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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
People shouldn’t be tricked into taking on tens of thousands of dollars in depreciation by committing to many years of monthly payments. Yes this system is good for car manufacturers, but no I don’t think that’s worth how much it ruins the
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
To my mind, a freezer is a pretty low priority item if you are trying to mitigate “shit hits the fan” tail risk. You can easily survive without a freezer, and a dependency on a freezer isn’t a good thing in that scenario. Then you just have
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
IMO calling someone your direct report carries with it the connotation that you also have non-direct reports. Maybe I’ve been misinterpreting but I’ve been hearing it as a subtle way someone can bring up how high they are on the org chart.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
I believe that illiilliiililil is expressing a somewhat complex set of opinions: 1) They genuinely don’t like the 1619 project. 2) They understand that the Pulitzer is supposed to be an award for good journalism. 3) They believe that journa
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
The fact that some risks don’t bite us is not a reason to ignore risks. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/14/a-failure-but-not-of-p...
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
ChowNow and qMenu are apps that restaurants can pay a small fee to use, that provide a similar experience to users as the big apps. The selection of restaurants is more limited but there are enough options for me on there in the Bay Area. S
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
It seems safer for a big person to ride a too-small bike than a small person to ride a too-big bike.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
It’s interesting that you can call the clerk to determine that a record is sealed - it sounds like a potential vulnerability where sealed records can be exposed by social engineering.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
If you look at the Uber 2019 annual report, page 64, you can see that revenue was $14.1B, cost of revenue was $7.1B, and sales and marketing was $4.6B. $14.1B - $7.1B - $4.6B = $2.4B Driver bonuses fall under cost of revenue, and user promo
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
In a world of multinational conglomerates, it’s very common for a business to have a supplier that is owned by the owner of a competitor in a different line of business.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
The way to falsify it is to track down the identity of the human author of every internet comment. Simple! To get philosophical I won’t say that I “know” it’s happening. Most of the world consists of things I don’t know about. The best I ca
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
That theory is discussed in other threads. I’m just responding to the “funding the competition” argument, which is a different angle.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
If the amount of revenue you are going to give is a rounding error for AWS, you are not going to move the needle on the funding of their other projects. This should be a non-factor in your decision-making process.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
A lot of people are used to eating at a workplace cafeteria or eating out as part of their normal routine. In my case I’ve shifted to ordering delivery or takeout for some meals which I almost never did before. I recognize that I’m privile
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
People would say things like “losing money on every ride” but this didn’t appear to be correct based on the released financials. It was more like “making some money on rides overall, but spending tons of money on overhead”. Losing ride volu
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
I’m a pretty successful Silicon Valley SWE. I enthusiastically use psychedelics, but I’m not going to mention them to my coworkers.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
I’ve heard, I think many years ago, this fact there is not much risk or star collisions when galaxies collide. But I wonder, given more recent knowledge of how common exoplanets are, if there is a more significant risk of disruptions to the
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
Have you been reading the mass comments/tweets on political stories lately? Some of it does seem bot-like to me. I don’t have a strong opinion about how much this is happening. But I know I could personally run a bot that generates pol
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
I found this article’s central claim to be unsupported by its content. It talks about lot about how some specific uses of electricity are increasing, but it doesn’t say how the absolute magnitude of those uses compares to overall carbon emi
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
I think it’s important to have a solid answer to this question. When people believe that a plan is weak on the details, this is what they are talking about. It gives the impression that the promises of the plan stated upfront (we will save
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
While this dynamic may exist in some form, I don’t think it’s a powerful enough affect to stop the spread. There is not a firm dichotomy of spreaders vs. isolators and the composition probably changes over time, such that the virus still h
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
If they’re being “taken care of”, how is the plan to eliminate their jobs supposed to save money?
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
My understanding is Apple has a pretty good margin while most other manufacturers are hardly profitable. It’s a competitive industry. Nobody is charging twice as much as they need to because nobody has that kind of market power.
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
The US has a federal minimum wage of $7.25. Maybe some state has a lower minimum wage law, but if so it isn’t in force. If I were making minimum wage I’d probably be more in the “buy an iPhone SE every 4 years” rather than “buy a top iPhone
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by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
Lots of people are spending many hours a week on their phones. And that time is noticeably more enjoyable with a better-functioning phone. I think it’s rational to compare the cost of phone to the cost of something like a car, appliance, or
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by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
If you liked Subnautica, try Outer Wilds.
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by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
It’s common for entities to face legal action in multiple theaters from different entities stemming from the same events. A well-known example is OJ Simpson first fighting a criminal case, and later a civil case. Here, the SEC is an adminis
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by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
The site is called News so I think it’s worth mentioning when something isn’t news.
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by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I don’t think we have a problem in this country where the interests of landowners are underrepresented.
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by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
It depends on the prospects of the company and how good investment opportunity are. For a company in a fast-growing market it’s probably better to invest and expand the empire. For a more mature company it’s probably better to return the ca

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