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Judging by the sentiment in this thread it is definitely not at peak hype.

That's what everybody said when it was $17k and crashed to $5k. I loaded up on it, now its $50k. I bet there were a lot of similar comments saying that it would never be 10x. I also seem to recall a lot of people 10 years ago saying TSLA was overpriced and they would never hit their production goals. Time will tell.

This is clearly isolated to the food industry. No way at all this happens in any other industry like climate change or covid policy.

The spectrum lies in what the proposed solution to any man-made ecological problem should be. Typically solutions to these proposed problems require increased cost burden on either individuals or businesses, sacrifices in lifestyle, increased regulation, etc. With anything like this politics comes into play almost immediately.

The way I see it, your 'environmentalist' label generally applies to those who thing we should spend/sacrifice a lot. And the 'climate denier'/'anti-environmentalist' label applies to those at the opposite end of the spectrum who don't think we should sacrifice or spend anything.

Also re: slavery, more people are enslaved now in the world than at any point in history. More black men are enslaved by the prison system in the USA than there were at the height of North American slavery. So things are never so boolean.

Over 4.3 million guns were sold in January 2021. We are on track for another record year. Hard to tell how many were from people exempt from background checks, likely a few hundred thousand more.

The NRA is not the gun rights organization that the industry backs. That would be the NSSF.

$50-$100k judging by Glassdoor, very location dependent, but at a high level comes the ability to partner in new restaurants and ventures.

Also it’s a high ceiling relative to other jobs that require zero education.

Friend of mine does data analytics for off track betting. The spike in wagers from the stimulus checks was staggering.

I would say fierce competition from local and immigrant labor, low barrier to entry, a profession where hard work is seen as meritorious, and a very high ceiling of prestige and monetary reward. It’s one of the few remaining industries where a poor immigrant kid on the street can work his way up from nothing via grit and determination.

I don’t see any real pressure for her to recuse herself. The dominant political party in the USA ran on the simultaneous platforms of “the swamp is fake” and “the swamp is better than the alternative”. Well this is the swamp the populists were talking about. The democrats are now are emboldened with a clear mandate from the people that these relationships are an acceptable price to pay.

The only options trader who doesn’t lose money is the one who ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶s̶.̶ pays Janet Yellen's speaking fees. - Andrew Tye (FTFY)

Many of us still are

Fundamentally disagree with the premise. Poker is a zero sum game. Startups are not.

This doesn't read like it was written by somebody with a firm understanding of poker game theory.

There are ways to compare startups to poker. This doesn't seem like one of them.

I was presently surprised at how easy the transition from Chrome onto Brave was. Multiple profile support with a great import tool. Switched to from GMail to ProtonMail as well.

The only thing I can't figure out is how to get off google calendar.

you can just ban me or delete my account.

Referring to the bill of rights, which is a separate document from the US constitution. Functionally it serves a different purpose, whereas the constitution details how the government is structured and what it can do, the bill of rights enumerates what it cannot do. The bill of rights (1-10) does not change anything in the constitution.

I'm sure you could get pedantic on this matter, but the subject of OP was related to structure and function of the US government. This is the purview of the constitution and not the first 10 amendments.

Yeah those pesky southern Democrats keep trying to make things difficult.

And given all of these screwed up things, you would put it to these people to write a better framework?

You say "The only things people can point to that they like about the constitution are..." and then proceed to point out things that are not even in the constitution.

Here is something to like about the constitution: a system of government that has seen the peaceful transition of power every 4 years for 244 consecutive years.

I thought people went to Instagram to flex.

This from the people who created the standard of "According to an anonymous source familiar with his thinking".

If you want to convince me that journalists are NOT the enemy of the people, then stop donating money to political causes and then publishing damning reports to opponents of those causes sourced only from unverifiable anonymous sources.

Isn't the whole point of a racist dog whistle that the only people who can hear it are racists. If you are hearing dog whistles everywhere, maybe you're the dog.

I think you are underestimating the scale of operation choke point.

This is the ultimate YMMV scenario, and heavily dependent on how bad the company wants you. At the end of the day you need to be in a place where you can walk away from any deal that doesn't make sense. Unfortunately people looking for jobs at startups are usually somewhat desperate.

Depending on the size of the startup at the time you join, I found it fairly easy to negotiate an extension to the exercise window. Likely because so few people even bring it up.

Just like in real life, the post transition sequels are disappointing.

Can't call it reddit, OP said "non-trash"

The modern zeitgeist appears to disregard individualism in exchange for group identity. Thus by having diversity of group identities you are supposedly getting diversity of thought. Each group bringing their own backgrounds and experiences, with all members within a group adhering to the narrative of said group. I find the whole thing exceedingly racist but even that term has been redefined so here we are.

By focusing on diversity like this you are elevating these immutable characteristics beyond the importance of individuality, pre-judging what people will bring to a team based on things like skin color or gender. It seems like racism has just gone full circle. I'm sure I will get downvoted to hell as this is a very unpopular take.

The much more real-world use case for me is guaranteeing I won't join a video conference call with my camera on. In light of all the WFH zoom accidental nudity videos going around, its no surprise camera covers have become more prevalent.

I would describe having your name included in such a list and immediately recognizable by a huge percentage of the population as a seriously detrimental long term consequence.

+10 still pretty good for a tech company. At my last startup it took us 3 years to spend $7 million making $0 revenue.

"Also, all these whiz-bang success stories suffer from enormous survivorship bias."

Well that's because in 2 years when you finally pull the plug on a failing business so you can pay your bills, you end up shutting down the blog you stopped posting to regularly 14 months ago and nobody can find it anyway because you put it on an 'indie' platform.