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by dahdum 4y ago
> And, for what it's worth, people who complain about paper straws remind me of sulky toddlers. Just FYI. Banning plastic straws was a useless feel-good measure that raised costs and reduced quality of life (ever so slightly). It ma
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by dahdum 4y ago
I don't find trucks and commercial vehicles getting a pass all that strange, they are far more essential than passenger vehicles. I consider most roads and basically all highways as meant for them, passenger vehicles are the luxury.
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by dahdum 4y ago
Do you feel the same way about Netflix recommendations? I'm curious where you draw the line.
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AAPI is only for the US, where there are about ~19m Asian Americans and ~1.5m Pacific Islanders. Still lopsided but a lot less so.
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Why do you need high res color pass through for the keyboard and mouse? I don’t need to see them while working with a monitor so why with VR?
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by dahdum 4y ago
That's not what the contract says. The $1B breakup was only if bank financing fell through, which it did and has not. The banks are still bound by their commitment letters to provide the required financing, and it doesn't look too
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by dahdum 4y ago
Oh it's definitely not about a billion dollars. He'd pay that out in an instant if he could. The contract he signed and the law itself is not on his side, he may yet slither out of his commitments, but Twitter would never settle f
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by dahdum 4y ago
Twitter has the facts and the law on their side, so they most certainly care about the merits.
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Twitter's lawsuit mentions this, stating only they know who is monetizable. IIRC Musk's lawyers deliberately push the same false equivalency in their filing.
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by dahdum 4y ago
They'll call code enforcement in a city, or the HOA if you have one. You can choose to live in less strict neighborhoods, and they're usually cheaper.
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> There are other credit card payment processors. No other processors are allowed to take their payments either, it's on the Visa/MC network level.
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Sounds like they are adding cookies to their marketing landing pages for enterprise ads. Not that they are running ads on GitHub. Is there something more to this?
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by dahdum 4y ago
There is at least the appearance of bias in these algorithms, with Google being a rather extreme example. It’s not easily explained away by other factors. Study showed a smaller bias towards the right for Yahoo/Outlook. I wouldn’t be t
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by dahdum 4y ago
More wealth isn’t enough to satiate his ego, he absolutely craves legacy. As of now he’ll still be a small footnote in history, kids will likely learn about Henry Ford 150 years from now but Musk isn’t worth much of an appearance. Tesla is
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by dahdum 4y ago
Anyone hiring ex-inmates in large numbers is doing society a great benefit, whether it’s altruism, PR, or both hardly matters to me. It’s not easy managing that cohort and few businesses are even willing to try. Many of those that are have
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by dahdum 4y ago
Very true, but partly due to the broad content variety TikTok has. Their tools to help creators are excellent and they do a lot to promote highly niche content. Instagram is a clunky mishmash of features rolled out in desperation. TikTok ma
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by dahdum 4y ago
Right, it’s mostly the labor economics that make them poor choices outside of dense urban areas. Self driving EV buses could actually solve that suburban transit problem, with private on demand vehicles being a “premium” option. Self drivin
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by dahdum 4y ago
> I always think it's weird how instead of just improving public transit, we've all become fixated on self driving vehicles. To me self driving EV's appear a much more viable way to "solve" public transit everywh
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by dahdum 4y ago
> People are told to “invest for retirement” and to do their financial planning based on 4-8% per year growth after inflation, when the risk free rate has been 2% or less for 20 years. You're trading risk for reward, so the standard
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by dahdum 4y ago
Non-purpose loans like SBLOC aren't allowed to be used to purchase or carry securities. I believe HELOC usually don't carry that restriction, so it would be legal. Probably a terrible idea, but legal.
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Actually, yes. There are laws regulating loans for the purchase of securities. Most jurisdiction ban lending for gambling. How is Wall Street exploiting them in this case? It sounds like they are committing some sort of fraud (perhaps
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by dahdum 4y ago
I'd consider the Serbian employee at risk if I wasn't following any applicable Serbian laws. Their explanation seems to be that even the legal review of these countries would cost far more than any revenue they are making, and the
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by dahdum 4y ago
I believe if you earned during the marriage that’s marital property unless otherwise agreed in a prenup (maybe some states are weird but I think that’s the norm). The scenario is more like owning the house you live in before the marriage, t
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by dahdum 4y ago
Last year the Economist estimated them at about 1.7 million excess mortality. There is extremely strong pressure from the top down to minimize the public death count. The credibility of the party (and Xi personally) relies on their Zero Cov
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by dahdum 4y ago
> I think you're attributing malice to what was more than likely routine mismanagement. I wouldn't call it mismanagement. Many agencies thrive despite regularly delivering these types of experiences. It's a conscious choic
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by dahdum 4y ago
> I mean if we really look at some of the business models for these companies, they're clearly unsustainable. Uber is a prime example of a company that seems destined to fail. Lyft and Uber are both very near profitability and thing
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by dahdum 4y ago
Having seen so many SAAS turn the screws on their customers over the years with absurd price hikes it's refreshing to see such a reasonable one. ZenDesk's 300% hike still stings over a decade later.
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by dahdum 4y ago
I think the main point was that these are not secured loans. The developers operate in a ponzi like fashion, so there is nothing to foreclose on and no cash to claw back by the bank. I’m not sure how big of a problem that really is, but I
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by dahdum 4y ago
Yeah, good call I think.
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by dahdum 4y ago
Here's the mural in gigapixel. https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/gigapixel/en/#4/63.94/-1...

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