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by conscion 3y ago
Companies don't exist for returning money to shareholders, but issuing stock exists to return money to shareholders. 1. Company issues stock in order raise capital 2. Company uses capital to grow business 3. Company returns money to st
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by conscion 3y ago
I had to go to the ChatGPT main interface and then back to the Godot GPT; and then it picked up my login.
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by conscion 3y ago
This is most likely due to those names not being allowed for files or folders in the Windows file system. MS Teams channels create a matching folder in SharePoint where file attachments are stored.
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by conscion 3y ago
Being paid for labor is not usually considered "profit".
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by conscion 3y ago
You have to remember where you are. Hacker News is going to have some selection bias on people who _enjoy_ their job. By trying to stay up-to-date on the latest software news, they're probably career driven people. Imagine how many peo
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by conscion 3y ago
> A lot of the dense new housing has essentially zero guest parking often making it difficult to visit my friends difficult to visit your friends ... for free. There's probably paid parking somewhere nearby willing to take your mone
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by conscion 3y ago
If you read OPs article, they imply that a lot of cigarettes addictive quality is due to the MAO inhibitors, not the nicotine
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by conscion 4y ago
> 70 percent a certain VC constantly shaking his fist > And this is after aggressively curating my feed If you're "aggressively curating [your] feed", just mute/block them
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by conscion 4y ago
They should, and since they work for a government agency, they do regardless of the union. If they don't like how their department is run, the can work to elect politicians who support their department. The true issue with public union
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by conscion 4y ago
This reads just like the plot of Neuromancer
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by conscion 4y ago
My guess is a typo and they just meant TC (Total Compensation; their base salary + any bonus/stock)
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by conscion 4y ago
Profit is a strong incentive when there's active competition. When there's not competition, for-profit business turn to extracting rents on captive customers. Health care larger is not a competitive market. Lots of customers only
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by conscion 4y ago
Except he then cheats on the cardio test, thus reinforcing that the genetic test was valid and he shouldn't be allowed on the trip.
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by conscion 4y ago
From the Wikipedia article [0][1] > In binomial nomenclature, a nomen dubium (Latin for "doubtful name", plural nomina dubia) is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. [0]: https://en.wikipedia
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by conscion 4y ago
In the NYC there's already a driver co-op for ride sharing: https://drivers.coop/
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by conscion 4y ago
See this reply [0], they re-published it as part of a holiday "top 10" [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083279
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by conscion 4y ago
Spectacle is how Musk brands and motivates his companies. Tesla was originally climate change and lately has been self-driving. Space X is colonizing Mars. Twitter will be "radical transparency". Even if Twitter does the exact sam
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Ask HN: Is there a URL format that allows sending messages directly to ChatGPT?
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by conscion 4y ago
Austen, I bet it takes you a ton of time to write all this up and I want you to know it's appreciated. It's really insightful to see your perspective and insight on all these topics. So thank you
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by conscion 4y ago
The biggest problem with these stack rankings is that the variation isn't evenly distributed. Across the entirety of Google engineering half are below average, but they might all be in single division/group/team and you may b
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by conscion 4y ago
How do you use copilot to make suggestions about refactoring existing code? My understanding was you just give copilot stubs of code and it auto-completes.
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by conscion 4y ago
Musk's goal is that "the factory is the product" [0]. He's always focused on production efficiencies. This was brought up in the Tesla bot presentation also where they're trying to reduce the number of unique parts.
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by conscion 4y ago
Wikipedia. They have both pages on current events [0] and events from the past year [1]. The year page also has sub-pages for specific topics or counties. So if you're only interested in events from the USA, you can look at only that p
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by conscion 4y ago
This is only half true. From Wikipedia [1], the name did originally stand for Magic The Gathering Online eXchange, but the domain was only used for that purpose for a couple months in 2007. When it launched as a Bitcoin exchange in 2010, th
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by conscion 4y ago
They're implying that the trains would be filled with homeless people.
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by conscion 4y ago
> but Elon just refuses to pay, what happens? ... It's going to be pretty hard for a court to enforce getting financing, and getting the merger through. This wouldn't be hard. It's not like Musk is sitting on a big pile of
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by conscion 4y ago
My pet theory is that people don't spend much time around babies and young children when they're growing up so have less comfort around the idea of themselves being parents. This tracks with the "wealthier" pattern also
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by conscion 4y ago
Notion has export function that allows exporting your entire workspace to Markdown, HTML, or PDF. I do it once a month so that. (It'd be really nice though if Notion had an automated solution to back up to Google Drive, etc.)
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by conscion 5y ago
Recently I've been using Wikipedia as my news source. They have both a current events page [1] and a page summarizing this year's events [2]. I feel like Wikipedia's goal of being an encyclopedia forces out a lot of editorial
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by conscion 5y ago
For me, it's two things. The first is the keyboard shortcuts. The forward-slash shortcut for adding blocks is both simple and powerful. Along with AutoHotKey, I'm able to format and navigate around without ever leaving the keyboar

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