An index fund is just an average of many different companies. So what you're really saying is that compared to 500 of the most successful companies in the world, Trump is slightly below average. That's not phenomenal, but its actually pretty impressive.
That's pretty wishful thinking. As long as Republicans control at least one house of Congress, he will not be impeached. He is too egotistical to resign. And based on actuarial data, he can expect to live about 15 more years. Keep in mind: he's never smoked, he doesn't drink and he has the best healthcare money can buy. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
At this point why would they want to? The US is only committed to funding ISS until 2024. There are no plans on the table to extend the project. If China has longer term ambitions in space, they're better off going it alone.
There is a rather famous book, adapted in to a musical and a few movies, called Les Misérables. You should check it out before drawing any conclusions about the post-Napoleonic Era being a positive development for the people of France.
NOBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE PROTESTS ILLEGAL. Scroll to the bottom of the article. Most of the proposed laws are meant to address the issue of protesters blocking highways. Which is already an illegal act.
we now have to go back and argue out why racism, homophobia, mysogyny, and every other form of bigotry is bad
Straw man attacks don't create dialogue. There are very few people on the Right who are in favor of "racism, homophobia, mysogyny". These are just labels that the Left uses to shut down dialogue.
There are people on the Right who are concerned about illegal immigration and crime. These concerns are labeled as "racist". There are people on the Right who are concerned about biological men using women's restrooms. These concerns are labeled "transphobic". There are people on the Right who believe an unborn fetus has certain rights. These beliefs are labelled "misogynist".
It's hard work to engage people and address their concerns with respect. Label and dismiss is the lazy way out.
But did Napoleon actually matter to history? In the end, his reign lasted a decade, his conquests failed and the Bourbon dynasty was restored. He certainly shook up the European establishment, but only because the European establishment was already crumbling.
That is the Rosa Parks civil disobedience strategy. But it is not the only civil disobedience strategy. An alternative is the Prohibition strategy, where breaking an unjust law because so widespread and socially accepted that the law is no longer enforceable. This strategy has been successful in in re-legalization of alcohol, the legalization of homosexuality and the ongoing legalization of marijuana.
Obviously, the Powers That Be want you to think that the only effective way to exercise civil disobedience is to get caught and face the punishment. So we celebrate Rosa Parks and ignore Jack Herer, But that agenda just gets pushed because it makes the government's job easier.
Of course he's trying to make the most money possible. In terms of stock valuation, what companies have outperformed Tesla in the last 10 years? Even with the benefit of hindsight, you'd have a hard time finding a more profitable investment.
Every company in the world claims to be helping humanity. That's just a marketing gimmick. Goldman Sachs will tell you that they're helping humanity by making financial markets more fluid. Exxon will tell you that they're helping humanity by providing the energy that runs the world. WalMart will tell you that they're helping humanity by providing affordable goods. Elon Musk IS NO DIFFERENT. He's not selling cars at cost. He's not taking a loss on solar panels. So quit putting him in same category as people who have made actual sacrifices.
But how does that view translate into a justification for net neutrality?
Net neutrality is an almost orthogonal issue. It really only comes up because the groups opposed to net neutrality tend to be groups profiting from copyright.
How does it translate into a justification for violating contractual agreements?
There is substantial historical precedent for violating unjust laws as a means to reforming such laws.
You've got the analogy backwards. It's the so-called "capitalist" corporations that are demanding that the government intervene to create a monopoly on intellectual "property". Copyright started as a temporary protection to promote science and the arts, not to ensure a permanent revenue stream for investors. If the corporations are upset about how consumers are using their product, they should quit making their product instead of making new laws.
I'm totally fine with what Elon Musk is doing and he has every right to invest his money as he sees fit. But when you throw around words like "hero" and "sacrifice" and "selfless", then you are in spitting the face of the people who actually have made selfless sacrifices for the betterment of humanity. And since those people are usually too decent to stick up for themselves, I feel like its the least I can to defend them.
Musk has never had to skip a meal to feed someone else. He's never risked an Ebola infection to treat the sick. He's never waded into a war zone to save the injured. He is not even investing a million dollars to buy $100,000 worth of tents ever year. In your analogy, he is investing some seed money, so he can get other people to invest in he's design for better tents. That's not philanthropy, that's just regular capitalism. And we can respect that with turning into hero worship.
This is explicitly allowed under the 13th amendment: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
This post is exactly the problem. Your hero worship is grossly misplaced on a industrialist with a good PR strategy. Musk is no better or worse than all the railroad, oil and steel barons of the 19th century. They were making the world a better place, too, by providing the infrastructure on which our modern society is built. But you'd have to been pretty gullible to mistake their motivations as being selfless or noble. And Musk is no different in that regard either.
Every Uber I've ridden in also had a Lyft sticker in the window and vice versa. The overlap between the two groups seems sufficient that a separate app that requires strategically placing fake riders is massively redundant.
Will Warren Buffet (or anyone else) have a choice? If AI CEO actually works and gets significantly better results than a human CEO, then companies will have to adopt the technology or lose out to competitors that do. "Understanding" (whatever that means) doesn't enter into the equation.
That's all well and good until you realize that almost 2/3rd of bankruptcy are due to medical bills. Financial discipline tends to take a backseat when your life or a family members life is at stake.
Once a successful financial AI has been developed, you can be 100% sure that it will be rented out the the highest bidders, the top 1%, long before it filters down to being available to the average investor.
False dichotomy. The "average investor" is not a day-trader reading tea leaves. The "average investor" is someone who has a 401k, mutual fund, pension or some other pooled investment. These institutional investments would almost certainly be the first to use such an AI and so the "average investor" would be first to benefit.
For the annual military budget of $600 billion, you can buy 450 nuclear submarines
Yeah, but who is going to operate those subs? You just blew the whole budget on hardware and didn't leave any for operating expenses! Most of the DoD budget is operations, maintenance and personnel. Procurement is less than $100B.
What right do you have to essentially make people who create wealth slaves simply to support you?
The only reason your money is worth anything is because it is backed by the US government, which derives its power from the will of the people. We, the collective citizens of the United States as represented by our elected government, have allowed you temporary possession of that money as part of a system that facilitates the commerce that benefits us all. You are a beneficiary of that system and you are expected to make the necessary contributions to perpetuating that system. If you do not like the terms and conditions, then you are free to leave and build your own economic system. You are not a slave. There is no Iron Curtain. You are free to leave as you please. There are still large stretches of Antarctica that are unclaimed; let's see how much wealth you can build when you truly start from scratch.
Go make your own damned money and stop trying to get the government to do your thieving from others for you!
Take a dollar bill out of your pocket. Does it say "Made by BlueStrat"? Does it say "Property of BlueStrat"? If not, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
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An index fund is just an average of many different companies. So what you're really saying is that compared to 500 of the most successful companies in the world, Trump is slightly below average. That's not phenomenal, but its actually pretty impressive.
That's pretty wishful thinking. As long as Republicans control at least one house of Congress, he will not be impeached. He is too egotistical to resign. And based on actuarial data, he can expect to live about 15 more years. Keep in mind: he's never smoked, he doesn't drink and he has the best healthcare money can buy. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
At this point why would they want to? The US is only committed to funding ISS until 2024. There are no plans on the table to extend the project. If China has longer term ambitions in space, they're better off going it alone.
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There wasn't a non-elite option on the ballot.
There is a rather famous book, adapted in to a musical and a few movies, called Les Misérables. You should check it out before drawing any conclusions about the post-Napoleonic Era being a positive development for the people of France.
NOBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE PROTESTS ILLEGAL. Scroll to the bottom of the article. Most of the proposed laws are meant to address the issue of protesters blocking highways. Which is already an illegal act.
Straw man attacks don't create dialogue. There are very few people on the Right who are in favor of "racism, homophobia, mysogyny". These are just labels that the Left uses to shut down dialogue.
There are people on the Right who are concerned about illegal immigration and crime. These concerns are labeled as "racist". There are people on the Right who are concerned about biological men using women's restrooms. These concerns are labeled "transphobic". There are people on the Right who believe an unborn fetus has certain rights. These beliefs are labelled "misogynist".
It's hard work to engage people and address their concerns with respect. Label and dismiss is the lazy way out.
But did Napoleon actually matter to history? In the end, his reign lasted a decade, his conquests failed and the Bourbon dynasty was restored. He certainly shook up the European establishment, but only because the European establishment was already crumbling.
Obviously, the Powers That Be want you to think that the only effective way to exercise civil disobedience is to get caught and face the punishment. So we celebrate Rosa Parks and ignore Jack Herer, But that agenda just gets pushed because it makes the government's job easier.
How do you know what equipment is adequate for self-driving, when no self-driving cars have actually been made?
Every company in the world claims to be helping humanity. That's just a marketing gimmick. Goldman Sachs will tell you that they're helping humanity by making financial markets more fluid. Exxon will tell you that they're helping humanity by providing the energy that runs the world. WalMart will tell you that they're helping humanity by providing affordable goods. Elon Musk IS NO DIFFERENT. He's not selling cars at cost. He's not taking a loss on solar panels. So quit putting him in same category as people who have made actual sacrifices.
Net neutrality is an almost orthogonal issue. It really only comes up because the groups opposed to net neutrality tend to be groups profiting from copyright.
There is substantial historical precedent for violating unjust laws as a means to reforming such laws.
You've got the analogy backwards. It's the so-called "capitalist" corporations that are demanding that the government intervene to create a monopoly on intellectual "property". Copyright started as a temporary protection to promote science and the arts, not to ensure a permanent revenue stream for investors. If the corporations are upset about how consumers are using their product, they should quit making their product instead of making new laws.
Musk has never had to skip a meal to feed someone else. He's never risked an Ebola infection to treat the sick. He's never waded into a war zone to save the injured. He is not even investing a million dollars to buy $100,000 worth of tents ever year. In your analogy, he is investing some seed money, so he can get other people to invest in he's design for better tents. That's not philanthropy, that's just regular capitalism. And we can respect that with turning into hero worship.
This is explicitly allowed under the 13th amendment: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
This post is exactly the problem. Your hero worship is grossly misplaced on a industrialist with a good PR strategy. Musk is no better or worse than all the railroad, oil and steel barons of the 19th century. They were making the world a better place, too, by providing the infrastructure on which our modern society is built. But you'd have to been pretty gullible to mistake their motivations as being selfless or noble. And Musk is no different in that regard either.
Every Uber I've ridden in also had a Lyft sticker in the window and vice versa. The overlap between the two groups seems sufficient that a separate app that requires strategically placing fake riders is massively redundant.
Will Warren Buffet (or anyone else) have a choice? If AI CEO actually works and gets significantly better results than a human CEO, then companies will have to adopt the technology or lose out to competitors that do. "Understanding" (whatever that means) doesn't enter into the equation.
Teenagers are the center of the advertising world and Facebook runs on advertising.
That's all well and good until you realize that almost 2/3rd of bankruptcy are due to medical bills. Financial discipline tends to take a backseat when your life or a family members life is at stake.
Define prosperity in a way that can be calculated and optimized by a purely mathematical algorithm.
False dichotomy. The "average investor" is not a day-trader reading tea leaves. The "average investor" is someone who has a 401k, mutual fund, pension or some other pooled investment. These institutional investments would almost certainly be the first to use such an AI and so the "average investor" would be first to benefit.
Yeah, but who is going to operate those subs? You just blew the whole budget on hardware and didn't leave any for operating expenses! Most of the DoD budget is operations, maintenance and personnel. Procurement is less than $100B.
By year 2, your fleet is rusting on the beach
The only reason your money is worth anything is because it is backed by the US government, which derives its power from the will of the people. We, the collective citizens of the United States as represented by our elected government, have allowed you temporary possession of that money as part of a system that facilitates the commerce that benefits us all. You are a beneficiary of that system and you are expected to make the necessary contributions to perpetuating that system. If you do not like the terms and conditions, then you are free to leave and build your own economic system. You are not a slave. There is no Iron Curtain. You are free to leave as you please. There are still large stretches of Antarctica that are unclaimed; let's see how much wealth you can build when you truly start from scratch.
Take a dollar bill out of your pocket. Does it say "Made by BlueStrat"? Does it say "Property of BlueStrat"? If not, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.