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by aianus 1y ago
I’d do it for 30% off
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by aianus 1y ago
If you woke up tomorrow and the clearing price for gas was $10/gallon it would still be accurate to call it a shortage. I can buy a crappy house for $2m tomorrow, it’s still a housing shortage.
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by aianus 1y ago
Does the admin of the school get any of this money today or is it entirely allocated to the individual researchers?
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by aianus 1y ago
This is what I want too, driving 15 min manually in the city doesn't bother me or tire me out at all, I just want to watch TV when driving straight on the interstate for 300 miles.
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by aianus 1y ago
This is nonsense, ~zero rich people in third world send their kids to study in Shanghai instead of Boston or immigrate to Beijing instead of NYC to park their capital. In fact it’s the rich Chinese who continue to move to Vancouver and Lond
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by aianus 1y ago
Isn’t it the opposite? Moving from HCOL to LCOL can be somewhat easy as the home equity or savings you built up in HCOL goes a longer way in the destination. Surely easier than moving from LCOL to HCOL?
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by aianus 1y ago
There’s nothing wrong with borrowing against stock, the evil part is the step-up in cost basis when the billionaire dies that prevents them from paying any tax at all. It would be a good deal for the country to let the billionaire use their
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by aianus 1y ago
They don’t want to give these powers to a large number of customer service reps who can be bribed or coerced or socially engineered into transferring accounts to bad guys. Look what happened to the mobile carriers and sim-jacking.
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by aianus 1y ago
In Canada you cannot get subsidized student loans if your parents’ income is too high. You can’t get student loans at all unless they co-sign. If they don’t want to pay and you want to go to school you have to cut off communication and conv
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by aianus 1y ago
What kind of question would you put on an iq test to make it a better measurement of generalized intelligence?
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by aianus 1y ago
Sounds like NuBank
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by aianus 2y ago
Can’t we just leave our EVs plugged in and use those?
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by aianus 2y ago
Yeah it’s only worth 700B now, what a loser /s
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by aianus 2y ago
Getting a SIM card is too easy, many millions have been lost to sim-jacking.
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by aianus 2y ago
My friend’s Tesla drives itself with no hands on the steering wheel from door to door. It is a totally different product category than a regular EV from VW, come on.
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by aianus 2y ago
Why doesn’t iPhone tethering solve this problem already? Why pay for two modems? Genuinely curious.
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by aianus 2y ago
Elon and his team seem to have succeeded at figuring this out at Twitter. Or do you think Twitter was a unique case?
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by aianus 2y ago
Get a passport. You only have one life.
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by aianus 2y ago
The wait time for medical procedures is extremely long in places with price caps. It does not work “extremely well” at all, it results in shortages and wait times exactly as you would expect from economics 101. I’m speaking from personal ex
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by aianus 6y ago
Heart disease and cancer kill more people per day than COVID even now. Edit: and it's not just the gym obviously, we've removed any incidental exercise one might get from work or leisure activities that were locked down too
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by aianus 6y ago
At ~10y of life lost per COVID death that's about 320,000 months of life lost to COVID in Ontario. If there are ~1 million gym patrons in Ontario, then the gym lockdown (which is still ongoing) only needs to decrease a gym patron'
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by aianus 6y ago
The lockdown is causing deaths too which also need to be considered. We shut down cancer screening and gyms for 3 months in Ontario; that’s almost certainly going to kill more people than COVID did.
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by aianus 6y ago
Me too, man. We can't be the only ones -- the library at my school was full of people studying independently despite absolutely zero external pressure to do so. I found myself much more productive in that environment than in my home an
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by aianus 6y ago
Over 50% of Toronto, at least, is born outside of Canada and even then immigrants were overrepresented in my CS cohort at Waterloo in 2014. So it seems plausible -- but these aren't people cynically exploiting Canada as a hop on the wa
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by aianus 6y ago
> When all the xenophobia and fear stops the trickle of immigrants into the US, they will understand what drove innovation was not some magical freedom that 90% of democracies have, it was talented people from all over the globe. How is
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by aianus 6y ago
Yes, significantly so. ~18 workers died and hundreds were injured building the HK bridge to Macau and the Mainland which opened in 2018.
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by aianus 6y ago
> People don't live in downtown SF because they need to, they already live there because they want to. Maybe downtown SF is just the lesser of two evils between SF and SV because of job location. Maybe they really want to be with th
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by aianus 6y ago
The price of Bitcoin went up so much after the bankruptcy of Mt. Gox that the few bitcoins that were recovered were enough to pay off all their creditors (debts in bankruptcy are denominated in yen or dollars, not Bitcoin) and have a profit
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by aianus 6y ago
> a large percentage of those Asian women in the US... I think he literally means foreign. Like not in the US.
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by aianus 6y ago
> it's really bad if you’re fat, disabled, or even just socially awkward Isn't it easier to hide these things on a Tinder profile than in a nightclub?

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