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901.
by balls187 6y ago
"whichever one is available to you" is not an infantile answer. It's a rational answer. Humans are notoriously irrational in their decision making, and focusing on which is better in order to make the best health decision m
902.
by balls187 6y ago
Big fan of sublime text. It's my default scratch pad/note pad. Several years ago I switched development to Cloud9 and haven't looked back, but for text manipulation, I still rely on sublime text.
903.
by balls187 6y ago
> In the US, I think people often use “Asian” to euphemistically refer to people they used to call Orientals. I wonder why that is; while at the same time, Kamala Harris is widely considered the first Asian American Vice President, becau
904.
by balls187 6y ago
All the time.
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by balls187 6y ago
> and don't single out a geoethnic region. He didn't. Asia is a continent, and it's no different than saying the biggest consumer of hot dogs is North America. I'm Asian, fwiw.
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by balls187 6y ago
A single video itself would not meet a preponderance of evidence required to secure a conviction. Also,as most states are 2-party consent for video recording the scenario you described would have a huge evidentiary rules hurdle regardless o
907.
by balls187 6y ago
Not really; that is the crux of the problem. The article goes into detail; it's worth the read to answer your questions. From my experience, there is very little process and oversight being followed. I had my number ported over (with m
908.
by balls187 6y ago
The details are in the article, but essentially the attacker used a 3rd party bulk SMS service that allows it's users to use their own number and routes sms messages to said service provider. The attacker instead used the cell number o
909.
by balls187 6y ago
Yes
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by balls187 6y ago
timezone conversion is the bane of my existence. I wish everyone just understood ms since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC.
911.
by balls187 6y ago
Cable News was theater well before the rise of Social Media. Social Media didn't invent "sex* sells." *Sex being the place holder for something that is controversial.
912.
by balls187 6y ago
This is a key insight. Tabloid Journalism is known to be sensational and easily dismissed as such because of the medium, and that people in our social circles don't often peddle anything more than the latest celebrity/sports gossi
913.
by balls187 6y ago
What would be Facebook's legal argument in the US?
914.
by balls187 6y ago
We got hella (official size) AWS credits by using Carta to manage our captable/409a.
915.
by balls187 6y ago
I test drove a Tesla. Imo, it is cool shit.
916.
by balls187 6y ago
Congratulations, and I am very proud of you!
917.
by balls187 6y ago
The flipside, if you have a CPU and you can't keep it pegged 100% of the time, are you wasting resources?
918.
by balls187 6y ago
Nothing is wrong with not having children, if that is your choice. If you want to start a family and are struggling to do so, that is very difficult to reconcile.
919.
by balls187 6y ago
It makes you wonder why Zuckerberg is bothered by additional privacy controls?
920.
by balls187 6y ago
I was an ios dev via Objective-C in another life. Swift and SwiftUI is such a fundamental shift in experience for the better. There are a few esoteric things based on full interoperability with ObjectiveC and the cocoa API's, but for m
921.
by balls187 6y ago
Not really related, but Budgie Smuggler is the Australian common name for men's speedo like swimwear. The name is derived from the fact that the look of a man's privates while wearing the swim wear appears as if the man is hiding
922.
by balls187 6y ago
That seems like that would potentially stave off government locking off access, which is where I am most vulnerable. I'm not in fear of the government seizing my assets, but I don't trust Google not to lock me out due to an algori
923.
by balls187 6y ago
I just ran through a thought experiment--if Google (gmail) Apple (my phone) and Tmobile (the current owners of my number) all simultaneously nuked me, could I recover? Luckily yes. Online access would be hindered, but nearly all my financia
924.
by balls187 6y ago
> When the crisis hit, the firms got the blame, not their customers. Companies learned that helping their customers shoot themselves in the foot can come back to bite them, even if it was all legal and what customers wanted at the time.
925.
by balls187 6y ago
WSB Discord had an auto-mod, but their claim was that it was circumvented with people alternative characters to post slurs.
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by balls187 6y ago
Yes, but some of them also manage funds that are people from Mainstreet's retirements. So while, yeah fun to stick it to the wealthy elite, I feel the law of unintended consequences is going to rear it's head much like crash of th
927.
by balls187 6y ago
> Yes, but retail is going to get destroyed in the end. Mainly because they're playing with their own money, while the hedgefunds are playing with House's Money.
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by balls187 6y ago
I felt the same heartbreak. > why can't we as a society solve this We can. We (collectively as a society) have chosen not to. Foster kids don't vote, don't pay taxes, and their advocates aren't nearly as well funded a
929.
by balls187 6y ago
> and is showing strong growth mainly because the product is better and more respectful of girls than Tinder. Precisely. Bumble got popular because Tinder was not successful in helping connect people for meaningful relationships. Tinder
930.
by balls187 6y ago
How does Bumble scale, and not just end up a portfolio company for the Match Group?

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