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by HNfriend234 6y ago
No one using the platform even cares. Everyone on the platform just shares memes and jokes anyways. The people using gab aren't stupid like the people who use facebook where they put all their personal information out in the open for a
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I use gab quite frequently but mainly for the memes and jokes. The vast majority of people on there use pseudonymous aliases anyways so no one cares if the site gets hacked. People on the right-wing have also been subject to extensive perse
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Reminds me of the old pets.com business model where the business lost more money as it scaled because at a fundamental level, the business was more costly to operate at higher scale.
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I use a xiaomi phone and the reason I use it is because it is significantly cheaper compared to a samsung or apple phone. Example: A $200 xiaomi phone is equivalent in specs to a $600 Samsung. Also it is likely the Chinese are spying on me
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
If you look at the list of stocks you can all see they are super super tiny companies so likely it is fraud schemes aka pump and dump. That's when a small group of people (typically) organize an effort to pump a stock using false infor
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I personally just use tails. Takes a few minutes to boot into and I love it. Then again I don't really use TOR all that much these days but anyone who needs maximum security (journalists and the such) is likely using something like tai
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I was looking into this and I am thinking that the solution is actually not to weatherize the grid but rather to have each home be able to be self-sufficient for a certain period of time. Perhaps having micro grids in communities and maybe
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
It is like that because of social media and news outlets that basically produce "confirmation bias" news that has no other intention but to reinforce one's own existing beliefs. Both sides do it so it is not a partisan issue.
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Mexico is smart though because they have LNG import terminals. There is an incoming LNG carrier coming in less than 24 hours which will restore their power.
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I'm in Dallas too. What we did was pull out our generator that runs on propane then run an extension cord from the garage to inside the house connected to an electric heater. Close the bedroom door. We were about 75 degrees. You are cr
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
You look at the management team and see if they have potential. For example, a SPAC with a "google executive" would be more desirable over some no-name person. Same for the type of companies they're targeting. An industry lik
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
That's from a business perspective. I'm talking about from an investing/speculating aspect of them. One of the reasons why SPACs have become so popular among retail investors is because of hype on social media around them.
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
It is easy to see it as "doing nothing" but the reality is your risked your money during a period of time which was very uncertain. Uncertainty = higher risk in terms of stocks. The reality is you took a big risk and you got a big
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Yup because we are currently in an innovation boom due to new emerging technologies. If the innovation slows down then the returns will shift in favor of labor while capital generates negatives returns.
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I invest in SPACs regularly and have made a killing off investing in them. Plain and simple, SPACs are all about hype in terms of how much hype the target company can garner. I only buy pre-LOI SPACs and then consider selling them on the me
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Looks like there is another alternate communities springing up. Found this one: wsbets.win
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I agree. Just look at the guy's twitter lately. He was hyping up some "huge" potential SAAS company and stringing people along. You could tell because in the comments you could see people speculating about which SPAC that inf
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Also they apparently have the "biden economic team" looking into the situation so it does go to show that lobbying dollars allows you to get your concerns addressed rather quickly.
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Tough on crime isn't purely a republican stance though. Democrats worked hand-in-hand with republicans in the late 1980s to push through many tough on crime policies. This was due to crime skyrocketing in the 1980s due to cheap and abu
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
yup, I have had the same experience, so much so that I stopped commenting and posting entirely. Waste of time. There are so many people on there that just seem to be outright trolling, posting outright non-sense, and doing other stuff that
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
Yup. I think there is room for a lot more transparency and "double-checks" so to speaks built into voting going forward. Allow each voter to audit their own vote. We have the technology to allow for this to happen so there really
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by HNfriend234 6y ago
I visit right-wing websites for research purposes and this is actually true. If you visit right wing websites and review posts about the jan 6th protest it was actually related to basically having a peaceful protest to put pressure on the e