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DobryMorozovon Unemployment declining faster in states that are cutting off $300 benefits

They are simply not reporting themselves as unemployed because there's no money. It doesn't mean that they found a job

DobryMorozovon Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)

Damore lost credibility in my eyes when he lied about being chess national master. Such a bold and egregious lie

DobryMorozovon A bit on scaling chess.com's database

There is! "Chess Online"

DobryMorozovon Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

It's also a children's book that evolved in a book for young adults. I always thought it was supposed to be whimsical and fun, not have serious complicated plots

DobryMorozovon Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition

I always made three meals a day even alone in a apartment. It's not difficult to make eggs or cook salmon

DobryMorozovon YouTube is streaming the first 19 James Bond movies for free

I'm a big Pierce Bronson fan. Really liked Tomorrow Never Dies when I was a kid

DobryMorozovon Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone

I wonder if they have ever tried to shop their tech to China. Chinese mobile companies are interested in building an alternative mobile operating system and have the resources to make it work

DobryMorozovon Ask HN: Did you become millionaire after working in tech?

Being a millionaire isn't enough for most people to retire these days unless you are older or relatively close to death.

DobryMorozovon Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable?

But having niche knowledge of art, architecture and linguistics is much different than than understanding the scientific method, basic statistics, how to interpret studies and critical thinking.

Those fundamental skills are essential to making informed decisions

DobryMorozovon WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

There already is a filibuster so to pass legislation in the senate the majority needs 60 votes. The only exception is budget reconciliation which was why both the Affordable Care Act and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act were both part of the filibuster exempt budget process.

It's definitely a negative thing as nothing significant will ever get done

DobryMorozovon Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Working Class

He's the new standard. I don't think his supporters would vote for someone that's more of an eloquent speaker like Mitt Romney. In fact, I believe Alex Jones has a better chance of winning the primary and I'm completely serious

DobryMorozovon ByteDance asks federal apeals court to vacate US order forcing it to sell TikTok

How many deaths has this genocide produced?

All the information on this comes from just a few American sources

DobryMorozovon ByteDance asks federal apeals court to vacate US order forcing it to sell TikTok

Mark Zuckerberg personally met with government officials to "warn" them about tik tok

DobryMorozovon Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

There are long term complications from contracting the virus

DobryMorozovon Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?

Investors in secondary markets do not inject any money into businesses whatsoever. They are simply buying shares from other secondary market investors

DobryMorozovon China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

Well it's a reaction to r/China which is completely taken over by anti-China posters

DobryMorozovon Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts (2018) [pdf]

So who would be making consumer and commercial loans under this model?

DobryMorozovon Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after Covid

Would UBI just be absorbed by an increase in rent and housing prices?

DobryMorozovon Microsoft will release a new perpetually licensed Office in 2021

I wish Libre Office could gain popularity. It should at least be used in university and government settings

DobryMorozovon Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

There is a negative correlation between IQ and fertility.

DobryMorozovon Nikola CEO Trevor Milton Resigns

He also said that he was partnering with soda stream to make soft drinks from the water emissions from hydrogen vehicles.

This man is a billionaire

DobryMorozovon DOJ Probes EV Startup Nikola over Claims It Misled Investors

Trevor Milton also bought 14,000 shares today by pledging the shares he currently owns as collateral and borrowing money. I think that this is the beginning of the end.

DobryMorozovon We View Nikola’s Response as a Tacit Admission of Securities Fraud

Technically, from their SEC financial statements, they recorded $36,000 in revenue from installing solar panels at Trevor Milton's house. He couldn't let it be zero!

DobryMorozovon We View Nikola’s Response as a Tacit Admission of Securities Fraud

Trevor Milton bought $1.3 million dollars of shares yesterday. He's trying to keep the share price up to support the narrative that nothing is wrong

DobryMorozovon Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video

https://youtu.be/Q6iy3IbVIsQ

Listen to him talk about Nikola in interviews. In an interview he said "before WeWork it was really easy to get money but now investors ask more questions." His interviews are filled with answers from this perspective and it's quite bizarre how no one noticed this.

I noticed that he also makes false statements in the video. Nikola has zero active routes,that's a lie.

DobryMorozovon Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video

This is the CEO that said their infotainment system is a HTML supercomputer. He's now a billionaire and has cashed out 70 million with nothing more than a fake prototype, lies and purchases from suppliers in which they give their equity and call it a strategic partnership.

DobryMorozovon Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

Mobile legends does pretty well for Moonton and is extremely popular in southeast Asia

DobryMorozovon Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering Mysterious Cave at S. China Sea Base

There was a submarine cave in the James Bond movie Die Another Day

DobryMorozovon I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”

The majority of Warren's investments are in the secondary market. These transactions are effectively just transferring ownership and don't actually make cash infusions into the companies at all. He makes some primary market investments and allocates capital between his fully owned subsidiaries. But I think many people naturally wonder the value to society of getting rich by buying and selling things in a secondary market. No products or services are produced and his gains(over the market return) come from a zero sum game between buyers and sellers.