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  1. Looks like a goaltend though
  2. Is it any wonder, then, that those who have this now are fighting so hard to keep it? An argument could be made that your main job as a parent is to either endow or imbue, depending on your resources, the most and best privileged situation you can to your children.
  3. As I read Briskettexan's posts and others who have either given up hope for our political institutions or way of life or are almost there and I read a statement by Biden yesterday in Buffalo with the families of the tragic hate crime, and I've been considering the language used. Biden said, and I'll quote him here, "“American experiment in democracy is in danger like it hasn’t been in my lifetime.” We are implicitly acknowledging that what America is trying to do, in breadth and scope and sheer complexity, is an experiment. How many times have we used or heard that word in relation to the unique American motion of integrating politics, rights, people, business, freedoms, etc.? Experiments have a reasonable expectation of failure. That is why we engage with them, to see if things work because we don't know the answer beforehand. I guess what I'm saying is, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that our experiment might have worked when easier managed with a lower complexity of a smaller population size, a more homogenous group of people with more homogenous north star values. When opening up the aperture, our experiment might be too overloaded and fail at scale. And failure in experimentation is okay. Trial and error are necessary. After all that is why we experiment. The risk and the problem is if we fail and we don't have any Plan B's or other hypothesis to test that could be better, which I think is where the doomscrollers should focus the conversation.
  4. 14 blocked shots through 3 quarters? Block Party.
  5. Miami defense has really come on in this 3rd quarter.
  6. I’m generally a fan of Elon, but this is getting embarrassing: “I think it is important to be clear here that Musk is lying. The spam bots are not why he is backing away from the deal, as you can tell from the fact that the spam bots are why he did the deal. He has produced no evidence at all that Twitter’s estimates are wrong, and certainly not that they are materially wrong or made in bad faith. (Musk can only get out of the deal if Twitter's filings are wrong in a way that would cause a “material adverse effect” on Twitter, which is vanishingly unlikely.) His own supposed methodology for counting spam bots is laughable. Yesterday Twitter’s chief executive officer, Parag Agrawal, tweeted a threadexplaining in general terms how Twitter estimates that fake accounts represent fewer than 5% of its count of active users, and how this analysis can’t be easily replicated by outsiders (because they don’t know which accounts are real, and also because they don’t know which accounts Twitter counts as daily active users). It seems clear that Agrawal’s thoughtful answer is basically correct.[1] Musk responded with a poop emoji.”
  7. I read that eminem was speechless after hearing Kendrick's new album which has me geeked to hear it.
  8. Vegas64

    CP0for5

    The schadenfreude is delicious. Couldn't happen to a more unlikable and hate-able guy.
  9. Pat Bev clearly has beef with CP3, which is fine and hilarious, but come on now Pat. You are who you are.
  10. Pumped for this game!
  11. This thread is wild’n out now. If you disclose “I have HIV+ and/or AIDS, still want to do this?” Then okay, caveat emptor and let your freak flag fly. Consenting adults should be free to do whatever they want morally and legally (and I understand sex work is illegal in this scenario). If there is no forthcoming disclaimer then that should criminal assault with a deadly weapon. Also the guy who used Uber as an example, what are you even talking about? The worst trick finance heads ever played on business was that EBITDA was a good metric. Charlie Munger has a funny blurb about it. Still, Uber also posted a $5.9 billion loss in the period. "We are serving multi-trillion dollar markets, but market size is irrelevant if it doesn't translate into profit," he said
  12. Very telling of your blindspot and/or privilege that you would say “most everyone says 1950’s-1970’s” was the golden age for America. As C.K. Lewis said, “if I’m black and have a time machine I don’t want to go anywhere before 1980 at least!”. Also, I think the nature of work and industry has dramatically changed to where 1950’s-1970’s jobs and skills and what those average jobs and skills can be valued at will never the be same. Lastly, are you just unaware that a cataclysmic population event called a great world war 2, plus being stronger and richer than everyone who had to fight and have their infrastructure destroyed, along with artificial and unsustainable government intervention created the era you are longing for again? You realize it was not an organic or naturally occurring result?
  13. Yea, a Game 7 against the #1 seed is house money for Mavs fan. I'm an anti-Suns fan. Suns hater, I guess.
  14. Let's be honest, Mavs forcing a Game 7 after the first 2 game blowouts is a win. The fact that it's any Given Sunday and a one-game playoff means anything can happen and that's pretty cool. Worst case scenario the detestable and easy to hate Suns are forced to expend 7 games of energy and risk some injuries. Best case we get to laugh at Chris Paul and Booker for choking. House money.
  15. What happened to Boban being too proud to come up for mop up garbage time?
  16. give me odds and i'll make a bet with you if you are pretty sure about Game 7
  17. This one ain't over. Almost all the Mavs games going back to the Utah series seem to be won or lost in the 3rd quarter.
  18. Every single time something awesome happens defensively the house is ready to explode but then Dallas misses an offensive three or jam on the transition.
  19. Congrats. Did you go with IBM?
  20. I feel like the literal very next line clears up a little vagary, though: “This wasn’t my decision,” Beykpour wrote. That doesnt sound like a man who resigned or quit.
  21. Asking someone to quit while on pat leave seems illegal: Twitter announced Thursday that it was pausing hiring, cutting costs and restructuring its leadership, as the company tries to prepare for Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover. The company said it won’t take on new employees and may cancel offers already out, according to an internal memo seen by several media outlets. Two of Twitter’s top executives are also leaving: Kayvon Beykpour, head of consumer product, and Bruce Falck, general manager for revenue. Beykpour tweeted that he was on paternity leave when CEO Parag Agrawal contacted him and asked him to quit. “This wasn’t my decision,” Beykpour wrote.
  22. No. The first big domino I guess you could say was AirBnB's announcement they would honor the payscale no matter the area. It was a pretty big newsmaker and deal. Salesforce has announced they are listing jobs not by location but by timezone with the implication being, work wherever you want as long as you are available these consecutive 8 hours in this time zone. But who knows on the pay rate. So short answer the dust hasn't settled and I don't think it will for a while. Especially since we are about to enter into less hiring and hiring freezes, I fear, it won't be a priority.
  23. Another chicken or egg thing is that companies can really only thrive where they have access to smart, young (read: cheaper) people. That usually means you need a pipeline from a prestigious university in or nearby.
  24. Actually, since you mentioned Covid, I think a lot of our early assumptions were wrong with how the pandemic played out and how it affected business. I haven't seen the actuals, but it's widely held and accept that "pandemic stocks" who were riding high like Zoom and Peloton and Netflix other Tech companies, they have all given back their pandemic gains and are at or below pre-pandemic levels. We thought the pandemic would hurt the worker so we supported businesses with PPP and relief packages for people, but it's really only "post-covid" I think the effects will be felt and we are starting to see it now. IOW, the hogs getting slaughtered or about to be slaughtered are workers who work for companies getting slaughtered in the market.
  25. Here is the thing though, these companies that have weak leadership and are shareholder-value zombies, when they don't adapt they get disrupted. That disruption allows for a whole new modality and industries even which creates whole new careers and jobs. It's all very dynamic and driven by the pursuit of EBITDA or whatever. This is why I disagree with SnakeDiggity, the worker will not always have leverage. It's been a fantastic run the past decade and we've been lulled into a trance that the worker is taking power back from the company, but stocks are falling and the winter is coming. I was on a work call just yesterday where everyone was asking "what is the next big thing? what is the next big disruption?" because you always need to be disrupting markets for workers to keep leverage. It's the analogous problem you hear about the content creator celebrities, it's a hamster wheel where you constantly have to keep churning out new and good content to keep subscribers and views to make money.
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