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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Counter-counter-claim: The existence of Bitcoin doesn’t reduce the energy use of traditional banks - in fact, it increases it. Bitcoin is not just responsible for the energy used in mining, but also the energy used in its voluminous interac
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Sometimes clubs get evicted so the building can be turned into condos. This happens in San Francisco too. In a city where building is limited, clubs are often located in “blighted” areas that are ripe for redevelopment with few NIBMYs.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Wall Street underwriters are making tons of money on SPACs: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacs-rescued-wall-street-from-...
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
It’s worth mentioning that many props don’t allow the legislature to override them period, even with a unanimous vote. The 7/8ths rule, while unusual, is less extreme than not allowing any vote at all. It’s essentially an “oops we draf
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
I think there’s a common misunderstanding about how tax write-offs work. If you donate x dollars, and your marginal tax rate is t , you end up losing x - xt dollars. That means you have less money than if you didn’t donate, even after ac
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Apple ad revenue projected to be $11 billion in 2025: https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2019/11/15/apple-ad... Why is this hard to believe? Digital content like apps have some of the hig
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
When you go to Apple’s App Store, you see ads for apps. If you click on an ad and install the app, Apple gets paid for that conversion, and that will happen whether or not you’ve opted into “cross-app tracking”. If you see an ad for the sam
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Apple added an opt-in requirement for Facebook’s ad business but not for its own. Users, on average, will stick with the default. How is that not picking winners and losers?
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Because enough money is at stake to make it worthwhile to pay the lawyers, I’d imagine. > Wouldn’t they just let users opt-out of the wanted to? Users already could opt-out. I imagine the lawsuit will be about Apple’s recent changes, whi
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
I expect the lawsuit will be about how Apple is requiring users to opt-in for companies to be able to track ad conversions in some places but not others. Will require opt-in to track: Facebook ad conversion to buy an item in Wish’s store Fa
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Sure, “tracking without consent” is an easy one.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
You said: > by tracking user behavior without consent so that they. can sell targeted ads, and by keeping users engaged with the ad delivery platform by presenting content algorithmically selected to provoke emotional reactions. Some thi
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
You’re just expressing that you have some beef with the company, not making an argument about the lawsuit. You could similarly talk about how Apple depends on sweatshops to increase margins.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Looking at the company’s behavior and incentive structure is definitely more relevant than trying to read the tea leaves of motivations. Facebook’s business is getting paid by companies to help them sell goods and services to consumers. Fac
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
One can just as easily say “Apple doesn’t care about the users, they’re just trying to make money selling phones and getting a bigger cut of transactions that happen on the phone”. These sorts of statements are somewhat true, but ultimately
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
This wasn’t always true years ago when decisions about building these factories were made. Tesla has had a cash crunch more than once in its history.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Of course not, finance people make a bunch of spreadsheets and then the factories poof into existence. The regulatory credits factor into those spreadsheets.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
I didn’t interpret the comment that way. If a company is trying to be cash flow neutral, they could (very roughly) consider the net income to be the amount left over for capex.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Maybe you’ve used the “muted words” setting sometime in the last to hide the hashtag?
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Is money really the problem for Intel? The world is awash with capital. Intel’s bonds are yielding 3-4%, so they can easily raise more.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
This reminds me of the recent attempt to blame TeamCity for the Solarwinds hack, because TeamCity’s CEO is Russian [0]. A disturbing trend in journalism, IMO. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021&
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Tesla’s inflated stock price has already secured the future of the company, allowing it to raise $10 billion in cash with minimal dilution. Somebody will be left holding the bag when it crashes, but at least the company is succeeding at its
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Hours of video watched per month is metric Netflix tries to optimize, because it predicts churn. If a customer is spending decreasing hours on Netflix and watching Disney instead, they are more likely to cancel. Goodhart's law applies.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
They got where they are by raising from investors on the premise they would 10x the money, and also hired top talent with stock options that are only worth anything if the company similarly increases in value. If ambition wasn’t in their DN
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
I recall reading a similar argument about the miracles of one of the Catholic saints (Joan of Arc, perhaps)?
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
Where did you get those numbers? I read this comment earlier today, quoted 2.7% to a friend later, then realized I didn’t know what the source was and dug up your comment again.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
It’s really messed up that people worried about their privacy are switching from WhatsApp (which has e2e enabled so nobody can read your messages) to Telegram (which generally doesn’t). People whose messages were secure are now going to get
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
The sticker price is very high but nobody pays it. It’s free even if you are uninsured, and if you are insured Gilead will reimburse you for any copay. I think the production cost is not that much, so the high price is just a means of extra
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
The problem with “do both”: if you give your control group PrEP, then you won’t be able to get data to support the vaccine’s efficacy. A trial requires enough infections in the control group to show the vaccine is better.
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by dhnajsjdnd 6y ago
I agree it would be better in the end after it’s approved. I’m thinking about getting the ethics board to allow a trial where you have to give half of the participants a control (and the other half a possibly-ineffective vaccine), when a kn

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