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by likpok 6y ago
A club offers “ladies drink half off” to draw in women. Instead of actually charging $4 for and $8 drink, they charge $6. The customers are still better off, but not by as much as the advertising said.
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by likpok 6y ago
Yeast will do just fine on the carbohydrates in the flour. I find that whole-grain flour tends to lead to more yeast activity, which is sort of the opposite direction. A lot of the packaged supermarket bread has additives to keep it fresher
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by likpok 6y ago
Airbnb has more places because Airbnb has more people because Airbnb has more places (and so on). It's basically the same moat as Facebook. It works better than Uber, I think, because Airbnb is much more travel-oriented so it's ha
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by likpok 6y ago
In the age of autoformatters it makes moving code around more painful. In C++ I can write some janky looking code and autoformat it into respectability. I can stop caring about whitespace entirely (while still producing readable results). I
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by likpok 6y ago
The argument is generally: Vitamin D has a lot of complex interactions in the body and is fat-soluble. That makes it very easy to overdose, and the recommended doses are substantially higher than normal dietary intake. Most studies on vit
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by likpok 6y ago
Here's something written for non-industry people: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2010/07/22/high-speed-rai... Your article notes that rail freight costs are much lower in the US (for shippers),
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by likpok 6y ago
Space probes need a LOT less power than a car. RTGs generally produce under 100 watts, while cars need more like 100 thousand.
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by likpok 6y ago
Section 230 allows Facebook to do moderation without exposing it to liability for everything on the platform. Look at the original motivation: Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy, where Prodigy's anti-porn moderation meant that Stratton was ab
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by likpok 6y ago
The ACA must have good parts and bad parts because the mandate makes the numbers work. Guaranteed-issue insurance doesn't work if healthy people can opt out (because you can just buy insurance after you get sick which makes the risk-po
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by likpok 6y ago
4 rooms per occupant is huge . Consider a 3/3 with a kitchen, dining room and living room. For 4 people (two kids and two parents) you have 9 rooms, or a little over 2 per person. This family would need to double their house size be
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by likpok 6y ago
I suspect that FB would pay a lot for tiktok, as reels is probably too early to have traction. The whole antitrust investigation will a) make it skittish and b) make government regulators unlikely to approve the deal. Consider that people a
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by likpok 6y ago
There are thousands or tens of thousands of millionaires produced by those top 10 free apps.
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by likpok 6y ago
> Please do provide evidence of this. Most people I've seen being surveyed in Europe around tourists don't care where they come from, as long as they spend money and don't ruin stuff. There are a lot of Americans, they hav
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by likpok 6y ago
It's a little funny though: living in the US means the FBI needs a warrant to read your messages and the NSA isn't supposed to at all (there was a huge scandal when they did!). On the other hand, it's the NSA's job to
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by likpok 6y ago
Giphy was valued at 600M in 2016 according to The Information, so the equity might not be worth much.
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by likpok 6y ago
In 2019 the NLRB said no, overruling a 2014 ruling that said yes.
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by likpok 7y ago
https://dnssec-name-and-shame.com/ This shows the top 25 websites and that none of them have DNSSEC. As for whether people will in the future, it’s impossible to say for sure. But chrome doesn’t support dnssec, which shows
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by likpok 7y ago
FB is less illiquid than SNAP for Evan. If he sells 50% of his SNAP shares, people will get concerned about his investment in the business. A mid-level exec (or even high profile acquisition) selling a bunch of FB stock doesn’t affect the p
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by likpok 7y ago
The bay area is building, but very unevenly. SOMA has a bunch of visible construction, as do certain places along El Camino. That can give the impression of building like crazy even when the reality is different. The other problem is the ba
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by likpok 7y ago
The cost of all of these things do increase with the value of the home, because the labor required to do it gets more expensive. The individual house price doesn't contribute to this but overall housing costs do. SF has had an explos
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by likpok 7y ago
In 1991, they believed it was an individual right. Now they believe it's a collective right. I don't know of any major cases the ACLU brought on behalf of gun owners (but probably wouldn't know if they had). https:/&#x2
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by likpok 7y ago
This article approaches gun regulation from the standpoint that the 2nd amendment mostly doesn't exist. It's arguing that the regulations should be consistent with the equal-protection clause. That's basically in-line with wh
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by likpok 7y ago
User growth is up, even on Facebook alone. If what you say is true you might expect weekly users to be up-or-flat while daily is declining, as people are locked in to the platform but less engaged with it. But daily users are also up.
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by likpok 7y ago
Expenses are rising faster than revenue, and so margins are falling. Or people were expecting a huge beat, and only got a moderate beat. That's certainly happened before with facebook.
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by likpok 7y ago
Subscriptions for the “modern newspaper” did not pay the bills, but were proof that people were actually reading the newspaper. Prior to that there were papers which did indeed make their money from subscriptions. But their content was diff
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by likpok 7y ago
SF rent control does not apply to new construction. The argument that rent control causes this is a little more convoluted: renters would support more development if they were not shielded from the impact of not building. SF has its own way
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by likpok 7y ago
People regularly reverse engineer the Facebook apps to see what’s inside. (For example: Jane Wong)
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by likpok 7y ago
You've missed rayiner's argument, which is that the household income is more than the sum of the median man and the median woman. That is: two married people make more than two single people. There are a number of arguments you co
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by likpok 7y ago
"Better" is a value judgement, and the specific value you've chosen is "makes more money". One concern, I think, is that a non-lawyer may push employees towards legally-unethical behavior. Since the non-lawyer can f
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by likpok 7y ago
The specific flavor/process of coke is protected, but you can get pretty close outside of that. Their other products are often indistinguishable (e.g. sprite/sierra mist). The value there is the brand, not the specific flavor. The

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