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belltolls
10/17/09

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The Chatham House Rule, eh? Goodnight you princes of DC, you kings of the Mid-Atlantic. #washingtonpost
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/17/09

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Trial balloon: The public can offer journalists hookers and blow, cash and vacations, to win their loyalty. #washingtonpost
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
10/17/09

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scruples. ethics. discuss. #washingtonpost
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applejuice
10/17/09

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What's wrong with thise dudes pic on the main page? It shows up like it is the opposite of the coneheads pic.
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Carol Gardens
05/06/09

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How is the Roth IRA situation even possible? Since you can only contribute $5000 per year? And it was even less in the past? Huh?
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Owen Thomas
05/06/09

@Carol Gardens: It's an interesting question -- one I haven't gotten to the bottom of. But one reasonable scenario is that he put his PayPal shares into a Roth account. They would have appreciated quite nicely, tax-free, giving him a larger pool of money to reinvest in Facebook.
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sample032
05/06/09

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Interesting information, but what's your complaint? He runs a fund that pension funds, public and private, are free to invest in? He does what he can to shelter his money from taxes? The only legitimate criticism I see is that his fund underperformed.

I don't buy into the narrative you tried to weave together about his actions being wrong. Viewed individually, his actions were fairly reasonable and unrelated.
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skahammer
05/06/09

@sample032: I think Owen properly raised some salient questions about Thiel's investment strategy.

I don't know if it's exactly a "complaint" to point out that there might be fishy about someone's avowed investment strategy, but it's certainly of interest to readers of Gawker like myself.
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oudemia
05/06/09

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Why do all the libertarians want to live forever? Is it because they're all such arrogant assholes? Because they all seem either to be looking forward to the day when they can upload themselves into robot bodies or practice things like calorie restriction so that they can live! forever!
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Baroness
05/06/09

@oudemia: I'm definitely no (selfish, narcissist) Libertarian, but I have daydreamed what it might be like to suddenly hundreds-of-millions rich, the lottery fantasy. And the first thing I thought of was, I'd quit smoking immediately.

Isn't that pathetic? I don't think it's a libertarian thing, it's a very rich thing.

Aging and mortality are sad realities for everyone, but anecdotally, the very rich classically take it especially badly, like spoilt children. They're used to absolute mastery of their own worlds, and death becomes an enemy they (foolishly) think they can outwit, evade.
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