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Imagine thinking Guns Germs and Steel is “scientific”

If you are not for publicly executing several thousand doctors and pharma executives, you are equally guilty in the opioid crisis.

You’re my nightmare scenario for humanity. The frightening part is you probably think you’re well informed and educated.

I have that 2.67% BAC Platinum Honors card, a Chase Sapphire Reserve card, and a Barclays Uber card (4% cash back at restaurants) I plan to cancel them all when the Apple card come…

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I dont think you know what it means to short

Maybe hes just not a poor loser like you.

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Vice has a good video on drug dealers lining up to use a Bitcoin ATM every day somewhere in an American ghetto. Bitcoin is 100% about drug dealing, gambling, and tax avoidance. You…

With any WSJ article, just open twitter and copy&paste the title. Any link to WSJ from twitter will get around the paywall -- even tweets from the official WSJ twitter account. her…

Why would Amazon want to inherit UPS's union and pension liabilities? Easier to just start from scratch with the latest tech and zero legacy costs.

Everyone agrees we are moving towards a world of platforms. Each big platform holder will buy or ally with an isp and smaller content owners will pay 30% rev to use those platforms…

Sounds pro-consumer to me. Whats the big deal? It will just force the other providers to up their game and offer their own freebies.

How is it somewhat plasubile? Visual differences in a mushroom's biology mean nothing. The fact that mushrooms have the same DNA + RNA structure as all the rest of Earthly life is …

>If I tell you how “good” someone’s family or health is, you can tell me if they are a millionaire or not? Yes, I can. That's the point -- the rich and poor are far more visually d…

I was in Turkey during that time, it was noy better for the bast majority of people. Turkey had a per capita gdp <$3k and i vividly recall seeing shoeless people even in the wealth…

The majority of jailed journalist are there under anti terrorn laws regarding the PKK. While its not something I support, you have to compare today’s Turkey with yesterday’s Turkey…

What GDP/capita band was turkey at before Erdogan? Answer: $3k (google it yourself) Also, why do you say ‘stuck’? Growth is still rapid despite ~4mil refugees, a war next door, and…

But are cars more valuable than piles of metal, plus other factors like wages, advertising, factory/office leases, etc. We have a word for this -- net profit.