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by dustintrex 5y ago
Can you share which car you ended up buying? I was gung-ho on Tesla for a long time, but the lack of physical controls in the 3 is a dealbreaker for me.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Oracle is floundering: their databases are no longer competitive and nobody uses their cloud voluntarily (except perhaps the free tier). The only reason they're still around is that they intentionally make it very difficult to migrate
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NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address(vice.com)
2 points by dustintrex 5y ago|1 comments
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by dustintrex 5y ago
No entries since Sep 2021. Is he alright? Edit: heldtec@ just posted a link to what appears to be his boat for sale: https://www.sailboatlistings.com/photographs/60853
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by dustintrex 5y ago
It's a death spiral though: Computer/mobile input has long since displaced writing by hand for many people, so many of them are no longer fully capable of writing by hand, particularly when it comes to complex and/or rare cha
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by dustintrex 5y ago
It's not just a factor, cars are straight up unaffordable for much of the population. One local politician was roundly criticized for a gaffe where he said that "everybody has a car, we have two". The public transport system
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by dustintrex 5y ago
No, they get taxed on a sliding scale of up to 180%. Expand "Car" on the page below for details. https://onemotoring.lta.gov.sg/content/onemotoring/home/buyi...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
That's a factor, but given the kaleidoscope of ethnicity in most of SE Asia, it's nowhere near that straightforward. People can and do pick up on social class based on dress, the way you speak, the way you address others etc, jus
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Interestingly enough, I'm typing this in Singapore, where in 2022 it's quite common to have a "maid" (helper/domestic worker, in the current local lingo), but no car. Singapore imports domestic workers for poor neig
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Many attractions in Thailand have dual pricing, with foreigner pricing in Arabic numerals (100 baht) and local pricing in Thai numerals (๒๐ บาท). The price differential is often 5x or more.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
> “The full treatment, including surgery and chemotherapy, can reach between $8,000 and $10,000 for a dog or cat.” Meanwhile, full cancer treatment for a human can easily cost 100x that, because care for pets is a free market and care
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by dustintrex 5y ago
You could argue that the wealth of Swedes comes from the (indirect) exploitation of the poor. IKEA and H&M are household names that give Swedes and the world cheap clothing and furniture, virtually all of which is made by comparatively
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Somebody tell this guy about bagel chips, and his head will really explode. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/72102/salt-and-garlic-bage...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Perhaps we should be happy they're apparently running COBOL on a mainframe, so the price limit was not INT_MAX.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Fixing the artifically low price makes sense. Setting the new price at $9000 instead of ~$25 does not.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Likewise, Japanese kids were taught that kappa lurked in bodies of water and under bridges, and would snatch and drown them if they got too close -- so they didn't, and avoided drowning.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
You misspelled "Bitcoin".
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Tumblr could easily have been Instagram, Yahoo just had no idea what to do with it and completely missed the boat on mobile. A lot of people thought Zuck was insane when he paid $1B for Instagram, and I think we'd all agree that bet pa
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by dustintrex 5y ago
> posole, a hominy and pork stew, was prepared and served by Native Americans. Surely this is the Mexican/Aztec classic pozole ?
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Except that's next to impossible to short BTC without incurring major exposure to the crypto market as a whole in process. In other words, you can gamble that BTC will go down all you like in the wonderful world of DeFi, but if your g
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Lyn is one of the more thoughtful crypto bulls out there (admittedly a low bar), and the following post with its updates shows how her thinking has evolved. https://www.lynalden.com/cryptocurrencies/ TL;DR stance as of
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by dustintrex 5y ago
I hate to break this to you, but Chinese manufacturers can and do fake the "Made in X" labels as well.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
As a corollary, search on Google News (as in, browsing to news.google.com and searching there, or !gn via DuckDuckGo) is really bad. The index seems to update really slowly, so breaking events are usually missing entirely, and the grouping
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The island (Nananu-i-Cake, pronounced roughly "nah-nah-nuh ee tha-keh") is less than 750 meters off the coast of Fiji's most populated island, Viti Levu, so piping in water, electricity etc and ferrying in workers is eminentl
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Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials(theatlantic.com)
9 points by dustintrex 5y ago|0 comments
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The article notes that > Corten is a good conductor of heat, which means that it must be heavily insulated against Lubbock’s hot summers and cold winters. But is the house insulated at all? The pictures appear to show just raw steel,
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by dustintrex 5y ago
There are many students for whom "warehousing" is considerably better than the alternatives. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/many-kids-dont-have-a-w...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
It isn't though: tax returns are public in Sweden and Finland too.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Hot air.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The difficulty of mining the next block is a function of the hash rate. Miners quit, hash rate goes down, it becomes easier to mine the next block. That said, the "price" (in USD) is a function of supply and demand and is complet

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