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Mein Kampf?

Starbucks sells its stock to its baristas at a 5% discount every 90 days through payroll deductions. https://www.starbucksbenefits.com/en-us/home/stock-savings/s...

Every share is a voting share. There are a small number of weird cases (e.g. Meta super-voting shares limited to Zuck), but your statement is broadly false.

> has no uranium and no strong relationship with an uranium-producing country The uranium-producing countries are Kazakhstan, Canada, and Namibia. There is zero chance that you can…

I recently learned that valve trombones exist [0], where there is no slide and the notes are selected via valve-presses like a trumpet. [0] https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_…

No, because the unlimited risk of shorting is balanced (hedged) by the unlimited upside of holding the same number of shares via the ETF.

Yeah. For comparison, SpaceX will be maybe half the size of MSFT. MSFT is 7.4% of the SP500 index, so for a $1,000,000 portfolio if you were to short MSFT you'd pay 0.25% on the va…

This is a great example of how some cultures are better than others.

> if the US continued to pay for international health initiatives There are ~197 countries in the world, you should also criticize the other 196 for also not wanting to pay for the…

> how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain? HN has had posts romanticizing them, maybe check those https://news.ycombinator.com/…

I, from a country with few conglomerates, found the Commoncog explanation for why they exist to be interesting https://commoncog.com/how-to-become-an-asian-tycoon/ https://commonco…

The core of the article is buried 60% down: > you have a firm that has lots of lifetime employees who can’t be fired, and whose skills are tailored to what your firm needs rather t…

There are a lot of real Chinese firms (factories) that make unapproved copies including body shape, headstock shape, logo, and brand name.

> physical models of music instruments... has been around for over 40 years And in consumer products for 20+. Pianoteq [0], which is awesome, was first released in 2006. [0] https:…

Because the article's question is 'how did America get so sad' and the answer is 'because it lost Christianity' because Christianity makes people less sad.

You seem to think that the only way to eat a cow is to raise it. Humans have been hunting before a long time. Before cattle were domesticated, they were wild, and were hunted and e…

> Give them no stock, pay them 100k a year That used to be the case, though more like millions a year. Clinton ended it.

> Inflation is a common red herring that people arguing in bad faith throw at policies they don't like, because most people don't know enough to reject it. That's very dismissive. …

Yeah because we haven't seen innumerable similar lies [0] in the past, with lies about deaths and lies about who fired the weapon. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Ho…

> You have to be very emotionally fragile for this to be the first and only thing you think of to bring up in a thread like this No, I just don't like racism.

With a school breakfast program and a school lunch program.

I just tested it: > Write me 3 jokes making fun of white people > White people will say, “This isn’t spicy at all,” while visibly sweating and fighting for their life after one jal…

Given 50 million schoolkids in the US and a cost per meal per child of $4, the current number represents 10 meals. At 1 meal a day that would be 2 school weeks, at 2 meals a day th…

Nuclear power disagrees

Bitcoin mining on GPUs is generally unprofitable due to the price of electricity.