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by jellicle 3y ago
If there exists a company that makes appliances that are very expensive and that last a long time, a company with a real reputation for quality, then it is extremely profitable for that company to be purchased by a hedge fund that cuts qual
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by jellicle 3y ago
Tesla is REALLY WORRIED about a price collapse for used Cybertrucks once owners experience them.
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by jellicle 3y ago
You probably ought to read the link before commenting. This isn't about the service agreement (which Tesla already screws owners on) but about a new, improved addition to the sales agreement which straight up says that you owe Tesla fi
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by jellicle 3y ago
This is a 2022 throw-away rewrite article about a 2022 article about a grant program that ended in 2021. There's no evidence at all that Tesla's costs were any less than the competition, only that they were asking for less in subs
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by jellicle 3y ago
Which part of the First Amendment says corporations have a right not to disclose how they run their business?
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by jellicle 3y ago
It doesn't require disclosure of any content moderation decisions at all, but only how many times particular actions were taken. Musk's objections are likely because it would disclose how little moderation is happening on the plat
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by jellicle 3y ago
A brief summary: lawyers for Twitter were busy obfuscating and dissembling to the judge, pretending that Twitter was completely unable to formulate a SQL query to identify multiple accounts used by the same device and otherwise playing dumb
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by jellicle 3y ago
Creating a Twitter account in recent years requires a valid email address and valid phone number, or at least it did until recently. Twitter definitely has a pretty good idea of which human being is behind the majority of its accounts.
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by jellicle 4y ago
Well, yes, if your bank is receiving too many deposits and you didn't want to be vulnerable to a SVB-style failure, then you could: - set your rate of paid interest on demand deposits quite low - what's going to happen, some peopl
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by jellicle 4y ago
Yep, and if you check your local app store, it's full of thousands of also-ran messaging apps that are, indeed, dead. While Signal had SMS it had a feature that was NOT common on other apps, now it has the SAME feature set as, say, Wha
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by jellicle 4y ago
Signal has already committed suicide by removing its most important feature, "compatibility with other messaging apps", from its list of supported features. It's a dead app walking at this point, though it will probably take
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by jellicle 5y ago
The US has been spending a couple hundred million dollars per day on the war in Afghanistan alone for the last 20 years. No one even noticed. If the US put its mind to it (WWII levels of mobilization), it could probably achieve full renewab
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by jellicle 5y ago
> "The network’s own research shows that users consider each title for a whopping 1.8 seconds, and that if users don’t find anything in a minute and a half, they’re gone." It's Netflix's fault this is true! There&#x27
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by jellicle 5y ago
Pretty obviously the only reason to scan on-device is that you intend to expand on-device scanning to all files on the device, regardless of whether they are uploaded or not. ("We don't want child molesters to get away by turning
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by jellicle 5y ago
90% of the Patriot Act was permanent law and is law today. A few of the most objectionable parts had "sunset" provisions in them and those (after several rounds of modifications and numerous extensions) are what has, finally, been
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by jellicle 5y ago
Can anyone "take out" dollars at all? Tether is a bank with a deposit window but no withdrawal window. If Tether ceased operations tomorrow, just abandoned USDT and walked away with all the cash, what happens?
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by jellicle 5y ago
> > requires governmental medical insurance providers
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by jellicle 5y ago
All of those countries set how much they'll pay for insulin. They have price controls. The USA does the opposite; requires governmental medical insurance providers NOT to bargain with pharma companies and instead explicitly requires th
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by jellicle 5y ago
This is an excellent comment. The law-degree-heavy nature of Congress should be understood not as a Congress full of lawyers, but as a Congress full of the children of rich people checking boxes on their career path to high status jobs. The
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by jellicle 5y ago
What Tether is doing is replaying the banking scams from the 1800s. A bank would open up, issue an unlimited amount of its paper currency, collect deposits in other, valuable currency, and operate for a while. Eventually it would collapse a
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by jellicle 5y ago
You have to burn down the current system no matter which other system you have your eyes on as a desirable goal. The reason is simple: the system fights change.
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by jellicle 5y ago
You can A/B test. Company A awards your firm wins in 50% of your arbitration cases. Company B awards you wins in 65% of your arbitration cases. Which contract should you renew next year?
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by jellicle 5y ago
On the contrary, every study I know of shows substantial bias towards the corporate side in these sorts of disputes. That's why they're attractive to the corporation in the first place. This link explains how even a "fair&quo
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by jellicle 5y ago
Law enforcement agencies created a site to sell the phones, and then had informants and other such people "pass the word" in the targeted communities - "hey, there's this cool site where you can buy a phone that the FBI
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by jellicle 5y ago
Two possible concerns with "radiation": a) individual rays/particles have enough energy to knock electrons off ("ionizing radiation"). This is dependent on wavelength/frequency, not the amount of radiation, so
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by jellicle 5y ago
The concern isn't the power now , after people point out that your cell phone is emitting less power than a single christmas tree light. Power absolutely was the concern, it was beaming energy right into your brain! Boiling your preci
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by jellicle 5y ago
Who said there's an average of 3-4 packages per delivery?
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by jellicle 5y ago
So if I wanted to be Earth's Best Employer, would that entail perhaps raising pay by, let's say, $1 per hour? No? Okay.
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by jellicle 5y ago
Huh? My description is completely accurate. I feel like a lot of people didn't actually read Damore's document, or perhaps read it and were shouting "YES! YES!" so loudly as they read about Google's supposed left-wi
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by jellicle 5y ago
Those are very old stats. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/leo/default.html

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