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I'd love to RTFA but I am paywalled! You guys all have subscriptions, or what?

Trump/Putin/Jong Un/... forever? Really? I think that would be monstrous. No matter how unfair things are in life, in the end we are all food for the worms. Already better educated…

In my opinion taking a percentage cut on something that is not strongly correlated with any special effort, borders on scam. And yes the scammers are everywhere: your bank, broker,…

Maybe they should not have let crapware onto their platform in the first place? It did not passively sneak in, it was actively let in by Steam.

Like the saying goes, if you want to get rich: 1. No 3rd house 2. No 2nd wife 3. No 1st yacht Yayy, now that you made it you can get all of the above!!

I don't think they are second class citizen. I think that a lot of Swiss women are more privileged than their spouses. A woman with kids can choose whether to stay at home or work …

Which consensus are you talking about? US? Northern Idaho? Thailand? Saudia Arabia? SV?? Where I live the long term average is 6-7x household incomes.

If nukes start to really hit Switzerland then it will look pretty grim everywhere else as well. Might as well just get it over with and enjoy the light show.

I think this is brilliant!! This gives political clout back to the normal people. Cleaners and trash disposal workers on strike for 2 months?? Country comes to a standstill. Invest…

There is the same correlation in regards to vehicle occupants. At some point the kinetic energy becomes so great that the body of the car is unable to absorb it sufficently and the…

Well I would argue that currently the economy is limited by consumption and not investment. Google "asset price bubble" and compare this to the general inflation.

Are you by any chance one of those people that still believe seat belts are for sissies? Because you can just hold tight to the steering wheel? And yes the kinetic energy per se do…

And what kind of right would breaking the speed limit push that citizens could possible want to have changed? I am all for hardcoded speed limits. Why sell cars that can go faster …

While I agree with your general point, I have to take objection to your car analogy. Whether a car is travelling at 30 or 40mph makes a huge difference. Kinetic energy is the squar…

One can also argue that rising minimum wages directly benefit the economy as this money will be immediatly consumed. Giving $10 to a poor person will result in $10 more goods and s…

Being obscenly wealthy is so obviously wrong that many aspiring 'american dream' (TM) candidates can't even conceive of alternatives. While Jeff has undoubtedly worked hard and he …

In these games of high level 'politics' I always assume nobody in the public really knows anything. Any claims produced by anyone involved are just claims and not facts that can be…

I also had to laugh out loud when I came across this statement: Facebook is truly the only company that’s singularly about people. Switch of the fucking ads and the stock price goe…

I suspect that sales of expensive sneakers will take a hit while this Fortnite craze keeps going. It's the same insecure teenagers that previously spent inordinate amounts on cloth…

Well duh, it's a whole house in a millionaire city?! Seems rather cheap. Where I live an 900 square foot apartment can also set you back by $2m. The seven apartments currently list…

But they are NOT any old ad-tech company. They were built and grew out of their initial 'don't be evil' culture.

> I really dislike cars and being around cars. They are noisy. They ruin the air quality of a city. I guess you are not alone. Given a certain location, the singlemost important in…

The numbers might work out for HER, but maybe not for her kids that inherit a wreck of a planet.

A Price-to-Rent ratio of 45 is indeed crazy. Implied total return only slightly above 2% with quite some downside risks AND running costs + depreciation. Rents are also quite high …

All this talk about nanotubes, when the real question is: What kind of music are they going to play on the way up???