aianus

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by aianus 10y ago
Why are you mad with airbnb and not with your local police? It's not airbnb's job to handle noise complaints, but it is the job of your local police to enforce the law (whether it's the law against short term sublets or the l
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by aianus 10y ago
> I've seen plenty of people that only go "out" Well, it's kind of a dick move to have people over frequently or until late when you live with two or three roommates. Which is how most people I know in SF and NYC live
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by aianus 10y ago
As far as I know, they tested it on themselves and gave it to friends and reporters to hype it up.
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by aianus 10y ago
None of the bags made in that facility were sold to the public. I remember because I was an original crowdfunder eager to receive my first shipment. They did not ship until they were producing it at the regulated co-packing facility.
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by aianus 10y ago
There's nothing stopping you from buying cocoa futures and rolling them over indefinitely for the next twenty years. In fact, in an efficient market the cost of doing so is equal to the cost of maintaining your own warehouse.
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by aianus 10y ago
> The many people you know that would love to be permanently infertile can get what they want in a matter of minutes, in a proven/well-known way. Are you sure about that? As far as I know nearly all urologists in the US will refuse
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by aianus 10y ago
> It's hard to actually get into a STEM job as a woman, regardless of education or experience, because of various biases in hiring. Absolutely false. They even have their own hiring fairs and events that men aren't invited to.
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by aianus 10y ago
If there is true predictive power in the model, the other insurance companies will see their costs (and premiums) rise as lower risk customers switch to Admiral and higher risk customers switch to them.
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by aianus 10y ago
Well it's apparently already ok to charge me 50% more because I'm young, male, and unmarried. At least you can do something about your spelling and grammar if you try.
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by aianus 10y ago
Can anyone explain to me these oft-mentioned government subsidies on fossil fuels? Gas has 25% taxes where I live. Surely that's the opposite of 'subsidizing' it (vs, for example, electricity which is taxed at 5%). What am I
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by aianus 10y ago
I think the point is to do what you think is meaningful (or at least enjoyable). Worrying what your future grandchildren think about you is a ridiculous way to live your life.
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by aianus 10y ago
No, I have American sockets. The charger looks like this: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare... And also comes with a longer, three-prong cable that replaces the little two-pron
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by aianus 10y ago
> Usually developers would only build such a thing if they can make a huge amount of money and get the highest (or at least current) rates for most of the occupancy. A nice (but small) two bedroom apartment in a brand new skyscraper cond
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by aianus 10y ago
> Manhattan is also exorbitantly expensive. Even more so than SF, with more people. I've lived in both and Manhattan was considerably cheaper. YMMV. Edit: Specifically, my rent for similarly-sized two bedroom apartments were $3,600
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by aianus 10y ago
> Three-pin appliances require a ground to be safe Can you elaborate on this? My MacBook charger has both a two-prong and a three-prong cable. Why would it be any more dangerous to plug my MacBook into this power strip using the three-pr
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by aianus 10y ago
Soylent doesn't compete with the 'average diet', it competes with eating out 2-3 times a day. I personally save hundreds of dollars a month with Soylent.
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by aianus 10y ago
> How are the getting around it? Soylent is just a bunch of FDA-approved (actually, "Generally Recognized As Safe") ingredients mixed together in an industrial vat. How would you even propose regulating something like that? You
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by aianus 10y ago
They developed a way of enforcing agreements (bets) made on a blockchain without courts, police, military, or easy-to-hack external oracles.
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by aianus 10y ago
> I really do hate cryptocurremcies because of their ludicrous waste of fossil fuels It'll never be economical to mine cryptos with fossil fuels in the long term. Commercial mining will end up concentrated in Iceland etc. where the
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by aianus 10y ago
> The simple question about how you can enforce agreements running in blockchains can't be answered. Check out https://www.augur.net/ for an attempt at answering that question. They crowdsource the outcomes of the v
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by aianus 10y ago
It's not the bank that's blocking me, it's the merchant. Since merchants are the ones on the hook for card-not-present fraud, they refuse to ship items anywhere but the address registered with the credit card. I don't kn
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by aianus 10y ago
> How sure are you that your account info is absolutely secure enough to prevent that AND will remain so for the lifetime of your use of a specific cryptocurrency? I'm not, and it's irrelevant because I only have a tiny fractio
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by aianus 10y ago
> peace of mind as a result of extensive fraud protection measures I don't want "peace of mind". I (a Canadian) want to be able to buy something online from a US supplier and have it shipped to me in Thailand. This is just
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by aianus 10y ago
> given refunds They'll give you a refund for basically any reason. Just email them and say "I don't like it" and they'll give you a refund. You don't even have to ship it back. That's always been the r
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by aianus 10y ago
Please point me to an existing trusted meal replacement brand that has a balanced nutritional profile. No, Ensure, Slimfast, Boost, etc. are not balanced (eg. too much sugar and vitamins, not enough calories and fiber).
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by aianus 10y ago
The same one serving of Slimfast[1] has less than 10% of my daily calories, less than 2% of daily carbs, and between 35% and 110% of daily vitamins. I don't see how it's a competitor to a drink (Soylent 2.0) that has exactly 20% o
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by aianus 10y ago
Clearly Apple believes there are more people like me (with bluetooth cars, headphones, keyboards, and trackpads) than people like you. Anyways, his "100 out of 100" comment is comically wrong.
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by aianus 10y ago
> No USB port that 100 out of 100 keyboards and mice will plug into I haven't had a non-bluetooth input device since 2009.
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by aianus 10y ago
Yes, I was a contractor billing in 15 minute increments until a couple of weeks ago. I haven't cooked so much as an egg since college.
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by aianus 10y ago
So instead of spending time with the family, friends, and hobbies you'd rather slave away in front of a stove to save $600/mo?

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