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by bko 1y ago
I mean, they already don't. Investors aren't stupid. Half of financial analysis is converting financial metrics from GAAP to other more meaningful structures that allow for proper forecasting and comparison. They spend billions on
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by bko 1y ago
That's so funny. I noticed this as well one time. I got some transcript from a podcast unedited (no punctuation, speaker id, etc) and it had this line I wanted to extract: > If you’re a gay person, you might be told that if you ever
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by bko 1y ago
Please spend 30 seconds to search whether the fda budget has actually been cut over time (hint: it hasn’t) The fda budget much like every other agency has grown incredibly in the last 50 years ( <1bnin 1992 to >6bn today). You can loo
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by bko 1y ago
There's nothing wrong w/ turning a profit. It's subsidized now but there's really not much network effects. Nothing leads me to believe that one company who can blow the most amount of money early on will have a moat. Th
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by bko 1y ago
> I like living in a world where I know that people who have spent actually time on nurturing a talent get rewarded for doing so, even if that talent is not something I will ever be good at. Rewarded how? 99.99% of people who do things l
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by bko 1y ago
The alternative? Allow a state lottery (e.g. Mega Millions), bet rid of the scummy mobile apps. Stop advertising. And stop pushing the scratch off games, or remove them all together. Overall it would reduce some revenue but be a net positiv
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by bko 1y ago
I don't get these articles. First the author claims that AI made us more productive but now the time we saved is spent on more work (!) > But here’s the kicker: we were told AI would free us up for “higher-level work.” What actually
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by bko 1y ago
> A 2019 survey found that households with an income below $30,000 spent 13% of their income on lottery tickets, compared to just 1% for households with incomes of $50,000 or higher. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-
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by bko 1y ago
Not if you own your trailer without a mortgage. If you have a mortgage you're pretty much required to have insurance. Not getting insurance doesn't make this cheaper really as you'll just lose your property completely every f
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by bko 1y ago
I can't understand why the government has to be so involved in gambling. I'm pretty much okay with the lottery, it's kind of silly thing you can play with friends or coworkers, you pretty much know you're not going to wi
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by bko 1y ago
Regarding people living in Tornado Alley because they can't afford to live anywhere else, insurance costs are much higher there, so not exactly a bargain. And plenty of wealthy people love high risk areas. Pretty much anything by a sea
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by bko 1y ago
That may all be true but I don't see how it relates. Adobe can't prevent figma from going public if it refuses their offer. It's an open market. Nothing stops new competitors from joining. Only regulators have absolute power
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by bko 1y ago
What does this mean? If there is no regulator, someone else will use force to prevent voluntary mutually beneficial deals from taking place?
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by bko 1y ago
> If you want Tesla's behavior to change - and other automakers take notice and not repeat the behavior - then the fine must be meaningful to them. What behavior do you want them to change? Remove FSD from their cars? It's been
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by bko 1y ago
Right, this is the frustrating thing about court room activism and general anger towards Tesla. By any stretch of the imagination, this technology is reasonably safe. It has over 3.6 billion miles, currently about 8m miles per day. By all r
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by bko 1y ago
> On one hand I don't think you can apply a price to a human life Yes, although courts do this all the time. Even if you believe this as solely manufacturer error, there are precedents. Consider General Motors ignition switch recall
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Google spends more on capital like datacentres than the entire UK defense budget(twitter.com)
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by bko 1y ago
One thing I thought would have been incredibly useful for me is to go from HTML -> Figma There is a ton of focus on going from Figma to something you could presumably dump into react or html. But I found nothing in the reverse. Realistic
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by bko 1y ago
It's not just places with hyperinflation. It's any country. Why should anyone be restricted from holding USD or have to pay crazy fees to buy dollars? > I agree that a centralized US dollar CBDC that isn't run by scammers
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by bko 1y ago
I'm not saying we should ban anything. Sure video games can be unhealthy. Maybe I'm weird but I would much rather prefer my son plays video games 8 hours a day than watches adult content 8 hours a day. Let's stop pretending l
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by bko 1y ago
I'd feel more comfortable showing a 12 year old a violent movie than I would an adult movie. Or maybe put another way, if my child was at a neighbors house and one of the parents watched an adult movie with my child I would have a huge
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think you have to be Puritanical or particularly religious to realize that some content is generally not good for people. I've seen this destroy lives, drive addiction and lead to other forms of destructive behavior. Relig
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by bko 1y ago
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't think money is such a large factor in determining elections. Sure the person who wins tends to get the most donations and hence spend the most money. But that's because there is n
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by bko 1y ago
Sure he cuts back his calories, but 70 hotdogs is about 21k calories. I don't think he goes into a 21k calorie deficit over the next few weeks. That's an insane deficit. That would be the equivalent of not eating for 8.5 days, whi
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by bko 1y ago
This is built into a lot of religions and cultural practices with fasting or restrictions. Spikiness is lindy
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by bko 1y ago
> "So if we burn more of our energy every day on physical activity, on exercise, after a while our bodies will adjust and spend less energy on the other tasks that we sort of don't notice going on in the background," Pontz
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by bko 1y ago
How is it cherry picked? The day the announcement was made the stock jumped 25%. That's the market digesting new information. Or do you believe that jump was just coincidence. And that level persisted so the CEO roughly met expectation
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by bko 1y ago
I think the AI could help. Sure there are a lot of drugs that should be over the counter. Don't know why anyone would abuse ear drops for a kid. But the AI could let you know if there are any dangerous interactions or if your alignment
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by bko 1y ago
Sometimes I just need a prescription. I don't know why I have to drive somewhere, fill out a form, wait, see a nurse, tell them what I wrote on the form, wait some more, see a doctor and tell them what I wrote on the form and have him
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by bko 1y ago
Starbucks is a business. If they can produce things we like and fork money over, it's valuable and creates value for society. If it can do the same thing with less resources, that also benefits society (efficiency). I guess you go alon

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