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by htag 4y ago
I think the quote might be a bit hyperbolic, but there is a general PR push against twitter employees that has caught on a bit. Here is some anti-twitter narratives I've picked up. * Twitter didn't crash as soon as Musk laid every
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by htag 4y ago
15% in Q3 2022 is a larger dollar amount than 20% in Q3 2019...
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by htag 4y ago
> they still have a P&L like any other company Amazon's quarterly reports have all been good so far (Q3 2022 is the latest). Sales are up 15% YoY, and they are profitable.
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by htag 4y ago
Would drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamine be as popular if the population had as easy access to less dangerous/harmful alternatives like morphine or methylphenidate?
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by htag 4y ago
> In the ride share situation, the need for identification and reputation scoring is probably overrated. I don't think that at all. Reputation systems strongly discourage bad actors from joining the system. Look at email spam for
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by htag 4y ago
Is it true that the absolute costs associated with centralization is lower than decentralization? Maybe there's some efficiencies in bulk orders, but there's so much overhead with BigCorp I would expect that the actual operating
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by htag 4y ago
One important component is slack. Every airline at every airport should have a certain number of crews and airplanes capable of providing service in place of a delayed flight. Running on maximum efficiency for airplanes and staff means une
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by htag 4y ago
Is this a problem with the weather, with the scheduling software, or with the recent shrink then expand of airline demand? Either way, I don't think I'll book a flight with SW for a long, long time.
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by htag 4y ago
I recently reached a critical mass on my Google storage (95%+ full), and almost all of it was gmail, with less than 1.5gb for drive/photo. I decided to delete 5gb+ of emails instead of paying. I already had all of my file storage&#x2
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by htag 4y ago
> if amazon abandons Alexa then I'll just move everything to another ecosystem. Why? I'm not an Alexa user, but I am a Prime and AWS user. I don't understand how having a voice interface for weather reports impacts your
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by htag 4y ago
1. USA has pretty cheap electricity globally. I'm not surprised to see lots of mining here. 2. The blizzard probably took multiple mining operations offline. Large parts of the US are experiencing very cold conditions. 3. Maybe Rockl
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by htag 4y ago
> I wonder how profitable mining Bitcoin is these days at any scale. They have calculators for this [0]. The summary is that assuming mining difficulty, electricity rate, and bitcoin value hold constant it's a 10+ year return on the
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by htag 4y ago
Sandoz stopped producing it in 1965.
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by htag 4y ago
Owsley Stanley, a Berkeley student, was the primary producer of LSD for the western US between 1965-1967. I always thought the joke was a reference to him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
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by htag 4y ago
A very fast internet connection would be 4gbps symmetrical. A modern NVME can read ~5gbps. DDR5 supports up to 51GBs. PCIE6 has a symmetrical 128GBs connection. If file size is a bottleneck for you then you'll see better performance c
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by htag 4y ago
The utility is to identify criminal activity
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by htag 4y ago
> the evidence clearly indicates that the MAiD system is resulting in the deaths of the socially marginalised The enter point of the MAiD system is to result in deaths. I think the intent matters a lot. I don't think it's a c
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by htag 4y ago
* It's probably hard to stop using PED when you're in the public eye for having a great physique * People are becoming more aware of PED, what 'natural' looks like in comparison, and the number of people that take PED wi
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by htag 4y ago
The question I was trying to ask is. 1. Are people in poverty or with mental illness more likely to choose MAID on their own. or 2. Are there people actively trying to encourage vulnerable populations to choose MAID?
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by htag 4y ago
> The Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, the leading organization of Canadian euthanasia providers, has sat on credible evidence by its own members that people are being driven to euthanasia by credit card debt, poor h
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by htag 4y ago
I was just trying to understand. No reason for apologizing, communication problems happen :)
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by htag 4y ago
The question is just a prompt for the speaker. How the person reacts (dodge the question, address underlying concerns, answer directly, get emotional) can tell you a lot about them. This was 1997, right at Job's return to Apple phase
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by htag 4y ago
> Go back to Elon learning, during an interview, the things Buzz Aldrin—a childhood hero of his—said about SpaceX. Is there a typo here? Can someone explain what this means in slightly different words? I've love to hear what Buzz
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by htag 4y ago
Is it a straight lottery (random chance), or does marketing play a role along with the game itself?
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by htag 4y ago
I think you're missing key elements to the Fukushima story. It wasn't a surprise natural disaster, it was a predictable eventuality. 1. People tried to ring alarm bells about the building codes (and the reactor specifically) not b
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by htag 4y ago
Why is Washington to blame? I don't see silver bullets or practical solutions being offered in the article.
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by htag 4y ago
> The raw output of markets or the tough hand of socialist dictatorship was the biggest positive driving force in the early history of fission energy. Is this true? I always considered fission tech to be used for the following reasons, a
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by htag 4y ago
> Personally I think fission power's failure is a political and marketing one. I think it's because of the occasional catastrophic failures that spatter our short history with the technology. Fukushima made headline news around
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by htag 4y ago
Yeah, Starcraft II is as competitive or more than the original Starcraft. The introduction of the ladder means more players play SCII competitively, and the pro scene is just as good, if not better. Here's the commentary for the final
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by htag 4y ago
I participated in several online leagues and in person tournaments for Counter-Strike and Quake III before Starcraft II was released. The Evo Moment 36 [0], still one of the most iconic fighting games match, happened in 2004, six years bef

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