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by dntrkv 5y ago
> Education... we have more and arguably better, but more expensive. There are many thousands of people on this forum that have gotten a free education and in turn, one of the best careers in history from that free education that would n
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And not only that, a lot of the improvements in these tools, services, and supply chains means you can design, prototype, and mass manufacture a product without buy-in from a major corp. So many of the new products I buy are designed by sma
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly... Doesn't seem to be working.
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Just like FB's bad reputation drives people away?
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Get those laws passed first and then open pandoras box.
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> 1/3 of emissions come China which has an autocratic leadership accountable neither to its people or the global community. The US generates 2x more emissions per capita (15.5 vs 7 tons). Australia generates more than the US (17), a
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It's not completely manual. If you have cities A, B, and C and you have an existing route from city B to C, and you add one from A to C, it will automatically choose the optimal route by utilizing existing roads and connect the new cit
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Pets.com had a lifetime revenue of $6M. Chewy.com did $7.1B last year. That’s the difference between 1999 and today.
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There is no way any of the FANG companies care about keeping their campuses occupied for the sole purpose of justifying their costs. If remote work resulted in happier employees and by extension more productive employees that trade-off woul
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Plumas Forest is one of my favorite parts of CA to explore, so these fires have been difficult to watch. My favorite place to camp is this remote spot on the Feather River, luckily it hasn’t been touched by the fires yet, but it’s only a ma
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Benton's acts were worse? In what way? Viola "anonymously" called Muslim people scum (not really anonymous because she used her work email and exposed info about her location / job). He called her out, in a very public w
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They specifically point out the increase in crime is not from the Airbnb tourists.
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> As bad as it was for your father it doesn’t sound like the taxi driver paid him to commit criminal acts he was otherwise unaware he was committing. Just like 99.999% of Uber drivers haven't experienced that situation either. Do yo
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What skin do you have in the game? My father drove a taxi before Uber/Lyft and that shit was way more exploitative. He was paid shit ($600/week was considered good), didn't get any flexibility (once you're on the clock,
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That was also 14 years ago when recreational cannabis was illegal in every state. Since then, 18 states have legalized cannabis. It's only a matter of time before it's legal at the federal level.
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Well, in my case, I don't believe our universe is a simulation, but I'm open to discussing the idea for fun and it does seem like a possibility. Whereas, most people that believe in creationism, believe it 100% to be the case and
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That’s what makes it so appealing to me. It was one of the most depressing places I’ve visited. Slab City is even worse. It blew away my expectations. I thought the documentaries and coverage of it were overblown, but no, that place is more
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> Not many success stories out there. Where are you getting your information? There are entire businesses built solely on top of FB/Insta/etc ads. I went 15+ years on the internet without buying anything from an ad, and then in
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Outside of places that have serious economic/societal issues, generalizing cities as being "nice" or not is absurd. It all depends on the crowd you're around and/or which part of town you are in. Especially annoying
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Those profits incentivize them to keep spam off their networks. The only incentive US Gov entities have is keeping their contracts alive and the money flowing in without ever needing to turn a profit.
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Every time I watch that I get so emotional. Imagine being in his shoes. Stuck underwater for days, knowing that you are most likely going to die there. Then just by dumb luck you are rescued. The relief this man must have felt.
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None of the evidence in that whitepaper shows that they were targeting kids. They were targeting millennials (ages 24-40 now), like most other products out there today. Once they caught the attention of the media and anti-smoking groups, th
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I've seen countless people replace smoking with vaping and the massive benefits it has had on their physical health. So yeah, it pains me to see the push to ban the only working smoking alternative. Not implying that you wanna ban it,
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I'm sure there were even more sketchy recipes used before, but it's not an argument against vaping, it's an argument against those recipes.
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> You're comparing vaping to getting vaccinated. You've clearly got an axe to grind. Not sure what you mean by this, but I think everyone should be vaccinated unless you have some health condition that prevents you from doing s
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Fruit flavors do not exist because of the need to market to kids. Go into any vape shop and watch as grown-ass men, one after another, buy vape cartridges with names like Unicorn Blueberry Smoothie. Children aren't the only ones that l
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"I suspect 1:1 between getting vaccinated and not, that getting vaccinated is safer, but who knows?" See the problem with this type of rhetoric? There have been tons of studies done at this point with regards to vaping. Everything
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> To me this is by far worst than any potential cancer risk. I think anti-smoking/vaping organizations should put more focus on this. I never realized how much this aspect of nicotine takes over your life. Personally, my thought pro
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Juul is the largest player in the game and were the first ones to use nicotine salts. There are many other companies ready to take their place (and they already are). The only "option" is to ban vaping outright. But then you'
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> We already know vaping causes popcorn lung. Not true. The data we have shows that it was being caused by Vitamin E acetate, which was used by off-brand THC cartridges. None of the major nicotine vapes used this chemical. Also, this att

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