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iforgetti

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    Comment #49169341

    Idk why this is getting down voted, the article identifies them as geoglyphs in the second paragraph.

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    Comment #49117408

    Cape Verde would have qualified under the 32 team cup as well. Agreed with both you and parent on the commercial, I mean hydration, breaks. What a disaster.

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    Comment #43956060

    Glen Okun of NYU business school has written about BNPL loan portfolio weakness. The AI marketing is just an attempt to reframe the value narrative of the company before IPO. They …

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    Comment #35604263

    The author (who grew up in Poland while it was a puppet state of the USSR) offers examples literally in the same paragraph that you quoted. The full paragraph is: Russia’s expansio…

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    Comment #35226325

    They may be collateralized by bonds worth even less than that. If the bonds were worth 80 cents on the dollar than they just traded 80 cents on the dollar for 99.9 cents on the dol…

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    Comment #35225943

    But if they are using bonds which the fed has valued at face value rather than market value as collateral then this is still effectively free money. They are only losing .1% of bon…

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    Comment #35225775

    A bond bought by a bank in the past at a lower interest rate than those offered today is worth less than those offered today. If the fed values those bonds at face value (rather th…

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    Comment #34654796

    There is a book about this called “The Millionaire Next Door” that may be of interest to people looking to build wealth this way.

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    Comment #33945782

    Yep that guy, except I suggest reading his actual work instead of basing your thinking on what someone else thought he thought.

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    Comment #33897781

    I recommend reading some of the original economic theory that undermines the “Chicago School” free market thinking of Milton Friedman and others who it seems you are so fed up with…

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    Comment #33036608

    What you wrote is true about the performance of the underlying businesses but not necessarily true about an investment. Stock performance (and any investment) is driven by both cos…

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    Comment #32867254

    What others wrote was pretty much my reasoning but a bit further, over the very long run (30+ years) markets will revert to mean performance. If you have strong gains in the first …

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    Comment #32865602

    For those of us still in the first half of our working careers, this would be a welcome development.

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    Comment #31976772

    Got it. Yeah checks out with my personal experience. I am always surprised when I see these ex-Mck hires filling series B and C companies as well.

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    Comment #31976374

    Can you elaborate? I would think VCs would be the last to use McKinsey.

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    Comment #31812668

    Personal anecdote about this: My wisdom teeth grew in about 15 years ago and have sat comfortably behind my molars since. I saw a new dentist for a routine cleaning “intro package”…

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    Comment #31720018

    It’s possible to believe his concerns regarding indebtedness of “The West” and the state of the current debt cycle while also disagreeing with his bullish view of Chinese economic …

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    Comment #31215638

    Where do you keep up with information like this? Do you have to work in the space or do you read certain periodicals or something else?

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    Comment #31045985

    Hire a lawyer if you are serious. No advice here will compare. Hire a lawyer who specializes in work with venture funded startups.

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    Comment #30587760

    While I agree with the sentiment of your comment, I do not agree that a government financed news station is in fact "just like" CNN providing favorable coverage to the current admi…

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    Comment #29130465

    This is the right answer (at least in our case). I used to be a freelancer and now I run a 180 person development group. Our path was similar to this. In order to become the rainma…

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    Comment #29039050

    Does Meta provide a guarantee that data won’t be unified between Facebook and Oculus accounts ever? If not, what is the value of this distinction beyond PR?

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    Comment #28956408

    I’m not sure if your language was intentional but this was literally Mark’s attitude from day one. [1] 1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/technolog...

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    Comment #28771846

    Move to a European country and Sue there for GDPR violation.

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    Comment #28766430

    Mine crypto and donate the money. Minimally you reduce the incentive for others to use electricity to mine more.