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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Minor build issues? They had a total recall. Fixed for free? Yes, if you can wait weeks for the fix. https://www.fastcompany.com/91109879/a-timeline-of-tesla-cyb... https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
> The process is self-selecting Isn’t this the opposite of DEI then? There’s “momentum” in sports - kids want to play what their heroes play, Dominicans have Dominican baseball heroes and play baseball. There’s nothing DEI about that.
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
60% of the LPGA are Asian…is that more than a single anecdote??
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Access is not equal or interest is not equal? Minority participation in golf skyrocketed after Tiger Woods, but I’d argue the best athletes still far preferred basketball, football, etc over golf. Your argument also falls apart if you look
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Wow, your counterpoint is about discrimination in sports 80 YEARS ago. Barely anyone alive even remembers segregated baseball firsthand. You seem to be backing my point even more that sports have been a true meritocracy for many generations
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
> Professional sports is a meritocracy that for decades excluded other non-white races from participating I’m sorry, you don’t get to argue that modern sports aren’t a true meritocracy because of policies that existed 80 years ago. You’r
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
I’m guessing you’re referring to Colin Kaepernick? The dude went 2-14 his last year in the NFL! 2-14!!! That fact always seems to be left out by people claiming “racism”. The fact that he didn’t get another job is because sports is a meri
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
How does professional sports go through a DEI phase?? Professional sports are one of the few true meritocracies in the world, where the best players, no matter their race, religion or gender, will play.
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
The real problem is the players don’t give a sh*t about the fans any more. You need no better example of that than the All star game tomorrow. In the 90’s it was an amazing, competitive game between the best players in the league. Now…the p
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CheerpJ 3.1: JVM in WebAssembly(labs.leaningtech.com)
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
I meant they had the infrastructure already when the streaming wars started roughly around Covid.
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
The only 2 companies that made money during the “streaming wars” were Netflix, which had the infrastructure in place already and didn’t need to build anything from scratch, and Sony, which decided not to build any streaming service and just
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Like we see in California, when the government sets a price ceiling, insurance companies just leave. Same in Florida. If the free market truly was allowed run normally, the insurance rates in Pacific Palisades or on the Florida coast woul
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Inhaling Xenon gas is known to be a psychoactive experience, which I only learned about on the show Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia. He claims the atomic structure of Xenon, by pure chance, fits nicely into one of the psychoactive receptors in the
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Yeah, to hell with living wages and working hours that allow a life outside of work.
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
HN crowd, with our stock portfolio, is not like most Americans whose only savings are in bank accounts.
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
And Friedman never pushed an economy of savings, not sure where you’re getting that from. If anything, he wanted people spending faster. * https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/milton-friedman.asp
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
What?? This isn’t correct at all. A deflationary economic environment is bad no matter the fiscal policy or monetary policy we have in place. You propose it would be better if we pushed for savings. Well if we all know that prices in a fe
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Try $250 for a capacitor here in Texas - they know you can’t afford to take a few days to shop around due to the heat. What I’ve found works over the years: get the phone number of a few HVAC guys as you encounter them and offer them $50 to
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Dividends enrich all shareholders as well and at a lower tax rate (15% vs 20%). So why do share buy backs? Because that increases share price and helps execs hit stock price targets which trigger more options, while dividends decrease share
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Their share price growth is only a result of share buy backs. They’ve fired tens of thousands of employees and used the cost savings to buy their own stock back, enriching executives, especially their CEO, whose pay increased 23% from 2022
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Anne was never CEO of YouTube
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Super Size Me 2 was even better than the first one and I haven’t seen it mentioned here at all. It was an interesting and eye opening look at the chicken industry and what goes into those delicious chicken sandwiches we all love.
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by bluedevil2k 2y ago
This and castling strike me as the kind of rules where a King like Henry VIII was losing and decided to castle for the first time ever and his opponent was too scared to say anything to stop it.
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by bluedevil2k 3y ago
EVs undercut one of the main 2 revenue streams of rental car companies - gouging people on gas charges when they don’t fill the tank up themselves. (The other being overpriced insurance). I recently returned an electric rental car to Hertz
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by bluedevil2k 3y ago
> In the letter, the artists say that unchecked AI will set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of their work and prevent them from being fairly compensated Who defines what “fairly compensated” means? It seems the
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by bluedevil2k 3y ago
Less homework? My teenage children are in honors and AP classes and barely have any homework. I think they should have far more homework. When I was their age I spent a few hours a day on homework. Parents I talk to feel the same way. Giv
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by bluedevil2k 3y ago
Really? All these companies have their code written in CUDA and when it comes time to buy more GPUs they can make a decision - buy more Nvidia chips that will “just work”, or buy AMD/Intel and spend time and money writing new, potentia
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by bluedevil2k 3y ago
Fast food prices have already gotten exhorbitent and they think people would be willing to pay more? McDonald’s just released a statement that they’ve pushed prices up too far and as a result are seeing declining revenues. And another wild
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by bluedevil2k 3y ago
Internet killed Sports Illustrated long ago. When I was a teenager, Sports Illustrated was the only way to really learn about players and teams and sports. You didn’t care that the story about a team’s championship came a week after they wo

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