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by angstrom 8y ago
See: Healthcare Insurance Companies Employs millions, but is ultimately a nationwide make work program to satisfy congressional districts. USA encourages a byzantine system that substitutes waste for the appearance of choice.
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by angstrom 8y ago
It's possible your sample is not representative of the larger sample. My understanding on this matter is Amazon is going the way of giving the brand owners more control of the brand as one part of the solution. Ultimately they know the
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by angstrom 8y ago
It's funny because I had one of these I put in my bathroom above the toilet paper to resupply bulk orders of cottonelle and wet wipes. I took it down after 2 months. I like that it was smart enough to dedupe multiple presses. I didn&#x
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by angstrom 8y ago
Good, now maybe they can fix the textbook industry which is woefully inept.
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by angstrom 8y ago
Or one of the many collect call phone numbers.
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by angstrom 8y ago
The bias about intelligence modeling on human intelligence is certainly one of familiarity. Other intelligence models that we can observe like cephalopods are about as foreign as you can imagine on the animalia tree of life. Who can say if
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by angstrom 8y ago
Yeah, but that's getting to the very crux of communication: trust. If you're not sharing information it's pointless to call whatever it is 'social'. Anonymity is the form of least trust and you could argue the highe
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by angstrom 8y ago
Actually, I bet you could find people that would like the idea of a social media platform that wipes your history or disassociates your account every January 1st. Like a musical chairs, but the chairs never get reused.
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by angstrom 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the actions Google took to push Amazon results off the first page product results skewed the Amazon product catalog towards gamed marketplace results. Amazon was getting a free ride on Google's results s
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by angstrom 8y ago
That’s closer to manufactured consent. No evidence, vague justification and mainstream parroting to reinforce the narrative.
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by angstrom 8y ago
It probably depends on the value funnel. As you get closer in rellavance to the target the ability to influence ought to be most valuable. I question if they are monetizing the ad value funnel fully.
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by angstrom 8y ago
I think he’s fucked speculating shorts and bulls alike. His shit stopped the squeeze triggered by the PIF news. Calls are basically options of an option.
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by angstrom 8y ago
It’s not just the shorts that ought to be pissed. He’s intentionally tanking his public companies so they can go private at a discount. Pulled a similar maneuver with solarcity just before profitable revenue could taint the red. Repeating t
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by angstrom 8y ago
Right, that in itself should have forced a squeeze. I'm not suggesting a takeover by VW, but a business deal. $23 billion for tech that builds the tech. Elon already said there would need to be maybe 100 GFs built, not just by Tesla. P
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by angstrom 8y ago
Well, there’s one other I can think of: VW Hear me out. VW announced $25B worth of batteries secured in March then followed up with an increase to $48B in May. The $25B went to Samsung SDI, LG, and Contemporary Amperax. Leaving $23B unnacco
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by angstrom 9y ago
Bingo. 1st the Lure: bonu$ with first month check + $10K+ in relo 2nd the Hook: 6 month blushing period 3rd the Sinker: layoff old team, give threatening overtures and about lost trust and missed deliveries Meanwhile everyone is in a 12-mon
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by angstrom 9y ago
Heck, I've had power companies offering google home for free if I select a green energy provider.
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by angstrom 9y ago
True, but to be fair, it's possible to clean it up by running the power through storage first and have the consistent energy on the other side of the storage. No different than using a UPS to clean up electricity with a lot of spikes i
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by angstrom 9y ago
This is much better than the least likely consipiracy: Kennedy's head just inexplicably exploded on its own.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Of course the argument is also the employees are paying taxes. Besides, Amazon is notorious for pouring money back into the business and growing instead of reaping profits, so good luck taxing that. By any account that's exactly what a
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by angstrom 9y ago
Having used ANTLR recently I would tend to not only agree, but say most cases of disagreement are circle jerking instead of getting to a quick solution and shipping. I just updated our grammar 2 weeks ago. Effort? Update the *.g4 grammar fi
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by angstrom 9y ago
Well, the CEO fluff on the ER call was amusing. Probably doesn't help to brand yourself the same thing as a food stamp program, but I digress. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/08/11/analyst-caught-in-
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by angstrom 9y ago
That's more than maddening. One company is working on the forefront of an entire ecosystem transformation in a 100 year old entrenched customer base the other...well, let's just say in another 100 years you'll be lucky to fin
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by angstrom 9y ago
Cue head explosion...
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by angstrom 9y ago
Bingo. You should see the patterns near Newark. There's drone circles like this constantly. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/FBI-M...
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by angstrom 9y ago
A subsidy, a tax cut, and an MLP walk into a bar. Each pays $5 for a draft beer. Each saved $1. The only difference is when they receive that $1. The punchline is thinking they're different.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Curious, do you know the EROI difference for fossil fuels? How much difference is there in the opportunity cost? All energy is subsidized. Solar actually doesn't qualify for the subsidies oil does, same for electric cars. That's w
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by angstrom 9y ago
I'm not the person that wrote that. My discord is the state of journalism. This article doesn't inform anything that prevents the business model from working. People also attempted flight many centuries before succeeding. Arguing
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by angstrom 9y ago
Could care less about challenging Musk's reputation, that's his problem. It's the fallacies of argument. Good engineers are awash in self doubt and questioning.
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by angstrom 9y ago
I lost faith in the average tech writer's ability to not trigger Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect a long time ago. Thanks for saving me the time. Nothing more annoying than reading a journalist with a soap box and more time for word cou

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