Viewing profile — colonelanguz

> these gifts have been known about for a long time No they haven't. That's why it's breaking news when they get discovered. > In my entire life I have never seen any evidence that…

That is wild. What is an example?

Not the same thing. You're comparing the relationship between a fake version of an artwork and the artwork itself to that between two digital objects both of which are derivative o…

Your like ironic actual point is well taken but I just wanted to note that even without the irony this is actually a very cool thought provoking question and I couldn't answer it a…

Yeah. And he also hasn't beaten the market in over a decade.

Would you mind briefly explaining the concept of "tech debt" to a layperson?

In my opinion, no, not really. Hard work could be necessary but not sufficient, or contingently necessary. Or the success criterion could be defined in a way that obscures the link…

Well said! I came here to say this. Founders of successful businesses usually are not exceptional geniuses. They often happen to be in the right place at the right time, or they st…

You rock dude ignore these haters king

How many agains makes the study wrong

Standing and merits are both terms of art. Merits essentially means whether one side wins or not. Standing OTOH is a preliminary matter like jurisdiction. If the court lacks jurisd…

You cited a source which proves you were wrong in exactly the way I pointed out. Your entire original comment hinged on a bizarre metaphor you created out of your false premise tha…

Can't tell if you're trolling/deliberately obtuse or what Here's what I meant: Your wrong conception of how a protection racket works undermines your argument that the person who s…

> A protection racket implies the "threat" is fake or choreographed. Actually it doesn't

I just wanted to say that thoughtful posts like this are the reason I come to this site. Well-said, friend. I had never even explicitly acknowledged this in my own mind until I rea…

Inb4 "Subscribe to Matt Levine's Money Stuff"[1] Particularly in terms of generating what another thoughtful user dubbed "contextual understanding," this is a gold mine. Also occas…

That question is probably a bit over my head. My outlook is pretty grim and skeptical because of my experience with American capitalism so far. But the fact that people like Leo St…

Thank you for your kind words! I totally agree about how flippantly people throw out the value-maximization point. And it is definitely true that the real standards which govern di…

Certainly it has been enforced against a company (thousands of them), but in a way it is more of a hypothetical threat. I was not referring to a statutory law, but rather to fiduci…

I agree! Were you attempting to respond to my comment, or just venting?

100%. Not that this means anything but I'm a JD and my JD girlfriend specializes in international law and we agree it's basically a joke. But hell yeah it was illegal.

I posted a long boring reply about this that you can read above, but it strikes me that your comment lives or dies on the meaning it assigns to the word "justify." If you're refere…

I am sympathetic to the point that you are making and hate to go all legal-positivist, but an illegal war is a war that isn't legal under international law. Defending your country …