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by jdminhbg 3y ago
HN autocapitalizes the first letter, so dang or another mod would have to fix this manually.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> It's just The Market For Lemons at work. It's not, really. Information about brand reliability is widely available. People just value different things.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
US carbon emissions peaked in 2000 and have been falling since, even without a per capita adjustment: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb... Different politics in the US might have ma
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> are you missing a NOT in there? No, I'm not. A vision of equity advanced by kneecapping math education in public schools is no less faith-based than creationism taught in private schools. If anything, I'd guess creationism is
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
I'm for vouchers because I don't think I should have to pay with my taxes for religious indoctrination masquerading as public education.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Those are all good reasons to support green energy (and I do), but I was responding to the patent poster’s worst-case scenario, which would in fact be bad, not just inconvenient.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> If climate change is not a thing or not man-made, the worst outcome would be missing a few percentage points of economic growth by unnecessarily restricting energy sources. It’s easy to be blithe about a few percentage points coming ou
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Yes, unemployment is a good statistic in that case because it only measures those who are trying and failing to find a job, not those who don’t want or need one.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
“Unemployment” is people who are trying to find work divided by themselves + people working. If everyone is living a life of leisure, it will still be low.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
At the absolute pinnacle of ZIRP era, there were just barely able to get into the black (ex their legal settlement). That’s not an extremely healthy business. They were going to crash in 22/23 regardless of ownership.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
This is some pretty dumb mental gymnastics to retcon a motivation. The simple explanation: he made an offer for Twitter, then the market (and Twitter’s value) crashed, and he tried to avoid paying the now-vastly overpriced fee he was on the
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> Like if I learn a song and then for whatever reason I have to change what key it's in, all I gotta do is start playing a couple steps higher and lower and then I'm good. But if I had thought in absolute terms, I would be scre
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Sure, although Tesla is in this market as well, with solar panels, battery packs, and wall chargers.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
I have heard the phrase "panel gap" a million times and don't think I have ever seen or (or I guess, noticed) one on any car in my entire life.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
I still cannot figure out what Car People mean when they say Tesla is bad at making cars. What are you looking at that normal people don't see? The one thing I agree about is the yoke steering wheel, but that's on a high-end car n
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> You’re saying that people tear down successful people by saying they’re privileged or have connections (but implying that they’re not successful because of these things and rather because they took a risk), and then immediately say tha
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Sure. But that doesn't really have any bearing on whether Reddit can find volunteers to take over big subs.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
I really don't think that's the case. If you want to mod r/politics, you don't just raise your hand and then get mod powers. Moderators are a closed group.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Digg was much smaller than 2023 Reddit, and it had a competitor (Reddit) that was already leeching some of its userbase.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> so reddit becomes run by shitty mods Well...
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> You’re comparing a country and seat of a world religion to a theme park. Well, you'll notice I didn't say inside the Vatican, which is in fact a serious place with serious art treasures. > And, even so (even if it was in
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
The Planet Hollywood inside Disney World has about as much to do with the US as a whole as a restaurant outside the Vatican with menus in 12 languages has to do with Italy.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> crushed ice ... > No water The crushed ice melts and dilutes the drink, as is the case in nearly all cocktails.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
It’s mostly worth a third of what he paid for it because he paid way too much. But the actual value it’s lost is mostly around content moderation decisions and Elon’s own posting, not third-party apps.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
People always say that Reddit depends on these mods for free labor, which is true, but there's a reason that the mods do this free labor. They enjoy the power/responsibility/community/whatever they get from it.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> Sure, but there's also the value that the users create using these apps, and drive engagement to reddit. This is what people said about third-party Twitter apps, yet all of those power users and brands are still there, except the
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
The problem is people think of this in terms of "cost to keep the server on that serves an API request" and not the opportunity cost for ad engagement that actually makes the business viable.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Don't think "taunt" is the correct verb here, but it doesn't even matter. Taunting government officials is protected speech in the US.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> I wonder why they didn't hold off to announce it when actually ready. Apple has always pre-announced new product categories. No worries about Osborne-ing their own sales, time for developers to build before launch day, etc.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
No, that is not how it works here.

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