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by belltaco 4y ago
>If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? If that's the metric when why isn't Fox News and all the right wing media, and online Republican comme
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by belltaco 4y ago
>Blatant, let me repeat in caps, BLATANT partisan censoring was happening at Twitter going so far as election interfering which is illegal in the US. That's not illegal election interference in the slightest.
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by belltaco 4y ago
Network egress doubling from 0.01 to 0.02? Seems a bit much.
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by belltaco 4y ago
EV trucks are allowed to have a maximum weight of 82,000 pounds instead of 80,000 for ICE trucks.
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by belltaco 4y ago
If that happened, those were more than outweighed by deaths in rural places and others where it wasn't registered as covid deaths. So if anything it's an undercount. Otherwise why would there suddenly be so many excess deaths duri
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by belltaco 4y ago
> 71.6% of adults aged 20 and over are overweight, including obesity. Nearly 40% of American adults aged 20 and over are obese.
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by belltaco 4y ago
To have a larger amount of money in circulation because of population and wealth growth.
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by belltaco 4y ago
Can you explain how economic growth is like a Ponzi scheme. Lets take an example, lower income people being able to afford buying computers and use them, so computer sales go up. How is that a Ponzi?
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by belltaco 4y ago
Governments have to pay higher interest rates on their enormous debts because of inflation.
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Twitter core services latency reduced by ~400ms. Should feel noticeably faster(twitter.com)
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by belltaco 4y ago
His associate Salame gave so much to the Republicans that he was their 10th largest donor.
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by belltaco 4y ago
FTX gave more to Republicans than Dems. > More consequentially, Emmer was the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm for House Republicans, this year. The NRCC’s associated super PAC, the Congressional
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by belltaco 4y ago
Tesla doesn't have a PR department. https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department...
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by belltaco 4y ago
>If you sell water bottles for a $2/ea loss, and the government makes soda companies pay you $3 for each bottle of water... you don't have a good business Why is that not a good business? It makes profit. How is a profit making
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by belltaco 4y ago
He says: >Here's the thing about @tesla It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits. So the so called real product makes 2.7% of the revenue, but actuall
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by belltaco 4y ago
He's lying. The first tweet reads: > Here's the thing about @tesla It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits. Nothing in the past tense or about h
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by belltaco 4y ago
The linked tweet is: >Thread time. Here's the thing about @tesla It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits. It uses 'is' not 'was',
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by belltaco 4y ago
They took the money and used it to survive as a company to build more electric cars, which is the whole purpose of the credits.
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by belltaco 4y ago
Extremely misleading. >Tesla recorded $344 million in regulatory credits for Q2 2022, down 49% from Q1 which was $679 million. The credits account for 1.7% of the overall gross margin for the quarter, down from 2.9% last quarter.
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by belltaco 4y ago
That's not an accusation of election fraud. >Voter fraud, electoral fraud or vote rigging are intentional, illegal actions aimed at changing or influencing or forcing the results of an election - by either depressing or increasing t
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by belltaco 4y ago
>The Dems say there is election fraud if Reps win Source?
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by belltaco 4y ago
FTX gave more to Republicans than Dems. > More consequentially, Emmer was the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm for House Republicans, this year. The NRCC’s associated super PAC, the Congressional
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by belltaco 4y ago
https://prospect.org/power/congressmembers-tried-to-stop-sec...
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by belltaco 4y ago
It's all wash trading. https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2022/08/26/more-than-...
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by belltaco 4y ago
How does someone on pentests not know it's the default robots.txt that comes with Drupal and hence does not leak anything except that it's Drupal?
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by belltaco 4y ago
They were donating more or the same amount to Republican PACs. > Some of the “Blockchain Eight,” as the Prospect termed them in March, have benefited from crypto largesse. Five of the eight members received campaign donations from FTX em
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by belltaco 4y ago
https://prospect.org/power/congressmembers-tried-to-stop-sec...
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by belltaco 4y ago
>EDIT: lol heaven forbid you propose smaller government with legitimate facts on HN lest you get downvoted How would smaller government have helped the FTX situation rather than make things like that much more common and worse? >The f
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by belltaco 4y ago
I use StartAllBack with Windows 11 and it works really well.
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by belltaco 4y ago
And FTX execs gave a lot of money to Republicans as well. People making this a partisan issue are the real problem. >“Among the three executives, $57 million was given to Democratic candidates, while $22 million went to Republican candid

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