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by hiatus 2y ago
Why would we look at revenue? I can sell a dollar for 90c and have very high revenue. The CEO's salary is ~2% of profits. Their profit margins were ~5%.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Given that airlines have low profit margins Low profit margins but companies like United can pay their CEO ~20MM?
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by hiatus 2y ago
Except when someone doesn't want to pay and you are trapped in an aluminum can with them for a few hours.
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by hiatus 2y ago
How about the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
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by hiatus 2y ago
So you're just making things up as you go along? You haven't really explained the mechanics at all and are doing a lot of handwaving.
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by hiatus 2y ago
FWIW Hulitu is a place.
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by hiatus 2y ago
Ah so why do the sale at all then? Why not just deposit $10MM in cash at the bank and say it was from an art sale? Something is missing in your explanation.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> you have dirty money in a high-scrutiny jurisdiction, you buy a piece of art for $10M How does the sale take place? Cash? So when the seller deposits the cash, no one asks where it came from?
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by hiatus 2y ago
It seems like more work to write a rant and post it to hackernews than to just take a quick phone call.
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by hiatus 2y ago
This is a regular sight when accessing a US government computer system. Even managing things like Global Entry come with such a warning.
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by hiatus 2y ago
Have you forgotten sourceforge?
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by hiatus 2y ago
Does the library contain duplicates? Otherwise an 800 page book that is just the same 400 page book concatenated to itself would not be found.
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by hiatus 2y ago
Is training an AI the same as a person learning something? You haven't shown that to be the case.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Some things I didn’t talk about in this post since these posts have been getting pretty long recently and seriously does anyone REALLY want to read 3000 words about buffering? I personally would.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> There is precedent that you cannot subpoena NSA for their intercepts I know it's tangential to this thread but could you link to further reading?
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by hiatus 2y ago
Their terms specifically address video/images: > Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid
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by hiatus 2y ago
The parent did not say "most normal people".
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by hiatus 2y ago
> But why hire a therapist when Gemini is there to talk to? Well for one, there's no doctor patient confidentiality.
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> A Sufi Murshid (teacher) lived his entire life in a single town that consisted of a single pair of roads that met in the center of town. Late in his life, he stated that, he "knew the stars of the Milky Way better than he knew his
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by hiatus 2y ago
Go through the interview, get an offer, and then negotiate for remote. If you made it that far you have more bargaining power than trying for remote at the phone screen stage.
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by hiatus 2y ago
Does a non-compete prevent you from leaving your current employer?
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> Even among people who are nerdy enough to run Linux on the desktop, very few are interested in compiling software to make it work. I would imagine most desktop linux users rely on maintainers to compile and distribute binaries for thei
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by hiatus 2y ago
Who has nothing to fear? Would you offer unrestricted screen recordings of your computer to the public for their perusal?
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> but I don’t want this information to be easily exposed to others or used as evidence against me for things I’ve done Even if you wrote it in a diary it could still be used as evidence against you. The only untouchable place is your mi
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> Nowadays we know that humans (and other animals) bully because they derive immense health benefits from being the aggressor Which health benefits are those?
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by hiatus 2y ago
What does this tool give you that a regular markdown editor (like the one available at GitHub ) doesn't? Suggested sections? It seems like just another markdown editor to me but I'm probably missing something.
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I wouldn't expect people in crisis to be attentive to nuance.
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Policing in the US is fragmented. Unlike many European countries, the local police are not nationalized—each department has its own concerns, budget, etc.
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If setting it up was as easy as posting a tweet, sure. My parents don't even know what RSS is but they have heard of Twitter.
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Only half of this article is free, the other is paid.

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