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by bigthymer 1y ago
I'm still upset that Google Maps no longer tracks my location. It was very useful to be able to go back and see how often and where I had gone. Is there another app where I can store this locally?
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> there's no reason to trade them anywhere else than the one place that has the highest volume and lowest spreads for that stock. Norbert's Gambit is a good reason. It is potentially the cheapest way to effectively do a curren
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> The Plaza Accord was framed as cooperation among G5 allies. But in practice U.S. security guarantees gave it disproportionate influence. Japan, for example, had little independent military capability, so its security reliance on the U.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
This is my understanding of the situation too from watching some news shows. During Biden's term, there was a need\interest in getting this factory running quickly. There wasn't a proper visa defined within our legal code. The
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by bigthymer 1y ago
May I ask for a link for myself and others who may be interested?
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What color are the subjects? (2023)(machronicle.com)
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> There's not a single prominent Democrat whom normal people look at and feel like he or she cares about them. What about Bernie, AOC, Zohran? I think there are a few but probably none of the establishment ones.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
One solution may be to move from an adversarial system to more of an inquisitorial one. This mostly removes the need for lawyers.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
Did you want certain IPs to be fixed to certain devices or do you prefer they be randomly allocated?
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by bigthymer 1y ago
I agree that it is problematic. You can mostly block it with the uBlock extension.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
Ukraine is the largest exporter of sunflower oil with Russia being #2. They are still #1 as of 2023 [1] so the war appears not to have completely interrupted supply but may have made it more expensive to distribute. WSJ reports that the w
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by bigthymer 1y ago
I suppose people will have to connect in-person again. If this were to transpire, I think it would provide numerous benefits. Human health would improve. It would be more difficult to surveil peoples' offline communications. One th
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by bigthymer 1y ago
I think his game is no longer about developing analytical skill to be the best investor, but becoming the person who has access to high level people and gets actionable information on an international scale before others.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
I recommend doing the pilot program. Are you sure there are customers willing to sign up for it?
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> Craiglist is proof it can be done at scale.. Its just that so few people with them means and morality exist anymore. I don't think this is a good example. Back then, the internet was a new thing only a small cohort of people care
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by bigthymer 1y ago
I love the design of your site
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> I do wish he’d discussed more why Sally Rooney seems to be the exception, in terms of commercial success. What is it about her books that’s different? What did she do (or avoid doing) to appeal to a wide readership? I suppose part of t
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> I still believe that if Dolly ran for President, she would win. She's probably one of the most liked people in the country, percentage wise. I've actually asked quite a few random people what they think of her and I've n
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by bigthymer 1y ago
Sometimes I look for a specific old article. Search is completely useless for this since it usually ignores what I'm searching for to show me more about whatever is recent.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
It probably would have turned into a customer service line for all of their products they notoriously fail to adequately support.
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> There is nothing to suggest that the fall of the United States and subsequent replacement (with whatever may come) will reverse the thousand year trend of increased education and decreased violence. We're talking about long-term c
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by bigthymer 1y ago
Similar to how cartographers embed false information into maps to catch plagiarists, I expect a deliberate practice such as this to proliferate to catch specific sources used by AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictiti
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by bigthymer 1y ago
This has been an ongoing discussion within libraries for more than a hundred years not a recent issue. Should libraries be a place with classics to uplift people or popular books that people want to read even if they are low quality?
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by bigthymer 1y ago
> My understanding is that upon a detection the entire flock is killed I heard something like the avian flu spreads so fast that once one bird in a flock is detected to have the disease, it will eventually spread to the whole flock withi
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by bigthymer 1y ago
I always understood it as, the email with link notification thing started as soon as email providers began regularly scanning users' emails. Before then, an email included all the information you needed without having to login to anot
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by bigthymer 2y ago
It could be a distribution cost issue. It could be cheaper to use Canadian lumber in some parts of the US than it is to transport US lumber from where it is sourced to where it is needed.
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by bigthymer 2y ago
> But largely, opinion polls are against the kind of action that would be useful. Nuclear, for example, is the only baseload tech we currently have at scale that doesn't burn carbon. It is widely opposed and public pressure has led
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by bigthymer 2y ago
Total Cost of Ownership
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by bigthymer 2y ago
Theoretically, you could short TSLA in the same amount that you own it within the ETF. This would be functionally equivalent to owning a custom market cap ETF minus TSLA.
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by bigthymer 2y ago
> and Australian culture has become a LOT more like the US over the past decade How? What little changes have you noticed?

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