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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd expect it's more to do with various entities checking Real ID to verify residency for the purpose of state benefits and voting. It looks like it's a DHS regulation (?), but I'd assume states were supportive because i
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> She was a nice lady, but clearly was having a pretty rough go of it. Most of the people on the bus seemed like that. This pretty much describes my long-haul Greyhound experience (Atlanta to Texas). It's also why I think everyon
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I've heard the Greyhound level of service plummeted after they acquired their competitor Trailways, but that was before my time so can't comment first-hand. That + plummeting prices of air travel due to deregulation likely gutted
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by ethbr0 3y ago
That means campaign funding from a different source. Which means overruling Citizens United and campaign funding reform.
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That was the point of Starlink. If the only capability is incredibly expensive and highly reliable, no demand that only works under cheaper and relaxed reliability exists. Luckily, the market's caught up pretty quickly.
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This. The half life of caffeine is ridiculous, compared to our assumptions.
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Back to Chumbawamba blaring and excess in ~20 years.
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:) Enjoy your conversation.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I always assumed any momentum effectiveness was arbitrage on trader volume scales differing by order of magnitude. E.g. a major player rebalancing a position created distortions that allowed much smaller players to profit, but no distortion
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by ethbr0 3y ago
"Alpha" is an odd benchmark for efficacy. A lot of technical analysis's value, in the sense that I understand it and believe most retail traders use it, is based around predicting intermediate timespan market changes to tim
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The verse before that?
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I'm guessing you've never listen to the whole song?
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The early Blue Man Group [0] shows off-Broadway (before they were the Intel guys) were billed as "Blue Man/Tubes" They'd run corrugated pipe from each seat in the theater to the waiting hall. Which meant that while you w
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by ethbr0 3y ago
If someone gets fired from an unnecessary job, that's corporate efficiency not malice. No one has a right to have a particular job, if it's no longer deemed necessary. One might be lucky enough to have such a job. But if it goes
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Or... people like saying things that make them appear witty. No need to ascribe political malice where typical internet popularity-seeking will suffice. "Elon didn't have anything to do with his companies' technical successes
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> like a parody of proper upbringing It was a Johnny Cash song -- he wasn't known for writing ballads of utopian suburbia.
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Plenty of children are given less interesting names. Or, in the US, phonetically-mispelled names.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> Well, I grew up quick, and I grew up mean. And my fists got hard, and my wits got keen... > He stood there looking at me, and I saw him smile, and he said, "Son, this world is rough, and if a man's gonna make it he&#x27
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by ethbr0 3y ago
HN consensus for years was that Twitter spent an insane amount on salary for the product they had.
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Well, relative peace within France. With-out, France was involved in a lot of wars.
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Maybe that's the joke?
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That hype didn't stop until interest rates started adjusting back to low-normal in 2022/23. It's been 30 full years of questionable debt-dependant business models.
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The last time might have been Louis XIV, who would have been 8 and 3 years into his reign in 1646. He staged mock naval battles in the lake/canal behind Versailles. Which, admittedly, sounds pretty awesome.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish. As far as I can tell, it's the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that le
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by ethbr0 3y ago
By that point, he'd already been CEO of PayPal for a bit (after co-founding X.com that merged into the company that became PayPal) and made $175M for his stake when eBay bought it. Then $100M went to found SpaceX. But that does seem li
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> Either the willingness to risk own money in engineering startups is < 1 per cent among those Maybe? The thing about having a rich family is... you're already rich. That removes one of the prime motivations to take serious ris
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> sometimes describing exactly the same problem we're having, with a promising resolution Exactly! I've been trying to perfect my tomacco grafts for 20 years at this point and was unable to find any information. The nerve of
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Indeed, what a dick and quintessential BOFH. How boring do you have to be to have run an ISP, have a user contact you 25 years later, and reply with that? And specifically, why do a job that you apparently cared about that little? Surpris
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Point. I suppose the formalism around popups, and specifically when the EU decided to start levying fines on entities who used dark patterns to avoid the spirit of "accept/reject must be equally easy to click", convinced me t
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To be fair, that's how most private sector outsourced corporate projects go as well. :)

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