magicnubs

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by magicnubs 6y ago
> I do think there will eventually be abloody falling out between our classes. Times have changed however, and I doubt workers will be able to 'win' anymore. It's a shame, but I have to agree. I'm not into conspiracy
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> A single app aggregating Uber, Lyft, taxi, and 3rd-party car services on one screen would open those up for competition. Similarly, a federated Facebook that provided various social networks in one client would let you pick your hostin
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by magicnubs 6y ago
How can the customer confirm that the numbers are truly random and drawn live so you can't coordinate with them? It's to both your benefit and the insurance company's to not have high dollar prizes pay out. The insurance comp
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by magicnubs 6y ago
A government is basically a company, in the sense that they are both just groups of people associating for their collective self-interest. The real difference, at least in the US, is that the government is much more transparent and everyo
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> It also looks like they bought a bunch of fake 5 star reviews at the end of January. I took a look and yeah it's pretty obvious this is what happened. There are 88 reviews total, and all but three of them occurred in the 7-day per
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Living in a places with weather very similar to what you describe (Raleigh, and before that in south Florida, Orlando and Tallahassee), I used to feel the same. I hated walking anywhere outside. I recently moved to a walkable neighborhood a
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by magicnubs 6y ago
(continued as I accidently submitted my comment too early) Or is it simply about making it seem like things have returned to normal? "See business are reopening, schools are reopening, the world is back to the way it was".
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by magicnubs 6y ago
What's the end game in this scenario? It feels like political suicide if it causes coronavirus deaths to spike even more before November, as people already don't care for how the administration has handled it. Although, since it&#
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by magicnubs 6y ago
I liked the visualizations a lot by the way. Maybe you mentioned in the write-up and I missed it, but what did you use to make them? Checked the skills listed on your CV but didn't see any not-static visualization tools listed
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> There's still a high number of items from various in-house brands from Florida department store Bealls (namely Coral Bay, Reel Legends, and Dept 222) Looking at the chart, it appears these 3 brands were all in the top 4 most commo
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> (...now I’m off to slip Bill Watterson a tablet and stylus and see if we can get some new C&H :) Now I'm imagining Bill Watterson's take on Cyanide and Happiness
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Oh and also from the article: > In some markets, BMW owners may also be able to pay for "authentic" BMW engine sounds that will come through the car stereo. In many BMW cars today, the engine sound is augmented inside the cabin
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by magicnubs 6y ago
This is interesting. It seems like everything is going subscription-based. It sort if makes sense in that software can be improved upon after sale and needs to be maintained, but on the other hand a single but fix can be sent to an arbitrar
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Make governments compete in a free market like companies. It's an interesting idea, and compelling on its face. But that leaves open the question of how a government could ever be expected to invest in it's people. The incentive f
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by magicnubs 6y ago
200 million copies of Minecraft sold to date, with 126 million active players each month? That seems almost impossible. It seems like that would mean that even most of the people who bought the game years ago are still playing every month.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> And with all of this money being injected into the economy, we are absolutely going to get an enormous amount of inflation... eventually. But if basically none of the money is making it into the hands of the average person, will we act
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by magicnubs 6y ago
For this reason, I wonder if near-zero interest rates and corporate bond purchasing will ever end in the US. If it continues, isn't it kind of like the government supporting these large US corporations in the similar way? Encouraging t
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> instead of doing anything people just have their burger whole try can I assume this is just a typo, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the original was
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> Amazingly they tripled in size from $6b in sales in 2008, in just three years. Then lost 85% of their sales in another four years after that. I assume this is due to the advent of touchscreen phones. Around when people were getting use
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by magicnubs 6y ago
How many people can afford a personal trainer and a therapist while not having a job?
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by magicnubs 6y ago
What is a "backward caste"? Haven't heard this term before
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by magicnubs 6y ago
They weren't saying the fill tool was an early form of what we think of as an "AI algorithm" today, but that the leading edge of machine intelligence / intuitive capability has changed, and it will continue to change.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> The great bubbles can go on a long time What he said may be true, but that doesn't mean it's useful. By this logic, you can just say that stocks are overvalued any time after they've recovered from a prior bubble pop or
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by magicnubs 7y ago
> now is the time to print a bunch of new money I'm curious as to whether the money would ever make it into the hands of the average consumer (which is where I'm assuming it needs to go to actually cause an increase in inflatio
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by magicnubs 7y ago
Is this part of why stocks have slipped so much? Based on what I know of the market (what relatively little I know, I keep up with it, but it's not my day job), I'd have expected most of the volatility from coronavirus to be in th
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by magicnubs 7y ago
You'd be surprised how many unpaved roads there are. Even in Europe https://i.redd.it/4xau5auzqg741.png
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by magicnubs 7y ago
> companies actually did take care of employees Was this primarily due to employees having more leverage and demanding it (because union rights were a lot stronger)?
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by magicnubs 7y ago
> because those acquiring companies were themselves so very profitable. The quote says that the acquiring companies were profitable, not the acquired companies.
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by magicnubs 7y ago
So, basically video-streaming, but with websites instead of tv shows?
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by magicnubs 7y ago
I'll definitely agree with that. Broadly, I like the direction Microsoft has been headed in, I guess I'm just disappointed that there has been no more information (even them saying they've shelved the idea) after the huge out

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