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I'm not sure billions of dollars of QE that disproportionately benefit banks and the financial class is a desirable feature in any way.

"Just wear a nice business suit to get your foot in the door" is just such laughably simplistic boomer advice regardless of the age of the person dispensing it. Not to mention the …

I mean, yeah, NFTs are a massive speculative gamble and probably a poor one ATM, the space is too oversaturated. That doesn't make speculation in general a bad idea. His advice of …

Yeah, don't speculate in anything high risk. Leave that to important people. Instead, just consoom and spend your stimulus on business suits and concert tickets. These people canno…

Condescending boomer advice on par with "walk in and ask to see the manager and give him eye contact and a firm handshake." Seems ostensibly helpful, is actually just meaningless p…

If you intrinsically have something people want and you're physically weak, you'd best make friends with Samuel Colt, the great equalizer.

That quote sounds much like the Gervais principle with the stupid and diligent being "clueless".

If there was abundant supply, you could tell a landlord doubling your rent above current market rate to go pound sand. Rent control restricts supply.

Trump has undone the Volcker rule portion of Dodd-Frank [1], for what it's worth Goldman Sachs, et al, would not lobby the government to get rid of a law that prevents them from do…

There is definitely inside information on commodities, it's just rare that insider trading on commodities is prosecuted. You would definitely have an advantage in trading oil/gas f…

>Why do people keep posting this tired argument over and over? Sour grapes. Easier to pretend _nobody_ beats the market than honestly admit you're not willing to put in the effort …

"Random Walk Down Wall Street" is somewhat outdated and a lot of the evidence from behavioural finance doesn't really support its central thesis. It's more dogma than anything.

It's kicking a person (or rather, a company) while they're down. Seems kind of tactless and tone-deaf to gloatingly tweet out your company's failure is a "lesson" a mere day after …

The popular perception is that the people leaving California bring their politics with them and vote for the same things they did in California, therefore making their new state ju…

>Your politics are not superior. One would think that if you are moving away from California for reasons in part caused by political factors (progressive NIMBYism that opposes new …

Vaporwave aesthetics are pretty interesting. The late 80s - mid 90s period of pop culture seems to have a lot of nostalgic and pseudo-nostalgic appeal for a lot of people.

Why is this "cognitive dissonance" and not someone simply having a different sense of morality than you? Is everyone with different moral values than you suffering from cognitive d…

Calling people "human garbage" and throwing an tantrum does not magically make scarcity disappear.

I can't speak to how well-backed their reserves are but the idea of a "wildcat bank" [0] almost certainly comes to mind whenever somebody mentions tether. Everything old is new aga…

For anything that isn't illegal -- offer user controls to block unwanted content.

It's a strawman because you are pretending that arguing for less restrictions on residential zoning (allowing the construction of more housing) is equivalent to arguing that distin…

It really depends on how precarious he thought his position was after the breach. If his career as an executive would not be significantly harmed by breach, trading 4 months in jai…

Swiss Neutrality did not save them in WW2 either, only German strategic calculus and the idea within the German high command that a mountain campaign would be too costly in militar…

Unviable from a game-theoretic standpoint. If someone chooses to break that reciprocity, what can you do about it now that you've disarmed? Literally nothing, you are in a weaker p…