KoftaBob

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721.
by KoftaBob 5y ago
No state or city in the US has any "lockdowns" in effect. Unless you've been living in complete isolation off the grid and re-emerged today, your comment is a classic internet strawman.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
How interesting that they don't include China in this list, as they are notorious for outright lying about basically every metric ever.
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New Electric Vehicle Battery Plants Planned in the U.S. in the Next 5 Years(energy.gov)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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ClinicalTrials.gov(beta.clinicaltrials.gov)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
" - 2.4 Million Square Foot International Terminal Will be Built in Phases on Sites of Current T1, T2, and Former T3 - Private Partners Will Provide Financing to Cover Full Cost of Terminal; - Port Authority to Build Supporting Road an
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New York's JFK airport to get a $9.5BN “mega terminal”(governor.ny.gov)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|1 comments
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Brace for a $600 bln Chinese escape from New York(reuters.com)
3 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|2 comments
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Harvard professor convicted by U.S. jury of lying about China ties(reuters.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|1 comments
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Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016)(theintercept.com)
200 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|75 comments
730.
by KoftaBob 5y ago
Considering the old school trope of the 70s-late 90s of the telemarketers calling during dinner time, it being a real person doesn't mean they weren't someone trying to sell something.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Most of the scam/spam calls originate from overseas, while using American phone numbers: "Five U.S. states, Costa Rica, Guatemala, India, Mexico and the Philippines are where most robocalls originate." I imagine it's muc
732.
by KoftaBob 5y ago
My favorite feature is the ability to stream media from OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox etc. I just throw my movies/shows in my OneDrive and stream it from Infuse, saving the space on my laptop!
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
https://firecore.com/infuse
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I'd guess that the biggest factor is their Venture Capital firms are way more risk averse. The US in general has a more entrepreneurial culture, and therefore a bigger risk appetite.
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Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron ~37-fold(investors.modernatx.com)
91 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|186 comments
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Facebook is the worst company of the year, Yahoo Finance audience survey finds(finance.yahoo.com)
9 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
It's not unique to China, but it's particularly prolific in China. One of the major reasons for the US tariffs against China was pressure for them to actually respect IP.
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Egyptian political dissident hacked with both Cytrox’s Predator and NSO Pegasus(citizenlab.ca)
9 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
You could say the exact same thing about decision makers at a public company, and yet they're barred from trading their company stock on information that wasn't public at the time of the trade.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
"Americans will be able to renew their passports securely online, saving time from having to wait and the effort and cost required to print, go to a post office, and use a paper check. This new online process will be done with safety a
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Biden will sign an executive order to move all government services online(whitehouse.gov)
11 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|3 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
That's only 50 students worth of tuition for that year, or 0.3% of tuition brought in that year. While $2.5M is obviously a lot of money, it's a drop in the bucket in terms of how much the university brought in. For universities a
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Agreed, adding a profit motive on top of that only makes it worse.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
They are, as of January 2021. The effects of that will take some time to be seen in pricing.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Around 75% of hospitals in the US are actually non-profit. Source: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/hospitals-by-owner ... All this ends up meaning is that any revenue above their expenses is plowed into h
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> Hospitals make ridiculous profit. What's interesting about this is that around 75% of hospitals in the US are actually non-profit . Source: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/hospitals-by-owner...
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Consumer Price Index – “Entry level items” used in calculation(bls.gov)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
My understanding is that the original motivation behind BTC and crypto was avoiding the centralized authority behind the USD and other fiat currencies. Early adopters didn't like that the USD was influenced/controlled by one centr
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
The early "wild west" days of new concepts/ideas tend to attract scammer types like this. For the most part, it tends to level out over time and the fraudulent parties are dealt with.
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Reddit Community Points(old.reddit.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments

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