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I was as well, now I'm pretty damn excited when I can do six sub 8:00 miles in a row!

Given that I'm 45, I only wish it was last year! Sadly youth appears to indeed be wasted on the young. I only wish I'd realized the difference between intelligence and experience a bit earlier, something I try to convey to my kids, as well as trying to bring them up the experience curve as fast...

I went through an Atlas Shrugged phase when I was 15 too. Happens to the best of us.

Congratulations! You've discovered the definition of socialism that the rest of the world uses, a capitalist system which socializes costs for things like medical care, care for the elderly and sick, and social safely nets. Not the same thing as Communism, not mutually exclusive with capitalism...

Well you hit, perhaps inadvertently, on a problem with the whole trade balance concept, and that is that intellectual property isn't properly accounted for when calculating it. As a result, the imbalance the U.S. faces isn't nearly as big as it seems. Of course one wouldn't expect Trump or his...

As I already demonstrated, in this very thread, no. We have dozens of prosperous socialist states in western Europe, not a one of which is in a pre-cursor of communism position, and pretty much none of the communist states slid a slippery slope of socialism to get there, they got there through...

As we keep saying over and over and over, yes, where are the shanty town of the socialist nations of Norway, Sweden, Finland, France....? Socialism isn't communism and socialism does not preclude capitalism! Your critiques are those of communism, and literally no-one here disagrees that...

This misses the point, while technically correct it's entirely irrelevant. You don't have to kill an opponents entire population to convince them that a pointless war should be stopped, generally for the U.S. a few thousand will do. Remember China themselves experienced this in 1954 and may have...

Meanwhile Trump's base are the ones disproportionately impacted by not being able to export their crops and facing stiff increases in prices for basic consumer goods. The folks in Silicon Valley are going to be just fine regardless, and ironically they're the ones standing against this idiocy...

The futures price of an index is directly and completely tied to the spot taking into account dividends and interest. It has absolutely nothing to do with what anyone thinks the index will be at in the future. Anything other than than represents a risk free arb opportunity which would be...

I'm with you on the concept that the absolute stock price is essentially irrelevant from a math perspective. However one thing to think about is that if the company knows their current price causes it to be difficult to invest in, short... and can't be bothered to do a reverse split, that says a...

Yeah, it's exhibit A on why averages are pointless. CA is another great example; you need an income of $700K to buy an average home in the Bay Area but only $70K to buy one in Stockton or one of the mid-valley towns, and the average cited probably isn't the actual value in any single spot in the...

As Churchill apocryphally said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

Having lived in and purchased homes in a number of those states I'm gonna have to call bullshit absent a look at the underlying data. MT is more than NJ? Seriously?

And yet you don't criticize posts by those who share your political viewpoint, and you accuse those on the other size of desiring a dictatorial state. That says a lot.

Have you ever noticed you can be more than a bit hyperbolic? If you seriously believe this you probably need to get out a bit more. Having served, I can't think of a single person in the military who would kill a fellow citizen over a tax on estates over $1M passed by congress and signed by the...

Your grasp on who passes laws and how in the U.S. is frighteningly bad. "The government" is what passes and changes laws, pretty much by definition! If congress "just decides" it wants a 100% inheritance tax over the first $1M, they pass a law to say that. If the President signs it, then it's...

Dude, @digitalnomad just advocated capital punishment for anyone asking for the moral justification behind inheritance laws, and I didn't hear you or anyone else questioning that. That sounds like exactly the kind of dictatorial behavior you're claiming people of my ilk are guilty of, in fact...

It seems to me that you feel that anyone who is liberal is lazy, fiscally irresponsible, and incapable of sacrifice or is against hard work, fiscal responsibility, and sacrifice. That may make you feel good about yourself and make it easier to dismiss those who offer differing views. However it...

You're making two separate arguments here. The first is a "because I say so" argument that "it's your property, you should be able to with it what you want". That's an opinion, not an explanation or a justification. The handful of families that control almost all the wealth in El Salvador and...