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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Why is this on front page HN? There is no concrete information here
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
The fact that he does that instead of focusing on what he is already in charge of is egregious. If I was a Block shareholder looking at this, I’d be upset. It’s been years of him going on side quests like Tidal, blockchain, weekly etc. whil
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Private capital isn’t some dark box, at least half of it is pension funds, endowment funds, insurance companies and non profits. Then there are private credit arms of banks, sovereign wealth funds and family offices of wealthy individuals.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Private credit is just some guy skimming 3% while risking your pensions.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Well technically they don’t own the debt, the SPVs that own the data centers do. The giants just have long term commitments, but if shit hits the fan, it’s not the tech giants but the banks that lent the money to the SPVs that are at risk.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
There are plenty of sites that track analyst performance, some paid others not.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> And who hasn't seen productivity gains from more established AI technology You have to be very careful about claiming productivity gains. There may have been some instances of gains in a specific part of a workflow but does it slo
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Again the point isn’t that there is a pathway to healthy and cheap food. The point is how much you have to do to get there. A few years ago you could shop at a single store and not meal prep to achieve that, now you do.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Wall Street “analysts” are as right about the market as a coin flip. Downgrading a price target from $30 to $28 when the stock has trended from $20 to $15 in the last 12 months or raising the target from $450 to $500 when the stock price gr
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
I can’t edit the comment but I think people have a reactionary response to this comment, and are comparing grocery prices at the cheapest store available to them. The comment was meant as a comparison to the same store prices in 2022. If yo
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
And how much did that cost in 2022?
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
I don’t have Walmart to go to but I do have a Costco. But like I mentioned in a different comment, I can’t do normal groceries there because of the space I have + how much I can consume before it all goes bad. I still shop for a lot of thin
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
I don’t have a Trader Joe’s around me. Sure I drive 20 mins away to one and then spend another hour going to a different place to shop for all the things Trader Joe’s doesn’t have, then yeah I could get things for cheaper. But that’s the p
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Bay Area was the highest cost of living areas in 2022 as well. You seemed to have missed the point.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
One more W for Apple. > in addition to the LG Monitor App Installer, they also install McAfee Scam Detector. LG's own app requires full access to all system resources, which potentially includes all your online activity, logins, har
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
SF Bay Area. I will say that these are not Costco prices or a store where I’d be couponing, but it’s not Whole Foods either. I would love to go to Costco but unfortunately I do not have the space to accommodate the bulk quantities that I’d
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
I would love to have space like this. Then I realized that every single one of them has house plants, which would mostly not survive if it was me.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Everything costs too much. I went to the grocery store yesterday I spent $50 to get a packet of bread, a dozen eggs, two yogurts, two yellow onions, a jalapeno, two tomatoes and a bunch of parsley. This covers breakfast for 2 days for my pa
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
While yes the emissions are down from 2007 and majority of it has been driven by the shift away from coal in power generation. However, every other sector has been rather flat in terms of emissions since the 90s. When you account for the fa
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit This should be much higher. A class action lawsuit shouldn’t be worth less than what these people can make scalping a single Taylor Swift co
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> in order to have paid too much there needs to be cheaper options “Paid too much” from a consumer standpoint doesn’t need to have viable cheaper options. It’s about consumer expectations and results. If eggs in the grocery store cost $
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
In a way, shit quality/service is basically a form of high prices. If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
We can, but if we’re not careful, it can come back. After eradicating polio for decades, we saw a case for the first time in 2022. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/ And given the drop in rates of i
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> BTW Median income in India is about $3K a year I explicitly mentioned income per person. This is household income, which obviously will be higher than individual income. And as far as connection pooling goes, India already has 88% 4G a
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
People struggling for food, water, medicine, shelter will not in any world spend 10% of their income on internet. Thinking that they will is out of touch with reality and would only be a valid chain of thought when you’ve not seen what real
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
There is a real reason behind this. A lot of games before, used to be built on custom game engines and were heavily optimized. When you build on unreal 5, optimization is poorly done or completely ignored. On top of that, reliance on upscal
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> The number of people who are not covered by above-mentioned fiber/cell network, and can afford Starlink as it is priced now, will be extremely small People vastly overestimate the purchasing power in places like India. Most of the
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> but consumers are also demanding better graphics. Modern games have visually worse graphics than games that came out 10+ years ago. Beyond that, the success of a lot of games recently with non AAA budgets shows that gamers aren’t deman
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
SF EMS is funded partially through the general fund and other bond measures, with additional billing to cover the rest. I believe it’s like $2K for a ride.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
There is no reason why this should be a blocker to solving the problem though. 80% of the population still lives in an urban area. You could create a system that works for the majority of the country’s population and then can figure out the

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