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That's true. Good Clinical Practice guidelines say that Institutional Review Boards must evaluate compensation is not too high otherwise it constitutes "undue influence". ...but I …

I worked at a small-to-mid-size clinical research organization for a hot minute. That company had its own set of - let's say "unique" - problems*, but the author touched on many of…

As someone who has actually flown on the Concorde, I can say that I'd gladly endure its tight seats again and empty my wallet in exchange for a shorter flight. Heck, if I had the o…

What fortuitous timing to see this post. I bought an MX Master 3 for Mac mouse for my Silicon Mac Mini about a year and a half ago but quickly shelved it because the cursor would f…

While I agree with much of your first couple sentences and resisting the emotional urge to think recovery is impossible, you're walking a hazardous line between believing recession…

Scuttleblurb, David Kim's SubStack, sends out in-depth write ups of companies. It's technically an investing newsletter, but it's really more about the mechanics of a given industr…

Correct. Aatsmyles was mistaken in relating the goodwill he/she described to accounting goodwill. In other words, aatsmyles shouldn't have used the phrase "account for" goodwill. I…

Shouldn't there be a way to only search multiple forums through some userscript? Only found out about userscript after messing around with an iOS app called HyperWeb. At least in m…

To reductio ad absurdum that - every time you see any marketing, eg “Drink Coca-Cola because it’s refreshing”, you should hear “Drink Coca-Cola because it’ll make us money.” To you…

Indeed, contracts can be invalidated if they're abusive. For example, there's a doctrine in contract law called unconscionability. If you buy an airline ticket to Boston, the capta…

People often feel differently about food animals than they do about lab animals. Part of it has to do with the kinds of animals. People get very upset about the treatment of beagle…

I'll give you this: If you only applied a wealth tax to the wealthiest-of-the-wealthy, say billionaires only, the number of individuals might be small enough such that it's not an …

Perfect *is* the enemy of the good here. Major components of the economy are not valued regularly, e.g. private businesses. Sure, if a buyer paid $10MM last week for a private busi…

Retention is one reason. Two other reasons are friction of switching jobs + labor not being highly commoditized. Friction: If I'm getting paid $80k a year as a junior dev, I'm prob…

You're absolutely right. I likely wouldn't. But you have to ask whether those ideas (barriers to investing capital, tariffs, etc) are good ideas. We'd all like people to earn more …

I’m no Tim Ferriss fanboy, but her “exploitation” critique is wrong. Paying people overseas for what would be a low salary in one’s home country isn’t exploitation. Say you’re payi…

First, as other posters have mentioned, there are b shares that trade in the hundreds of dollars - BRK.B. Yes, their voting rights are disproportionately lower, but you can still g…

Right. The key passage is under rule 1 from the article: “You will give me interesting or meaningful work.” First, the author says interesting OR meaningful work. So even if it’s t…

You have a point in that money does get taxed multiple times as it moves around. But I don’t believe that makes the term “double taxation” BS. It’s a useful term in a world where t…

One aspect I haven’t seen mentioned in the comments or in the article: double taxation. One of the drawbacks of structuring a business as a c-corp is that you have double taxation:…

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In my Twitter feed a couple months ago, I saw a tweet (a promoted tweet? If they even have that and I’m remembering correctly) advertising a crypto “pumping group” on Discord. Yes,…

In my humble opinion, that might overcomplicate things without providing much in the way of risk reduction. Owning a basket of currencies might make sense in a world where, globall…

Oh, I didn't mean to suggest they're the same, just explaining why buying the dip isn't a good principal on its own. Something like VTI has the advantage that it's not going to eve…

It gets worse. If your adversary believes your missile defense system is highly effective, when in fact it is not, the adversary will be more willing to launch a preventive attack.…