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A decade from now, only countries who have completely banned social media for children below 16 … will survive as a functioning society

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Every political ad is two type
- Problems Americans face
- How shitty the other candidate is

They never have a plan. Americans keep voting for wrong candidates year after year .. keep enriching these politicians

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@lisaabramowicz1 Optical illusion …

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He is learning the hard way...

If u don’t take loans, u will lose ur job ..
if u take debt, u will never have enough to save...and work years to pay down the debt
if u manage to invest, the bank will short the stocks ..

It’s all designed to keep you broke till you die ..

[股海生涯，球场驰骋⛳️ @Kicksta59534304]

从加州搬到德州，州税的差别让我重新理解了自由

省下的税，都标好了代价。

人人都说搬到德州就自由了。零州税，大房子，没人管你。我在加州住了八年，每年交将近一万两千的州税，搬到达拉斯的第一天，我就把省下的钱算了一遍。那一刻我以为自己赚了。但三年后我发现，真正让你自由的，从来不是不交税。是你知道你的钱去了哪，你交出去的换回了什么。德州教会我的，是一笔比税更复杂的账。

我站德州这一边。但我再也不相信“低税等于自由”这六个字。那是一个故事，不是一个事实。你可以在德州活得很好，前提是你要算清楚，你真正买到的是什么。

搬来第一年，我确实省了钱。联邦税不变，州税从工资单上消失了。每个月多出九百多块，我换了台新电脑，给太太买了张按摩椅。那时候我觉得，这地方真好。但第二年，房产税评估信寄到家里，我拆开一看——一万零三百四十七美元。我在加州的房子，六十五万，税率百分之零点七四，每年四千八。德州的房子，四十五万，税率百分之二点三。我不仅没省下州税，我多付了。

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Dunning-Kruger effect in action ..

[Michael Guimarin @Guimarin]

The fastest way to determine if Asians have assimilated to American culture is to ask them about schooling.

If they don’t realize that America and the West dominated their cultures/countries because of a childhood focus on play rather than memorization then they have not assimilated.

The reason their kids are in a school in Arizona, as opposed to the American kids in an “American School in X” is a lack of appreciation and understanding of this fact.

To the extent that demographics change the school system, like in Palo Alto/Bay Area, for these people, it is for the worse.

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@TrungTPhan Live by the Claude, Die by the Claude …

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@johnarnold Could be the location .. doubt systematic

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End Oct - Brazil election .. why should Americans even care who won or lost ?

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Tracking how American voters will be bombarded with news that has nothing to do with improving their own lives .. shit always magically happen 2-3 months before US elections

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Early Oct - Immigration war on “..legal but incompetent immigrants, companies pay 80 - 200k+ a year depending on location & role to sit and watch video games”). MAGA cheer it .. assume their wages + job prospects just went up ..

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I have watched 80% of World Cup games since 1986 .. people have no clue the aura he commanded in his peak years ..haven’t seen anyone like him

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Diego Maradona doing Maradona things!

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History has so many examples where empires were destroyed by devaluing their currency to fund external wars / internal conflicts .. reducing silver content (Roman), printing (Song), replace gold/silver with copper (Tughlaq), confiscating gold for paper (Yuan)..

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@ericweinstein You seriously believe 1 million active H1B’s workers would bring down wages of 33 million private sector STEM workers? You should push for the removal of conditions on the Kafala-style H1B, let employees have the ability to change jobs after a year .. let market set the wages

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80% of Silicon Valley companies would not exist, if US adopted strict privacy laws … there is no moat, only selling private data and behavior ..

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Around 4-5 Billion in revenue, 64 billion market cap .. not even sure if there’s a word to describe something bigger than a bubble ..

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Bloom Energy, $BE, earnings:

- EPS: $0.94, est: $0.67
- Revenue: $1.2 billion, est: $1.07 billion

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Crap .. looks like it was the bottom .. should have bought more $TLT

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My averaged down cost of $TLT now stands 78+ … think it still goes down .. at the rate it’s tanking. 69 might be the bottom 🤔

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@nntaleb Immediately software yes …robotics will be a slow adoption due to risk to life, property. >10 yrs rise of robotic, electrical, elecrronics, electro-chemists, applied math, control systems, and mechanical engineers, mostly providing independent closed ended systems / services

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@PalmerLuckey Always wondered, why any business leader would pay less to people who work for them (legal off-course). Must be so frustrating to these leaders, wish they could pay everyone 1.5 their current wage .. but just can’t .. awww

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@ericweinstein US was forced into science due to external pressure (WW 1-2, Space, Cold War). It made US a scientific powerhouse for over a century. Post Cold War and w/o competition, money disappeared and so did the passion.. we have to wait for an adversary to catch up first, then maybe ..

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@paulg Best way to become poor and suffer severe depression .. only 2/100 succeed .. not everyone is built or have capital to be an entrepreneur..

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I have a feeling that someone big is getting liquidated.. my guess is started End Aug - Start Sep..

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@nntaleb I guess shaming too… today I learned about 10 people I wouldn’t have cared otherwise