NickC25

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by NickC25 3y ago
Interesting. I noticed this: > "Prior studies have established that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with risky sexual behavior" Would love to see more about that...because it doesn't mak
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by NickC25 3y ago
Should come as no surprise, honestly. Above all else since turning public, Meta is in the business of making money. It's not illegal to target user's vulnerabilities in order to get the user to spend more time or money on their p
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by NickC25 3y ago
Awesome write-up. Big Broodwar fan, never got into SC2 despite multiple attempts. Honestly I think Broodwar is the best and most balanced RTS ever made, and would have loved another expansion rather than overhauling the entire game with SC2
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by NickC25 3y ago
> Just let me walk up to the counter, read a physical menu, place my order with a human being and get out of there. Seriously. Seems like so many physical businesses are going fully digital with little reason to do so. Following a tren
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by NickC25 3y ago
> My friends run startups (a couple of billion-dollar valued ones) and to be honest, those with wives and families seem to find it easier to do. Don't you think this is somewhat of an outlier? I mean, most startups will fail. 99.9%
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by NickC25 3y ago
no. the car addiction has fueled the urban/rural divide, made us lazy, helped cause urban sprawl, destroyed public transportation (even in big cities) and has also helped our society become hopelessly addicted to fossil fuels. I'
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by NickC25 3y ago
It's not only the billionaires in question, it's also a huge amount of legacy farming operations, same goes for Arizona and Colorado. We're also using a ton of water to grow alfalfa in the same region, and we're not even
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by NickC25 3y ago
They have the economic ability to do so but China also imports a lot of critical things, such as clean water and animal feed, that it doesn't really have the capacity for at home. There's a lot of tit-for-tat actions that the US (
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by NickC25 3y ago
Horrifying. Those "insurers" are absolute scumbags. Poor guy, I feel awful for him.
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by NickC25 3y ago
I think an even better solution is for our society to just admit that health insurance companies can't exist as for-profit entities that have to answer to Wall Street first and foremost. Think about it. A health care company collects
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by NickC25 3y ago
Agree - I think the whole point of the exercise is so one learns the most basic macro understanding of what the business needs from that point (marketing, sales, product, finance, etc) so when it comes to hiring the right people, you at lea
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by NickC25 3y ago
Seconded. Get out of your office or house and become part of a larger community. Ideally, you will meet the right folks, or meet folks who know the right folks. Networking can really help. People naturally want to help others (for the m
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by NickC25 3y ago
I have an iPhone 11. I've had it for a while. I have no need to upgrade. Every feature I want in a phone, I have in my current phone. I miss the days of old, when phone lifecycles were similar to video game consoles - a new model wa
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by NickC25 3y ago
Good. Barring any attempts to hinder a police investigation or crime scene, the right to record law passed in NY should be absolute. I see no reason why it's a bad thing to keep law enforcement honest and make sure their actions are le
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by NickC25 3y ago
Son's credibility went out the window when he kept Adam Neumann on board after it was blatantly obvious how much of a grifter the guy was (paid him a billion to walk away, but kept him on as a consultant to the tune of $45 million a ye
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by NickC25 3y ago
Yeah, seriously. If you were in early with a hot company and that company hits hyperscale, people for some reason assume you're competent running a much larger legacy organization. I see very little parallels or overlap, but perhaps
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by NickC25 3y ago
Pizza is a blast to make. I have cealiac's, so gluten free pizza is not cheap. So, I make GF pizza myself. I spend roughly $40 in total, and make 2 great full sized meat lover's pizzas - with everything on it - bacon, pepperoni,
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by NickC25 3y ago
I am not familiar with the methodology of reporting inflation used in the 80s - did they take a wider basket of goods, or were there other consumer purchases in question that would affect the reporting number? If we were to use the 80s met
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by NickC25 3y ago
I'm with you - I have a few hits of some low-grade stuff maybe an hour or two before bed, and then I doze off naturally when it's dark out. i also eat well, and make sure to not have blue light exposure for the last hour of my day
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by NickC25 3y ago
Agreed. I also hope that people understand why certain industries or companies trade at certain multiples, and that a company that clearly isn't in that industry can't magically claim that they are so they get a huge multiple. WeW
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by NickC25 3y ago
I'm paying the same taxes, yes, but on top of taxes, I'm paying a cut of each (pre-tax) sale to the CC company or payment processing platform (Stripe, for example, charges 2.3% of each transaction). That cut, while it might seem
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by NickC25 3y ago
It's also necessary for when some states have a super low minimum wage for restaurant/bar/food workers (because the idea is that you'll make the difference up in tips) - in my state (FL) I believe it's something lik
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by NickC25 3y ago
Sure, but that also means that taxes on those businesses are burdensome to the point where it's better to not accept digital payments or credit cards. Or people just don't want to pay inflated prices just so a payment processing c
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by NickC25 3y ago
> It's not about a lack of understanding, it's about convenience. A cashless system tends to be more convenient, and that's why people like it. Cashless is definitely more convenient (I'll give you that all day, bec
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by NickC25 3y ago
Completely agree. While there's nothing wrong with digital payments, a society without cash just terrifies me. I don't have much to hide, but I don't want every action I take with money to be traceable and that data of what
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by NickC25 3y ago
Was going to say exactly what you said. The whole approach the AMA takes seems very much in-line with cartel behavior. Through lobbying and other similar actions, their behavior is quite similar to OPEC and Latin American drug traffickers
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by NickC25 3y ago
and honestly there's been little coverage of it...which is terrifying. I get why Apple did what they did, but it's kinda disturbing. But then again, Tim Cook is practically a member of the CCP, and got his marching orders when t
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by NickC25 3y ago
Seriously - they built the company on their terms, have a happy customer base, and don't have a host of Vultures screeching "grow grow grow" in their ear all day. Not every company needs to grow to a 10,000x investment ROI fo
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by NickC25 3y ago
Yikes. That's terrifying. Not putting on my "conspiracy" hat, but I'm sure the rise of pseudo medical ~~professionals~~ (read: "influencers") on social media has contributed to this in an indirect way. I know
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by NickC25 3y ago
> It honestly made me wonder if Twitter is engaging in click fraud. Considering the moral and ethical character of the person who owns Twitter/X, I wouldn't doubt it.

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