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by creato 6y ago
If some engineer at Rockstar had done this work, they would have gotten their regular salary and probably not much else, which probably would have worked out to less than $10k for the amount of time spent on this issue.
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by creato 6y ago
It's annoying to have to constantly wonder if I'm saying something offensive when I absolutely do not intend that. In this case, I wouldn't have thought anything was wrong with "mail lady" and might have said the sa
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by creato 6y ago
What is your point? Would you rather be in North Korea or South Korea?
724.
by creato 6y ago
Are you saying grocery stores, cars, and hospitals only exist because of the "USD ecosystem", and would not exist if Bitcoin were dominant?
725.
by creato 6y ago
> At the same time, they have not served to control the epidemic in the places where they have been most vigorously imposed. In the US, they have – at best – protected the "non-essential" class from COVID, while exposing the es
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by creato 6y ago
I don't think anyone does, but companies are absolutely desperate to meet the demands of (a subset of) society regarding diversity. That desperation manifests in funny ways.
727.
by creato 6y ago
This article basically boils down to "scientists suck, the government sucks, truck drivers have everything figured out". Pretty much the opposite of what you are suggesting. There's a layer of humility which obfuscates this a
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by creato 6y ago
> In the standard historical accounts, the way that the bomb’s gun mechanism worked was by shooting a cylindrical “male” uranium projectile into a concave, stationary uranium target. This act of atomic coitus created a mass sufficient to
729.
by creato 6y ago
I don't think San Francisco will ever be Detroit. The geography constrained SF from physically expanding to the point where it can't sustain itself, unlike Detroit. I think more likely is hitting some low point, and then a crackdo
730.
by creato 6y ago
Does that matter? Even if it's a small portion of people that care, that's still a loss in sales. The goal of most ads is presumably to upset exactly zero people.
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by creato 6y ago
> but they needed to build something to help with these spikes. They could have eventually I think, but just a tough business frankly! You mean, like, they could charge a slightly higher price most of the time, so they can shelter their
732.
by creato 6y ago
I don't think it does. I think you are misreading it.
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by creato 6y ago
Why do you say it is carefully worded? It seems like a basic description of how the internet and how browsers work.
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by creato 6y ago
> Parasitic investors have strangled cryptocurrency. If you think Bitcoin can currently serve any purpose other than making rich people more rich, you're a fool. This is an inevitable result of deflationary currency.
735.
by creato 6y ago
Even if we assume you are right, how do you think this would work out in practice? Many police in the US won't even enforce mask mandates, you think they'll enforce travel restrictions on literally thousands of state border crossi
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by creato 6y ago
It seems like with the possible exception of Asian countries, the variation in pandemic outcomes is pretty close to random. No western country has implemented any policy consistently enough to learn from it. How many times have we some
737.
by creato 6y ago
I think most of the "AI ethics" thing is two things: first, for people that are actual AI practitioners, it makes "AI" seem a lot more powerful and interesting than it is. I think AI is a small part of the example proble
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by creato 6y ago
I don't understand where you are going with this. I can think of two significant things that would make sense to do here: - More transmission lines with the rest of the US to spread the load. - Improve the natural gas infrastructure to
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by creato 6y ago
Stop giving cover to politicians that think government always sucks and private business is always better? I think that's true most of the time, but not when it comes to things like this. Preparing for a once in decades event is
740.
by creato 6y ago
Lower energy prices and lower meat prices seem like they would reduce inequality, not increase it. A few more of the things seem "inequality neutral" to me (vaccines, electric vehicles). That's about half the list (and IMHO,
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by creato 6y ago
This is nothing compared to obliging the Chinese government when Google backed out there.
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by creato 6y ago
> the FBI's campaign of ... murder of black leaders Source?
743.
by creato 6y ago
You had the last 3 phones for ~4 years each as well? Android has only existed for ~10 years... Look, it might very well be a shitty phone. Just saying that after 4 years I'd cut any phone a break. Especially since phones got impractica
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by creato 6y ago
A pixel 2 is a 4 year old phone... I wouldn't be surprised if your battery is performing at a fraction of its original capability, and that might be slowing down performance too. It's not like Apple is immune to this either: http
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by creato 6y ago
There are similar and even more extreme examples from when war was definitely not "buttons": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce I think the sibling comment to yours is a better explanation.
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by creato 6y ago
What search terms should a site like this show up for? I poked around and all I found was short generic bios and links to social media and photo sites. I don't understand what searches should return a site like this, other than the per
747.
by creato 6y ago
Isn't this exactly what happened?
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by creato 6y ago
They only look instant. Behind the scenes, settlement is taking more time, and if settlement fails, the transaction could be reversed. They do this by taking on the settlement failure risk, which is exactly what Robinhood does, and is exact
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by creato 6y ago
You seem to think an antitrust enforcement is a shortcut to achieving progressive goals. It isn't. If anything, antitrust enforcement is an attempt to save market capitalism from itself.
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by creato 6y ago
Was that an accident/mistake? If so, the fines may be (should be...) much different in this context, which is clearly not a mistake.

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