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by arbuge 5y ago
The person responsible, a certain Ross Teixeira at Princeton University, is now claiming publicly on Twitter that the responses to his emails were "overwhelmingly positive", a claim which I find both fascinating and highly dubiou
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It gets worse. Amazon mixes products from different third party vendors in its marketplace for the same product listing. So even if you find a listing for a brand item with clean reviews which actually pertain to the item in question, you c
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> Amazon has oodles of expensive and difficult-to-replicate physical infrastructure, hordes of low-level staff, exclusive supply contracts aplenty, enough cash reserves to price-dump anybody into oblivion, and probably many other things
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Perhaps there should be others (GOP Sen Richard Burr particularly comes to mind after last year's incident), but at this point it seems to me she should be the first to go. She's the speaker of the house. With greater power comes
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This is probably going to generate a lot of controversy around these parts, but I'd argue that PHP is an equally good option to try these days if you're coming from the Node world and want to try something "new". If you
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I think she should simply resign at this point. Yes, we're an free-market economy, or at least an imperfect approximation of that. No, that doesn't mean insider trading is ok. And since lawmakers are privy to information that can
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It's a free service right now. I'm thinking converting it to a paid one like the one in the article might solve this problem.
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It's a wonderful project. There's something romantic about it, for sure. And if I could plug my own project, you could also do it by just sending emails: https://publicemails.com .
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> To use the technique, visionaries such as Dalí and Edison would hold an object, such as a spoon or a ball, while falling asleep in a chair. This one isn't going to work for me, I think. I can never fall asleep in chairs or anywher
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I think Web3 is still a solution in search of a problem at this point. I personally remain unconvinced. This presentation proposes Helium as a suitable application but it seems to me you could do everything Helium does just as well with an
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The most powerful lifting helicopters available can do up to 44,000 lbs, which is about the same as the maximum highway transport weight for 40' containers: Source: 60 seconds on Google brings up: https://www.ukpandi.com&#x2
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I bought 2 "refurbished" Google Assistant smart speakers from Ebay over the last year or so. Bought of them came still logged in to their prior owner's Google accounts. All that was necessary on the part of the refurbishers w
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> When COVID spreads in Africa and makes a new strain, it may as well be on your own doorstep. The world needs to step up and distribute vaccines to every corner of the globe, for FREE, or we’ll never get out of this. This isn't qui
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> PoW generates heat, which is not waste, if it is utilized. There are far more energy-efficient ways of generating that heat than PoW. This is an (extremely) flawed argument. PoW is roughly akin to resistive heating. Heat pumps are abou
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I wouldn't write off traditional VCs just yet. Traditional VCs like Sequoia and Bessemer have been through a tech bubble and the GFC and have the scars to show for it. Tiger has been investing in an incredible bull run in tech which ha
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Electric on short haul flights really doesn't make sense to me either in most real-world scenarios given the energy densities possible from current batteries. Although you may be able to pull off the flights themselves without any issu
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Any PC will let you boot from an external drive if the internal drive fails (or even if it doesn't).
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To this list I would add fact #137: Painting is not as easy as it looks.
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I read this thinking that the 600k figure you mention couldn't possibly be right, but apparently it is: https://blog.transparentcalifornia.com/2020/11/16/oakland-co...
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This story just gets worse and worse: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2... "Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday launched a criminal investigation of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter.
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There are those who disagree: https://www.ai-cio.com/news/cathie-wood-the-big-risk-is-defl... For what it's worth, I personally think she's dead wrong, chiefly because she's forgetting that inflation is
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The example given in the article of the planner ads isn't a good one. The author is trying to make the argument that performance marketing mostly unfairly takes credit for sales that would have happened away, but this particular sale,
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> why wouldn’t you take it? One reason is because of what you're giving up in exchange. Obviously equity, for one. Quite possibly also control, if the investors also get board seats as part of the deal. If they have a different visi
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Interesting point of view on coworking spaces: "I am especially against co-working spaces but if you must join one, first walk in and just listen. If it is quiet maybe people are actually working. But if it is loud, run for dear life!&
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Just a note for those of you who were confused like I was upon reading this article: the author seems to be using the term "affiliate networks" in an unusual way - they're calling Facebook pages with some kind of commercial r
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> I would reply that your numbers are way off, since in an economy where by far the biggest borrowers are state owned enteprises, then you must count the debt of these enterprises as government debt even though according to NIPA data as
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> legislative sledgehammer that alters the potential earnings of millions of people who are now cogs in this system Doing this all at once might not be palatable to a lot of people. In reality, boiling the frog slowly may be the better w
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I believe this adage is about investing generally, not specifically about emerging market investing. It would certainly have served you well in March of last year...
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Around $320/hr then (less the discount you'd have to take for tying up your capital over that timespan). Not a bad deal for many people, and you can make proportionately more on this per hour basis if you are able to contribute mo

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