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by adventured 4y ago
All major retailers - that includes Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Kroger, BestBuy - will accept $100 bills. They might occasionally get annoyed at needing to request change, to break the $100, from a floor manager. The parent com
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by adventured 4y ago
Completely to ebooks. I got tired of lugging tons of physical books around when I move, and also needing to store them somewhere.
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by adventured 4y ago
> Online advertising is dead Everything you just said is voided by the fact that Google's ad business continues to boom. It's going nowhere. And I say that as someone that dislikes Google. Your pitch is emotionalism, I've
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by adventured 4y ago
Rich people on yachts? I've been having these types of conversations with my brother nearly every day of the week for the past two decades. There are no barriers to what we can discuss. No eggshells needed. He's a rational, intell
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by adventured 4y ago
Also: Nvidia, Apple, Oracle, Broadcom
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by adventured 4y ago
There's a very simple solution that works very well with social media for that. You don't receive the OP's messages unless you are friends him them, or change your default settings to allow strangers to message you.
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by adventured 4y ago
I agree with your point, however there has been plenty of 70-80% (or worse) destruction as well. Fiverr -88%, Fastly -92%, Pinterest -72%, Zoom -87%, Shopify -82%, Roku -85%, DocuSign -82%, Twilio -84%, Virgin Galactic -91%, DraftKings -75%
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by adventured 4y ago
Adobe got the money in the first place via skill. Photoshop has been the leading photo editing software for a generation. Hundreds of companies over decades, some with deep pockets, have tried to knock them off and have failed. Figma didn&#
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by adventured 4y ago
When it comes to dipping the chip, it can wear down after a lot of use and stop functioning. I've never run into a problem with tapping however. Here's an example image from a NY Times story about chips wearing down: https:/
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by adventured 4y ago
~175,000 employees. They can probably run the company just fine with tens of thousands fewer employees. But, when it comes to productivity / profitability, it really doesn't seem so bad, frankly; consider: 2018 operating income ma
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by adventured 4y ago
I've always found that going heavy with bike lanes in design removes a large share of the issue around traffic management in Skylines. If I don't feel like getting overly complex in designing for the traffic management, the bike l
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by adventured 4y ago
> Stripe/Braintree are ways to charge customers on their credit/debit card on your website Stripe has a banking as a service segment now - https://stripe.com/treasury
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by adventured 4y ago
Even more important than the economic shrinkage, is the destruction of Russian industry (including military industry) through deprivation of technology access. This is also ignored by the parent comment. Russia can't rebuild or restock
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by adventured 4y ago
What would today's version of the SR-71 (1950s tech) or F-117 (1970s tech) look like and function like? It'd seem like a UFO compared to an F-16. It does jive with history just fine.
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by adventured 4y ago
> abolishing the income tax and going to a direct, national sales tax Sales taxes are regressive. It's the rich and upper classes that stand to gain the most by the abolition of income taxes. They don't consume enough to drive
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by adventured 4y ago
> Its democratic governments were overthrown in 60s and 70s (they sought independence, not following US orders), replaced with Shah Iran has never been a democracy in its entire history. The supposedly democratic leadership that was over
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by adventured 4y ago
> Same rules as getting bullied on the playground, if you pick a fight with the people harassing you, then you're liable to get beat up. Those aren't playground rules. Playground rules are that you fight back and it ends, or yo
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by adventured 4y ago
While I agree with your premise, how the hell do we know the parent is a trained physician? This is an anonymous forum. Without a long, elaborate history on HN or public credentials, to be of meaningful value in terms of trust (in the conte
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by adventured 4y ago
Producing really good software is really hard. Here's a tip for all the backwards big companies in Europe: pay your software engineers a lot more. Whatever you're paying now, increase it by 2x-3x. If you want the best, you'
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by adventured 4y ago
You're pretending it doesn't exist at all, when in fact the Fourth Amendment provides enormous, common protection - which some government agents rarely violate (leading you to claim the "government" ignores it entirely,
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by adventured 4y ago
The iPhone isn't a good social status signal any longer - the majority of smartphone users in the US have one. If the majority can afford something, it's quite obvious it no longer functions for signaling high social status. The i
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by adventured 4y ago
California nearly has the GDP of Germany and among the highest GDP per capita figures for any major population (~$85,000 - just below Switzerland). That's the difference. "For many websites that target a global audience that would
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by adventured 4y ago
The technocrat champions of wrapping the Internet up in the nanny state and its regulatory requirements, will inevitably be the ones lamenting the burden in 10-15 years as the Internet (as we used to know it) is fully choked off. To be clea
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by adventured 4y ago
> Is it possible the majority of attempts were actually being run by a single botnet, and it either shut down or the owner changed the attack payload? Russia is preoccupied.
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by adventured 4y ago
I usually drop this list [0] into threads about stories pushing the super young founder myth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213942 The only thing particularly interesting about the super young founder myth, is just
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by adventured 4y ago
> This is why the Inflation Reduction Act is so effective. It's not very effective because the sum difference is barely a drop in the bucket. It's not enough to significantly impact inflation at the scale of the US economy. Onl
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by adventured 4y ago
All free, easily accessible publishing platforms of considerable size, without exception, will always disseminate lies, outrage, fear, along with clickbait, scams, and general garbage content by the hundreds of millions of posts. There isn&
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by adventured 4y ago
He gave 1/3 of his stake back to Twitter's employees. And recently gave away 28% of his net worth, pledging $1b of his Square stake - "to fund a combination of Covid-19 relief efforts, universal basic income and support for g
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by adventured 4y ago
Announce a $1 trillion nuclear build-out plan for the EU, to build at least 50-60 new nuclear power plants. Go big, really big, and get started on it soon. Why can't Europe go Manhattan Project / Apollo big for such a critical mat
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by adventured 4y ago
Not to mention Germany (largest economy in Europe) and their nuclear debacle. They could have spent the last 20 years building additional nuclear power and reducing dependency on Russia, instead of doing the opposite. 15+ years ago it was o

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