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by Lendal 2y ago
If this is true, why do corporations lobby against regulation? Either they want more regulations to build this "moat", or they don't. If both outcomes result in a win for them, (deregulation vs moat-building by greater regula
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by Lendal 2y ago
Now Elon will possibly in charge of making that government database disappear.
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by Lendal 2y ago
I paid $10K for FSD when I was drinking the Kool Aid but haven't used it in over a year due to it being a steaming pile of garbage. But hey, it's a great party gag and the stock price is still soaring so keep the pedal to the meta
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by Lendal 2y ago
Nobody is going to successfully sue Coca-Cola for being fooled into thinking drinking Coke will get them a girlfriend or help them meet Santa. It's advertising. Everyone should be educated in school that marketing and advertising are f
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by Lendal 2y ago
This is an easy example because one is a press release. It should be well known to everyone that press releases are advertising. They don't even claim to be factual or trustworthy. It's marketing. They're telling you outright
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by Lendal 2y ago
It's never coming back. People back in the day used to spend hours at music stores. Now music stores don't even exist. They couldn't spend that kind of time anymore, even if they tried. YouTube, Instagram and TikTok aren&#x27
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by Lendal 2y ago
While that is true, it's not what the article is about. It's about the attention economy stealing minutes away from what used to go to music appreciation and redirecting it to other competing activities that didn't used to ex
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by Lendal 2y ago
That's not what he's talking about. He's a music producer. He likes a lot of today's music because he's producing it. He's talking to the youth who are producing it and he's helping as much as he can. Ther
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by Lendal 2y ago
As long as the order is upheld on appeal, you have to obey it. That's how courts work in the US too. It's the judge who decides. Judicial appointments matter.
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by Lendal 2y ago
Maybe they just assume everyone's reading this on an iPhone. I'm not, but if I wanted to I could access it via my phone which has Apple News which is how I access WSJ.
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by Lendal 2y ago
You left out why sugar is the cheapest part. Subsidies.
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by Lendal 2y ago
Are there 2.9B SSNs?
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by Lendal 2y ago
This is a great analogy. I can think of one area in which it might be different though. In smaller HOAs such as mine, the HOA almost never takes any action of its own volition. It's almost always the result of some neighbor making a co
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by Lendal 2y ago
Most people in the US don't live in an HOA. You may join one and enjoy its benefits, or not. Nobody is forced to. Many people want to join an HOA to enjoy its benefits but not obey its rules. These are the type of people who believe th
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by Lendal 2y ago
Yes, and they also have these pylons next to the gate, with numbers on them that are for forming the line. During boarding, everyone stands next to the pylon with their number on it and thus the line is formed. Southwest gates are unusual i
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by Lendal 2y ago
They don't charge extra for assigned seats. Instead, you pick your seat by sitting in it. Which means you need to board earlier. Boarding order is assigned by the order in which you check in. To do that, you get the Southwest app and c
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by Lendal 2y ago
I've driven my car like this on occasion, preserving fuel by timing the traffic signals ahead and arriving just in time for the signal to turn green. The problem is, people behind me don't understand and get all pissed off. Most p
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by Lendal 2y ago
I had a feeling this was coming. I bought FSD in 2020. It was $10K, and they were claiming in one year you could summon the car to come to you from across town or rent it out as a self-driving taxi service. I figured it might work, and in t
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by Lendal 2y ago
Good point. Yep it sure would be nice if every drug worked out, every project was wildly successful, every new hire was a wonder-kid, every investment only went up and to the right. That would make all the math so much easier wouldn't
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by Lendal 2y ago
I haven't read much about the domestic capitalists and lobbyists attacking our critical infrastructure with cyber-attacks. Please tell us more about this.
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by Lendal 2y ago
Yes but that's not the reason. Back in the 90's shareware scene long before Github, an overwhelming number of files would be downloaded to your computer and then you'd be left to wonder where to start. Making a file all caps
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by Lendal 2y ago
Pet peeve: This story alternates between "nations" and "countries" as if they were synonyms. A nation is a group of people sharing cultural, ethnic, and historical ties. There are many more nations than there are countri
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by Lendal 3y ago
If your history was so traumatic that you cannot forget and you cannot move on, then your only option, assuming you want to salvage what remains of your life, is to change it. Change your history. Is it cheating? Yes. But what is the altern
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by Lendal 3y ago
This is what happens when monopolies are allowed to exist. In a competitive market if the CEO gives away market share to rivals due to reckless indifference to safety and becomes a liability, they will be fired or the company gets spun off
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by Lendal 3y ago
Envy has its uses. It reveals what you want. It's a good thing to know yourself and what you want out of life.
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by Lendal 3y ago
Good to see dozens of replies to this. Means EVs are popular. Anyway, they're right. Brakes on EVs are normally just for emergency use. Regenerative braking (lifting up on the accelerator pedal) is all you need about 98% of the time. T
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by Lendal 3y ago
They do that because nobody wants to look at hundreds of dead bodies or talk to grieving widows, or search through rubble for broken airplane parts or data recorders. That's not so funny. Just because comedy shows focus on entertainmen
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by Lendal 3y ago
Certain technologies have been found to remove PFAS from drinking water, especially Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), which are the most studied of these chemicals. Those technologies include activated c
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by Lendal 3y ago
PFAS levels have gone down because we drink treated water. Making municipal water safe to drink is a big industry now. Anyone drinking only rainwater is exposed to those higher levels of whatever is in the rainwater. A small amount of rainw
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by Lendal 3y ago
Because we don't drink rainwater.

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