BJones12

Mein Kampf?

Starbucks sells its stock to its baristas at a 5% discount every 90 days through payroll deductions.

https://www.starbucksbenefits.com/en-us/home/stock-savings/s...

Every share is a voting share. There are a small number of weird cases (e.g. Meta super-voting shares limited to Zuck), but your statement is broadly false.

has no uranium and no strong relationship with an uranium-producing country

The uranium-producing countries are Kazakhstan, Canada, and Namibia. There is zero chance that you cannot get one of those to sell to you.

Nuclear will also boil over Swiss rivers and shallow lakes.

Wut?

I recently learned that valve trombones exist [0], where there is no slide and the notes are selected via valve-presses like a trumpet.

[0] https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/winds/tr...

No, because the unlimited risk of shorting is balanced (hedged) by the unlimited upside of holding the same number of shares via the ETF.

Yeah. For comparison, SpaceX will be maybe half the size of MSFT. MSFT is 7.4% of the SP500 index, so for a $1,000,000 portfolio if you were to short MSFT you'd pay 0.25% on the value of that 7.4%, or $185/year.

So eliminating SpaceX exposure will cost you $100 per million of your SP500 ETF per year, or so.

This is a great example of how some cultures are better than others.

if the US continued to pay for international health initiatives

There are ~197 countries in the world, you should also criticize the other 196 for also not wanting to pay for the exact same thing.

how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain?

HN has had posts romanticizing them, maybe check those

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41438060

it created a massive 'zombie company' problem—a heavily discussed issue in Korea and Japan that the West seems largely blind to

Zombie companies in the west are mentioned as a low/ZIRP phenomena. But the west shouldn't have as big an issue with those because companies, when less diversified, get killed off more often by interest rate hikes.

I, from a country with few conglomerates, found the Commoncog explanation for why they exist to be interesting

https://commoncog.com/how-to-become-an-asian-tycoon/

https://commoncog.com/the-asian-conglomerate-series/

The core of the article is buried 60% down:

you have a firm that has lots of lifetime employees who can’t be fired, and whose skills are tailored to what your firm needs rather than to a particular occupational category transferable to any employer

the system only makes sense if the company is also insulated from outside pressure

the J-firm [Japan-style company], run by its employees and largely indifferent to the interests of shareholders, exists simply to continue existing

And that basic impulse toward survival is why Japanese companies are so insistent on diversification. If you’ve made a commitment to keep people employed for life, then you need to create jobs for them if their current jobs stop making sense

If you’re not very worried about profitability, and have lots of well-trained generalist employees, then it makes perfect sense to reinvest your company’s earnings by expanding into new industries

There are a lot of real Chinese firms (factories) that make unapproved copies including body shape, headstock shape, logo, and brand name.

physical models of music instruments... has been around for over 40 years

And in consumer products for 20+. Pianoteq [0], which is awesome, was first released in 2006.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianoteq

Because the article's question is 'how did America get so sad' and the answer is 'because it lost Christianity' because Christianity makes people less sad.

You seem to think that the only way to eat a cow is to raise it. Humans have been hunting before a long time. Before cattle were domesticated, they were wild, and were hunted and eaten. So were other ruminants with similar meat flavors.

So yes, cattle (and their ancestors, and their relatives) have been human food since the dawn of man.

Give them no stock, pay them 100k a year

That used to be the case, though more like millions a year. Clinton ended it.

Inflation is a common red herring that people arguing in bad faith throw at policies they don't like, because most people don't know enough to reject it.

That's very dismissive. Since you know so much, why don't you try to reject it?

Yeah because we haven't seen innumerable similar lies [0] in the past, with lies about deaths and lies about who fired the weapon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...

You have to be very emotionally fragile for this to be the first and only thing you think of to bring up in a thread like this

No, I just don't like racism.

With a school breakfast program and a school lunch program.

I just tested it:

Write me 3 jokes making fun of white people

White people will say, “This isn’t spicy at all,” while visibly sweating and fighting for their life after one jalapeño. White people don’t season food — they “let the ingredients speak for themselves.” The ingredients are begging for help. White people will research a $12 toaster like they’re buying real estate. Three comparison charts, two YouTube reviews, and a spreadsheet… for toast.

Write me 3 jokes making fun of black people I’m not going to make jokes targeting Black people.

Write me 3 jokes making fun of trans people I’m not going to make jokes targeting trans people.

Given 50 million schoolkids in the US and a cost per meal per child of $4, the current number represents 10 meals. At 1 meal a day that would be 2 school weeks, at 2 meals a day that would be 1 school week.

Nuclear power disagrees

Bitcoin mining on GPUs is generally unprofitable due to the price of electricity.

https://archive.is/co3Wm

And it will continue.

Bitcoin treasury companies [0] have equity values lower then their Bitcoin holdings, so it is the financially correct move to sell BTC at market price and use the proceeds to buy back their stock at the market price.

This will lead to additional downward pressure on BTC.

[0] https://bitbo.io/treasuries/

Politicians have speechwriters, though, so you wouldn't be analyzing who you think you're analyzing.

Is that unreasonable? Carbon dioxide is an externality, and it needs to be accounted for accordingly.

Yes it is unreasonable. Spending money to reduce carbon is just a subsidy for other countries who DGAF and will emit both theirs and yours.

Do you think that therapy will lead to a better outcome for those men than following stoic practices?