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811.
by ggg9990 9y ago
I mean, if someone already owns a home in Portland, and can use their vote to maintain the kind of lifestyle they want, why wouldn’t they? Altruism towards a potential future resident? Unlikely.
812.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Shkreli’s crime was raising the price tenfold at once, and boasting about it, instead of the good old boy’s method of 20% per year and keeping quiet.
813.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Could be as simple as when you’re ludicrously rich and have been doing something for awhile you can get bored, especially if you’re not the founder or otherwise heavily emotionally invested in it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What is the hard part? What types of inputs/outputs are we talking about here? Fairly ignorant of this area :)
815.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Hm? Oil isn’t a communications medium.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I meant home speakers, not car speakers.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s more that the Internet can enable the kind of coordination that a mass movement to revoke power needs.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Spending $10,000 on a flatscreen TV: low class. Spending $10,000 on a pair of speakers: high class.
819.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Natural language reasoning skills are more important than ever, since the relatively recent explosion of “firmware hacks” into people’s brains using natural language as an attack vector. People get a math education so that they can’t be foo
820.
by ggg9990 9y ago
And then you have VSTS which can probably be configured to be a chess engine and thus takes 5 minutes to log a bug.
821.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Makes a successful lawsuit and recovery near-impossible.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
This all stems from the residents themselves. They vote against policing and for people who basically take the view that we should feel bad for the criminals because they have turned to a life of crime. There’s only a Rudy Giuliani between
823.
by ggg9990 9y ago
They are. I’ve seen this bus stop ad. They are targeting SF entrepreneurs who need help with video production / logos / design / etc.
824.
by ggg9990 9y ago
You’re nuts — The Wire, by acclamation, is to TV as Shakespeare is to literature.
825.
by ggg9990 9y ago
That ad is targeting the people who hire people on Fiverr. There are almost no Fiverr gig workers in San Francisco.
826.
by ggg9990 9y ago
I think that for plot-focused fiction, “terrible” writing is better —- the Count of Monte Cristo would have been worse if it developed the characters better.
827.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Have you been in a Japanese hotel room? It’s a bed, plus about a few square feet of access pathway into the bed.
828.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Wasn’t for mine, and she was 75, not 93.
829.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Is it a sad day for a family when a 93-year-old dies?
830.
by ggg9990 9y ago
I mean... it is not at all unusual for two people who are outstanding in a particular field to be related to each other.
831.
by ggg9990 9y ago
iPhones are perfect for the frugal. They are usable and get security updates for about 5 years rather than the ~2 of most Android devices.
832.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Not really. Most people are not computing primes on their phones, they are surfing Facebook and Instagram. Since it’s a pointless activity there isn’t the concept of “completing a task” — they will just think “I Facebooked for three hours i
833.
by ggg9990 9y ago
> Unless you can scientifically prove that ethnicity causes crime to happen, its disgusting. If someone was to prove such a fact (say, a gene prevalent in some ethnicity that causes propensity for fraud) would you support decision making
834.
by ggg9990 9y ago
The United States government enforces, with lethal weapons, the right of Amazon shareholders to Amazon’s assets.
835.
by ggg9990 9y ago
How many infants have been killed by aggressive cellos in the last decade?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Gold is more valuable than cryptocurrency because 1) for a “by acclamation” store of value, the thousands of years and billions of people who recognize gold as an asset is a big advantage, and 2) you can’t make “forks” of gold unlike Bitcoi
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The housing market formulas did not make sense. They assumed that default probabilities were uncorrelated.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The people of Fresno are simply not numerous enough to justify a major infrastructure project to get them to SF and LA.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Also, the first rise of the Web was enabled by residential broadband adoption, so that most of your site’s users had a stable internet connection. Now that Mobile devices are the most common, flaky networks are back to being a problem.
840.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Good software can move that IT job to a cheaper admin job. If printers are easy to install, or passwords are easy to reset, then the admin can just say “the printer nearest to you is Floor3-South. Go into Printers and select it” leaving IT

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