pauldickwin

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by pauldickwin 5y ago
The top 10% are paying over 71% of income taxes in the US. Who are you to say what their "fair share" is?
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
In America, welfare is designed in such a way in which it actually prevents the jobless from wanting to enter the workforce. They actually make more by panhandling and collecting welfare than simply getting an entry level job. The jobless u
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
That's not because of the processor. It's because the newest iPad Pro has a 120hz display and the other devices that you were comparing to have a 60hz display.
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
Poker can be considered work. If you actually truly learn to play it, it teaches you a lot about people, emotions, thinking ahead several steps, probability, and risk and reward.
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
Except that Bill Gates and people of that type don't get tired from it. They get energized.
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
Obviously, there are drawbacks with the CCP (and Amazon), but I can tell you one damn thing for sure: those people would not have been lifted out of poverty under the socialist/communist regime of Mao. Under that regime, people were mo
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
It's more important to keep in mind that Amazon created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, raised minimum wage in many areas, and brought many people out of absolute poverty. No matter which way you look at it, a net positive rather th
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by pauldickwin 5y ago
To these journalists that have little understanding of economics, it's always a zero-sum game. They make up their own economics.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
There are several entire companies whose core product is a security camera that cannot get a security camera to work "well". At least 50% of it is making the user experience smooth and loading times extremely low. You would think
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
So this guy is both good at sales and a good programmer and he writes a blog talking about it. Hmmm doubtful...
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
When you let marketing people do the math, they come up with the "constant" churn equation.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
And is this rainy-day fund working? I am seeing that the human feces pickup-patrol in SF is costing taxpayers up to $184k each and SF is becoming an even worse homeless-friendly dump with California's extreme liberal policies.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
Yeah... Those people in the pictures on that site... they're not going to be living on this ship. One thing I can tell you for sure: you are not going to like the smell on this ship.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
I am just wondering if the PE ratio became extraordinarily high because high growth tech companies now are a major part of all of the large indices. Did you ever think about that?
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
This exactly. Money was pumped into a deflationary environment.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
The prices for these things did not go up because the fed gave people stimulus checks to pay for their daily needs.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
Well... it's Reddit.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
Except that people actually used microservices and microservices are actually additive and helpful.
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by pauldickwin 6y ago
This is what happens when you put a sales/marketing guy in charge as the CEO.