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by lurk2 8mo ago
> "it's just TARP fraud" is an idiotic thing to say Some people might consider it idiotic to post 3 broken links to articles they clearly haven’t read; others would simply consider it obnoxious. > the fraud was in misre
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by lurk2 8mo ago
> Lots of loan officers and auditors were jailed, yes Do you have any names?
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by lurk2 8mo ago
These look to all be incidences of people who were convicting of defrauding TARP, which I doubt most people would even remember. Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling told me the credit rating agencies rubber-stamped bad derivatives and that banks
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by lurk2 8mo ago
First article is about TARP fraud. The other three are all 404.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
The point the great-grandparent is making is that Google could comfortably finance the project itself and make 100% of the upside, not 25% or 5%.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
If you use someone else’s money you have to pay him back with interest or equity.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
YouTube got to where it is by making intentional moves to be the only game in town. They aren’t the most user-hostile platform by any means, but they have been coasting on the network effects of backlogged content for close to a decade now.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> $90K a year goes much further in most of Europe barring the centres of the biggest cities […] NYC and Bay Area salaries are outrageously inflated. Apples to oranges.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> they just need any conspiracy and so will invent one if necessary. Sort of like people who read a story about district heating and then use the comment section to complain about the existence of a hypothetical group of conspiracy theor
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> The USA was never a colony of britain. The american colonies were. This is inane. > Then tokyo or singapore or dubai would have been even greater draws. But they are not. This doesn’t logically follow, but even if it did, Tokyo is
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Its cultural diversity is a plus for most people Cultural diversity is not a draw. Africa, Latin America, and Central Asia are all culturally and ethnically diverse. No one moves to any of these places. The primary draw of a city like
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Gregory Aldrete opens his Great Courses lecture series on ancient history by noting that although most of us engage with history through works of art and accounts military conquest, 90 to 95 percent of all people living back then would have
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> IHR is CIA-backed Can you provide us with any evidence of that?
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> what about three sentences above that one? My bad. I searched for “Meta” instead of “Facebook.” Quite a few other red flags in that press release. > Haiket is launching the Beta trial from today, with a pipeline of future innovation
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Haiket doesn't even try to hide its connection to Meta. All you have to do is to go to their website, click on press, and see in the only press release they've ever posted that its CEO holds patents in use by Meta. […] Alex h
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by lurk2 9mo ago
2022-11-28 - “About 2.6 million Uyghur and Kazakh people have been subjected to coercion, “re-education programs” and internment in the Xinjiang region of north-west China, which is the source of 40-45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilico
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Yes it does.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Ukraine accepts foreign volunteers.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> If nobody steps up to protect Democratic values, and the freedom of the people for self-governance, it is a slippery slope to hell. reply Ukraine hasn’t had an election in 7 years.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> I see the same accounts over and over, many of whom complain about lack of impressions and payouts. I followed a few accounts on Twitter and their interactions are all way down compared to a few years ago; this has been something of a
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Around a third of the people I used to follow on Instagram had it installed. None of them actively posted there, and I suspect if any of them engaged with it, they were engaging with it after seeing content from Threads that had been cross-
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> it looks like 150m to 125m The graph shows a decline in Daily Active Users worldwide, not just in the US.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> If you take a plea deal because you were convinced you'd be prosecuted otherwise, well, that also sucks You are completely sidestepping the thrust of the grandparent commenter’s comment, which is that the cost of defending yoursel
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by lurk2 9mo ago
It’s an incentive problem. If even one party defects in a society of pacifists, the pacifists have no real method of recourse besides refusing to interact with the defector, and how many people are going to do that if the defector starts ki
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by lurk2 9mo ago
“YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Cheers.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
I’d also like the phone’s browser to allow me to filter inane comments on Hacker News but I don’t know if the technology is there yet.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
This looks promising. Is the camera any good?
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Tangential to the article but I’m on year 6 of waiting for the alternative smartphone market to offer what I’m actually looking for and here seems as good a place as any to complain about it: I just want a screen with a headphone jack and a
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by lurk2 9mo ago
You mean on the outside of the taxi, or the inside? If you meant outside, semitrucks often advertise for companies that don’t actually own them. If you meant inside, some airlines already do this with ads that play on the entertainment syst

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