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by bmmayer1 4y ago
Isn't the problem that housing isn't more of a market? In an actual market, margins are competed away and prices drop over time, there's elasticity in supply and demand, and people don't view their 15-year old cars or wh
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by bmmayer1 4y ago
"He doesn't like her, but she likes him" ==> "As a person but you love"
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, fewer than 10k daily users(cnbc.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 5y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
For in person shopping I don't believe this exists. But look I said it "could" be a $billion company. This sort of project looks a lot like early versions of what eventually become $BBB companies. No one can predict the futur
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Could be...think about this: a niche search engine that tells you which individual products are in stock, and where they are, could be very valuable indeed. How many times have you thought, "I need to buy an X right now, but I don&#x27
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
I was in Ukraine yesterday. That is 100% untrue. When you're in a war zone, even if you're in the country but far from the action, the only thing you can think about is your immediate survival and the survival of your friends and
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Humanitarian Aid Logistics in Ukraine(brianontheborder.substack.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 5y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
My first search on Alexandria was "UTC time". Google gives me the current time in UTC, which is all I needed. Alexandria gave me...a lot of links to click to find what I'm looking for. Google search is a lot better than peopl
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Petoria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYIMw6qcBw
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They bought a Caribbean island to start their own country(cnn.com)
10 points by bmmayer1 5y ago|4 comments
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Bad. Bad. Bad. Let's not make the free and open internet a political casualty. Please.
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This is sad, but it's worth noting that even with a human driver, a car that stops suddenly is not responsible for any subsequent rear end collision(s). The colliding driver has the responsibility to keep a safe stopping distance at al
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This game was really fun until you figure out the insight that the card ranks you'll need are known in advance just by counting off to your left. If I know I need an Ace, a 4, a 7, a 10, etc, I can plan the whole game around calling &q
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Whether a government can do something is a different question of whether a government ought to do something...in any event you seem to be proving OP's point, which is that the ability of a government to do something is concerning
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
I'd go one step further: I wouldn't be surprised if China goaded Putin into this specifically to test the West's response without direct exposure.
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Ukraine Asks for Cryptocurrency Donations(twitter.com)
20 points by bmmayer1 5y ago|5 comments
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Best line: "bull markets breed bloviated bull"
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This is fascinating spin on that whole "put yourself in the shoes of someone who has to experience X". Most non-Karens probably do not empathize with normal people named Karen -- how could you? But even surface-level discriminatio
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$250,000 bug bounty awarded by Coinbase(twitter.com)
9 points by bmmayer1 5y ago|2 comments
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Bombshell, if true. Is there a less ideologically motivated source reporting on this?
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Good piece...putting on my econ hat here, it would definitely be more accurate to say that prices are signals that reflect the all-in cost of moving products and their dependencies through a supply chain and to the consumer. These signals
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Evil Wordle: "fixes". I won after 8 guesses ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜ ⬜ https://swag.github.io/evil-wordle/
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Iraq has even more oil deposits. Why doesn't the world speak Arabic?
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
One example here that's missed but I know from personal experience[0]: the Venda language of South Africa has two different words for "Hello" -- men say "Nda" which literally means "I am a lion," and women
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Pandemic innovations that are here to stay(politico.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 5y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This seems like an almost perfect use case for one-way image hashing.
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This is fascinating, but also fascinating that submarines have been operated in real world conditions based purely on sonar for over 100 years.
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Fascinating. It seems interesting that far more innovation has occurred in the service of corporal punishment (from the torture devices of the middle ages to the guillotine to lethal injection) than in the service of suicide (arguably cyani

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