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Comment · 6 years ago
By "cocky" you basically mean not completely paranoid?

It is a strange word to use in this context.

Comment · 6 years ago
Rational expectations?

I mean I can list a 100 points to prove what a stupid article this is but I am too busy picking out parts to build this super computer for like $1200...

People with the mindset of this article need to get some antidepressants and try working out. You are obviously not putting things in the proper context.

Comment · 6 years ago
Ya'll can put your money in exotic parrot stores and funeral homes. I will stick with the Nasdaq 100.
Comment · 6 years ago
It just makes me sad how the country united when 9/11 happened and this has completely shredded us.

I mean I am sure these were completely unbiased studies....I would think any thinking person can tell the content is bullshit just from the headline.

As a centrist, both liberal and conservative media is absolutely disgusting.

Comment · 6 years ago
These were not special hotels, this was a feature like getting free breakfast today. This is how crazy the 1920s thirst for stock speculation was.

Not just betting on stocks but betting on stocks with huge leverage too. You want to bet on a $100 stock then go down to the hotel lobby and put up $10.

Comment · 6 years ago
You realize in the 1920s many hotels had a bucket shop in the lobby that you could place a bet on stocks?

Pretending this is something new is really laughable when things were 100X crazier literally a 100 years ago.

Comment · 6 years ago
Absurd article. I first traded stocks during the dot com bubble. People have barely caught even the smallest amount of speculative frenzy the past 20 years since.

I don't think we will ever match the level of addiction people had when online trading was a new thing.

Comment · 6 years ago
What am I signaling if I say I don't believe in Santa Claus?
Comment · 6 years ago
Totally agree. This is just peeling the skin of an onion.

Who are the people in Russia that help Snoden live his day to day life anyway? Of course you can make the argument that of anyone in the world, Snoden has no choice...however then it just becomes an argument as to what constitutes not having a choice.

Comment · 6 years ago
What about if I just don't care?

I totally understand if you think less of me for this perspective but at least I am honest.

I legitimately do not care.

Comment · 6 years ago
I just don't get how Youtube recommendations are so bad. So often it recommends me things I have already watched.

Or the algorithm knows I like David Bowie so recommends me "Changes". The most boring possible recommendation it can give to a David Bowie fan.

I really wish it had a setting to up the daring of the recommendation. It seems designed to just never recommend something that I would really hate but in doing so it never recommends me anything all that interesting.

Comment · 6 years ago
We need to just start with getting rid of being ruled by ridiculously old people.

Bill Pascrell almost certainly remembers where he was as a kid when he found out Hitler had been killed lol. Are you kidding me?

Comment · 6 years ago
Not to mention they lucked out that DuckDuckGo is called DuckDuckGo.

I just can't believe such smart people could believe that is good branding.

What exactly were the brand names they rejected to go with DuckDuckGo?

Comment · 6 years ago
I am overweight, love candy, chocolate, ice cream, both sides of my family have a history of diabetes.

How could you possibly tease out that covid triggered diabetes in me when I am doing such a good job myself?

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