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by graeme 4y ago
The actual effect of the sanctions is at a level somewhat higher than the Jones act has on Puerto Rico. 1. They forbid ships from docking at Cuba and then in the US (same as puerto rico) 2. They also forbid US companies from dealing with Cu
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Divisions in Crypto Empire Blur on Trading Titan Alameda’s Balance Sheet(coindesk.com)
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by graeme 4y ago
Sure it does. Apple isn't short of funding. If they think a search engine would be profitable they have the capital. Whats the $15 billion does is this: 1. Controls the default. Lots of people never change it, so Google gets more custo
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by graeme 4y ago
Nono. It's largely because defaults are powerful. A lot of people simply don't change what they start with. If google has the default they get more money, more than $15 billion, plus they blunt competitors.
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by graeme 4y ago
You can also view the $15 billion as a bribe to prevent apple from trying its hand at search. Apple already has a substantial search effort behind the scenes
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They did share it with scientists. Here’s Francois Balloux saying he replicated the results, tried to find holes, couldn’t https://mobile.twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1583165259...
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by graeme 4y ago
Popular science summary of paper from one of the authors: https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/a-synthetic-origin-of-sa...
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by graeme 4y ago
I turned off autocorrect a few years back, and noticed no change in recent years with that turned off. But the autocorrect experience was very bad and in my view caused more errors than it fixed
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by graeme 4y ago
Which ipads are you referring to? I have an ipad air 2 from 2014. It just got 15.7, most recent update. That is eight years of top line support. It won’t get ios 16, but apple has started supporting older devices with security updates. Ios
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by graeme 4y ago
You’re mixing up stocks and flows. Uber had the equivalent of a worker in the following situation: * their salary goes up. They can now cover all of their living expenses + save * the value of their stock portfolio goes down Are they poorer
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by graeme 4y ago
Toronto’s core urban density is lower than Montreal’s. Am referring to the densest neighbourhoods like Plateau. Often I go to Toronto and find I am the only one walking down many streets, which does not happen often in Montreal or NYC
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by graeme 4y ago
Taxes fund current military expenses. Pensions are designed to fund tomorrow’s expenses with today’s money. You need some sort of instrument to do that. If you don’t save current resources for future expenses, then you risk needing a very l
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by graeme 4y ago
To run a pension you need assets. You buy those on the market. But wait. Why buy private assets. Why not have the government make its own assets. Like….a govt bond. Well, those are substantial portions of pension assets. You could fund pens
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by graeme 4y ago
It would tell if it was like one plus. Premium phone at a discount. One plus has horrendous privacy issues
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by graeme 4y ago
There’s trade and there is supply. US and China have lots of trade, real conflict limit. Not impossible, but a factor. German industry is supplied by russian gas. Throwing away nuclear power and making oneself dependent on foreign energy su
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by graeme 4y ago
I heard it described as follows: the full force of the river you see upstream has been turned on its side and the current goes down. You can’t pull against that, especially against curved, mossy, wet rocks So as if an elephant were pulling
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by graeme 4y ago
Probably hpv. Causes a variety of cancers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus_infection...
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by graeme 4y ago
Cleaning on a daily basis does not make a bathroom sanitary. And the worse your issues the more frequent the cleaning needs to be. When I worked in a gas station we cleaned on the hour and signed for it and this was in a place where people
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by graeme 4y ago
Much much more so. Amazon KDP for print is extremely simple with zero cost, and Lightning Source is also quite low cost and simple enough to figure out. They handle printing and distribution. You just need writing, design, manuscript assemb
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by graeme 4y ago
If you have an account, you click "call me" and they call you
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by graeme 4y ago
I read their account. They only complain of Stripe holding "the" money, from the car. Did they say Stripe locked their account or did any other restrictions? https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comment
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by graeme 4y ago
It turns out the poster did, in fact, omit extremely material info from their original post. They sold a used company van via credit card via their stripe account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264886 This is not s
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Tunneling nanotubes provide a route for SARS-CoV-2 spreading(science.org)
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by graeme 4y ago
Not quite: 1. Twitter represented that they made sample, exercised judgement, and could be wrong 2. That is hard to falsify 3. For it to matter in this lawsuit, it would have to be so false that it materially adversely affects the company
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by graeme 4y ago
What's the CO2 in those trains? Japan tends to have great ventilation and has CO2 meters around the place. It isn't impossible to ventilate a train well. I've been on a train with CO2 around 600 and another around 3,000. Air
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by graeme 4y ago
Herd immunity through infection has never worked. It's incoherent even as a concept: to prevent infections, get infected? There are a few diseases better to get as a kid than as an adult, but we mostly have vaccines for those now. An
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by graeme 4y ago
A LOT of regulation goes along with that. These entities eschewed regulation and those investing talked about the benefits of eschewing it. The people whose withdrawals are suspended are NOT depositors. They’re unsecured creditors, the term
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Ask HN: Tools to manage Twitter or create a digest?
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That’s like saying that banks making risky bets on CDOs in 2008 had nothing to do with housing
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I’ve found the opposite. The apple watch isn’t distracting at all if you turn off notifications You can do some things quickly without sinking into the infinite scroll of the phone. I.e. you can check your calendar and that’s it

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