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by apparent 3mo ago
Weird, I never get spam from Substacks. I do get them from beehive or whatever it's called. Even asked to have my work email blocked, since if I ever signed up it would be from a personal address. They claimed to have done it, but I st
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by apparent 3mo ago
> Hmm, the danger there is that one is putting a lot of one's eggs into a fickle basket. The risk with Substack seems much lower though, since you get to keep their email addresses and could export to another system if you become un
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by apparent 3mo ago
Sounds like Social Security.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Yes, it is part of cutting costs, but there are other ways to cut costs ("synergies" from merging back office functions) that don't necessarily affect the product.
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by apparent 3mo ago
> There are ~350,000,000 of us. When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that. Less than half are net income tax payers, IIRC. So if you pay income tax, you're actually on the hook for more $6, on a
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by apparent 3mo ago
Are there any companies/products that got better after acquisition by these guys? I feel like the only times I've heard about them is when people are griping about how they're making stuff worse.
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by apparent 3mo ago
> cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible. Don't forget "slash the workforce, ensuring that the product will get worse over time".
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by apparent 3mo ago
Yeah, if there are multiple items to address, I tend to use bulleted lists and then end the email with "What do you think?"
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by apparent 3mo ago
I find that making the very last sentence a question makes it much more likely that I'll get a response than if the question is anywhere else in the email. The person needs to finish reading the email with the question, which prompts t
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by apparent 3mo ago
There's actually some different content covered later in the article, but yes it is quite long. I'm sure plenty of people consume articles like these by asking LLMs for a summary.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Nit picking around the edges doesn't undermine the general point. The comparisons were bad. You have succeeded in pointing out that they were not as bad as they possibly could have been, which I guess makes you feel good? Anyway, I&#x2
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by apparent 3mo ago
> Yes, but do you only do things for pleasure if they're done quickly? Is your sex always over in a minute? This is a valid critique, but the motivations are not the same for reading books and gambling. Both are done partly for ente
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by apparent 3mo ago
It's not a hard and fast rule, for sure. But we have heard from many boy parents who wish their boys read more (or much at all). We, OTOH, have to tell our girls to put their books down and do something else from time to time.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Same with my girls (parents of boys seem to mostly have a different experience). Hopefully your kid gets access to digital libraries like Epic or Sora at school. There are also public libraries with ebook lending that can make the habit che
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by apparent 3mo ago
Doing well on the SAT used to require some measure of reading stamina. It no longer does, so some students who would have been prompted to increase their stamina in order to do well on the SAT will no longer feel that pressure.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Reading an entire book takes much more time than placing an online bet.
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by apparent 3mo ago
> Adult-literacy scores have also dropped: Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent. Shrinking the passages on the SAT from full-page t
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by apparent 3mo ago
This is not a fair comparison: > Only 38 percent read a novel or short story... The proportion of Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023.... Gambling has become a more common l
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by apparent 3mo ago
Never thought I'd see the day the NYT editorial board take this stance. Not because it's extreme in any way, but because it is fundamentally at odds with the belief that racially disparate outcomes must be the result of intentiona
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by apparent 3mo ago
Is this referring to recalls related to defective vehicles? Also, EVs are on average much newer than ICE vehicles. I would assume that most ICE vehicles that spontaneously combust are not newer ones.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Weird that the journo wasn't able to find anyone for the article who fits the narrative better. Instead, it just comes across as failure to launch.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Interesting anecdotes, but what does this have to do with the fact that the journo apparently couldn't find a single person/family who was seeking this sort of setup, or who let alone taking it to the next level? They were all jus
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by apparent 3mo ago
I can't remember an automaker ever doing a recall for an ICE vehicle that would spontaneously combust while parked. Maybe it happened at some point (ICE vehicles have been around for a long time), but there have been several for EVs. T
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by apparent 3mo ago
I charge over AC at home but just wish that I could specify the rate by telling the car/charger when I'm next going to need the car.
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by apparent 3mo ago
> So? This practice of moving out for no particular reason is very US-centric. No particular reason? It happens when these people go off to college, for the most part. Moving back in is seen as a regression, for understandable reasons.
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by apparent 3mo ago
That's true, but there were also no stories of adult children getting married and living with their spouse/children with their elderly parents. There weren't even any mentions of adult children (or their parents) who sought s
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by apparent 3mo ago
I agree with some of the commenters who note that the author tries hard to portray this as "financial savvy" but without a whole lot of evidence. Have any of these adult children successfully moved out after saving up money while
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Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy(wsj.com)
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> EV batteries aren’t without their challenges, though. A battery that is frequently fast-charged with high power loses its range, on average, at twice the rate of a battery charged at a lower power, according to telematics company Geota
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by apparent 3mo ago
> When early EVs hit the market, buyers’ concerns were well-founded. Roughly one in 12 EVs built from 2011 to 2016 have had to have battery replacements. But new data shows that more modern EVs are doing better so far. Among EVs built fr

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