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cool, i'd suggest the only links you need at the top are 'How it Works', 'Pricing', 'Blog' (for marketing), and 'Contact' (for sales). (edit:) oh yes, and also your call to action, 'Get API
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note that without js turned on, your "burger" menu doesn't even show up, so links to other pages aren't accessible. you seem to be targeting developers, so there's a good chance a number of them browse with privacy
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i also had a recent bout, probably omicron. 2 days of fever and fatigue, and then a couple days of light coughing to get all the resultant phlegm out. the kicker is that i feel better afterwards, due to the fever (i'm guessing) also
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any sort of decreased circulation can cause tingling. you may have had underlying cardiovascular/pulmonary issues for a long time, and are just now noticing it because covid.
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you're missing the underlying crux of the problem, which is scale. at small scale, authority can be roughly verified amongst a group. someone is good at building houses, another person is good at teaching, one is trustworthy, another i
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CSS Grid – Masonry Layout Proposal
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you're right, the universe has deemed you and me to not be as extraordinarily lucky as trump. i get that our primal belief in our own agency creates strong cognitive dissonance against the centrality of chance in our lives. it's a
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i wasn't claiming thiel was dumb, just that in his case, luck overwhelmed, and that he's not as smart and talented as he'd want the world to believe (that everything he's achieved is solely due to his own brilliance only
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ah yes, i didn't mean to imply an email address specifically, just that the other username would be mostly equivalent, if slightly inferior, to the phone number. i'm really glad that they're moving away from phone number as i
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thanks random internet person! in my infinite modesty however, i'll decline to boast about my many amazing and wonderful achievements. but y'know, just between you and me, i did once receive a canned award from my state senator AN
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from what (little) i remember, he was pretty self-aware in all of the bible that i read growing up. i'd guess a supreme being who wasn't really "born" would always have had self-awareness.
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i suspect a number of narcissistic christians secretly wonder if they're actually the second coming. it wouldn't surprise me if thiel were in that group.
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i'd expect it to be much like imessages/facetime on apple products. it can use an email username or a telephone number. the telephone number predominates (because it also does sms/mms), but either can be used on any apple pro
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sure, information has many channels and routes into our brains, so that's not unusual or a criticism of how you learned that bit of information. but the idea that you try to avoid competition is straight from a first-year strategy cour
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thank god for the 23% of us who have some good sense!
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thiel isn't that talented or smart, but he did get hella lucky, and that's a sore point for him. so he's used his paypal riches on an extended PR campaign to make everyone believe he's something more than he is. literall
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that's an interesting application of tarot. hopefully my comment didn't come across as belittling such a novel, non-supernatural use.
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why have parties at all? think about who the party serves and to what ends. is it for the people? no. it's for the politically ambitious to more easily coalesce power. parties are an indirection the populace doesn't need. it'
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ubi is ultimately about control: continue to extract wealth upwards and everyone who's left gets locked onto the money-printing teat (so that taxes don't even need to rise for said wealthy). it has its own logic: the already power
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the problem with studies like this, and what makes it useless practically, is that right at the outset it's premised on the liberal-conservative dichotomy, a made-up linearization of the complex sociopolitical positions of complex soci
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to be more precise, it's not that switching cost is zero, it's that the marginal cost of switching is small. the initial switch into ridehailing is a huge cost, particularly around opportunity costs, but adding another app is a re
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no, whether id is easy to get or not is entirely beside the point. by constitution, we're decidedly not a papers-please nation, despite the slippery slope you seem to support. voting should be plentiful, accessible, subsidized, and u
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as much as the MBA is maligned in tech/startup circles, ~90% of startup "learnings" is taught in business school, mostly in marketing classes, because business is mostly marketing (and the 4 P's are the pillars of market
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37% of npr's revenues is direct corporate sponsorship. another 1/3 comes from member sations. of that third, ~20% is direct ad buys and ~40% is individual contributions, except "individuals" really means wealthy (corpora
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yah, it's so easy and you still got it wrong. you've listed 2017's version of the average member station funding, not npr's funding. even so, only 4% of that is public, while npr itself gets no direct public funding. n
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npr is funded mostly by advertising (they call it sponsorship to gussy it up a bit, but it's still advertising). something like 2% comes from public sources. the rest generally comes from member stations paying for content, who in turn
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i personally have no dog in the gun debate (i don't like guns but generally support 2nd amendment rights), but this story is propaganda for npr, which has taken a steep nosedive in quality and objectivity over the past few years. they
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yah, that's what i did when i first got into rails (~3.0/3.1): read 5-10 of the guides while working through michael hartl's tutorial and reading/watching a number of railscasts (which are dated now, but still have good
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99+% is a big number no matter how you try to slice it. people on the brink should assess and mitigate their own risk, with reliable, honest information and help where needed, not paternalistic overreach. people are dying, full stop, every
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> "I'm afraid I'll get a positive PCR test and ruin it for them (since they require tests or vaccine cards most places, as I understand it)" CA is batshit crazy over covid for mediopolitical reasons, but at least here
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