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by jameslk 3y ago
> Everything is big and loud and obnoxious and expensive. This is not the case if you venture off the strip. Summerlin and other parts of Vegas are in many ways completely opposite of what you'll experience on the LV strip. But what
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by jameslk 3y ago
Las Vegas: * A very diverse city, demographically. Evenly split gender. Age demographics tend to lean either students (from UNLV) or 30s 40s. * Affordable but lots to do. Amazing entertainment, restaurants, nightlife subsidized by tourists.
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Target expects organized retail crime-fueled losses to jump by $500M this year(cnbc.com)
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by jameslk 3y ago
Why does it say the movie has been released into the public domain? I couldn't find anything to confirm this being true
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by jameslk 3y ago
> Hot take: SEO is dead, content farms are done, almost no one will leave Google/Bing to read more than what it generates. I disagree. What incentive does a website have to produce content if it receives no traffic? Website owners w
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by jameslk 4y ago
> Humans are also vulnerable to prompt injection This is an interesting viewpoint. In other words, prompt injection and social engineering could virtually be one in the same, and similar measures behind protecting against social engineer
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by jameslk 4y ago
Monetary policy has incredible sway over the economy, so they should bear the brunt of the blame. It's odd to me that everyone talks about how important democracy and elections are, but when it comes to the mighty dollar, the thing tha
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by jameslk 4y ago
When lending stops, people stop buying things[0], like cars and houses. Or all that crap on Buy Now, Pay Later plans. There's these huge credit bubbles we have[1] that are going to be deflated very quickly once debt is no longer easily
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Adverse Possession(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jameslk 4y ago|2 comments
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by jameslk 4y ago
Past threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449710
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“Urm sh*t on plate”: The strange history of sax0r.txt(dailydot.com)
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NYC Mayor Adams Urges Wall Street Cooperation to Get Workers Back to Offices(bloomberg.com)
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by jameslk 4y ago
> I think what you really want is to live off grid in a homestead. What led you to believe this is the true desire of a total stranger on the internet?
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Æsop for Children(read.gov)
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by jameslk 4y ago
> This needs a citation. It's the sort of "common sense" all too often advanced by people with - frankly - racist or ethnonational agendas. Jumping straight to claiming someone has a racist or ethnonational agenda because
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by jameslk 4y ago
> The college senior isn't alone in the race to rein in AI plagiarism and forgery. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has signaled a commitment to preventing AI plagiarism and other nefarious applications. Last month, Scott Aaronson,
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Device used to resuscitate canaries in coal mines(museumcrush.org)
2 points by jameslk 4y ago|1 comments
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by jameslk 4y ago
How does this work when you need the WeWork card to enter their buildings?
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Video games may bring cognitive benefits to kids, study shows(usatoday.com)
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US: Drought-stricken states to get less from Colorado River(apnews.com)
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by jameslk 4y ago
> At the end of their work day, these study participants were also more likely than those who had performed easier tasks to opt for short-term, easily won financial rewards of lesser value than larger rewards that come after a longer wai
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California governor outlines strategy to bolster water supplies(latimes.com)
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by jameslk 4y ago
If BNPL are basically zero interest loans, doesn't it make sense for everyone to use BNPL as much as possible? The unspent money can then be presumably reinvested into e.g. the stock market or even a high yield savings account. A sort
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Scunthorpe Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jameslk 5y ago
Thanks, updated the title! Good catch
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Venmo forces binding arbitration unless you opt out by mail before June 22(help.venmo.com)
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by jameslk 5y ago
> Also "Core Web Vitals" is deliberately not scoped to just performance. What do you define as performance then? And how is it different from speed?
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by jameslk 5y ago
While eloquently written, this article seems to make the mistake of myopically focusing on just speed in web performance, when web performance is much more than that. Addressing the "unified theory of web performance" the article
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Colorado to Accept Crypto for Tax Payments by End of Summer(coindesk.com)
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Metaverse vs. employment law: The reality of the virtual workplace(ft.com)
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