reasons, but a listed business is a stock first and a business seco
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
>Removing any other expense will be detrimental to the business, that is, make it work less well. Nothing will happen to the business if the owners don't get any dividends. I'd say two things. 1. A listed business wouldn't
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
>If you'd like a tale about the 1970-80s then feel free to ask and I'll tell you what I saw. With luck, my memories aren't too shot. Please do.
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
a lot of these read like stealth marketing for bicycles imo
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
>I expect little to no digital art (images, videos, films, music, writing) will be sold for profit by human artists 10 years from now you think AI auto-generated movies will kill the human film industry? AI novels? these are both fundame
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
>I worry that the takeaway for people that only read clickbait headlines about the 2012 Stradivarius study was: expert violinists can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive violins. A key point that's omitted in most
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by foldingmoney 4y ago
#6 sounds an awful lot like #2 + #3
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by foldingmoney 5y ago
>Here's someone complaining $200,000 is not enough. I don't think they're complaining that $200k isn't enough; they're complaining that it's unfair for them not to get a stimulus cheque when they pay a lot o
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by foldingmoney 5y ago
I'd add on to this: when you listen to a piece of music, you subconsciously anticipate what will come next, and you get enjoyment from the way the piece meets or surprises your expectations. This plays a big part in the perception of m
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by foldingmoney 5y ago
likewise.
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by foldingmoney 5y ago
https://www.afr.com/property/residential/what-the-national-m... . AUD$955,927 national median and AUD$1.4m Sydney median.
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by foldingmoney 5y ago
>Damn, I would assume houses must be much cheaper in Australia than in the US? The median home price in Australia is about US$725k. So no.
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
My understanding is that most hedge funds get the bulk of capital from institutional investors, e.g. pension funds.
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
>Main street (retail investors, taxpayers) have had enough of this, and a lot of anger is directed at institutional investors for always getting the easy money and the bailouts at their expense. They want to see the game applied fairly,
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
> Nazi labour laws were best in contemporary world. Reduced work hours, periodic breaks, paid holidays and sponsored trips to Italy as perks. They got sponsored trips to a lot of places in Europe: Poland, France, Russia...probably best t
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
Having more money can also increase the set of (good) choices available to you.
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
Did you get to see the fabulous Sunsphere?
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
This is a property of _what the device is doing_ (moving heat from one place to another) as opposed to being a property of how it's powered, though.
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by foldingmoney 6y ago
The higher levels of human intelligence are more useful for navigating the social than the physical environment, and obviously the social environment can vary drastically depending on where you live.

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