skystarman

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by skystarman 7mo ago
What you describe in your diet is significant calorie restriction...
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by skystarman 8mo ago
Great point. This Board nearly destroyed one of the world's great tech companies and they are STILL in charge after not being held accountable or admitting their mistakes over the past decade + The only reason INTC isn't in a deat
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by skystarman 11mo ago
Companies can decide today that they don't need near-perfect accuracy in bookkeeping to save a few bucks and no one does that. One of the major factors is regulatory requirements. Even without I'm sure investors would apply a heft
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by skystarman 1y ago
For me, It does bother me that some of my friendships I make most, or nearly all of the initiative, but I get so much from the friendship when we do talk / meet up, it's worth it for me to swallow my pride and ignore it. In 99% of
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by skystarman 5y ago
Cowen is a unique talent in the world. One of the most smartest people you'll ever read or speak to. It seems he has at least a modest understanding of important topics in almost any field you can mention, and an impressive mastery in
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by skystarman 5y ago
Your best argument for defending the CCP committing genocide is to Whatabout Slavery? AN institution that ended over 150 years ago?
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by skystarman 5y ago
Alcohol has been scientifically proven to cause long-term health consequences to children. It is also an incredibly addictive and dangerous substance that often results in lifetime debilitation, cancers, and other deadly diseases. This is n
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by skystarman 5y ago
I'm not sure a country that commits cultural genocide and sent a million or more Muslim Uighurs into reeducation camps is where you should be looking for a "better system". Forced sterilization, forced labor... Or a country t
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by skystarman 5y ago
If you live in a place like the Bay Area/NYC where cities/local zoning boards are preventing almost and and all new construction then in all likelihood your home price will continue to appreciate throughout your lifetime. Supply a
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by skystarman 5y ago
"the statistics would disagree with you on how representative a random draw of several hundred would be in this situation" The observations in your original citation were NOT NOT NOT a random sample. Are you really this deeply ign
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by skystarman 5y ago
>Your response is extremely typical - just generally stated principles bordering in their generality on banality and without any ounce of data. Y'see in SCIENCE we have this generally stated principle that we don't draw empiric
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by skystarman 5y ago
Lol so Elon has faked his Stanford PhD and no one in the world has dared step forward to call him out? There are literally dozens of people who could prove this wrong if it's false. This is qanon level conspiracy theory. you're cl
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by skystarman 5y ago
>Musk was not a Stanford PhD nor a founder, if that's who you are referring to. If you can point me to any evidence of either that doesn't come from him, I'll be happy to stand corrected. Musk was accepted and enrolled int
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by skystarman 5y ago
It's weird that you are certain this study is a gold-standard for medicine when nothing anywhere close to this has been shown in any other country. It's an incredibly small sample size, directly after an unusual event after very l
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by skystarman 5y ago
So you bring up the "I have the DATA!" Trump card and then when asked to provide it your response is, "well, no, where is YOUR DATA?" That long Covid is a pernicious result for many people with debilitating effects is we
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by skystarman 5y ago
"Whatever you think of them, the Tesla fanboys have been proven more right then wrong" I'm not sure why that's interesting or important. The Tesla fanboys had no special insight into Tesla, Elon or anything. They are par
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by skystarman 5y ago
Plenty to criticize Tesla and Elon about, to be sure, but a lot of Elon's predictions have turned out to be true at least when it comes to passenger vehicles. What they've done with the EV market for consumers is nothing short of
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by skystarman 5y ago
You're mostly right but I don't see anything going on in the markets today as much different than how it has fundamentally operated over the past century or so. Hell, much of the same "speculative gamesmanship" was going
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by skystarman 5y ago
Dwayne Johnson has been the highest paid film actor for a couple years in a row now. And I think claiming Leo is "cooler" and better as an actor is a bit silly. Dwayne is an action star and the best at what he does, Leo does an en
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by skystarman 5y ago
You're attributing the surge in rental supply in a major city during the pandemic entirely to Airbnb? This is really lazy, unserious analysis. Housing supply in cities across the entire western world shrank because people were working
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by skystarman 5y ago
I never said there was no effect, in fact I said the opposite. The effect is relatively small (a few percentage points) compared to other factors, which bears out through empirical studies which are cited.
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by skystarman 5y ago
The answer to your question is that people in Bed Stuy and NYC in general organize against ALL new construction.
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by skystarman 5y ago
I'm assuming you're in California. Their property tax laws are absolutely insane but good luck ever changing it.
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by skystarman 5y ago
The effect of Airbnb on the price of housing is pretty small, maybe a few percentage increase. Not saying that isn't worth doing something about but there it certainly wouldn't be at the top of my list. End onerous and restrictive
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by skystarman 5y ago
I don't think there's an "agenda" here. There were dozens and dozens of articles in every publication over the last decade or longer about the decline of SF, COL is too expensive, homeless, dodging shit on the street, et
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by skystarman 5y ago
IMO it's preferable than the macho BS of pretending any and all vulnerability makes you a sissy incapable of ever amounting to much.
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by skystarman 5y ago
I think you make a great point but not calling it what it is, "gambling", elides the risk inherent in investing in crypto. It's one of the most volatile assets anyone can invest in. The vast majority of people are investing i
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by skystarman 5y ago
That misogyny or bigotry requires "intent" is so ludicrously divorced from reality I don't know where it came from. I've heard the most ridiculously hateful and racist things prefaced by "I'm not a racist but..
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by skystarman 5y ago
"WHen making terribly misogynistic comments his INTENT wasn't to be misogynistic, it's just based on his experience that women are driven primarily by their emotions and unable to handle pressure!" Really solid defense!
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by skystarman 5y ago
"Now you have the right to read that a different way; but please respect that others are not just "memory-holing" misogynistic comments for some reason or another." Almost every single one of the posters defending this m

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