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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
> My friend just needed to redo the foundation on his house. He could have spent 10-100x what he needed to and installed a reinforced concrete foundation with deep steel pylons. But that would have been a waste of his money when wooden
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Budget friendly, low cost, entry level. All great alternatives to the word “cheap”.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
The word ”discount” in their name makes sense to me. I see it totally different than the issue with “cheap”. - Discount is only referring to price while cheap can refer to price as well as quality. - They’re going after a different segment
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
I'll never understand using "cheap" for a company name, especially when people who require signatures are usually in very professional environments. - They're positioning themselves to always compete on price, not offeri
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
> I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation. Several reasons this terrible system continues to exist but it essentially boils down to entrenchment. - The private healthcare industry pays politicians to maintain the status quo.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
I'm guessing you're also getting downvoted because sarcasm and rhetorical questions and not great ways of starting meaningful discussions.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Agreed and more. Lots of companies monitor HN for negative posts and respond to them but few do it as well as Stripe. While some companies just put out the OPs fire, Stripe seems to do better. I have a rare trust that they’re genuine and wi
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Great point. This does seem like an important vulnerability. I think one method of protection would be using Stripes Radar service to screen transactions for malicious patterns. While it probably won’t catch all fraudulent charges, it’ll ca
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
I think the point is that this attack vector can be pretty anonymous and absolutely deadly to the target company. This attack is also not protected by insurance, like someone setting fire to your office would be. It’s fair to explore just h
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Yes, I’d trust my “laundered” sources over some random person’s second hand anecdotal information from unnamed “fire personnel”. You might be fine with anti-science anti-vaccine conspiracy spreading media sources trying to influence you wit
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
If a media company promotes anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracies, as the Epoch Times does, I will refuse to look at anything they produce. Those are my basic standards for how trustworthy a media company is. You’re free to choose your own.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
That video is produced by the Epoch Times. From wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times > The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falu
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
EFF reported on it. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-year-r... > "On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
biodegradable plastics are deceiving because the landfill they go into must be specifically tailored to biodegrade the plastics. Otherwise they stay there forever, just like regular plastic.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Let’s be honest, it’s hard enough getting Americans to the ballot on Election Day, we don’t need to introduce more complexity. Ranking requires far less brain power than a rating system would. Maybe the energy expenditure between the two is
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Why are people presenting examples from parliamentary systems for an American voting process? The two systems are so dramatically different that no cautionary tale would ever be meaningful.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
> We rolled, and it turned out fine. Who is “we”?
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Like, every single time. Their execution is amazing. Serious question, have any of their products had a poor rollout? I’m not asking about a feature you’d prefer that’s missing. I’m asking about something being buggy, poorly documented, or
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
What’s the back story with that channel? Is he an independent maker or is there a production company behind him? Not knocking him or the channel, I enjoy watching his videos and the recent collaboration with Lock Picking Lawyer was great. J
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
It was even worse before the ACA. At least with Obamacare, you (likely) won’t go bankrupt if you break a leg. You also get preventative care fully covered (or ~$30 copay) even with plans that have $6,000 deductibles. That includes both low
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
You: “ Was it patched? No ” Also you: “ but that cost literally _nothing_ to the company. ” Risk is an expense.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
> at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it At what cost? Even with the occasional outages, Slack is still more cost effective than having your own person (or team for larger organizations) handle your communication soft
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Not even at 99.999% the speed of light. You’d need to even faster.
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
When you accelerate away from me in an elevator, only one of us experiences additional forces during that acceleration. Only your body feels heavier as the elevator speeds up. Here’s a minute physics video that shows how acceleration explai
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Time dilation isn’t dramatic as you might think. For example, at 66% the speed of light, you only get a 1.3 (or 30%) time difference. You have to get into the 90% range for something meaningful. Even at 96% the speed of light, it’s a 4x spe
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
For a star that got ejected at near light speed from the galaxy, any orbiting bodies would probably be flung in other directions and no longer orbit the star. Assuming the planet miraculously hung around for the ride, after the initial acce
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
That’s good for internal bookkeeping but it’s not enough to prevent the unfair advantage. Take this example: Apple Music “pays” 30% to parent Apple Corp. That 30% payment cuts into Music’s revenue and now they’re operating at a 25% loss. Ho
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
Thanks!
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by MichaelApproved 5y ago
> Putting moving parts in salt water off the UK coast is always a tough prospect. I’m guessing salt corrodes metals and barnacles grow on them which make the moving parts seize up. What are some of the less obvious issues that they fac
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by MichaelApproved 6y ago
I know you’re joking around but does the universe seem hacked together to you? I feel like it’s incredibly elegant. All these low level rules are able to create such complex structures with beautiful order to it. It’s so orderly, we can pla

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