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by 0xy 3y ago
You couldn't build a true Instagram clone today with 13 people. The Instagram of the time was more akin to Flickr than the modern Instagram with live streaming, stories, video content, messaging, groups, recommendations, creator tools
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I'm using World Bank data (sourced from the World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure database) on a per capita basis. As you can see, UK spending is skyrocketing. The rate of increase between 2010 and 2019 is 2,000% higher t
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The time period was 2010 to 2019. Even since 2019, the NHS has several hundred billion in planned budget increases. My favorite thing about dysfunctional UK political rhetoric is when someone will say "the Conservatives are slashing th
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Seems like this behavior is systemic, deliberate and approved by management. [1] With that in mind, it's highly unlikely this incident is limited to 3 companies, more likely that's the number of companies who have gone public. I d
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They've been in power for a long time and yet NHS spending increases are 2,000% higher than France's equivalent health spending. Can you explain how someone can "hate the NHS" while drowning them in cash far beyond what
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Given the NHS' costs continue to explode, and most of the cash goes straight to padding middle management, it seems easy to see that it's a slow and bloated organization. After all, the UK's health spending is increasing at a
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I highly recommend you branch out into TypeScript, Node and React -- all of which are relevant in this job market AND, most importantly, are easily accessible from a PHP background. There are some Laravel openings but it's still quite
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>I’ve read the article three times now and I can’t find this claim. Do you have a quote? Sure, specifically, the article says "more than 95% percent of shoplifting incidents are carried out by “one to two people,” -- implying this m
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Note that this article makes the claim that merchandise that is stolen by opportunistic criminals and then later sold to organized fencing operations is not "organized retail crime". With large organized criminal gangs providing f
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Can you get to some specifics? Specifically, what is in NYC that you cannot possibly get in Chicago for example?
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Are you proposing that organ transplants be prioritized to the 80 year old chain smoker over the healthy 12 year old? Are you proposing that old people should be the first off a sinking ship? Old people have lived life. They should have sta
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There's really no evidence public schools are a better learning environment than homeschooling, in fact there's evidence to the contrary. Even when you include the extreme fringes of homeschooled children such as religious fundame
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Would McDonalds Corp rather sell let's say 1,000 ice creams for $1,000 total at a 2% cut ($20) or an ice cream machine repair (maybe $1,000)? They're fleecing the franchisees via repairs.
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If you wanted to protect hospitals, then why were 15 year olds locked down and not primarily old and obese people (the vast, vast majority of the risk). 15 years old took the brunt of the lockdowns yet had almost zero risk from the virus. W
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>A million people died in the US died from Covid. This claim is absurd and invented. Firstly, it takes two seconds to discover that the reporting requirements for Covid "deaths" do not say that Covid must be the primary cause o
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While obvious at the time to anyone with a brain, it's now beyond obvious that lockdowns were an abject disaster. Massive economic damage that's continuing to linger, irreversible damage to children and an entire lost generation r
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Business Insider reported that Musk's luck had run out and SpaceX was an utter disaster in 2016, when it was worth around $15bn. [1] Today, it's worth $175bn in the private market. [2] Forgive me if I discard the reporting of a co
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The approximate size of the payload, the application, the time, maybe where you received it (if you were on a cellular network). All of this has a lot of value. You don't exactly need the message or the recipient.
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If a small business installs park benches for government, would you say they'd been "extracting money from the American taxpayer" with no evidence they're profiteering? Not every government vendor is fleecing them, and y
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Let me give you some insight. Out of 100 applications, 60 don't meet even the most basic resume standards (zero experience, not in country, blatant errors). Of the 40 remaining, 20 do not have adequate experience in the field. Of the 2
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If agents are prevented from capturing illegal entrants and the current administration invests $0 in upkeep of the border wall then this seems inevitable. After the newer border wall was built, it reduced crossings in those areas by >70%
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Their support seems to be overwhelmed, despite transacting 5 figures a month through Wise Business support is non-existent. They missed multiple self-imposed deadlines to verify my account (they decided it had to be re-verified) despite the
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How did you "lose $11k" given the bankruptcy process, bitcoin's rise since, and the vast majority of creditors getting greater than their initial investment back due to appreciation? Did you choose not to file a claim or sell
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1% is an extremely generous claim. With Australia's spying program 'metadata retention' for example, the bill was sold as being for terrorism and CSAM and is now routinely used by local governments to hunt down people litteri
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How do you "reduce polarity" without censoring voices? If you do believe in 'just a little censorship', then absolutely you are a censorship maximalist. How else would you achieve your censorship goals? The censor class
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That's not what happened. Netflix pays their bandwidth middleman, and their bandwidth middleman subsequently refused to pay for upgrades for the massive usage of their customer. Netflix should have either demanded their middleman pay,
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How is that remotely the same thing? The infographic above and others clearly claim that ISPs will be blocking services then requiring you to pay for them separately. Exempting services from data caps is not against net neutrality, and for
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There was that Project Veritas expose that revealed a Senior Engineer at Twitter did 4 hours of work per week and he said everyone else did the same thing. It makes perfect sense because when Jack was part time CEO of Twitter he was known t
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If SBF can pass the scrutiny of multiple journalists, investors and hedge funds then I don't think he'd have any issue with someone with a legal background. SBF is a lot of things but he's most certainly a good speaker and pe
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While I think they do deserve very close scrutiny and investigation, receiving gifts obtained with stolen funds unknowingly is not in itself a crime. At the time, by all appearances, their son was a very successful entrepreneur. Considering

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