SirSourdough

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by SirSourdough 4y ago
It effectively introduces new taxes for the powerful people currently getting away with dodging them, which should be a pretty clear indication of why we aren’t seeing stronger support.
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
I think that could definitely be true at this point, though I don’t know for sure. Who has $1000 for a smart robot vac but not wifi?
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
Because the impact that a fraudulent seller has on an individual is generally going to be much higher than the impact a fraudulent buyer has on an entire business. Sellers can price in and insure themselves against fraud. The protections of
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
I'm sure it varies wildly by place. You've got places where the rules are taken very seriously and places where the police chief is the mayor and has access to all the national law enforcement DBs with basically no oversight. Give
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Probably because the vast majority of people aren’t using Bitcoin at all and the small increase in convenience doesn’t justify learning about, buying, and holding BTC for this singular purpose. Even if it would be nice for dispensaries, ado
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I have seen very, very little evidence that reducing the power of the police is a broad right wing goal. Reducing the power of government to regulate business or guns, enact taxes, force participation in markets, sure I think right wing vot
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I think most of them are in the the €5,000-20,000 range and there’s an issue with rendering the numbers that is duplicating the decimal value after the comma. Seems in line with other projects / compensation sources on the face of thin
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
There’s always a balance to be struck between what the actual science says and what will be manageable as law. Like, sure the science could say that if the temperature range is between 10-15c you can safely gather with 20, 15-17c only 15, a
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It should probably set off anyone’s scam alarms. Even if it’s something legitimate it’s still incredibly shady in its current incarnation. At least the Supreme thing uses an established brand to carry some legitimacy. It’s pretty hard to se
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I think most of this is irrelevant despite being interesting. OP used the common-usage definition of profit (made more money than spent) and you sought to rebut that on the basis of a different definition that seems to be of your own creati
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It’s news because it’s a more nuanced claim than your “general ocean warming has occurred over thousands of years” claim. The claim is that the marked increase in warming in the 20th century began decades earlier than was previously believe
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
If you had just Googled for 30 seconds to learn the definitions of literally the most basic business terms when someone told you you were wrong, maybe you wouldn’t have had to mortgage the house.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
How does the fact that RPi produces a physical product factor into this? If I contribute money to a charity that distributes that money directly to people in need, then I expect a high portion of that money to go to charity, but I don’t kno
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I think it’s a hard argument to make. I’m pro mandatory vaccination, but even without vaccinations there’s a very good chance of the child living a full and healthy life. I don’t think it’s the right choice, but it’s definitely not murder.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Perhaps. But I'd rather be there for lacking compassion for the inconsiderate and intolerant than for punching down at the most vulnerable people in our society. Hopefully I'll at least end up in a different house than the commen
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It’s only 5x now. But also... it’s “big news” but I doubt people have all that much to say about it.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
A short paragraph? What a world we live in.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I think painting the contrast: "kick ass and take names" route vs. the "tread carefully and make sure everyone likes you" combined with the wrecking ball idea just paints a picture of someone who is grinding to get their
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Very cursory search suggests 8% of US adults are millionaires according to CNBC. That means there's something like 300 million non-millionaires compared to 30 million millionaires. The rate of "billionaire hate" would need to
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I highly doubt the majority of people agitating against billionaires are millionaires. There aren’t enough millionaires for that to be likely. And I think there are lots of good arguments being made about the detriments of income inequality
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
This reminds me of the NYT banner ad prompting subscribers to allow ads on articles. $35/month and ads? Yeah, no.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
The short answer is that HP didn’t identify the fraud when they did their due diligence. Just because you look at a businesses financials doesn’t mean you’ll identify fraud they are trying to hide. As far as the seller determining the price
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Tesla’s P/E is a function of stockholders inflating the stock price. The allegation here (by my limited understanding) is that Autonomy lied about how much revenue the business was actually generating. It’s not illegal to have your sto
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Now we're coming full-circle back to the start-up posted on HN the other day that was going to send "expert" applicants in to evangelize specific products and technologies in interviews.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
My devices are not open to public use, so it's likely you would have to significantly invade my privacy to do that. There's no expectation that you are allowed to do any computing on my devices. You're already allowed to br
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
The ease with which he was able to install the spyware on an entire store worth of computers is significantly more troubling to me than the fact that he did. I'm sure a shocking number of people input login credentials on those compu
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I don't see a major functional difference between installing the spyware and taking the pictures with an open browser tab, a Facetime call to yourself, or a long lens from outside the store. It's hard for me to see those things as
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
This feels pretty squarely in the realm of "but you could still do it manually". The CLI method still seems cleaner and faster, with less likelihood of error since you don't select the files manually.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Griftlands is also great for a more story-driven / impactful decisions deckbuilder. Sort of STS wrapped in a well made RPG. Similar game mechanics as you laid out for Monster Train/STS but with the "twist" that there are
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Wikimedia Foundation is headquartered in SF, so probably safe to assume a lot of executives getting those salaries are based there.

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