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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Mine was also a Toyota in the UK, so consistent with your experience.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
>And I know exactly how they would respond to me: What do you mean by "these people" you *ist! You're inventing a stance to get angry about.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I recently bought a new car for the first time and the level of poor customer service, anti-consumer acts and outright trickery were appalling. Do they not depend on repeat customers? At least if the dealership model disappears, it's t
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
There is a common pattern where a startup is named after their main product, grows to the point of needing diversification, and starts being limited by their name. On the other hand, Amazon worked around it.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Marvel Studios writing it as a baddie is not a very compelling reason to avoid automation. As of today, the vast majority of autonomous devices and robots are factory devices that have minimal input from humans.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Any time Facebook's UI is insulted, it's common to see the defence that it's a feature, not a bug, because clearly it works or a competitor would replace them. That time spent improving it is time wasted, because it doesn&#x2
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
>If its free, your the product. Like my bank account? You don't need to sell order flow to make money when people are letting you hold their billions. Trading 212 already offer commission-free trading in the UK.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
The only unconditional offers I've ever heard of have been for less prestigious courses.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
That passes the buck on to the university addmissions teams. Then it's the same story with Oxbridge as the antagonists. Fundamentally it's a hard problem: the admissions require more information than is available. But... > All
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I find the elected fascist to be an interesting thought experiment. If someone was fairly elected on a platform of genocide, would you comply? If someone doesn't, does that mean democracy is second to morality? And, if they don't,
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
> If "they" are doing it, where's the issue? Markets may not be perfect, but they're not that bad, especially when huge profits are waiting to be collected with little risk. See C >Is your point that the majority o
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I know what the article says. A person who can't get a mortgage on 8 won't be able to get a mortgage on 4 at the same rate as another person who can get a mortgage on 8. >I suggested that if you can't get a loan you should
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
A) They are doing it B) Markets aren't perfect C) You have to fight against, or change the influence of (through, say, commentary in the media), the government's funding and regulation. >Are the shareholders mostly white? It&#x
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
That's not a quote.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Maybe YCombinator companies should have tried bootstrapping.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Meanwhile the buyer in the white-majority area continues to buy 8, enjoys a higher leverage for the same interest, and makes a higher profit. And so it repeats. Leverage is forgiven when the faceless metaphorical person does it but, when it
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
You've put "banks are racist" in speech marks, but I can't find where you're quoting it from. The question is begging an easy answer to a structural problem. But note that, when a pandemic unfairly makes it expensiv
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
>The question is, was the policy created with the intent of racism. That's convenient for the people it doesn't affect. Not only do you not have to worry about the policies: by choosing not to be racist, you absolve yourself of
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
His recent blogs (i.e. July's) suggest actual progress!
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
H1B Covid policy is anti-immigration.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
All those companies have the single point of failure in the policies of the US government.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Look at the Nikkei until 1990
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
This attitude continues into job interviews: the thought that, if you work hard enough and have enough talent, you should get the job you want. In reality, you might just not be a match.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Then what is the meaning behind the expensive, power-hungry hardware used to host his videos? Fun is a meaning!
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
This should go for almost everything written in a newspaper. We all know about the the intentional spin and unintentional failure to understand technical topics but, when written in a newspaper, hearsay is treated as factual secondary sourc
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Sure, but he didn't say those, he said S&P 500. It seems like weird American exceptionalism that the internet repeatedly recommends only investing in one nation's index when that would be laughable if you heard a Japanese, Chi
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
500 companies in one country isn't diversified.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Or that what is done for entertainment purposes is not useful.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I've heard the following theory: Most trading volume is algorithmic, so it only takes a small number of real humans doing unusual trading activity for markets to move. I've phrased it like this because I don't have expertise.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I find the CNN examples tenuous. If the same logic was applied to today's relics in the future, historians might say that 8 foot tall anime women were idealised beauty, in the same way newly discovered buildings tend to be called templ

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