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by generj 4y ago
A recession is defined as whatever NBER says it is. 2 quarters is a useful shorthand that frequently is wrong. The 2020 recession lasted all of three months; not anywhere near two quarters. The 2001 recession did not have two consecutive qu
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by generj 4y ago
Even worse, in some jurisdictions the incoming pipeline for hires routes through running the jail or prisons. The mindset behind being a good cop and a good prison guard are totally different. Exposing hires to the corruption and violence i
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by generj 4y ago
We are definitely off topic but since we are just leaving the MLK Jr. Holiday so hopefully the forum will indulge our sidebar. I wish I had a good book for you. My friend probably has six, I may ask him for a recommendation later. There’s a
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by generj 4y ago
He largely did not win hearts and minds. What he did win was the court and a loud enough minority that politicians had to cave. When your cause can sign up an innumerable amount of clean dressed people to volunteer for mob attacks and impri
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by generj 4y ago
They definitely will if China (both Chinas) have anything to say about it.
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by generj 4y ago
I wonder if Twitter is in breach of contract by restricting API access to their customers (the third party apps).
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by generj 4y ago
There’s a decent argument the President is constitutionally obligated to ignore the debt limit. If Congress doesn’t want the money borrowed, they shouldn’t authorize spending more money then was collected.
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by generj 4y ago
To expand on this, it is really hard to even get data sheets on e-Ink unless you have serious cash and are going to order tens of thousands of units. Unlike LCDs, e-Ink has complicated voltage waveform requirements. The voltage waveforms ar
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by generj 4y ago
Many countries and do not allow passengers to wear headphones during take off or landing for this reason. I was quite shocked at it when an Air Canada flight attendant asked me to remove mine. I now always follow this practice, it’s a reaso
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by generj 4y ago
This is important because most people “losing weight” have made one change to their diet and exercise program while simultaneously eating more or otherwise cheating. However it feels like they are more healthy, and the trend line seems to a
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by generj 4y ago
Second Migadu, great company. Never worry about deliverability. If your DNS provider has oddities that make it annoying to setup they will run your DNS for you. For $30 a year (domain plus Migadu) you control your email domain. No possibili
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by generj 4y ago
If you worried about fines being used to deter activities society doesn’t want, and that fine money being collected as tax revenue, you are at least 200 years too late.
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by generj 4y ago
Only down by 1% so far. S&P is down .4%. Probably people think him being back at Tesla more of the time is better for the company. I have my doubts about that. My big hope is he doesn’t screw up SpaceX close to Starship launching.
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by generj 4y ago
And the new poll has a longer time period, so his bots can come in and rescue him (or he can have more time for a Twitter employee to modify the count). As a bonus if he actually runs the poll for 24 hours before acting it’s effectively a 1
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by generj 4y ago
That’s a very fair point. Also possible his ex-wife had a false memory as well. I’m reading too much of my disbelief Elon is a good parent into that story. I think I am retroactively applying modern Elon (weird breeder thing, arguably abusi
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by generj 4y ago
And even worse than that, he would have had to have been deposed before paying for it. A bunch of his conversations about the deal were already released in discovery. Twitter lawyers were salivating about catching Elon in a lie at the depos
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by generj 4y ago
I read the other day that Hughes suffered pretty severely de-habilitating mental illness, and that it isn’t fair to him to compare his decline to Elon. He had severe OCD, allodynia, and other things driving his increasingly erratic behavior
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by generj 4y ago
Several. Some got banned for posting screenshots of an LAPD statement, or just discussions of other journalists being banned.
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by generj 4y ago
He claims it did. But there’s no evidence the dangerous situation happened at all (and even the counter evidence of there being no police report). He’s previously lied about another son dying in his arms (to justify not unbanning Alex Jones
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by generj 4y ago
Good point about margin. I imagine a good chunk of that margin is from eliminating dealers from their sales model. Even with the higher margin, Tesla would need an insanely higher volume to justify their market cap. It’s never going to reac
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by generj 4y ago
Any new model introduction has problems, there’s a reason it is popular to avoid the first model year or two. It’s unlikely these car makers wouldn’t fix these quality control issues after that. By comparison Tesla quality is abysmal and to
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by generj 4y ago
Rivian is another insane valuation. Requiring a non-dealership EV removes all but a handful of companies. Those are the companies that as sibling commentators have pointed out are delivering EVs in volume.
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by generj 4y ago
The valuation is just insane, and being propped up by a weird cult of personality. A combination of higher interest rates, traditional automakers fielding some good EV options in mass, and Elon’s personal instability seem to all be hitting
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by generj 4y ago
I imagine anyone expanding into a new state expects title issues and budgets for goodwill for the first few customers.
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by generj 4y ago
I agree. People underestimate the scientific abilities and flexibility of a highly trained technician, particularly on solid planets and moons. A human living on Mars could operate multiple geographic exploration rovers at much higher speed
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by generj 4y ago
I was super interested, but the link highlights they are unfortunately shutting this down Classes next month.
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by generj 4y ago
You jest but fascism was and is super contagious. The Nazis went from a fringe political movement to a solid minority voice (with 20% of the seats and about 33% of the vote). Then came the Reichstag Fire and heavy repression of opposition -
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by generj 4y ago
There are literal fascists within the alt-right, and the conservatives as a whole have failed to distance themselves sufficiently from them. “If there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a ta
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by generj 4y ago
I believe the poster above was suggesting the client browser, not the user of the client, could assist. So Safari knows that a user is under 13 (due to information entered at sign up by guardians) and will block the user from creating an ac
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by generj 4y ago
It’s been bizarre to see the increasing anti-vax sentiment on Hacker News the last few months.

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