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kortilla
2y ago
> AFAICS there's no real competition in the market place for their product today What does this mean? They are competing with regular legacy VPNs for sure. Despite tailscale existing for the last 4 years, none of the large corporate
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kortilla
2y ago
Installing from random npm repos is so sketchy with supply chain attacks. Is there such a thing as a security audited open source distro kinda like some of the ultra old kernel versions RHEL carried for so long? There is a market for “here
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kortilla
2y ago
These channels don’t exist because it’s a better way to display information. It’s a more click bait way. A chart that works that way is the title equivalent of “you won’t guess who wins”. I get sucked into those “X over 50 years videos” and
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kortilla
2y ago
The obvious problem here is the vast majority of software professionals in the US are not working on open source projects. So this tool is probably only useful if you’re looking for an open source dev or someone junior trying to break into
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kortilla
2y ago
People moving in search of opportunity back then weren’t doing it because it was easier. It meant giving up your family and friends far more so than now because of the lack of internet. An out of state move meant a handful of letters a year
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kortilla
2y ago
>but they’re willing to go all-in on disastrous economic policy. They did it to stem the covid bleeding too. >It’s not just returns, it’s risk. Trump just made the market hyper risky. What market do you think Trump didn’t make risky t
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2y ago
The effects of covid were literally being talked about as the entire world economy grinding to a halt overnight. It was mass panic beyond high tariffs for a foreseeable future. The market was in straight free-fall until all of the major gov
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2y ago
Texting in network was a fixed rate per text (later unlimited) and then texting out of network was crazy like 10 cents a message. You thought blue bubble was bad, it literally cost you money to talk to people who chose another carrier. The
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kortilla
2y ago
Iced coffee in Australia seems to automatically imply sweet with lots of milk (or even ice cream). This is very jarring when you expect the default “iced coffee” to be black coffee over ice.
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2y ago
When? In my grandparents generation (born late 1800s to early 1900s) moving to either try to start a farm in the US or to leave a failing farm for a job in town at the local whatever factory was very common. Post WW2 for the boomers was loa
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kortilla
2y ago
>This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States. The same thing happened just 4 short years ago when covid hit. Mass panic and then intervention kicked in. The intervention could have been taken a
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2y ago
This is out of touch with how businesses get going though. If you depend on word of mouth only as a plumber you’ll be out of business before you even get started. Are you suggesting to wait around the hardware parking lot to hope to hear ab
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kortilla
2y ago
All you’ve done here is shifted how the money is spent. The companies with deep pockets will spend extra on getting into that reviewer’s queue. See: lobbying.
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kortilla
2y ago
This doesn’t match my experience. Are you maybe talking about untargeted ads like in the Super Bowl? My feed on social apps and youtube is very frequently filled with small businesses near me.
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kortilla
2y ago
>If I want a service they provide, I will actively seek them out. The problem is there are some services you don’t even know exist that could be much better than how you’re currently solving a problem. Think prevention vs treatment of a
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kortilla
2y ago
>intention to change your purchasing behaviour, often knowing that the new behavior is worse for you. I think the latter part of that is a huge jump. How is seeing a billboard for a plumber promoting bad behavior?
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2y ago
That doesn’t matter. In modern forex markets you can convert 50 million yen to USD. Do a trade with another country for EUR or whatever. Then convert it back to USD the same day. These markets are extremely liquid and the longer term trends
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kortilla
2y ago
That’s not how that works. If Japan needs USD it goes to the forex market. That market represents a massive trade flow. It doesn’t matter which currency you pick in that world apart from capital control. As long as it’s reasonably stable yo
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2y ago
No, tax increases will not create better jobs to backfill the ones moved overseas by globalization.
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kortilla
2y ago
> Since trade is conducted largely in USD, that means other governments must purchase USD to trade. But then they sell it back. What you’re describing is not a trade deficit. To produce trade deficits they need to actually trade with the
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2y ago
One of the other most popular shows is about a serial killer. Another is about corporate lawyers fighting for power. People didn’t care about the premise of medical debt at all. It could have just have easily been coercion to pay a ransom.
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2y ago
> I can only infer based on things like sentiment analysis and reading volumes of comments, reports (news and otherwise) and of course, polls. > of which anecdotal evidence is not a factor. Comments are absolutely anecdotal. Luigi was
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kortilla
2y ago
A dissolution is a pretty specific major movement by many states. Where is the evidence that there is anything like this
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2y ago
Denying is not for shareholders, it’s for policyholders. A health insurance provider that doesn’t put guardrails on treatments will fail because the required policy rates will go up so much that the healthy people will go to a lower cost pr
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kortilla
2y ago
> but then why did his students not know about it? But the students do know. They are saying they can’t contact him, which is not the same as not knowing he’s on leave
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2y ago
Living a particular lifestyle and wanting to raise your kids there is a deliberate activity.
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2y ago
> and is looking down the barrel of a second dissolution as we speak. Where is there evidence of this?
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2y ago
>Is this era, where parents create an entire world for their children, unprecedented in history? I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but people born in rural areas in the early 1900s were extremely sheltered from an intellectual per
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2y ago
Does he have a lawyer? It wasn’t clear who retained council, it sounded like it was just a woman living at the Carmel house, which could have been a rental tenant…
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2y ago
An introvert engaging in a conversation is not the same level of harm as someone’s life being destroyed because they are outed to a government. > Maybe the severity of risks are specific to those who undertake them? No. Your feelings get
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