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My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing.

It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years. But with 17 years of experience, he couldn't be fired.

I carried the team, but they couldn't pay me what I was worth or promote me. I left as soon as I could.

Burry is a hedge fund manager. The most important part of his job is to scare people away from the S&P and entice them to put money into his fund.

It's generally a mistake to trust the financial advice of any hedge fund manager, and they usually provide advice that makes the S&P seem like a bad bet.

Anyone in the country who buys gas benefits from lower gas prices. That includes a lot of poor people.

My mom lives in upstate New York, in a low income area. People there are very negatively impacted by the increase gas prices right now.

Not a proof. But a useful anecdote.

No one is doing large scales studies of how many people meet their partner on FB, so anecdote is all we have for that.

Most of the criticisms are also anecdotes, but you seem fine with those.

The amazing thing here is that rats are intelligent enough to learn to drive, albeit a simple vehicle. That alone is newsworthy, without the experiment on stress reduction.

It's not "literally impossible". The socialized healthcare system could be corrupt, poorly run, or have other serious problems.

You don't understand correctly. That's not even remotely what the article said.

This article significantly misconstrues Buffets investment style. He does invest for value. But he doesn't even think whether a stock has "bottomed in the market price". Predicting when a stock has "bottomed" is not possible as it's dependent on the whims of an irrational market.

The first half of this statement is correct and the second half is completely wrong: "He only buys when he's sure that an asset is undervalued and is likely to have bottomed in market price."

This is beautiful. Well done. This is the first comment I've made in a year - it's that cool looking.

This is very useful, and to call it disappointing is rude to the creator of the tool. Why would you say something so negative just because it's not perfect? This is the problem with Hacker News these days - people can't wait to say something nasty.

Is Stacker a proprietary 37 Signals thing? It doesn't seem to pop up after several search attempts.

Nope, fast fuzzy search is closer to find than grep since it looks for files. But it requires less keystrokes and precision, allow you to be lazier. It's a much more fluid experience.

I still use grep a lot while using ST2, but I use it for other purposes.

The number of lines of codes, in this case, speaks to the amount of features in the framework. Rails is harder to fully understand than Sinatra because there are many, many more features, and it's possible for a beginner to get lost in, or confused by, all those features.

Steve Jobs had an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer that has a very good 5-yr survival rate if caught and treated early. The article is likely accurate.

Just like all things, both nature and nurture are strong factors. Certainly genetics play a factor in IQ, just as they do with other personality traits such as extroversion, or physical traits, such as height. Set in stone would be a huge exaggeration of genetic causation, but people will have certain propensities from birth.