minsc_and_boo

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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
>And that's just bitcoin, stable coins are more reliable. Until they submit to agnostic third party audits, they're not stable.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
China doesn't have the same freedom of speech as the U.S. You can't just ban companies because you want to. There are laws and protections from the government in place.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
That's assuming that new facts never come to light over time.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I mean, correcting factual errors is pretty good trait for a fact-checking site, right?
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
"Making this bread really takes me back to growing up with the funerary pyres at Grandma's house"
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I think the video conference market success is also linked to increased prevalence of camera us - i.e. mobile plans finally support streaming, laptops carry a camera as standard, etc. (Covid also increased demand) If you're going to s
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Noob question: Can you do attestation with mobile web, or is it app only?
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Even the hotspots functionality is useful - if I'm in a new city, I can see the highlighted areas where the best restaurants and bars are.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
My experience is the opposite - Chase nickle and dimed me and made me pay fees if I didn't jump through certain hoops. It made me go back to my credit union.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Thanks to modern banking, you don't need to be in the same city as your credit union. I've used the same CU for 20 years, the last 8 of which has been 2000 miles away from it.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Yeah, was wondering where the combustion engine came in. It revolutionized agriculture. Also, tea making was a huge sanitary step forward.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
They'd be paying you directly for your information through incentives.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
More along the lines of giving you control to allow brands you trust to know more about you. Imperfect markets exist because of the unbalance of information, which is why adtech with its information is in demand. This is already happening
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
As long as there are imperfect markets, there is demand from sellers for advertising to do targeting. If the goal is to remove advertising, then it may be better to set up mechanisms for consumers to share information with sellers, rather t
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Because it was a loss leader. It's proof that Uber subsidizes individual markets differently.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Yep, every time technology shifts, reputation systems shift in response. This goes all the way back to yellow news with newspapers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Even with legal sales, there are still black markets for drugs, as is evident with marijuana: https://apnews.com/article/business-california-los-angeles-m...
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Radical Treason Raptor Planes /Birds aren't real
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
That doesn't mean they're not subsidizing individual markets to remain competitive though. It just means the average is marginal. IIRC Uber lost $2B on the Chinese marketing simply because of subsidies.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Fire codes show emergent design as well. The end-of-day fireworks in Disney Paris has the square packed corner to corner, while in the US there are roped off escape routes on the roads.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
If it's any consolation, a big CPU suck is friend-or-foe checks being done by characters on everyone in sight, in every tick. That came out last year-ish and making smaller taverns can (slightly) improve processing.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Alcohol has greater cultural and historical significance than marijuana does as context, despite killing 3 million people each year. Claiming it's okay to lose a hand because you couldn't stop from losing a leg has never been a ve
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
It's part of the Google informational branding, which is why you say, "Hey Google" instead of "Hey Alexa" or "Hey Siri". For HN it seems boring, but for normies it's simply descriptive.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Fair, I should have said 8 months since the market exploded.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Agreed, but it's more like the store is aggressively slipping you gambling chips for their questionable casino every time you buy.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Same. The affiliate link autofill fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Until space above and below ground is completely filled, and we engineer massive super-AI spaceships (i.e. The Culture series).
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Yes - https://www.tesla.com/support/refer-and-earn
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
I feel like this is unfair, because Epic Systems could recommend ICD10 codes based on the listed symptoms. The doctor would pick the final diagnosis code from the recommended list or their own. That doesn't mean Epic shoulders the li
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
The world's richest man bought his favorite toy. This was kind of expected in hindsight.

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