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by dahdum 4y ago
FDIC insurance is to protect consumers and small businesses. I think of it as the same concept as accredited investors, once you have a certain amount of money, you get the freedom to dive into the shark pool and responsibility to manag
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by dahdum 4y ago
TARP arguably turned a profit, so a bailout isn't necessarily bad. Might be better to let them fly high, get burned, and then let investors get wiped out while keeping customers whole. What we don't want is socialized losses, but
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by dahdum 4y ago
What are the executives getting paid so much for, if not to manage complicated financial risk? I'm no banker, but as a layperson, I was certainly aware that inflation was possible. I figured it was a given (M2 growth and low productivi
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by dahdum 4y ago
True, but web fonts don’t have frequent critical patches. You can’t expect to use Oracle software without paying ever increasing maintenance in perpetuity. Well, maybe some , but certainly not any database products.
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by dahdum 4y ago
A federal rescue is fine by me, as long as the government turns a profit (like TARP), and the investors/management get clobbered before anyone else. Otherwise we are just encouraging more bad behavior.
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by dahdum 4y ago
Their success is due to their tight focus though isn’t it? They’ve been around for 40 years and deeply entrenched in the VC ecosystem. I am very curious whether their poor risk management is new , or if they’ve been playing fast and loose
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by dahdum 4y ago
He's a provocateur who likely carefully chose his words knowing the backlash would raise his personal profile, while giving just a bare thread of deniability about what he really meant . I have no doubt he's relishing the attenti
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by dahdum 4y ago
He's not a politician, he's a political commentator for The Daily Wire. Incendiary language is how he sells books and ad clicks.
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by dahdum 4y ago
Probably a reference to Knowles. > During his speech on Saturday, Knowles told the crowd, “For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” Knowles
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by dahdum 4y ago
I hope you didn’t register a critical and/or revenue driving domain with them, as others pointed out you are taking a larger risk than you may think.
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by dahdum 4y ago
The mistake was getting caught? Eich’s initial response was that was intentional and ethical. Until it went viral and his view evolved. Granted, I’m not too keen to give him or Brave much benefit of doubt. https://twitter.com&#x2
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Seems like a good place to chime in with my personal anxiety about AI: that each citizen will have an AI assigned to spy on them full time. Reminds me of the Culture novels by Iain M Banks. They use AI drones to prevent criminals from
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by dahdum 4y ago
> So you're judging them by their perceived level of caring and knowledge, even though you have no evidence of it, and the outcome was better than expected. They solicited donations under false pretenses for PR points and then gave
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by dahdum 4y ago
> prove compliance of a less invasive lip oriented device would be lower than current invasive devices I can't prove it, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. The interstitial CGMs like Libre/Dexcom are invasive (brief
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by dahdum 4y ago
> We could lament them shutting it down, but why not thank them for doing this for 20 years? We did? Everyone talking about how shitty and staid they've become is comparing to how great they were .
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by dahdum 4y ago
So the vendor refuses to sell a support plan and requires you to purchase a brand new machine? That does sound monopolistic and abusive but I don’t see how Microsoft is to blame.
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Bing suffers from being so historically unpopular that from a branding perspective it's synonymous with failure. AI integration is exactly the type of feature that could upend that. Google is the lackadaisical incumbent, too afrai
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Then Germany sends back their own bills? That's a bit like Russia sending Ukraine bills for destroyed military equipment.
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by dahdum 4y ago
> One of the greatest tragedies of the Web is that all its basic building blocks have been stagnant for decades. Improving the web hurts app store commissions. Apple/Google can't monetize your super awesome fancy web app, but t
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by dahdum 4y ago
Short quips on HN are usually relevant beyond the headline of the article. I assumed they were responding to some point the article was trying to make and went looking for it.
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by dahdum 4y ago
Yeah, I guess if you only read the headline before commenting it makes sense.
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by dahdum 4y ago
I interpreted the article as stressing how difficult, yet important, it is to establish what works aren't in copyright so that content creators are able to freely use them with confidence. I'm not sure how you read it is as the op
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by dahdum 4y ago
Yes, because he's explaining all the different aspects of a "perfect" cookie and giving you options to dial in your personal version. He did 100 tests and 1,536 cookies for the article. I get not everyone is a foodie that car
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by dahdum 4y ago
He's bought several Teslas according to news reports, so $15k/each in FSD could amount to ~$100k. His latest EV is a Lucid Air, sounds like he's done with Musk for a while.
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by dahdum 4y ago
It's buried near the bottom of the page, but here's your huckleberry: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-best-chocolate-chip... Lots of trash out there but Serious Eats is good quality.
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by dahdum 4y ago
The personal backstory and other "fluff" is actually really useful when selecting a recipe. I was laid up with covid/rebound while traveling over the holidays and lived off Hainanese Chicken Rice delivery. Now I want to make
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by dahdum 4y ago
You can release on every headset but 90% of your market is Oculus and they'll collect 15-30% commission on every sale.
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Does it nag you constantly and do everything it can to steal data from you? I remember having to spend a little while de-shittifying it, they push the Shopping/Rewards stuff pretty hard and clutter up the UI. You can't get ri
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Zuck was too early. Who will be best positioned when these killer apps start coming out? Meta has like 90% headset market share, and while Apple may release something "cool" with AR it's unlikely to be a direct threat. M
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by dahdum 4y ago
I've had success using a virtual personal trainer from Flexit. I do 30 minute sessions at around $35 each. I have a nice power rack / barbell setup at home, but you don't need much equipment for a worthwhile session. My partn

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