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shameshame | 6 years ago | on: Too Much Dark Money in Almonds

I have experienced similar with charity giving and donating to my alma mater. It was shocking.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: Why Are Marriage Rates Down? Study Blames Lack of ‘Economically-Attractive’ Men

I'm guessing they never even get close to seeing marriage this way as the relationship probably doesn't reach into courtship past dating. Just a hunch.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup

The city was extremely lucky the attackers played their hand too early. If servers had been encrypted it could have a lot worse.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers

Planet Money did a great breakdown on this. Essentially it comes down to international agreements on the cost of doing the past mile of shipping for other countries.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying

Your analysis of American politics makes it sound like the entire voting block of US adults supports these policies, wanted this man as president, and watches Fox News. Fact of the matter is 3 million more people voted for the other candidate but this guy won on a technicality. The majority of Americans do not support these policies but our representative election processes are designed to prevent simple majority rule. Couple this with a legislative branch that cedes authority to the executive over the course of decades in the name of political expedience and we are where we are today.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: $499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE

You're forgetting Intel's trouncing in the Pentium4/Athlon XP days also. It's been a while, but I for one am looking forward to a very competitive marketplace for desktop CPUs.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: The Suburban Uncanny

I wonder how much of this was a result of the "born again" evangelical movement. I watched my parents in the 80s go from apathetic Catholicism to fervent Protestants. During which things got weird. Suddenly Satan was real and things like Halloween were up for debate.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: Prosecutors Are Shaping Privacy Law

Oddly enough if you're corporate entity large enough you're doing better than the government. A friend of mine works as an assistant state's attorney and he says some of the cases are ridiculous when the well funded persons and organizations are involved; sometimes it's one man for the government vs an one or more entire law firms and on cases of important to public interest no less.

shameshame | 6 years ago | on: Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish

I'm wondering what competition looks like in this market. My wife loves Snapfish and I'm thinking each album she creates and purchases in 2020 is going to be considerably more expensive.

shameshame | 7 years ago | on: If the Point of Capitalism Is to Escape Capitalism, Then Why Capitalism?

The goal of capitalism isn't freedom from capitalism, the goal of capitalism is monopoly and monopsony?

shameshame | 8 years ago | on: Who Are the Top 1 Percent in America?

Do you have some research/information you can share about this? It's a fascinating concept to me.

shameshame | 8 years ago | on: Who Are the Top 1 Percent in America?

"If it wasn't fair, people wouldn't work the job."

This is demonstrably not true. People will work jobs that pay less than their cost of living hoping somehow to get by. Your argument seems to assume sufficient demand for an individual's skill/labor such that they have power in the marketplace to do as they please.

shameshame | 8 years ago | on: FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You're Too Busy Cooking Turkey

I don't see how this will change the game when physical infrastructure is the control point. Anything that happens in the application space would be subject to the control of whitelists of IPs. Even 3rd party proxies would be powerless.