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by splitstud 5y ago
You are of course not wholly wrong. However, people paying on the latter half of a 30 year mortgage are almost certainly paying much less for housing than they would be paying to lease, due to inflation. And of course these payments are inc
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The argument is that this isn't a great goal. The argument is that Apple has chosen a solution that doesn't conform to our legal framework.
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Apple also has a choice. Begin conforming to our legal framework regarding monopolistic practices or pay a heavy price.
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If you ever have the need to invest billions that outcome might be meaningful. One need not beat the market. It is not difficult to trade time and thought for an upgrade in returns over funds. Frankly, just being awake to push the button du
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by splitstud 5y ago
There are plenty of opportunities every day to responsibly buy a put or call because it happens to be the best price you can get for entry to execute on an investing thesis. Your background notwithstanding, there is nothing mystical or sini
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RH offered free trading in a small selection of issues with a poor ui and worse execution while others were offering great platforms for 50 cents to 7.95 a trade. They built a user base through marketing to the initiated, not through a bett
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by splitstud 5y ago
Robinhood is not competitive whatsoever with the better brokers. Their limited UI and super slow execution won't appeal to anyone who has used a good platform.
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It would be beneficial in total labor today, especially in a store with employees picking for curbside exists. Stocking is a big effort overnight. Restocking is problematic during the day, and costs sales. These normal processes (busy peop
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by splitstud 5y ago
Agreed. We do have some data though. We know how much new debt we've taken on in the last 18 months. We certainly won't be able to afford to raise rates to combat any inflation.
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Since the massive QE is happening in economies around the world,vthere will be some flight to the dollar as well as gold. A lot of money could continue to sit at negative rates. There won't be much impetus for capital investment for a
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by splitstud 5y ago
Do you truly believe that printing unprecedented amounts of money will have zero effect on the real value of that money?
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Which does not mean that's where farming should be done, or whether si many people should crowd into a desert.
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Makes perfect sense until you consider the massive amounts of inputs, measured in land or energy, it takes to grow those crops on the smaller amount of land footprint you ARE measuring.
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Cows do not produce methane. Decaying grass produces methane, whether in a cow or out.
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Houstonians by and large don't drive into city centers for work. Workplaces are distributed throughout the area.
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by splitstud 5y ago
You are confused by the fact that both parties SAY one thing about immigration and DO another.
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My experience with wage workers that are struggling to make ends meet is different. They spend a lot of time looking for better jobs and side gigs. Like, it is their primary focus.
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by splitstud 5y ago
What a wonderful demonstration of the kind of toxicity that forced Basecamp management to act as they did.
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And the people that were going to leave because they were being harassed by these talented people? How much would it have cost to replace them?
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Tried and true method we learned over time. The leaders that were strong enough to respond properly should be congratulated. This was a gigantic shot to the foot by our public health leadership, most state and federal leaders, and fawning m
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Or, your assumptions of values, ethics, and how humans function is twisted in a knot. Humans are built to synthesize multitudes of facts, signals, etc using a rubric of experience. The result is imperfect.
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Questioning the validity of the isolation, and conclusions drawn from the result is how science works.
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Gospel truth
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Reasoning about ethics doesn't include locking in a value set for others. That's not ethics. It is coercion.
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may he rest in peace
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by splitstud 5y ago
We have learned, over ages, that quarantining the sick and isolating the vulnerable works about as well as you can expect. Yet we decided to do something different this time.
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by splitstud 5y ago
I'll take the lower tax rate, thanks