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I am really looking forward to next Tuesday when my Financial Economics class resumes. I'm so eager to hear my professor's take on a bunch of internet nerds memeing big name hedge funds into insolvency.
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I just got the Koss Pro/4AAs I ordered a few days ago, and drat, these things weigh a ton, but also sound great. Given how they are built, I can't see myself needing another pair for 30-40 years. And if I do, $9 later they're fixed with the lifetime warranty. I'm fine with Koss being a meme stock. They should stay in business, given the quality of their products.  If anyone doesn't want to look like a Vietnam era helicopter pilot while listening to music, I can also recommend the much less expensive KPH 30i model. They look like the throwaway mid-90s era headphones that would come packed with your CD player, but the quality is insane for a $30 pair of headphones.
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Jan 29, 2021 20:20
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C-SPAN Caller posted:I prefer Grado personally A person of taste and refinement, I see! I'd love a pair of Reference Series RS1e, but they're way too out of my price range. My brother has a pair, and they're just delicious quality 
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Jan 29, 2021 20:54
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The Unnamed One posted:Libs know you don’t mess with real (i.e. rich) people’s money But what happens to them when they aren't rich anymore?
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Jan 29, 2021 20:57
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:unpossible Exactly. These fools bet that number would go down. The people will punish them for their hubris
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Jan 29, 2021 20:59
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Jan 29, 2021 21:03
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So, who's buying what Monday morning?
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Jan 31, 2021 16:22
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In Training posted:you thought AMC prices and service was bad, get ready for straight up MCU Houses and poo poo just running Disney+ catalogues on repeat with so much Swag on sale next to the popcorn your little brainlet head will spin No lie, it could be fun to see some of the older Disney and Star Wars movies on "the big screen" again. Haven't done that since they rereleased some of their old catalogue in the late 90s. I mean, I wouldn't pay more than, like  for the experience, but...
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Jan 31, 2021 17:40
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Valleyant posted:does dying count as a short or a bankruptcy asking for a screech It's a "mort-gage" or "death pledge" 
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Feb 1, 2021 21:27
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https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/royals-world-series-journey-almost-derailed-by-clash-of-clans/quote:Walk into an MLB clubhouse before a game, and you'll see players on their iPads watching movies, television shows, playing video games, whatever. Baseball is a daily grind for six months of the year, so these guys try to find time to relax whenever they can. I'm sure the same is true in other sports as well. Also, https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2425020 quote:digeraticular's father has ruined his business and family because of a Korean MMORPG that's free to download and has no monthly cost. For a detailed explanation of Fly For Fun, go to page 8 and read Space Crab's post.
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Feb 2, 2021 04:29
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Crazycryodude posted:What the gently caress is a willenium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXKtfKnfT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnN4lSLAf6E
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Mr Hootington posted:https://youtu.be/v4FYL8twE6Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brt8uS1M1LQ
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Feb 2, 2021 21:30
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TMMadman posted:I also still can't believe that America had a working and functional (mostly) agency that was in charge of developing and building rockets/space vehicles and instead we've just decided to give it all up and essentially start over with SpaceX. To be fair, NASA was mostly nazis at the start, and you can't rebuild or improve something when the foundation is so rotten. quote:It's really difficult, actually, impossible, for us to disentangle from that foundational ideology. Volunteers and board members tried to reform and re-envision the organization, and have found it unattainable to do, especially with so little resources. We have experienced this as a very real reminder that reform doesn't work. Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Capitalism cannot be reformed and ever serve the people. Abolition is the goal.
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Feb 2, 2021 22:02
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A Bakers Cousin posted:What does the c in c-suite mean Cum, obviously edit: it's from the Latin, "Cum autem victor es suite" or "When you are a winner suite". It's where you go when you have reached the top Toph Bei Fong has issued a correction as of 22:29 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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human garbage bag posted:It goes to his next of kin. His mom if she's alive. His cousin third removed, etc. If he has no family whatsoever all his assets go to the government and they auction them off. Can one auction off a bank account? Like, people bidding progressively higher amounts of money until it approaches the actual value of the money in the account, then exceeds it, because they want that sweet cred for owning money Bezos once owned?
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Feb 2, 2021 23:45
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Dustcat posted:you don't auction off money you just take it, it's already money quote:If he has no family whatsoever all his assets go to the government and they auction them off. Is money not considered a personal asset anymore?
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Feb 2, 2021 23:58
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Dustcat posted:you're right, if you have no heirs, they bury all your money with your corpse in the pauper's grave, along with your cats Then all is right with the world 
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Feb 3, 2021 00:04
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500excf type r posted:Is bezos becoming the Amazon version of putin? More the American Silvio Berlusconi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0lCHfr7NA
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Feb 3, 2021 01:08
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Admiral Ray posted:productivity and the flow of goods is more important than the size of the money supply, imo. people think money becomes worthless when there's a lot of it. no, money becomes worthless when there's a lot of it AND not much of the things you want Bill Cooper knows the truth quote:Today's silent weapons technology is an outgrowth of a simple idea discovered, succinctly expressed, and effectively applied by the quoted Mr. Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mr. Rothschild discovered the missing passive component of economic theory known as economic inductance. He, of course, did not think of his discovery in these 20th-century terms, and, to be sure, mathematical analysis had to wait for the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of the theory of mechanics and electronics, and finally, the invention of the electronic computer before it could be effectively applied in the control of the world economy.
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Lostconfused posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/the-zoom-town-boom-in-bozeman-montana quote:Bozeman These names all sound made up
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Feb 13, 2021 02:22
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Nonsense posted:Elon means to do what he says he’s going to do. I wonder when Elon is going to hit the "having employees execute stray dogs and horses publicly to own his competitors" phase of his career
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Rectal Death Adept posted:No. "Boil In A Bag?" Ho Chi Minh style forcing experimental deconstructionist chefs at Michelin star restaurants and CIA graduates to work at Wendy's to teach them to "wholeheartedly work for the revolution, and the people." "Knowledge is understanding. A person who finishes university can be called an intellectual. But he does not know how to plow the fields, provide public services, fight the enemy, and do many other things. In short he doesn't know anything about practical work. So he was half-way intellectuals. His knowledge is bookish knowledge only, it is not complete knowledge. In order to become a full intellectual, he must know how to put that knowledge into practice.”
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SKULL.GIF posted:CNBC's headline: BITCOIN AT 'TIPPING POINT', COULD BECOME 'CURRENCY OF CHOICE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE', CITIBANK SAYS What can you actually buy with bitcoin these days? Still just porn, drugs, and bootleg comptuer parts? Can I buy USD with it?
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Imagine Danny Devito selling Teslas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pks7q2qyM-s
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Mar 5, 2021 02:48
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Whatever the opposite of this is. Actually, I'd enjoy seeing David Cross try to play Jeff Bezos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4yX2rkpBc
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V. Illych L. posted:the whole situation is surreal in that extremely 2020s way where insane poo poo keeps happening for really stupid reasons As true as ever https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/822504053057929218
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Elman posted:Can you link the full article? https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/10/do-economists-actually-know-what-wealth-is/ Basically anything negative said about Greg Mankiw is probably correct. He's like a living caricature of a ghoulish economist quote:Economist Gregory Mankiw is very pleased to have been gouged by a scalper, he informs us in a recent New York Times column. Mankiw recently went to see the Broadway musical Hamilton, and paid the going rate for a ticket: $2,500. Yet he was far from dismayed at having paid this extraordinary sum. In fact, he describes those who object to price-gouging as “pernicious.” quote:Yet when economists tell this fable, they neglect a single crucial fact: some people are wealthier than other people. The reason Mankiw loves price hikes is that they don’t affect him, because he has so much money that he doesn’t really care what price he pays for a Hamilton ticket. Wealth confers the ability to jump to the front of the line, bypassing those who may want to see the show far more but who have less money to spend on theater tickets.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i hope post collapse history books have a little graphic insert of the ships path from the dick right until it grounded You love to see it 
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-pirates/618268/quote:Perhaps the most dramatic mishap in modern history is the story of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, or JCMT for short. In 1984, a steel structure for the observatory was prepared for transport from England, where it was built, to Hawaii, where it would protect the telescope. According to Richard Hills, a JCMT project scientist, the vessel hired to transport the structure broke down at the last minute, and the job was given to a commercial captain and his small boat. The captain was supposed to sail right to Hawaii.
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Shear Modulus posted:is this not an example the author of this "companion to marx's capital" (it seems to be david harvey) came up with? It is Harvey, though he's not pulling the example completely out of his rear end. Marx does mention the importance of the canal for transport in Capital vol II quote:The mere relative length of the transit of the commodities from their place of production to their market produces a difference not only in the first part of the circulation time, the selling time, but also in its second part, the reconversion of the money into the elements of the productive capital, the buying time. Suppose a commodity is shipped to India. This requires, say, four months. Let us assume that the selling time is equal to zero, i.e., the commodities are made to order and are paid for on delivery to the agent of the producer. The return of the money (no matter in what form) requires another four months. Thus it takes altogether eight months before a capital can again function as productive capital, renew the same operation. The differences in the turnover thus occasioned form one of the material bases of the various terms of credit, just as overseas commerce in general, for instance in Venice and Genoa, is one of the sources of the credit system, properly speaking. and in Capital vol. III quote:The chief means of reducing the time of circulation is improved communications. The last fifty years have brought about a revolution in this field, comparable only with the industrial revolution of the latter half of the 18th century. On land the macadamised road has been displaced by the railway, on sea the slow and irregular sailing vessel has been pushed into the background by the rapid and dependable steamboat line, and the entire globe is being girdled by telegraph wires. The Suez Canal has fully opened East Asia and Australia to steamer traffic. The time of circulation of a shipment of commodities to East Asia, at least twelve months in 1847 (cf. Buch II, S. 235 [English edition: Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. II, pp. 251-52. — Ed.]), has now been reduced to almost as many weeks. The two large centres of the crises of 1825-57, America and India, have been brought from 70 to 90 per cent nearer to the European industrial countries by this revolution in transport, and have thereby lost a good deal of their explosive nature. The period of turnover of the total world commerce has been reduced to the same extent, and the efficacy of the capital involved in it has been more than doubled or trebled. It goes without saying that this has not been without effect on the rate of profit. Engels talks about it in a footnote in vol III, also quote:[As I have already stated elsewhere [English edition: Vol. I. — Ed.], a change has taken place here since the last major general crisis. The acute form of the periodic process with its former ten-year cycle, appears to have given way to a more chronic, long drawn out, alternation between a relatively short and slight business improvement and a relatively long, indecisive depression-taking place in the various industrial countries at different times. But perhaps it is only a matter of a prolongation of the duration of the cycle. In the early years of world commerce, 1845-47, it can be shown that these cycles lasted about five years; from 1847 to 1867 the cycle is clearly ten years; is it possible that we are now in the preparatory stage of a new world crash of unparalleled vehemence? Many things seem to point in this direction. Since the last general crisis of 1867 many profound changes have taken place. The colossal expansion of the means of transportation and communication — ocean liners, railways, electrical telegraphy, the Suez Canal — has made a real world-market a fact. The former monopoly of England in industry has been challenged by a number of competing industrial countries; infinitely greater and varied fields have been opened in all parts of the world for the investment of surplus European capital, so that it is far more widely distributed and local over-speculation may be more easily overcome. By means of all this, most of the old breeding-grounds of crises and opportunities for their development have been eliminated or strongly reduced. At the same time, competition in the domestic market recedes before the cartels and trusts, while in the foreign market it is restricted by protective tariffs, with which all major industrial countries, England excepted, surround themselves. But these protective tariffs are nothing but preparations for the ultimate general industrial war, which shall decide who has supremacy on the world-market. Thus every factor, which works against a repetition of the old crises, carries within itself the germ of a far more powerful future crisis. — F. E.]
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SKULL.GIF posted:There's a SFF series from the 70s called the Dragonriders of Pern, and it turns out PERN is an acronym for Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, and the population of the planet were the descendants of space colonists who were escaping a poisoned, dying Earth drowning in junk and garbage. They deliberately chose a planet that had barely any mineral resources (hence the name) so they wouldn't be capable of repeating the mistakes of the Earthlings, and create an agrarian, low-tech society that exists in relative peace for a few thousands of years. There was also the tragically realistic environmentalist message of the folks in power saying, roughly, "Yeah, the scientists who said that that meteor cluster that rains destruction and destroys the surface of the planet every 200 years is coming? Yeah, we're just going to ignore that. What do old people from the past and science know about anything? If we did try to mitigate it, we'd have to spend a bunch of money on this expensive dragon system and reduce our political power, and we don't want to do that." McCaffery might be a weirdo otherwise, but I quite liked that bit.
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Shear Modulus posted:the story of design engineering over the last half century or so is that making stuff that doesnt have to be replaced and can be easily serviced by the end user or a third party is a great way to run out of customers This will be old news to most c-spammers, but it's a nice presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE
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Paradoxish posted:Honest question: what is the solution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4mrkP3xgdc
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SKULL.GIF posted:like there's zero actual immediate and nonviolable reason that anyone rich would care whether the proles buy dorito as long as the rich have immediate access to dorito Soft disagree here. Capitalism is built on three core principles: the appearance of delayed gratification, conspicuous consumption, and the fear of missing out Unlike feudal lords, the capitalist has nothing inherent about him to "prove" that he is better than other people; he is not a nobleman with divine proof that he is intrinsically better than other people, a bloodline that dates back to the founding of the nation, and an ancestral home he will pass on to his descendants who will live the same quality of life that the lord did. The capitalist can only "prove" he is better by owning the best things, displaying them publicly, and being just slightly ahead of the trends in fashion, entertainment, etc. The rich, in this analogy, care very much that the poor have access to doritos, and will only allow it provided they have access to doritos gold edition, which the poor cannot afford. While they may not be able to afford the doritos platinum (now with 25% more adrenochrome!), they can derive satisfaction from being a part of something that others are not, and generally find it baffling when others do not participate in this rat race (for another example, consider that old business fable about the business man who goes on vacation to rural mexico and meets a fisherman. The businessman informs the fisherman that his whole operation is inefficient: he just fishes for a couple hours a day then goes home and spends time with his family and eats the fish he caught. The fisherman could, instead, fish all day to achieve a surplus, then use that money to buy a fleet of boats and reinvest those profits into becoming a major fishing conglomerate, etc. etc. all so that he may, in the end, achieve the reward of going on vacation to fish and spend time with his family.)
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