marbro

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by marbro 14d ago
Malpractice insurance is less than 1% of revenue for all medical specialties except the one that is dangerous and used routinely.
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by marbro 2mo ago
It annoys me, too, that people think only chatbots wrote intelligent prose.
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by marbro 2mo ago
He bought Twitter to restore free speech.
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by marbro 3mo ago
There are 2 axes: the second is authoritarian-libertarian.
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by marbro 3mo ago
The Internet is anonymous so that bigots don't know the gender of the poster, bro.
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by marbro 4mo ago
This is the exasperating part about learning to speak Spanish using a textbook; you must guess the grammar rules because the textbook won't tell you. So, you use the English rule and hope and pray that it is the same in Spanish, and yo
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by marbro 9mo ago
I call it theft when the government steals money from people without kids to enrich parents.
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by marbro 9mo ago
Government is not the solution, government is the problem. There is no such thing as a healthy functioning regulatory body - they all regulate too much and some should not exist. Don't call your legislator because the most dangerous wo
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by marbro 10mo ago
At my state college in the 80's, most dorms and showers were unisex but I never saw anyone naked outside my dorm room.
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by marbro 11mo ago
This bubble is caused by excess competition. There are 4 large companies who believe that a large new market is being created so each is investing large amounts without any evidence that there will be a single winner that dominates the futu
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by marbro 11mo ago
In 2005, the CEO of Intel tried to buy Nvidia for $20b but the board vetoed his decision. The moral of the story is that the board's only tasks are to hire and fire the CEO. The board should not manage the company and they should fire
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by marbro 11mo ago
Maybe that's because the voters are not impressed by government central planning.
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by marbro 11mo ago
Employers don't have all the power, employees do because they can quit and work for a competitor. All businesses must compete for employees.
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by marbro 11mo ago
Interest rates aren't high, they're manipulated by the government and they're too low. When businesses, governments, and individuals increase their borrowing, as they are now, that means that the cost of borrowing, the intere
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by marbro 11mo ago
By analogy, think about the government. They've been printing money since August 1971, the price of gold has increased from $35 to $4000, and people still accept dollars rather than gold, and even Switzerland sold their gold because th
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by marbro 11mo ago
Does democracy help or hinder free markets? In the USA, half the people pay no income tax but they vote on how income tax revenue is spent. In contrast, I don't vote in Microsoft elections because I own no shares.
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by marbro 11mo ago
All investors should choose gold over the dollar because paper money is always debased. Organizations like Apple, Microsoft, and Google bought government bonds 10 years ago when the price of gold was $1100 and have watched their investments
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by marbro 1y ago
In the United States, the government deliberately creates a shortage of medical residencies through a longstanding cap on federal funding for graduate medical education, primarily administered via Medicare. Residencies represent the essenti
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by marbro 1y ago
The Peace Prize stands out because sometimes it is given to someone who wages war such as Henry Kissinger or Barack Obama.
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by marbro 1y ago
Charlie Sheen was successful at age 20 in Platoon and has been a drug addict since.
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by marbro 1y ago
Can these robots move a chess piece from one square to another?
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by marbro 1y ago
We need to shut down the government until buses and other wasteful borrowing and spending is eliminated. Local governments should pay for 100% of their buses rather than 20%.
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by marbro 1y ago
No, the government is going to provide it to everyone with money that it prints or collects as taxes.
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by marbro 1y ago
Carbon-based model collapse is known as groupthink and happens constantly.
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by marbro 1y ago
Adults are pretty stupid, too, especially legislators who voted to ban TikTok.
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by marbro 1y ago
The bill allows people to request an exception to regulations.
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by marbro 1y ago
You shouldn't feel safe riding a bicycle without a helmet because because accidents have not fallen since people began wearing helmets. Ski accidents haven't fallen, either, since they started wearing hemets.
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by marbro 1y ago
We outsourced manufacturing because it's not very profitable. The Mag 7 make 50x as much money as TSMC. Apple and Microsoft are the most profitable businesses in history.
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by marbro 1y ago
Most of the powerful corporations in 1982 no longer exist or are much smaller because there is great turnover in corporate power. Governments don't lose power unless they lose a war, a rare event today that was common 100 years ago.
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by marbro 2y ago
Wouldn't it be horrible if Europe defended itself without help from the United States?

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