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by gimmeThaBeet 4y ago
What I wanna know is how does Tokyo do this semi-successfully? People point out the demographic declines of Japan as a whole, but the Tokyo metroplex hasn't been quite hit by that. I know there was stuff like proposing to pay people
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by gimmeThaBeet 4y ago
This is where I'm always curious to see what other dynamics are going on in other places, I don't know how else to say it except that has absolutely not been my experience. In live in just normal midwest suburbia, so if there&#x27
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by gimmeThaBeet 4y ago
The English tv-related power spikes thing isn't a myth, but it's also not as huge a thing thanks in part to streaming. The reason the peaker plants aren't the first step is that they take up to ~30 mins-1 hour to spin up. The
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by gimmeThaBeet 4y ago
I think the concept of settling for a lower price is a bit misleading, I feel like you are implying a do-over, but really the prices have tended not to change much (maybe ~5%). Also, personally, I think he's actually trying to walk awa
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by gimmeThaBeet 4y ago
I don't know much Japanese, but yeah that's one of the ideas that comes up immediately. Definitely not my place to say if it's too verbatim, the one I've heard several times is muzukashii / 難しい. I think it's
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by gimmeThaBeet 4y ago
I think Kawasaki def works as a more proper "city between cities" vibe. Prob not a weighty opinion, but I would probably look around Osaka, the idea of Nishinari mainly. But in general, the mercantile legacy of Osaka just feels mo
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
The realist in me knows google would likely not be allowed to just buy reddit for anti-trust reasons. I guess the, pragmatist(?) in me thinks, "google kind of legitimately provides a solution to a problem that reddit has had like, for
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I agree, imo unless something drastic changes, there's little chance Tim Sweeney sells control of epic. But I believe Tencent bought nearly half of it all the way back in 2012 I think? I think they raised money from some PE groups a fe
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I would mostly agree, the thing I try to understand is the motivations for working with these ODMs. There's sort of the line of business. Just assuming from a black box, Apple wants to build devices in these low-cost countries. Is it a
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I think no matter how you feel about Elon Musk, I feel it can sort of be universally appreciated how insane of a pivot/second act he's had where being a part of paypal's early days is basically a footnote.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I don't know if there's provincial taxes or anything, but a similar dynamic happens in the US, there's arbitrage smuggling between states with different taxes. A bit dated, in the link the negative states are one where cigare
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
The argument is like jedberg describes, if you have to disclose your trades far ahead of time, does having inside information matter? Make them plan far enough ahead that it's ineffective. To me, the thing you are trying to curb is the
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Yes, we are a free-market. But there are people, like company executives ( and high-ranking politicians ) who have non-public information that does not belong to them. When congress uses insider knowledge, they are stealing from the ameria,
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Fully transparent that this is just from a quick search, and maybe a degree separate from this, but I kinda didn't know Seller Fulfilled Prime was ever a thing (not accepting registrations now though?). I would have to look back throug
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
is that this water lock thing for when you swim with it? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210931 May be brash of me, I would assume all water resistant watches have water lock, but the speaker thing sounds so apple-y.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
So I would say to that extent they do, the foundries provide dev kits with cells to use on their process, and there's definitely the same incentive, good reusable IP gets you products faster which gets them more business. I think a lot
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
My personal experience as well, but, y'know, plural of anecdote. The thought does cross me that maybe I just don't recognize it. Then, while it is unambiguously harmful to the genuine vendor, what is the consumer harm (assuming
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Agree on all points. I had mixed feelings that the fact that the population struggles in the face of poaching despite having no effective natural predators seems conducive to fostering a controlled population in a closed environment. The fo
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Sounds very interesting. Honestly not trying to be skeptical, the thing it reminds me of was a proposal from a scientist that Australia import elephants and rhinos to help control the spread of gamba grass. Itself imported from africa for g
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Assuming that I was looking at the correct paper, it looks like they are depositing a substrate and the pillars on top, and that's it. Internet disclaimer that I'm not an expert, I don't know how you protect the pillars witho
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
From what I've seen is there is a clause that says some employers have to try to recruit U.S. workers when seeking H-1B employees. However, from what I understood, it only applies employers who have been designated H-1B dependent (some
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
It reminds me of Matt Levine's insider trading, saying(? I don't think it's one of the laws). "It's not about fairness, it's about theft" Which was also applicable to that college admissions thing. The pro
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
It's called nominative determinism
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Interesting, honestly didn't know that was a thing. Is this the first macbook that's hit the 100WHr limit, or has this been a barrier previously? But I mean like, that's it? No doubt there are gains to be made with a better
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Yeah I have a 2012(?) and one of the only things is that the feet have all worn flat and smooth, and feel like they are going to fall off. And if I want to overthink it, it's probably one of the cheapest feeling things about it. What d
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Indeed, the sec and the company probably want to know about you, hence the 13D. There's also a bit where you can only hold a certain portion of a bank before being designated a bank-holding company. I don't know what scrutiny that
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I was interested to see it was in Western Japan, and after looking it up in context, it isn't surprising when almost all of Sony's foundries are all over Kyushu. Always interested to understand why things are where they are (e.g.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
One of the things that I think about with buybacks is sort of the 'second-degree' implications. The company is buying its equity, what are the parties selling doing with the money? And so you delve into a subjective area. Part of
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Correct, that's a bit of an odd guess. You are definitely working closely with your foundry on something like this, but unless you are building some truly exotic device, I don't think their vendor is getting involved. Like Melkm
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I would agree with that, my limited personal experience with mid-atlantic beach towns has been either retiree who invites family, multiple pods of a family that co-own a house like you describe, or sort of normal vacation rental for a week-

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