TRDRVR

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by TRDRVR 2y ago
People sit on their phones?
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
I’ve heard a lot of denialists push the Tonga volcano and resultant water vapor in the stratosphere as evidence that climate change is more complex than we understand. I always whole heartedly agree that it’s very complex, but we do know in
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Everyone here is complaining about the nature of the proposed natural experiment and I’m just here thinking “where are the pockets on OP’s clothes?” Phones are stored primarily in front pockets that are nowhere near the colon in terms of
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Please don't make personal attacks like that on this forum, it's against the rules. So is claiming someone didn't read a source when you disagree with their interpretation. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgui
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
As someone else who doesn't deal in identity politics, please know I don't care what you think of it and was trying to share information on a forum for the intellectually curious.
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
No I just think all those quotes reference colonization. Many people believe that specifically the Irish Pale popularized the statement, but the OED aren't among them. What are we disagreeing about?
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Isn't this a forum for the intellectually curious? I made no call to action. I guess I should have known any time the information is something certain people would consider 'woke' it elicits a strong emotional reaction beyond
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
And what were those fences specifically used for pray tell.
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Incorrect from a formal logic standpoint. It doesn't necessarily have bearing, but you cannot generalize the way you are doing. Then no word would mean anything.
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
You have successfully repeated the opinion of the Oxford English Dictionary after reading an entire article about how the British used Pales to colonize areas and define boundaries, but I'm not sure it's as cut and dry as you
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
What about the link contradicts the point that it's pro-colonialist? The etymology is in doubt for any particular area, not the concept of what a pale was and how it was used to colonize. That is the point of "many believe.&qu
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
>we even accepted multiple currencies You accepted multiple currencies without taking a spread on Forex? How did you convert it for free? Not even actual forex businesses can do that...
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Just a periodic reminder that 'Beyond the Pale' is a pro-colonialist phrase that many believe was was part of Britain's Centuries-long campaign to eliminate Irish culture. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog&#x
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
A huge aspect people ignore is how expensive it is to handle cash. From storage, administration, transportation, loss, etc. it's usually a little more expensive to take cash vs. card. This is why your grocery store partners with
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
There are “people who improperly use data that’s being given to them, like Plaid,” Dimon told analysts. [0] Amazing how openly CEO's like Dimon will fear-monger about start-ups, when in reality they're just not satisfied with thei
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Just FYI, the stock is down 99% since he joined as CEO in March 2021. Some of that is market, but TSLA is -15% since then.
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Yes. I agree. That was the point I was making. I'm not saying the company is committing securities fraud, I am saying that if the company created a scheme as described by the commentor I was replying to, then that would be securiti
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
>He is effectively paying for these flights by buying Canoo stock. If a CEO is intentionally creating a situation to make a company unprofitable and paying it back by buying shares, that is 100% securities fraud and I'm stunned an
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
My friend, that is not how public companies work. Every common shareholder is an equal, you don't get to launder jet travel the way he's doing - that's securities fraud.
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
Great follow up! Ornithopters are designed by humans who sleep - the complex computers needed to make them work replicate things humans told them to do, right? It is a very incomplete model of an ornithopter to not include the human.
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by TRDRVR 2y ago
I think the real issue here is that a CEO who nobody has heard of and is doing a bad job running the company claims that he needs to fly private as a business expense. It's one think for Zuck or Tim Cook to claim that flying commerci
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by TRDRVR 3y ago
Here, it's actually fun to respond to your comment in another way, so let's try this out: Yes, sleep is in fact a prerequisite to planes flying. We have very strict laws about it actually. Most planes are only able to fly because
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by TRDRVR 3y ago
Ah a very fun 'snippy' question that just proves my point further. Thank you. No airplanes do not sleep. That's part of why their flying is fundamentally different than birds'. You'll likely also notice that b
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by TRDRVR 3y ago
Here's the hubris of thinking that way: I would imagine the baseline assumption of your thinking is that things like sleep and emotions are a 'bug' in terms of cognition (or at the very least, 'prompts' that are opt
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by TRDRVR 3y ago
Thank you for this - the name neural networks has made a whole generation of people forget that they have an endocrine system. We know things like sleep, hunger, fear, and stress all impact how we think, yet people want to still build t
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by TRDRVR 3y ago
It's the main counterexample to 'The Olympics are good because they force the development of infrastructure that otherwise wouldn't get built' argument. Many of the weird choices about that airport was made so it would b