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by base698 5y ago
I have no idea if true but I've heard a heuristic is 1 subscriber equals $1/year.
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by base698 5y ago
If it hasn't been out five years you're a test pilot.
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by base698 5y ago
Unless you live on the airport in a hangar it's not going to be in concentrations high enough to worry about. The wealthy are in jets or turbo props which don't use leaded gas.
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by base698 5y ago
From the article. > The root of the problem is a loss of trust. Comedy is ultimately about trust. The TreePeople audience laughed at my joke because they trusted that I hadn’t actually molested young boys. My kids laughed at my jokes bec
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by base698 5y ago
LIE fetishized it. You could probably make dramas today.
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by base698 5y ago
I bought an olive tree and it yielded 2 olives now I'm starving! Meanwhile Bitcoin is up another 50%! Nassim has a bone to pick with Saifedean, whom he wrote the forward of "The Bitcoin Standard" apparently without understand
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by base698 5y ago
The article mentions crypto being a leader in this return to style. Some examples: - https://apeboard.finance - https://curve.fi/ - https://opensea.io/ - https://www.trufflesuite.com&
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by base698 5y ago
Technopoly is a great book. It opens with this: > Thamus inquired into the use of each of them, and as Theuth went through them expressed approval or disapproval, according as he judged Theuth’s claims to be well or ill founded. It woul
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by base698 5y ago
I manage two teams and we use it for "everything" and have as part of our team values to use Gitlab fully. We are on premium, the ultimate features would be an easier way to replace Jira but we manage with epics, milestones and it
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by base698 5y ago
Voting got us here, but more voting is a solution?
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by base698 5y ago
Instagram kills, from Coddling: > U.S. hospitals going back to 2001 and were able to estimate self-harm rates for the entire country. They found that the rate for boys held steady at roughly 200 per hundred thousand boys in the age range
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by base698 5y ago
Doesn't seem to be the case: https://mobile.twitter.com/aella_girl/status/133572526734025... Has MLM level distribution where only the top 2% or so make anything of consequence.
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by base698 5y ago
From 2010: While this view of Bitcoin might sound like it is a betrayal of Bitcoin's original vision of fully peer‐to‐peer cash, it is not a new vision. Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction from Nakamoto, wrote th
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by base698 5y ago
I had a Tesla Model S for about a year. Had several 6-8 hour trips which would require one or two charges and quite often day trips which required one stop. It helps to find charging stops with a Starbucks or something close by. Then you
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by base698 5y ago
More like Lending Club. People using Compound are getting loans.
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by base698 5y ago
Because articles are meant to sell ads through sensationalism not to inform? Propaganda to teach that anything free is dirty/salacious to keep people in their walled gardens.
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by base698 5y ago
https://www.theinsight.org/p/long-covid-how-bungle-reporting... > Comparison groups are also important to understand the scale of a problem. To put it bluntly: it’s not very informative to describe people as COVID “
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by base698 5y ago
> “Speculation on the stock exchange has spread to all ranks of the population and shares rise like air balloons to limitless heights. … My banker congratulates me on every new rise, but he does not dispel the secret uneasiness which my
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by base698 5y ago
Not everyone was wrong. Hal Finney called it early as pointed out in "The Bitcoin Standard". > While this view of Bitcoin might sound like it is a betrayal of Bitcoin's original vision of fully peer‐to‐peer cash, it is not
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by base698 5y ago
Paying for a lobbying org seems like a pretty good reason: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3679495-square-fidelity-coinba...
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by base698 5y ago
If you haven't seen the DeFi space you are missing out. 10-20% interest on crypto holdings. If you know where to get interest rates like that...
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by base698 5y ago
Any idea where I can keep my money and generate 10 - 20% passive income like you can with DeFi in the traditional system? Most savings account have negative interest rates currently.
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by base698 5y ago
Kubectl get, edit, delete and describe work roughly the same way on every object type. If that's a service, pod, deployment, or cronjob, once you know the verbs you can interact with all of them. Every object has a kind, metadata, and
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by base698 5y ago
From what I can deduce using CDC data my chance of hospitalization is 0.5 to 2%. Assuming linear relationship of obesity in the population and assuming the same risk at the top of my cohort to the bottom.
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by base698 5y ago
50 would certainly cover all life stages of humans. I assume you could be sure with shorter. I have an aviation, biochem, and skydiving background. My rule is for aviation: "if it hasn't been out five years you're a test ju
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by base698 5y ago
Eh, yeah they do. We have tons of base pair sequences in our DNA that we suspect came from viruses. https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/genes-%E2%80%98fossil%E2%80%99-...
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by base698 5y ago
On your wine cellar?
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by base698 5y ago
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3680926-binance-launches-trada... Liquidity for things that don't normally have liquidity. Example: like wrapped Bitcoin, you could create wrapped Wine. Say you've got $1 millio
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by base698 6y ago
It's also for personal mistakes. Accidentally clicking the camera on when in your underwear for example.
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by base698 6y ago
An you example I always liked: baggage fees at airlines. On average a $25 bag fee is the same. For 4 business travelers. For a family of four while the dollar amount is the same it effects the family much more.

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