hotpotamus

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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   There's actually a term for this - monopsony. I've only ever heard it used in the context of universal healthcare.
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   I believe shares exist to raise capital to exploit a natural resource in this case. But if I already have a profitable mine, I doubt I'd have much incentive to invite others to share ownership of that mine. However, if I have a hole in
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   If you had a profitable mine, would you sell shares in it?
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   I feel the same way, but given that the largest companies in the world are advertising companies, they must work on someone, right? Also, perhaps they're good enough that they're working on us without us consciously knowing. After
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   If the goal is mutually assured destruction, then wouldn't it be more economical for all countries to just share one bomb rather than duplicate all the development efforts and go to the trouble of putting rockets under them?
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   I'm not sure I buy the existence of such buttons, but if the pilots are incapacitated in a nuclear bomber with a target in mind, then I can think of a use for the go to war button.
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   I would say if recent and not so recent history tells us anything, it's that if financial fraud is possible/plausible, it's probably occurring.
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   That seems reasonable, but combine that change threshold/limit with CI/CD and you've created a burnout factory it seems.
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   by hotpotamus 5y ago

   I believe gamepad support was added in iOS 13, which I thought would have been added much earlier. That's the only feature I can recall in as many versions. I mostly miss touch ID.
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    I've heard the streetlight one before but I also like "when you're a hammer, then every problem is a nail". I hadn't thought of it this way though perhaps I had felt it. It feels like this is the dream for AR/V
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    I once heard it said that developers are like beavers - they just instinctively keep cutting down trees and building dams. Seems accurate based on my experience.
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    So when you really live there, where is your corporeal form? Floating in a nutrient broth? If so, I'd prefer chicken flavored over the beef or vegetarian options please.
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    You know, I cleaned out my grandparent's old house recently and came across a Schwin exercise bike from probably the 70's. It has some sort of speedometer/dynomometer thing, a resistance adjustment, and a mechanical timer. Yo
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    I wonder about youtube - I see people say it still loses money though I don't know if that's true, but if it is, then is it a successful business? It's an amazing feat no doubt, but other than that I don't know what to m
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    And how much has that affected access to guns?
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    Not to mention the prevalence of guns. Would you exchange some small arms fire with a few burglars in order to protect someone else’s product?
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    by hotpotamus 5y ago

    And how much has the Flippy1 disrupted the industry? Does it unload the truck and put food stocks in the freezer? Does it make burgers to order (extra pickles and no tomatoes for instance)? I wonder how many engineers or fast food execs eve