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by gota 3y ago
Not to mention that in that same decade crypto coins have failed at everything but item 1 the instant payment systems solved the problem of digital money transfer beautifully (and legally) Yours is a great way to explain it. I'd say -
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by gota 3y ago
> It’s a situation where people want all the cachet of being outside the boundaries, in lawless territories where you survive on the wit and bravery (or brutality) of Taking The Initiative and damn the costs and risks, but also want to b
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by gota 3y ago
That sounds like backing out for fear that regulation, resulting from popular pression, will mean that selling to folks with dementia will land you in jail.
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by gota 3y ago
And why wouldn't that content be translated into English anyway? I struggle to imagine such local-specific topics that they couldn't/wouldn't draw attention here at HN
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by gota 3y ago
I understand the argument, but it seems large companies are seldom, or never, overtaken by others. They entrench themselves by regulatory capture, advantages of economy os scale, and survive virtually indefinitely even in shrinking markets
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by gota 3y ago
I don't understand this. Sao Paulo is mostly indistinguishable from any large city in the US. Big concrete-and-glass buildings city centre, lots of traffic-related infrastructure, large swaths of residential areas including richer subu
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by gota 3y ago
That is true - but the few hours I'd have to invest in this are better spent doing something else (or nothing at all, which is valuable). And I don't need to do these repairs and maintenance at a frequency which would make learnin
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by gota 4y ago
These have been a great couple of comments from you; I feel like I just read a good niche book/article or watched a really condensed documentary
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by gota 4y ago
We're not there yet for dogs and cats, which would already be a lot of help!
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by gota 4y ago
Coca-cola has acquired one of the most prominent regional variations (as mentioned below by tambourine_man) - Guaraná Jesus It's pink, tastes like bubblegum and sweeter than other Guaraná sodas I've tasted https://en.wi
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by gota 4y ago
Thanks, chatGPT, great insight
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by gota 4y ago
I don't know about stupid. If you can spend X dollars to "force" your opponent to spend X*10 dollars it can be a viable strategy. I recall the reported costs of "junk rockets" vs those surface-to-air defenses, which
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by gota 4y ago
Part of the second and third wave can take the form of a hiring freeze or slowdown. People who quit are not replaced and soon you have a 5% reduction in headcount
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by gota 4y ago
Im sorry, but item (5) means less than nothing without context. Can someone who read it please add some? I'll go looking for it & will edit this (if I make it in time, before the editing window closes)
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by gota 4y ago
Can you imagine _war_ in this world? At first armies can march in one direction of the ring or the other, with every natural defense point being sort of a Thermopilae situation Then, technology progresses and certain machines may allow smal
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by gota 4y ago
I'm sorry - I swear I thought the post above mine used the full name. You are absolutely right (YAAR) about acronyms
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by gota 4y ago
RLM guys (at least the main ones) seem great at pointing out when a movie sucks, mostly because of: - poor structure. Bad setup/payoffs, useless sequences, confusing narrative without any merit behind it - poor pacing. Too much "b
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by gota 4y ago
I also played the prototype and similarly enjoyed it, and also can't play it now Something that occurred to me: is there any way - or rather, are there any existing browser features that support - setting up an "alarm" for wh
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by gota 4y ago
My condolences, I'm happy for your loss.
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by gota 4y ago
I came to the comments to check if that was correct - I was following that definition and calculated 4:1 in my head, too. Later he uses the example of purchasing $2000 worth of ($10) stock by paying just $1000 and having the other thousand
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by gota 4y ago
Curious why you think that is something associated to Brazil. There has been literally - and I mean literally on the literal sense - one case from 11 years ago and none before or after that in my lifetime
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by gota 4y ago
Please don't trust what I'm going to say without checking with a lawyer or someone who actually knows their stuff - You can email the author, I guess. As far as I know patent authors have an eternal duty of disclosing prior art on
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by gota 4y ago
In other words, if developers had guild mentality the ones left at twitter would have great incentive to actually sabotage the company
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by gota 4y ago
My dear comrade; you are publicly and repeatedly complaining about something not being funny. That is never a good sign of dettachment. No one will ever believe you are not offended by the article because everyone knows that, if it were the
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by gota 4y ago
I get a "nice!" result wih 5.383, but with 5.545 I get a negative comment like "oops you just went over"
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by gota 4y ago
If the country has 1 billion or 200 million people, as was the case, it's hard to argue your point I mean, you have to have a pretty strict definition of success if, say, 100M daily active users does not qualify (Disclaimer: last numbe
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by gota 4y ago
Right. The real measure is not % of loss from top-value, rather it should be # of people that both don't understand the technology & have lost money speculating on it (i.e. how many people bought into hype and got burned) There&#x2
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by gota 4y ago
Hm, the language does not enforce it, but you _can_ separate things neatly for sure I may have missed something, though, are you thinking of something other than asserting and retracting?
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by gota 4y ago
>get wealthy enough that you can spend 4 hours a day doing meaningful work Sadly, for the absolute majority even a partial "early retirement" is unachievable regardless of how much or how hard they work
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by gota 4y ago
Also, how would they serve people who pay Youtube Premium (or whatever its called now) ad free videos

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