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by jpadkins 7y ago
Not everyone has your local knowledge. Thanks for sharing information in a non condescending way. I always thought Pixar was close to Oakland, not SF. Lucasfilm is a pretty good pick. But there are a lot of other higher impact studios in S
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by jpadkins 7y ago
curious to why you state SF is culturally important? It doesn't seem to have a lot of production of note in the arts or media (TV, movies, games, music, books, etc). It also doesn't seem culturally aligned with the rest of the USA
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by jpadkins 7y ago
in your system, who would write the articles?
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by jpadkins 7y ago
please don't strawman. I never said rags-to-riches. I said upper middle class (25th percentile). Elite universities take great students from upper middle class, and many of those billionaires did not graduate from elite universitie
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by jpadkins 7y ago
> There’s also a general toxic mentality in America that we can all work our way to becoming billionaires - in reality, none of us can optimize our way into having family connections to the elites in our society. Current billionaires ar
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by jpadkins 7y ago
disappointed based on the headline. I thought I was going to get a list of nootropics and dosages that have been proven to be effective.
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by jpadkins 7y ago
it's internal enterprise search, not site search. harder problem.
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by jpadkins 7y ago
msft is hedging publicly because they know they are way behind the two leaders (Sony, then Google). stadia has a clear revenue model (% of games purchased). Maybe it will also have subscription model too. And stadia will have first party t
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by jpadkins 7y ago
citations please? All the reviews I read said it worked great on home networks.
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by jpadkins 7y ago
There are a lot of minor threats to monetary systems that blockchain does not address. Bitcoin addresses the rare but fatal threat of hyperinflation (runaway inflation). Historical examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jpadkins 7y ago
why do you think cooperatives are anti-capitalist or anti-free market? I've always thought of coops as a natural byproduct of free market systems (sometimes orgs require outside capital, some orgs can be self funded).
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by jpadkins 7y ago
option 2 will create status quo bias. The system in power will marginally favor ads that keeps the current system in power. option 1 can't be effective unless you also know the targeting criteria of the ads. Otherwise, interested p
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by jpadkins 7y ago
how so? I didn't see any mention of the content of TV or radio being regulated (other than the disclaimer of who paid for it) in my quick search. This article appears to say that the content is unregulated. https://www.the
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by jpadkins 7y ago
electronic music != house or techno. kraftwerk early stuff does not sound like house or techno.
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good journalistic practice is to not report something as fact until it is independently verified. So in the online world with a rush to push the article, the headline has to reflect what they actually know ('oracle reported').
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by jpadkins 7y ago
don't trust the client. How easy it would be for a motivated community to create a binary patch that skipped the local abuse checks?
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by jpadkins 7y ago
This has been debated many times. Even the DoD strategic planning has concluded that if a certain % of the population would take up arms, the army would lose an insurgency war (especially if the opposing side has the support of the people)
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by jpadkins 7y ago
why? do companies have a right to defend themselves from being broken up?
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by jpadkins 7y ago
America likes its markets free, but it's sports socialist (unpaid college, revenue sharing, salary caps, drafts, etc). Funny how it's progressive CA is going to cause college athletics to a whole lot more market oriented....
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by jpadkins 7y ago
"what models predicting catastrophic temperature increases have been had predictive power for more than 10 years (climate timespan)?" or "what peer reviewed study shows the earth climate have a net positive feedback loop for
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by jpadkins 7y ago
while you are correct, you happen to replying to someone who owned a ferret for 4 years while living in CA. Yes, I did smuggle the ferrets into CA, but there is a ferret owners group in CA. Also the vets are very nice to ferret owners, an
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by jpadkins 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_Plan He was one of the major voices in the industry to switch to wind, and why we have some much windpower in the midwest today.
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by jpadkins 7y ago
would agree that while CA can ban purchasing certain cars (commerce) in CA, they could not deny people bringing in cars from other states (property)?
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by jpadkins 7y ago
interstate highways are funded by federal tax dollars. So not wholly owned by California. And article 1, section 8 gives feds power to regulate (normalize) interstate commerce.
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link to 2 page summary of the study https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/clean-energy-port...
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by jpadkins 7y ago
https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/
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how do you measure the effectiveness without tracking and measurement?
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by jpadkins 7y ago
putting cash under your mattress has security costs. For < 1k euro, probably not worth calculating. But for > 1M euro, there is a real security cost to keeping that amount of cash safe for 30 years. I may be totally wrong, but I thi
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by jpadkins 7y ago
> psychologically effective times if this were true, then billions of dollars would be spent advertising in bars and therapy centers (where people are most vulnerable). I agree psychological tricks can be used by advertising ("one
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by jpadkins 7y ago
> measured from the POV of profit made by advertisers, is not a good thing for people at large. Why? Sorry this statement is not self evident. If I have the perfect ad system, that only targets people who will buy my product at 100%

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