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by mikeiz404 4y ago
That’s true however there is a limit. > The standard insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category. [1] 1: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/bro
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Doesn’t the word “recouped” imply the profit was at least enough to recover the investment cost (and millions more in this case), or am I missing something?
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
This article [1], linked from original article, looks at the effects of direct instruction and mastery learning across various studies. I did not read it all but it concludes from randomized interventions that these approaches have a benefi
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
There is a newer version of the article with more content here: https://archive.is/L21Xb (Tip: Keep clicking the next link / view the archive history to get to the latest snapshot)
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
I think they are hoping to moderate content more strictly and select a metric to optimize which (hopefully) better aligns with the individual. > “One of the issues with technology recently has been a lot of these companies’ unwillingnes
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
I believe it’s revenue for Fox in general. The number is pulled from the article but I messed up the original calculation.
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
I updated the comment. The source for the revenue was from the article but I messed up the calculation.
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
I misread the article and thought the 4.4B number was profit and not revenue. Also I really messed up the math on the units.
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
For context: It’s ~0.01% ($.5M/$4.4B) of the company’s revenue for that year. (I’m not weighing in one way or the other here) > That may be difficult, however, since the FCC says in its proposal that the company had $4.44 billion of
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Corporate profit does not always lead to social good. There are lots of cases, especially when companies scale significantly and over a long enough period of time, where the profit motive leads to a decline in social good which is often see
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609137698404700161.html
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Are they blocking you outright or are you required to do captchas? From a 2016 post CloudFlare states they don’t block Tor traffic and don’t let their customers block the traffic either but they will put restrictions such as captchas in pla
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
1) Eat for satiety and, as a rough proxy, focus on things high in fiber (beans, lentils, grains, vegetables, etc). You will likely eat a larger volume of food but that’s ok. 2) Don’t diet, switch lifestyles. 3) Still take time to enjoy in m
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Edit: Apparently broad spectrum antibiotics can actually lead to antimicrobial resistance [1][2] —- > I actually think this is good since it means we postpone usage of, and thereby resistance to, any new antibiotics. This is true if you
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
From their blog posts… Helium mobile is a mobile phone carrier which provides coverage via decentralized 5g cell sites. This is unlike traditional cell carriers which either own the cell site infrastructure or rent access to it from an ofte
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Can that be done for links to youtube and other platform sites? It seems to do that securely requires proxying the resource but that’s not a great idea for platform content (It would likely break the site: You would need to rewrite all sta
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
This study [1] shows that a diet of 79g/kg of sucrose (table sugar) did not increase anxiety in rats when compared to a sugar-free diet. It also shows that a diet of 100g/kg of honey reduced anxiety. Anxiety was inferred by lookin
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
EPA has an article talking about a specific type of ethoxylate (NPE) in the context of impacts to aquatic life which has some interesting info in it [1]. Does some one know if alcohol ethoxylates are a type of nonylphenol ethoxylates? Some
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Dead Salmom fMRI Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/ Research Poster: http://www.prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009....
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
An archived version of the tweet is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221009003642/https://twitter.c... The tweet was deleted on twitter.
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FingerprintJS adds Cloudflare integration to bypass third-party ad blocking(fingerprint.com)
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
From the AP article [1]: > It relies on advertising identification numbers, which Fog officials say are culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person’s movements and i
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Is my understanding correct that: The leverage comes from lowering the seller’s switching cost to go to/add another market place by intermediating the seller/market place relationship with open-ship. That way when you release the
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Wow, that chart is quite compelling.
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
From an energy security standpoint being net neutral or better is good but is the US insulated from fossil fuel prices? From a market perspective I would have thought a decrease in supply (say sanctions on Russian oil) would up the price of
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Thanks for the info. No worries; I appreciate the perspective you added.
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
If you don’t mind sharing… - What was/is your business? - Which customers were you going after? - What other marketing / advertising approaches did you try? Edit: I’m guessing weather forecasting ( https://skysight.io&#x
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
> All your iCloud data is a few clicks away for most NSA employees, and I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that they also have root capabilities on your iPhone. There is still value for most people in being able to limit p
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Email alias services can make this process a little easier, though certainly not painless, by letting you create reverse sending email addresses [1]. 1: https://simplelogin.io/docs/getting-started/reverse-alias&#x2
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
> Regulation works when experts really do have the answer. I think there are other significant factors to consider as well. In the US at least I think regulation, in our current day, has failed in many areas due to 1) the slowing down of

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