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by agency 5y ago
I'm a daily consumer (and right handed FWIW) and while I can usually focus on decently complex tasks unless I'm really stoned I definitely notice an effect on like abstract/symbolic reasoning type stuff. I notice it with vide
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by agency 5y ago
This is nice if you can afford to have atomic clocks in your data centers and whole infrastructure teams working on keeping your clocks in sync (read: if you are Google) but otherwise you're probably gonna have a bad time.
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah it's weird, at my dispensary in WA they do have some setup where you can pay with a (debit) card but in addition to a $3 service fee they also for some reason have to round up to the nearest multiple of $5 and give you cash back.
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by agency 5y ago
Unlike the crypto exchanges, which are paragons of competence.
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by agency 5y ago
The scale of Jonestown is wild. I just watched the HBO docu series on Heaven’s Gate which it said was the largest mass suicide on US soil at ~40 people. Jonestown was over 20 times that. And obviously more of a murder-suicide. I realize som
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by agency 5y ago
I believe it says the issue the OP is alluding to was reported and fixed on Nov 2 - two weeks ago.
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by agency 5y ago
The chat feature seems to be down now. Teddy’s not responding when I ask him to open the pod bay doors…
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by agency 5y ago
I mainly see that definition used in the context of the phrase “going concern” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_concern
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by agency 5y ago
Love to commit high profile cyber crime that could land me in prison, as a prank.
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by agency 5y ago
I’m curious about this too. I definitely experience my endless inner monologue as “compulsive thinking.” Even when I have nothing interesting to think about my mind keeps chattering on endlessly and I find my thoughts in that state tend to
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by agency 5y ago
This is (spoiler alert) essentially the premise of the film Ex Machina
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by agency 5y ago
> he expects the 4,500-room building to be copied all over the country Incredible move to make huge claims like this and then, presumably (he’s 97), die before you have the chance to be proven wrong.
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by agency 5y ago
I cancelled my Starlink pre-order yesterday. I had been stuck on old satellite internet at the house (HughesNet) and was really excited about Starlink. I signed up for the beta as soon as I was eligible but didn’t get in, then pre-ordered o
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by agency 5y ago
I’ll also plug VCV Rack[1], an open source emulator for modular synthesizers. It takes the cost of exploring modular synthesis down from “prohibitive” (thousands of dollars easily) to “zero”. Really cool project that’s come a long way in th
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by agency 5y ago
You’re right, crypto is deeply embarrassing.
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by agency 5y ago
The invisible hand guiding our healthcare system has an unfortunate tendency to reach into your pocket and leave you bankrupt.
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah they do. I’m a fan of the comedian Tim Heidecker and and he recently launched a small subscription-based streaming site ( https://www.heinetwork.tv/ ) for some of his projects that’s built on Vimeo
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by agency 5y ago
At least with Google glass there was little danger of mistaking my them for “normal” glasses. These Facebook/Ray Ban ones are designed to blend in.
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by agency 5y ago
Do you have a source for Matt "Everything is Securities Fraud" Levine being shocked by this? He seems like the last person I'd expect to be surprised by the SEC's broad mandate.
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by agency 5y ago
Similar with Jim Bakker[1]. The guy went to prison for fraud and went straight back to televangelism when he got out and sells buckets of freeze-dried food to his parishioners to prepare for the end times. https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by agency 5y ago
Is there a big problem with investors not being incentivized to invest in startups? I’m not really hooked into things these days but pre-pandemic seemed like probably the best time in history to raise money as an early stage startup and I c
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by agency 5y ago
I got them as grants as an early employee. I think they switched to option grants maybe around 20 employees.
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by agency 5y ago
I got lucky as an early employee (first engineering hire) who got stock rather than options. I’m not sure how typical it is but I think they didn’t switch to option grants until about a year after I started, though granted they we’re still
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by agency 5y ago
As someone who stands to make a bunch of money from this exemption if things work out (I have a pile of qualifying stock from a YC top 50 unicorn), I agree. I think I would end up paying literally $0 in tax for no good reason (my state has
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by agency 5y ago
But why would it be a debt? They stripped him of the proceeds of the drug deals: 36 bitcoins. Why is the cash value of those bitcoins at the time of seizure relevant? If they had seized his car, and it depreciated between when they seized a
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah this seems weird. If the price of bitcoin had gone down, would he owe the government extra money?
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by agency 5y ago
Truly a golden age of absolutely insane nuclear projects, like Project Pluto[1], a proposed nuclear-powered ramjet that could theoretically cruise around for weeks or months before being directed to a target. [1] https://en.wikip
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by agency 5y ago
If you’re selling 10k at a time you’re going to need to make 1.2 million sales so you better get cracking
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by agency 5y ago
I have heard people claim that TSMC has plans to destroy their own facilities scorched earth style in case of a takeover. I don’t know how credible those claims are but if true and if they were executed that would have huge ramifications on
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by agency 5y ago
Sounds like a prototypical Matt Levine “everything is securities fraud” case. It’s hard to get mad about any pain Activision Blizzard has to endure over this, but nonetheless weird to frame the shareholders as the victims.

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