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by awillen 6y ago
The job of the news is to inform people (or more cynically, keep them watching to show ads). Sports are a major topic that a huge number of people want to be informed about. Why wouldn't they be in the news? There are lots of things in
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by awillen 6y ago
No it doesn't. This doesn't harm consumers. They are very slightly inconvenienced, likely less-so than if websites were forced to use other methods to achieve the same thing.
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by awillen 6y ago
You're incorrect. Gmail, Sheets, Docs and Slides all have free plans as well as paid (Google Suite) plans. Google Drive also has a free plan as well as paid upgrades. This is also precisely the point - in Google's case, they find
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by awillen 6y ago
This is obviously wrong. He clearly means people want to replicate the taste and texture of the cooked meat they enjoy, not raw meat.
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by awillen 6y ago
This is really aggressively oversimplifying a complicated problem that exists across a huge number of different types of software. In some cases, sure, a free plan is going to cost more in effort than it pays in users who convert to paid. T
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by awillen 6y ago
So what you mean is that people don't like the taste and texture of raw meat, and they're only pretending to like it because it's cooked? If you like steak cooked with some salt on it, that doesn't mean that you don&#x27
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by awillen 6y ago
Yeah... what? Wow. Just really took a turn there all of a sudden.
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by awillen 6y ago
A lot of the developments around slowing down aging aren't just about doing so for the physical body - they also improve the longevity of the brain. Plus if you're living for a very long time, that's a lot of time for science
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by awillen 6y ago
The example routes they give don't seem like realistic comparisons - in most of them, the shortest route doesn't really have a safe sidewalk to walk on. They're just not practical options, and in some cases I doubt they'
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by awillen 6y ago
This isn't about them. This is about a guy who chooses to have his monitor vertical. Don't take things wildly out of context in an effort to make it sound like people have made points which they absolutely have not.
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by awillen 6y ago
As a product manager, my immediate response is... not worth the time. You've chosen to have a unique setup, which is fine, but your use case represents some absolutely miniscule fraction of users. On top of that, it's not even tha
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by awillen 6y ago
If your business can't function normally (i.e. you have to disallow the buying of stocks that should otherwise be purchasable) because you don't have enough money, that is a liquidity issue. This is costing them a huge amount of b
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by awillen 6y ago
The problem is the CEO specifically said they did not have a liquidity issue. That means one way or another, he's a straight up liar.
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by awillen 6y ago
That works until there aren't any more marginal buyers. Just because some people out there are willing to sell the stock for $10 (which no rational person is when it's trading in the hundreds, by the way... the idea that there are
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by awillen 6y ago
I think you meant to say "minimum wage job can't", not can.
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by awillen 6y ago
Assuming that's true - the big issue is that Vlad said very clearly that they did not have a liquidity problem. You can't say that you're restricting deposits because the clearinghouses require you to put up more cash then im
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by awillen 6y ago
That's fine though - there are still a lot of shorts paying a tremendous amount of interest, regardless of where they bought in. The point is that as long as the WSB crew doesn't sell, the shorts will have to cover (or continue pa
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by awillen 6y ago
"Some redditors believe that a short squeeze was part of the reason that GameStop's stock rose so rapidly over the last week." No, the active thesis on WSB is that while a few shorts closed their positions, active shorts are
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by awillen 6y ago
Why can't non-Robinhood holders of GME sue Robinhood, though? If you can prove that RH's actions drove the stock down, then aren't they the victims (and also not bound by the user agreement)?
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by awillen 6y ago
Sure, but why are they using that as an explanation for shutting down all trading, including that not on margin?
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by awillen 6y ago
I don't understand how they can blame capital requirements and potentially having to cover customers' losses (that was Interactive Brokers) for stopping purchases of the stock. Unless you're talking about buying on margin, th
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by awillen 6y ago
100% agree - it also makes sense that when they're hugely outnumbered and have no backup, they're a lot less likely to fight. That's why it's so baffling that the response to protests where people were actively talking o
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by awillen 6y ago
You're incorrect that you can't like or dislike the US policing system and that it doesn't affect you. If you're in the US, it affects you, because it affects society as a whole. Even if you're not in the US, the ac
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by awillen 6y ago
No, this is not a good point. Parler is a one-purpose app that existed solely (and was moderated by its own employees) to foment a chamber of hateful, violent rhetoric. Facebook and YouTube are used for many things by many people. Also Face
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by awillen 6y ago
How about some examples of ISIS using AWS?
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by awillen 6y ago
They're not deciding what is acceptable speech. They're deciding what is acceptable speech for their platforms and services. And given how absolutely insane and extreme that speech became before they took action, it's just st
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by awillen 6y ago
So if a neo-Nazi walks into a restaurant and says that all Jews should burn to death then tries to order lunch and is refused, that owner is in for a world of hurt? We need to stop pretending like everyone's viewpoint is equal and we s
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by awillen 6y ago
Blocking individual accounts is something Parler can do (and chose not to), not Amazon/Facebook/Google who don't have access to the contents of those accounts (at least not easily). Also, it's worth looking at some of th
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by awillen 6y ago
Elon is talking about literal rocket science, not making a stir fry.

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