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by avalys 3y ago
So why didn’t they take the billions of dollars he paid them and sue to have this “condition” upheld?
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by avalys 3y ago
Correction: The founders sold it to Zuckerberg for billions of dollars . Saying he “took it from them” is outright dishonest.
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by avalys 3y ago
> The amount of privacy we've globally lost just for a few advertising dollars is atrocious. What is the actual consequence of this "lost privacy"? What would be tangibly different in your life right now if you hadn't
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by avalys 3y ago
https://vinepair.com/articles/anchor-brewing-company-union/ I wonder if they would have been better able to control costs and stay in business if their workers hadn't unionized?
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by avalys 3y ago
This statistic is meaningless without a discussion of the detection limit and whether it differs from the minimum harmful dose.
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by avalys 3y ago
No, I will not. Don’t tell me what to do.
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by avalys 3y ago
Nah, whoever chose that photo knew exactly what they were doing - they chose a photo that will appeal to their target market, which is people looking to get deal on buying a house that they will repair and flip for a profit. The picture sim
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by avalys 3y ago
I think this is great but I continue to wonder about Tesla's plan here. The Supercharger network is one of their remaining competitive advantages. Other manufacturers were behind for years on efficiency, range, etc. but are now catchin
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by avalys 3y ago
So in terms of information density and readability, how does it compare to a 5K retina display on an iMac or Studio Display?
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by avalys 3y ago
What is the difference between an animal being slaughtered for human consumption vs. being eaten alive by another animal in the wild?
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by avalys 3y ago
Anyone working on a large iOS or MacOS codebase needs a serious machine due to compile times. Apple/Xcode tooling isn’t really set up to let you run the compiler and IDE brains on another machine. Any companies with these mega-monolith
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by avalys 3y ago
Thought one: wow, the fact that this was asked on a subreddit called "Ask Historians" really makes me feel old. Thought two: I've never considered how bizarre it is that GPS is an enormously expensive satellite constellation
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by avalys 3y ago
Apple Campus 2 is about a superblock away from Apple Campus 1, so unless we’re talking about someone whose 5-minute commute doubled to 10 minutes, no one’s commute doubled in any sense where the comparison is meaningful.
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by avalys 3y ago
They occupy such different parts of my conceptual headspace that it never occurred to me that filename extensions could be confused with TLDs, or vice-versa. But clearly, this is a problem! Why is Google actually doing this? Presumably they
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by avalys 3y ago
Given that Helios hasn’t demonstrated production of any amount of energy from fusion, this is probably just bullshit, like the United “order” for supersonic jets from Boom a few months ago. Similarly, Boom has not even flown a prototype yet
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by avalys 4y ago
Yes, electric cars are not viable unless you can charge at home. Meaning, in your garage / driveway. This means they're not that useful for people who live in apartments, and most people who live in a city like SF and park on the
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by avalys 4y ago
Charging at home, means charging in your driveway.
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by avalys 4y ago
If the power is out at your destination you're unlikely to be able to operate the gas pumps either. Who brings emergency gasoline supplies with them on a family trip with young kids? The suggestion is ludicrous. Is your typical vacatio
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by avalys 4y ago
The wealthy people demanding luxury housing are the ones driving housing prices up. They’re going to buy a house no matter what - would you rather they “overpay” for an existing house in an established neighborhood and drive gentrification,
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by avalys 4y ago
Why would you apply this weight-based tax to just the carry-on bags, and not checked luggage, or the passengers themselves?
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by avalys 4y ago
So you want to ban carry-on luggage so you can get seated 10 minutes faster - guaranteeing that every traveler needs to spend another 10 minutes at their destination waiting for their checked bag to show up at the baggage claim. How does th
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by avalys 4y ago
The reason they printed off the photos is that damage like that happens so rarely, the insurance is a huge profit center for them. That’s why they push you to buy it.
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by avalys 4y ago
Who decides if the vehicle is oversized for the owner's use case? Why not leave that decision to the owner? There are lots of small cars you can buy. People don't buy them. They want bigger cars. I would rather make that decision
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by avalys 4y ago
I hope you are not successful. Your policy is the wrong solution and will have side effects you cannot predict.
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by avalys 4y ago
PPP loans were designed to be forgiven from the start. They were loans only in the technical sense. It was a mechanism for the government to allow companies to continue to pay employees during the pandemic lockdown, instead of firing them.
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by avalys 4y ago
It's not a bailout. Silicon Valley Bank will cease operating, the shareholders get zero, anyone who loaned them money likely gets zero, the executives have been fired, the employees will all be laid off within two months. The point of
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by avalys 4y ago
And who ensures that the insurance company has enough capital to pay out on that insurance?
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by avalys 4y ago
I don't think that's what he was saying, but if he was, are you suggesting there's a problem with that?
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by avalys 4y ago
Pretty funny that the 5-star system compresses the actual useful signal into less than 10% of the range.
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by avalys 4y ago
The article says the initial interaction (including trying to cancel) happened within one hour of booking.

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