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by likpok 5y ago
Per international user is extremely misleading. Ad costs are wildly different based on geographic area, with the US being far higher. FB, for example, pulls 4-5x the ARPU for US users compared with international. I'd expect twitter to
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by likpok 5y ago
All these companies had roughly these policies before Covid: move to the cheaper office, get paid slightly less. It doesn’t impact tech people because the tech offices were always the bay, Seattle and nyc which often ended up in the same ba
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by likpok 5y ago
Crypto miners are pretty inefficient at heating your home. A heat pump is more than twice as efficient as direct heat.
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by likpok 5y ago
Staff engineer is the name for a “rank” but the rank has existed for a long long time. Staff is the first “leadership” engineering role - roughly equivalent to a manager in scope. Some places have a manager equivalent of senior engineer but
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by likpok 5y ago
Later caselaw (note that that case was from 1919) gives directors widespread latitude to decide what "benefiting the corporation" means. The second paragraph gives two such cases: AP Smith Manufacturing Co v. Barlow and Shlensky v
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by likpok 5y ago
What warning? About phenylalanine? That only applies to people with a specific dysfunction; phenylalanine is found in lots of food like meat or cheese or beans.
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by likpok 5y ago
Sure, but stomach acid is more acidic than soda.
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by likpok 5y ago
The classic suggestion of how to solve a large population of restless young men is to invade somewhere. That’s not exactly a comforting thought, even if China is unlikely to invade the US. Certainly China would not be the first country to r
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by likpok 5y ago
WhatsApp doesn't have a news feed or advertising either, and people don't exactly seem happy with it. While there are some issues from FB (the TOS scandal), the biggest issues are inherent to the platform (fake news in IIRC brazil
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by likpok 5y ago
Consider the input a b Awk will treat it as having two columns (by default), while cut will treat each space as it’s own column. Awk is also a little nicer for whitespace; cut makes specifying the delimiter (with say “-d\ “) a little
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by likpok 5y ago
Opt out, because of course very few people would opt in.
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by likpok 5y ago
That is specifically "felony murder", which wouldn't apply here (though conspiracy might?). Felony murder is the idea that you are guilty of murder if someone dies as a result of you committing another felony (sometimes from
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by likpok 5y ago
The new scanning machines will see things like paper or plastic in your pocket, so they can definitely see a lot more than metal detectors. You may think that's irrelevant, but it's not nothing. It's worth noting that 9/
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by likpok 5y ago
I don't know that your example is a fair one. I'm not a huge fan of java, but I have run it in anger (and specifically abused the crap out of hadoop). I do not think that being written in C++ would have solved any of the problems
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by likpok 5y ago
Does glyphosate poison insects at all? It targets a pathway specific to plants, and generally is non-toxic to everything else. Farmers (and gardeners and homeowners) use a whole lot of other pesticides to kill insects, which will affect non
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by likpok 5y ago
I don't think schools (in the US) have been requiring handwritten assignments (of any length) for decades at this point.
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by likpok 5y ago
The competition isn't "nuclear vs renewables", California is not going to not build renewables (it got 40% of it's utility-scale energy from them in 2018!). It's what you do about the rest: over half of CA's en
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by likpok 6y ago
This means that the only way to make money is via subscriptions or cross promoting something that makes you the real money. The walled gardens, being able to both avoid Adblock and sell targeted ads, will do quite well. If your goal is the
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by likpok 6y ago
There are only some places where that actually works. For nursing, teaching and other basically-vocational degrees this works okay: you need the paper to get the degree. But a lot of degrees aren't like that, and a lot of places don&#x
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by likpok 6y ago
The long term consequences end in 7 years, when the bankruptcy falls off your credit report. That means that by 30 you'd be free and clear. Most people don't need much credit before then anyway: the median age of first time homebu
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by likpok 6y ago
I don't think I've seen milk that's not rBST free, even the cheap store brands. Where are you even finding it? Organic milk is often UHT pasteurized which gives it a slightly scalded flavor. That might be what your tasting, r
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by likpok 6y ago
It may be legal to grow opium poppies in the US for garden or seed purposes, just not for the processing into opium. https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/resources/wp-resource_s... Michael Pollan also wrote an ess
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by likpok 6y ago
The traditional explanation of clearing is that it’s to solve the problem where I buy a share of Microsoft from you for $100. The trade won’t complete for a couple days so there’s a risk that either I don’t show up with the money or you don
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by likpok 6y ago
There was another accident in Greenland where a plane crashed carrying nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons did not have a nuclear detonation, but the conventional explosives inside did.
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by likpok 6y ago
There are both annual and periodic cicadas. I lived through a 17 year bloom (there are also 13 year cicadas in the US), and it’s quite different from the usual numbers. According to wiki, it seems like the periodic broods are solely within
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by likpok 6y ago
The "real" measure of how fat you are is body-fat percentage, which can vary at a given BMI level. It's not hard to imagine that people have gotten fatter at the same BMI level, as well as people being at the higher end of th
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by likpok 6y ago
One other interesting factor: BMI is a rough measure with substantial room for error. Everyone likes to criticize BMI because a lean athlete can show up as "overweight" due to muscle, but the opposite is also true. If you have a l
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by likpok 6y ago
You will also get a pause in new hires in late December for the same reason. I've certainly accepted an offer late in the year and then didn't start until the new year. Probably not as big of a rush as the end of school year rush
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by likpok 6y ago
Bitcoin does have a source of value: money laundering. That could be enough to prop up the value as new crime generates new dirty money which ensures new demand (you can include "evading capital controls" as "crime" but
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by likpok 6y ago
Part of the claim is that the people who are checking are ad execs who, if PepsiCo stopped buying ads, would shortly be out of a job (or have their budget and influence slashed). A counter to this might be that different advertising channel

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