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As someone who moved to the US in their teens, American life reminds me football teams. These similar "fan like" group attachments branch out into so many aspects of American life.…

Lower volatility would help the HFTs with price forecasting and operating with more certainty to not wildly swing their portfolios.

This reminds me of what Japan does (or in some cases around the Bay Area). People buy plots not for the house, but for the land. Then they built a new house/building in place of th…

Related - why are there so many IPOs particularly right now? It seems like there is more than usual IPOs this August compared to previous years: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activ…

Like most things, this should be taken with a grain of salt. There's a difference between intention and ignorance. If kids are getting on social media at 9 or 10 years old now (whi…

> It’s going to take forever to be implemented if car manufacturers just roll out these things as “premium features” - that’s like enabling a system of charging extra for a car to …

"Smart" is about as bullshit as how things are labeled "Green". Anyone could throw those words around as marketing ploys. It's a gimmick. Of course politicians will be interested i…

https://priceonomics.com/the-most-prolific-editor-on-wikiped... His pace is at least an edit per minute, while he's editing, so it's not like he is writing complete articles. It's …

I used to work at American Apparel, and people would try to get an "influencer discount" a few times per week. I don't blame them for trying. Many of the "influencers" were women i…

> "... I've observed is that even the poorest people are still living in some sort of structure that is capable of providing a limited amount of protection from the elements, a sma…

The US and the UK (or even Australia) are more appropriate comparisons of countries than the US and Norway as a result of legal systems based on common law. It makes a difference w…