idiot_stick

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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> What an incredible, amazing experience. You realize you can do everything you said, without living in someone's closet, in 99% of the world, right? YC is making billions and their workers are living in closets. That's insan
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Defending against that is costly. Costly, yes. But do those costs out-weigh the immediate benefits of slave ownership? Probably not. I have a hard time thinking slave-owners were hurt by slavery; they made out like bandits, but thei
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> during which she run the company into the ground. That might be an exaggeration, but yeah. It's hard to fathom that someone could sock away enough wealth to last generations for accomplishing so little (from an investor's
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Surely you jest. As the parent noted, such reasoning is squarely on the path to insanity. What's insane is people comparing the government drugging us to equalize our IQ to the enforcement of a law that requires a publicly funde
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Yes, but deaf people are always at a disadvantage. I agree. > The law cannot eliminate that. All it can do is make reasonable compromises to mitigate it. I also agree with this. And I believe that's what this law is doing: s
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> The deaf are already at a measurable disadvantage. They're deaf. We should take steps to mitigate that. Which is why we're not trying to cure their deafness. Instead, we're trying to ensure that the deaf have access to
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> How is this a good thing? If I'm deaf, I know that you have no advantage over me merely because you can hear. I think that's "good". The laws are in place to protect minorities.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> How is society improved by taking them down? First of all, I agree with you. I think most others do as well. The problem is, we can look at a case like this and say, "Obviously we shouldn't lose access to this." Then
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Going into debt to vacation in the Caribbean (which is what he did) is not the same as using it to say start a business or get an education. They differ only if the metric you choose to measure against the debt is "money".
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Tesla's YTD return more than matches the overall market What is so significant about YTD? You can arrange the data in any number of ways to tell a story: A Tesla investment since 2014 has lost money (and been diluted). Go back
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> probably much smarter to distribute their lender among multiple entities than one giant bank that would have leverage on them. A less charitable reading is that no single lender wanted to write the debt. A billion isn't substant
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> "Surely you understand this?" It's my whole point. Being a "content creator" is irrelevant, and not deserving of making money. Billions of people are creating content all day, every day. The vast majority
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
Right out of the Tesla Playbook: Make an announcement ("Model Y!") then raise cash. It's a surprisingly small amount, which makes me think they couldn't get the terms they wanted/needed/
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> How would you solve this? Paywalls for everything? Sure, why not. I don't care. I have zero problem finding content I want via a variety of methods, free and paid. I have more content than I can consume. But if you choose to g
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Social psychologist Amy Cuddy talks about “high power poses.” Oh, right, the works that can't be replicated: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> What it does have is market power in the seed market for certain key global crops, and even more in the GM sector (e.g., 80%+ for GM corn, 90%+ for GM soy. Fortunately, we don't need those seeds. They can try to patent and sue
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> This is the real story - Monsanto interfering with our ability to find out what is safe. The real story, to me, are the academics willing to sign their name to research they didn't write, for a pay cheque.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Was he emotionally hurt by clever women lying to him? Or did he just cut-and-dry accept patriarchic notions of women as lesser beings who can't achieve the same standards of intelligence and morality? Or maybe it's neither.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Now I sit back and check gumroad a couple times a day; I average $800 in sales per day This is great, but it's also a single anecdote. Clearly there are people for whom it works out. The real test is whether you, or someone usin
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> ""A senior executive with Qatar’s TV network Al Jazeera was closely involved with setting up the London news website Middle East Eye, some of whose staff have links to organisations sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood.&quot
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> TFW you're voted down immediately for calling out sexism which, though very explicit, has so far gone uncommented upon What reaction were you hoping for? That we'd refuse to read the thoughts of someone who lived 150 years a
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
Everytime there is some negative news, out comes a random Tesla announcement. How about some Model 3 details, as opposed to pipe dreams that may or may not appear on some random, future model?
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
Thanks for looking out for us, random guy on the internet.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
Engineers are people who hold engineering degrees. I'm not sure how it became otherwise.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
What is stopping you from making that calculation yourself if you feel its an important indicator? The data is freely available. The BLS indicator is what it is, not what others think it should be. The methodology is public. If you find oth
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> She's got the money for the dope, and heroin don't care. So you what do you propose as a solution for this (likely unrepresentative) anecdote? Lock her up?
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> $5-$10 and have a week's worth of food delivered. Is that so hard Loblaws? Yes. $5-$10 isn't a lot to get time critical cargo (spoilable food) that last mile.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I'm not sure I'd group the Nespresso and Keurigs together. We have both in our workplace kitchen; they both produce mediocre coffee, in my opinion (and I'm no coffee snob). I wonder how the Nespresso got such a reputat
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
I must live on another planet, because the idea of "getting in a few pages" while standing in a crowded train is not appealing. I guess it's better than staring into space for 30 minutes, but I'd hardly call it recapture
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> For every study that says coffee is bad there's 10 more that say it's good, simply because people want it to be good Or, maybe, it actually is good. Why do you assume some agenda on behalf of the 9, not the one?

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