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by anoraca 6y ago
Any thoughtful reasoning behind that? Or just fatalistic absolutist predictions of doom?
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by anoraca 6y ago
What company did that?
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by anoraca 6y ago
PE ratio of over 500... oof
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by anoraca 6y ago
Because some corporations actually do make efforts towards improving society: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/ https://www.apple.com/environment/
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by anoraca 6y ago
UV light kills things that might grow on your skin otherwise, might be related to that.
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by anoraca 6y ago
What's more free market and "personal responsibility" than allowing ransomware to weed out the weak/unfortunate? That sounds exactly like libertarianism to me.
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by anoraca 6y ago
Unpaid internships are definitely still a thing, and they are yet another way that privileged people have an advantage in society. Not many people can afford to work for free unless they have family wealth to support them, or are willing to
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by anoraca 6y ago
A 20oz bottle of Coke, which is a very common consumption choice given it's prevalence, has 65g of sugar. That is not normal sugar consumption. Fruit sugars are offset by the fiber content. Sugary beverages have no redeeming nutritiona
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by anoraca 6y ago
lol "According to a Nielsen report, United States adults are watching five hours and four minutes of television per day on average (35.5 h/week, slightly more than 77 days per year)." https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by anoraca 6y ago
I buy Apple iPhones for the quality of the design and manufacturing, the 5+ years of updates, and the focus on platform security.
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by anoraca 6y ago
Gold has been abstracted into a digital form so anyone who wants to invest in options and futures can now own digital gold, which makes it easier to trade, since no physical delivery or storage is required. Greed is extremely powerful. As i
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by anoraca 6y ago
You know what they say about assumptions...
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by anoraca 6y ago
Interesting to see this after reading this article yesterday: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/21/coronaviru...
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by anoraca 6y ago
What are you basing that on?
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by anoraca 6y ago
Many companies switching to work from home will definitely have an impact on gas usage: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/new-work-...
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by anoraca 6y ago
What, you think you the two accounts with only a few months of posting history might be trying to spread FUD?
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by anoraca 6y ago
Efficient, effective systems models are emulated across many industries.
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by anoraca 6y ago
"For All Mankind" is an absolutely amazing show from Apple. Alternate history of if Russia got to the moon first. Lots of historical footage (sometimes augmented). I loved watching it. Maybe too niche for a breakout hit but it is
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by anoraca 6y ago
It's a spinoff https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ The former LibreOffice development team from SUSE joined Collabora in September 2013 forming the subsidiary Collabora Productivity. htt
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by anoraca 6y ago
My guide to Ethereum: don't get involved in shady, unregulated industries unless you're aware of the possible consequences are are willing to accept them gracefully
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by anoraca 6y ago
The film "Blow" is outdated but probably a good starting point on the history of how things like that develop.
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by anoraca 6y ago
Microsoft Teams is the evolved version and it works just fine. The video quality is better than Zoom IMO.
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by anoraca 6y ago
I would like to caution anyone reading the comments to be skeptical of posts that push to erode your faith in journalism. There has been an alarming trend of people pushing a narrative that news organizations cannot be trusted. It is a toxi
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by anoraca 6y ago
Zerohedge is not a reputable source of information. You might as well link to Infowars. At best it's clickbait, at worst it's manipulative propaganda.
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by anoraca 6y ago
In this case it's a brand new account posting inflammatory claims with no references to back them up.
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by anoraca 6y ago
My understanding is that it is standard operating procedure for small LLCs to be spun up for the profitable extraction period and then the wells and LLCs are abandoned when they are no longer useful. All of the pollution and other externali
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by anoraca 6y ago
And routing interceptable call encryption keys through China even for calls that do not originate or terminate in China... https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...
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by anoraca 6y ago
People that sell used books professionally usually have them listed on amazon and ebay and the inventory is synced periodically. There must be some kind of automated inventory management system that they use, because pricing gets updated pe
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by anoraca 6y ago
Valorant appears to me to be an uninspired clone with a few gimmicks and a lot of marketing money behind it. It's the same way that LoL was a clone of DotA with extra marketing and a few gimmicks. I don't understand why anyone kno
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by anoraca 6y ago
Installing a program that modifies your OS is a good time to be concerned about backdoors.

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