NickC25

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by NickC25 3y ago
The thing is - I'm not sure the bank wants to own any of those buildings, even profitable ones. It's a bank, not a real estate investment fund. The amount of money spent on upkeep, taxes, land, finding a buyer, etc... can be and
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by NickC25 3y ago
Barcelona's 2008-2012 and 2014-2017 teams would probably disagree - they were built around Messi being able to do whatever he wanted, wherever he wanted....including going on an unbothered stroll for as long as he wanted, whenever he w
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by NickC25 3y ago
I would think that would be industry specific, but maybe a decent standardized way of doing so would be finding the people who made it to industry titans (elite tech firms or trading firms) and left for whatever reason who then went off and
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by NickC25 3y ago
I think this dynamic is different depending on 1. how elite that elite talent actually is (I think of elite athletes here, where one might be elite enough to be on the roster of a top level team, but not elite enough to be the de-facto best
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by NickC25 3y ago
> But why did the team need to grow to that size if they were highly effective before that? Having seen this firsthand, (in my experience) it's been that executives or higher-ups decide that this team is working, and because they w
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by NickC25 3y ago
> Except Tim Cook's Apple focuses much more on process and forget about the content. I have a feeling that's partially due to how much money a lot of those people (and Apple shareholders) have made under Cook's leadership
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I would too. that said, the article conflates "messaging" with "storytelling". What's the difference? Genuinely curious, not trying to start a politically-inclined flame war. I would think that some would find tha
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by NickC25 3y ago
Dumb. You pay for Prime. You pay extra for Prime Video. You now pay even more extra for Prime Video to not show you ads. This is a company worth $1.5 trillion dollars (with a founder worth $175 billion dollars)....yet they can't hel
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by NickC25 3y ago
>* What I liked in Chess was the calculation, so something like Fischer Chess (Chess960) was fun but did you know people actually made theory even for that?* I'm sure there's been theory developed for Fisher Random (960) but me
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starcraft broodwar is one such game, although the AI bot has to be handicapped to have the same visual and APM constraints as a human player. If the bot gets to have APM in the 400-500 range and has full map vision, even the top pros will g
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by NickC25 3y ago
I'm 1700-1800ish lichess (Crazyhouse and King of the Hill). I agree with this, but with one caveat. I memorize a few openings just because games can get crazy sharp pretty quickly, and there are a few patterns or move orders in the o
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by NickC25 3y ago
And there's a lack of an actual left in the media. No idea why people keep parroting that the media is leftist. It's not. Big media has a very blatant pro-corporate bias, and they're quite proud of that. The semantics and
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by NickC25 3y ago
Who cares if anyone here has gone through the police academy? It's almost like training is required to do a job. Wow, what a concept! > You have to memorize and demonstrate understanding of law No shit...that's the entire pr
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by NickC25 3y ago
> Regardless of whether some of the time, a police department is full of bad apples and concealing or destroying body-cam footage Make it a felony to conceal or destroy body cam footage. Also, make it so that if a cop is accused of viol
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by NickC25 3y ago
This. So much this. The problem is that due to the underlying need for police cooperation in unrelated cases, no sane DA or judge would dare challenge a cop (or the police union) who can claim "oh it was a malfunction" or &quot
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by NickC25 3y ago
This is...odd, but right up TE's alley. Honestly their whole product strategy kind of makes no sense. They are all over the place. The OP-1 is cool as well as those pocket oscillators. But this product just seems, well, strange. Goo
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by NickC25 3y ago
Let me mention that I've got pretty severe ADHD if not outright mild autism and a pretty strong lack of executive functioning. Now - with that in mind, let me respond: > Like physical exercise is meant to help with that. If there&#x
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> I've got a treadmill under my work desk. I notice that when I'm walking I can focus on meetings and actually process auditory information way better. Makes me wonder how I would've done in school if walking was an option
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The same telecom industry that got hundreds of billions to build out Fiber Optic networks around the country? The same telecom industry that took those hundreds of billions and spent them on lawsuits against the government, on wooing lobby
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I think this is the big one. Rather than compete for attention (and also rush to get a deliverable by E3 rather than taking the time to create something worth showing when ready), big publishers and developers were collectively like "w
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by NickC25 3y ago
It's intentional. The Israel lobby has worked tirelessly to conflate antisemitism with any critique of Israel whatsoever, no matter how legitimate. It's sad, and in the long run completely self-defeating, but nobody seems to real
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by NickC25 3y ago
Spotify had a large headcount. Let's look at some of your examples and see where things can logically be cut. > I imagine there's a big team dedicated to getting inventory on the service through negotiations with music producer
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The NSA as it exists is essentially the government telling you the 4th Amendment is just for show. The NSA takes broad measures under the blanket of "national security" and through its 5 Eyes partners, can pretty much do as it pl
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Just because there's a separate world championship and title system for women doesn't mean there's a gender gap. Plenty of women play in and do quite well in open tournaments. Hou Yifan, the top female player, is above 2600,
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by NickC25 3y ago
Saw one of them at a local Tesla showroom yesterday. They look like the Warthog vehicle from Halo with an ugly silver paintjob.
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It's persistent because oil companies have paid for it to be persistent for decades now. Can't have reality threatening quarterly profits, now can you?
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The latter has worked exactly one time (the only time I've had to use it), because it's effectively a nuclear bomb. The person was serious, but when I called to make the reservation, magically, the gentleman was not ready to plop
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I've gotten comfortable with that, and more. All I say is "This isn't a public square, and we're at work. I'm not paid to sit around and talk politics, and neither are you. Let's continue on doing what we&#x2
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by NickC25 3y ago
Used to live in AZ during my undergrad days. I could buy a gun in cash on the spot from a gun show with no background check. I know several people that did just that in the wake of a shooting happen a few minutes off our campus, where a F
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Our (yellow) lab too. Her daily exercise was an hour long walk in the woods followed by 20-30 minutes at the dog park near the woods; and any activity post that was just following my mom around the house. But on rainy or snowy days where

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