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bogomipz
4y ago
So 6600 out of hundreds of millions of bookings a year then?
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4y ago
This all just reads like typical AirBnB PR nonsense. From the company's press release: >"In 2021, over 6,600 guests were suspended from Airbnb for attempting to violate our party ban."[1] Just using the company's own
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4y ago
Might you or someone else have a link to that article?
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4y ago
Perhaps your fervor to declare a conspiracy prevented you from actually reading the first sentence: >"(CNN) — The A380 superjumbo is beloved among aviation fans, thanks to its spacious interior, mighty size and quiet inflight experi
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4y ago
Amazing. There's two guys, one is clearly smoking a cigarette and the other either is smoking crack or weed. Neither of them looks homeless either. They are both wearing stylish clothes. I haven't seen exactly this but I've s
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4y ago
>"I commute in the mornings and evenings on the redline subway in LA, and I've seen just about every substance you can smoke smoked on the platforms or in the traincars." People actually smoke in the train cars? I'm c
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4y ago
Interesting. I understand why the CPU would have needed to do that in the absence of integrated DRAM controller but how does the absence or presence of an MMU relate to this?
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4y ago
This is really helpful thanks. I had a couple of questions. You mentioned: >"So if you own 1% coin you can only run 1% validator and won't be able to flood the network." Is this the reason that companies are pay interest i
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4y ago
Thanks these are helpful in understand that PoS the consensus enables the the financial instrument known as "staking." Would the following be a correct summary then? By holding more tokens you become a preferable verifier node bec
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4y ago
>"The junk bond part ("staking", etc.) definitely was." Might you or someone else explain what staking is? Is this an overloaded term in crypto? I know that there is proof of stake that is used for consensus but I
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4y ago
I'm not ignoring anything. Eminent domain is not at all applicable here. You seem to be ignoring that eminent domain applies to private land in order to make it available for public use. The land involved is already public, it belongs
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4y ago
You didn't actually answer my question. It sounds like you might be confused on what eminent domain is. Eminent domain provides the Federal government with the power to take private property and convert it into public use. There is no
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4y ago
Can you walk me through how the Federal Government could use eminent domain to untangle the water rights? What exactly is the Government going to expropriate as part of eminent domain? There are seven states that depend on the water from th
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4y ago
I've seen the pictures of the "bathtub" lines on Lake Meade and agree it looks scary however I keep seeing conflicting reports of how imminent the dead pool threat is. Here's an example I came across a few weeks ago. I d
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4y ago
>"But the mould ... that was the worst. I'm going to smell of vinegar and clove oil for the rest of my life." Whats the connection between mold, vinegar and clove oil? Are those used to treat or prevent surface mold?
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4y ago
>"Vape cartridges are often only worth the investment because the byproducts of plant trimming and packaging aren't sellable otherwise." Interesting. Can you say what those byproducts are exactly? Is it stems, seeds and a
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4y ago
What does "clean sheet" mean here?
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4y ago
Agreed. The videos is actually relaxing to watch as he's flying over orchards and ravines and their "work" destination happens to exist in the same plush green continuum as the rest of the flight. This work destination also c
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4y ago
I see. Yeah this is known as "debt peonage." It also exists in the Gulf States of the Middle East in the form of the Kafala System where they use imported servitude from the Subcontinent/South Asia. It's how the World Cu
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4y ago
>"This is turning into the West's version of Pakistan's brick kilns." Could you elaborate on this reference? I am not familiar with this.
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4y ago
>"Tech at the moment sure, but there's nothing that stops the geographical location from shifting. There are skilled IT people around the world, there just aren't that many tech hubs like Silicon Valley." Except that
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4y ago
I think the ratio of a match to an actual date though is much much worse. I'm convinced a lot of people use those apps simply as a convenient source of ego boost.
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4y ago
>"Most men get somewhere like 0-4 matches a week and most women get somewhere like 100-1000. That’s a 25x difference best-case scenario and often it’s over 100x. Which is kind of insane considering there are about 50/50 men to
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4y ago
Imagine what the burn rate is on maintaining a property with 25,0000 square feet of living space that sits on 4.5 acres of hilltop land in place that gets quite hot and is currently experiencing a mega drought.
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4y ago
I had to look this up after seeing that eye popping number. Apparently 9 figure homes is a thing amongst the billionaire class: https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/finance/brian-armstrong-...
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4y ago
I read that and had the same thought. "Winters" at least in the context of AI which is where I believe the term in this context originated has been closer to 10 years [1]. It seems as though downturn would be more appropriate. Per
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4y ago
A lot of Doctor offices pushed this Phreesia check in crap during the height of the pandemic, it seemed to me that it was being sold as a "safer" way to check in to see instead of pen and clipboard.
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4y ago
How about login walls for free content? Most news sites allow for a limited number of free articles a month except that their version of free requires I create an account and log in. So a major news site like the nytimes will always surface
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4y ago
The author states: >"Most sites block content with a simple JavaScript-generated facade, and bypassing them is as simple as disabling JavaScript. The Firefox Reader View is fantastic for bypassing paywalls of this type." Is thi
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All of this same abusive workplace culture was also well-documented in Bill Buford's 2006 book "Heat." In the book he does an unpaid internship for Mario Batali at his restaurant Babo. And many of the behaviors that would ult
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