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asteroidblues  ·  2685 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Behold: Trump's "first 100 days" SURVEY.

thats right chap

asteroidblues  ·  2689 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Dow's record highs mask deeper troubles

wow that was well explained, thank you

asteroidblues  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What's holding you back?

fear

asteroidblues  ·  2737 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 28, 2016

should be closing next week. lots of negotiating with the landlord (bs if you ask me). but hopefully everything should turn out good.

asteroidblues  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: John Boehner Cashes Out, Joins Corporate Lobbying Firm That Represents China

pathetic. It seems like anyone who is put into a position of unadministered power and zero consequence becomes unethical and immoral as possible. even if for the short-term they act like they have our interests in mind. quite depressing

asteroidblues  ·  2752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Poverty rate down, Incomes Up

zerohedge reference?

asteroidblues  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looking for a book recommendation about finance / macroeconomics

Well put

asteroidblues  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to be Perfectly Unhappy

thank you

asteroidblues  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looking for a book recommendation about finance / macroeconomics

is it possible in today's society, where the power structures are so rigid, to ever take power away from the bankers? will we just have to wait until there are ethically responsible ones?

asteroidblues  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looking for a book recommendation about finance / macroeconomics

Well, from what I understand of the black swan is that Nassim, according to his theory, knows there will be a Hitler (black swan) but the predictability of when it will happen in the future is the issue of contention. If you got to a close enough of a timeline where you were able to oversee the various factors that contributed to the rise of hitler and nazism, then yes there is predictability, but that's because you were given so much information. Why the distate for taleb? Even though his ideas might not flow smoothly in the context of history, he has made fortunes out of assuming underlyings of black swans and it's served him pretty well.

asteroidblues  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looking for a book recommendation about finance / macroeconomics

not directly finance related, but Nassim Taleb's Black Swan explores some very cool ideas. also here's a large collection of pdfs of finance related books, enjoy

asteroidblues  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 7, 2016

for someone who was out of the tng-loop, what job/business are you involved in? and what procedures?

asteroidblues  ·  2813 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm switching back to Mint!

Arch master race reporting

asteroidblues  ·  2826 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DuckDuckGo partners with Yahoo

I started using ddg but was quickly hated using it because of how much of a convenience google offers in terms of services. they got it locked down im afriad :/

asteroidblues  ·  2828 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 29, 2016

Has been a great 2nd day in California. Heres a quick rundown of the past 2 weeks

Found a great store with a great deal in California (bay area).

Got in contact with broker

Booked flight to Cali (from NJ, flight was great)

Yesterday we saw the store and met with the broker and owner, a sweet and honest 70 year old woman

Today we traveled around and gave an offer to the broker to write up. We went to the Marin Headlands and Golden Gate state park (highly recommend if you enjoy hiking/nature).

Now we are waiting for the deal to be written up and hopefully she'll accept the deal we gave her. If she doesn't I think I am going to buy by any means necessary. I really liked it (healthfood store) and I don't think I will be able to find this type of store/deal ever again, a real steal (very lucky). My family also has been living below the poverty line for the past 8 or so years and I feel like I can help actualize what my brother mom and sister deserve, or what i think they deserve.

I'm all in for moving here, it's all i've ever wanted. It's got a bunch of micro-climates so depending on how you wanna experience your day you can enjoy it in many ways. People are super friendly and the indie scene is poppin. near the ocean so i can look at it for hours. and so much more. I feel so blessed and finally feel like the hard(?)work I've put in has finally paid off. Hope for the best hubski!

asteroidblues  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: CASUAL SEX: EVERYONE IS DOING IT By Maria Konnikova , JUNE 25, 2016

hubski orgy meetup?

asteroidblues  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Six days of water-fasting under stress

    Physical deprivation will push you off your equilibrium, often in bad ways.
tell that to nowaypablo. smokes cigarettes before running :c
asteroidblues  ·  2854 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A salute to Dr. Heimlich's timely maneuver

Sounds good

asteroidblues  ·  2854 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A salute to Dr. Heimlich's timely maneuver

not to sound like a dick but i feel like this was overly publicized when it first happened and its old news now

asteroidblues  ·  2854 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Biologists Discover Billions Of Missing Bees Living Anonymously In Sacramento

I'm going to start my own beehive in a few years. Free local honey save the environment make more hives and profit off the exploitation of bee labour

asteroidblues  ·  2855 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 177th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

that last one is [srs]?

asteroidblues  ·  2858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Should Snoodog Read?

don't have as much breadth in terms of what I read concerning my world view (mostly political theory and economics) so i would say manufacturing consent by chomsky (and then all of his other stuff ;p) and the new jim crow by michelle alexander. Also I would read influential writers like paine, smith, and marx

asteroidblues  ·  2864 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Indians demand government action after temperatures hit 51C

I was talking with my cousin over in pakistan and he said the temperature for today was around 50 C. My jaw dropped after I did the math

asteroidblues  ·  2873 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 175th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Listentothis has a lot more accessible music than indieheads, but its a lot cooler cuz of that too ;)

asteroidblues  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $12.94 Billion in Salary for 25 Hedge Fund Managers

Are you suspecting a cyclical nature if the graph or an even more polarized version of the trends right now

asteroidblues  ·  2882 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: James Blake's New Album "The Colour In Anything"

Agree a lot with rezzeJ about James Blake creating a very unique sound and the going on to show not only how powerful of an expression his sound can be but to master it witht this album. i felt like there were no filler tracks and the production's nuance clearly shows what hes been upto for the past 3 years

Fav songs: radio silence, points, love me in whatever way, choose me, my willing heart, two men down, meet you in the maze

asteroidblues  ·  2883 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump isn't rich enough to beat Clinton

I hated reading the part about the Koch brothers literally buying out the congress. Hopefully Clinton maintains her leftist-ish views (which she so humbly adopted from the sanders camp) and does something about all this money. Its a real shame.

asteroidblues  ·  2884 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 4, 2016

The old aged adage of doing something that you are passionate about is a real bummer for people who are also fixed on making money. I'm not sure thats why you don't enjoy your program; that you don't find passion in CS but in something else, but I would suggest doing a minor or doing another major to make up for the dissatisfaction induced by CS

asteroidblues  ·  2884 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 173rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Favorite cool jazz next to trane's giant steps. Brubeck did something very rare in jazz, in that he connected it with the masses

asteroidblues  ·  2884 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 4, 2016

    My daughter woke up at one point - I heard her saying "come in!" at 3am and had to go in and explain that there was a critter trying to get into the kitchen to get food. She saw no reason our kitchen couldn't accommodate a "creature" since it was cold outside and we had a lot of food. I then had to explain that outside animals are better outside. She seemed to buy it, but this morning she had created an entire cosmology about the creature that knocks on the door at night.

aw

    My daughter will not grow up with vermin. She will not have rodents that bite coming into her room. She will consider it deviant to crush animals to death because the cat's too lazy to eat them. She will not lose classmates to plague spread by squirrels, she will not have siblings nearly killed by hantavirus because her parents are too drunk to deal with the squalor. She will not fear running the garbage disposal at 3am; she will not have reason to run the garbage disposal at 3am. And that is something worth drinking to. That is something that outweighs the obsession with poncy German clocks, that outweighs the life wasted in pursuit of words never read.

    I'm doing a better job than my parents did, so it hasn't been a total waste.

best thing I've read today thanks