onebaddude

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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Perhaps Simon Sinek is right, but after reading the article, you are no closer to understanding why he thinks he's right than you were before. What do you know, the top comment is a pseudo-intellectual tear down of an article, as
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> lots of research indicates that the creative peak happens from 20-40 or so Is that a social or physiological phenomenon? I always assumed the great thinkers became less prolific as they voluntarily moved into other stages of life, lik
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Adam Curtis is a prime example of what he is complaining about. Adam Curtis has produced some of the best documentaries I've ever seen. It's like people in this thread can't appreciate art for what it is. Or that some
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by onebaddude 13y ago
A business.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
Kiyosaki teamed up with Donald Trump to write a more recent book, titled, "We Want You To Be Rich!". That speaks volumes about their angle and market. That said, the core philosophy of Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a good lesson: make
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> but interest rates are currently so low that it's almost impossible to get escape velocity through low risk investments. This period is not unique in this regard. Interest rate is always risk-related. There may been times of
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money. Do you really believe that private companies are more forth-coming with information than public companies? Do y
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> "Provided you aren't a sexist/rapist" Well, rapist is easy. But me and you may have very different ideas as what constitutes a "sexist". That's the crux of the problem; that's what causes men
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Just because we're in pg's house, it doesn't mean we have to treat him like a god I'll be the first to agree with this, but I don't believe the guy owes anything to anyone. This idea that he should go out of
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by onebaddude 13y ago
The book is "When Genius Failed", and though it's been a a while since I've read it, I don't recall either of the Nobel Prize winners (nor Merriwhether, for that matter) participating in any "frat-like" be
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> The problem with Bitcoin is that the people that informed about it are usually tilt pro-Bitcoin[1], while the people that are against Bitcoin usually haven't done enough research into economics, mathematics, and politics. 99% of
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>Read the post before jumping to your reply button. Maybe you should do the same. Krugman isn't looking at Bitcoin as a technology, but as a currency. Just because he doesn't understand "computers and the imnpact thereof&
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by onebaddude 13y ago
You can go on and on, but nothing will ever change the fact that no entity ever forced someone into a mortgage, CDO or investment. Each and every time was a voluntary contract between two parties, likely greed driven by both borrower and
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> "Can you explain the mechanism by which the rich keep the poor there?" The political system. Same as it's been for thousands of years.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> if you're someone who doesn't really know finance that well Well, you don't have to be a financial expert to understand the generalities of what you can and cannot afford. The rest of what you describe can be equally at
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> can be a complete moron in another field A complete moron? In the field of monetary economics? Yeah, okay. You may think Bitcoin is major internet monies, but the economists are interested in studying it from aspect of a medium of
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>If a service can't stand up on it's own, it doesn't need to exist. Ask the people who were priced out of transportation due to surge pricing what they think of the situation. Now imagine if Uber had driven all regulated
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Surge pricing incentivizes drivers to actually show up and compensates them for tougher conditions and additional risk. I get it, and I believe it's well within their right, and also an interesting strategy. I'm not really
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Why would anyone ever cash out of any position with a positive rate of return? The opportunity cost of doing so is predictable and calculable, and, really, needs only occur when there are better investments available. Inflation in a c
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> the taxi industry is "heavily regulated" for the benefit of the customer I get your point, but people decry the regulation that Uber is fighting against...until Uber implements free market "surge pricing". Then pe
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by onebaddude 13y ago
Every article, huh? Krugman has much insight to offer about the world of economics, although I know it's hip to rip on him nowadays. Oh well, stay ignorant.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Chomsky certainly never left academic work for politics. Neither did Krugman.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> If every merchant you patronize today accepted Bitcoin, would you rather have Bitcoin in your bank account or dollars? At this point, and in the foreseeable future? Dollars. I'm not sure where people find all this friction rela
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>I disagree. I think it's both. Your turnip site instantly becomes the hippest turnip site due to it's location on Reddit.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Lance Armstrong, well-known cyclist with lots of charity work fighting cancer, now known to be a drug cheat. Are you really equating Lance Armstrong with a guy who likely sexually abused hundreds of children? That's idiotic. You
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> the fact that some policy makers use the CPI Less Food and Energy which means that some of the biggest expenses for the majority of people, food and energy, are sometimes ignored when discussing the effects inflation. That's hard
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>It hasn't done much. Why not? I suppose you have to define "hasn't done much." Perhaps your expectations are too high. Do you think $2 trillion dollars is enough to permanently pull the global population out of pove
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>If you look around you will find a lot of such covert channels. And if you look around you'll find far, far more examples of honest foundations, filled with honest people, doing honest work. What's your point?
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>Do you have any? Don't really have a dog in this fight, but: up until today, there was no evidence "the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a "back door" in encryption
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> But it doesn't change the fact that he deserves to be executed. If this comment doesn't earn a ban, there's something wrong with this community. Unbelievable.

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