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by mpalczewski 4y ago
What's surprising to me about this, is that if you ever read the risk section of a 10-k it is basically a bunch of non sense, where they imagine every possible risk no matter how small a business might have. It's filled with so ma
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
That's a good idea, a very reasonable way of doing it. Would be totally fine with an even higher(25cent) disposal fee. Makes no difference to the 4 times a year user, the frequent user gets a reusable straw.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
coffee is an everyday thing for many people. Bubble tea is a 1-4 times a year thing for me. I prefer not to carry a bag. carrying around a straw is less practical than just not having bubble tea.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I've been impressed with the products I buy from them. Bought their nano pro duo usb-c power brick, works great. Replaced my dying roomba with a Eufy, I sold the roomba on Ebay with full disclosure that it was dying and bought the Eufy
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> Why do you trust HN comments over research? I don't, that's a misinterpretation of the meaning I intended. I wrote > > It is true that very little research has value. It is true that very little information is worth rea
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Bayesian probabilities are different from frequentist probabilities. An abridged summary: Frequentist probability is about the limit that something approaches after many repetitions. e.g. rolling a dice. It works well in a casino and some q
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> If I listened to HN comments, very little research would have value, very little information would be worth reading. The top comment is almost always of this nature; it's depressing to me that it still happens; we all should be ve
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> It's easier just to pirate than keep up with all these streaming services. It really isn't and it's only cheaper if you don't put much value on your time. Radarr and Sonarr don't do anything automatically. Sett
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
When you become a US citizen they ask you to renounce other citizenships. At least it was the case the for me.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
The problem with foundation wasn’t what you state. The problem is that they changed the story so much from the books that it doesn’t resemble them and they got the central theme exactly backwards.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
You can turn it off, but would you. Would you risk turning it off at work where everyone else that looks at your doc sees the purple and you never even got a heads up.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I've always understood "folks" to mean parents. Not sure I understand how this is a better term.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
In general I agree, that the root cause tends to be a supply constraint. Even if there were a bunch of people buying up houses, at least in theory that should make rents go down. However, in places like Vancouver people are buying up prope
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> capitalism If capitalism caused censorship you would expect the least capitalist places to have the least censorship but the opposite is true.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
California, sort of: They figure out what sort of place you own, pigeon hole it with other "similar" places and charge you more per kilowatt hour if you use more than they think you need. It's a procrustean bed approach.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I finally found a full proof way of making any egg easy to peel. I wonder if it would work with eggs like these. I pressure steam then in an instant pot for about three minutes.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> “Real price of gold” is an interesting concept, probably showing a statistical quirk of backtracing CPI than anything useful though? I’d have to study how it was calculated. I agree it's interesting. I'm invested in Gold, so
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> If you re-price the market in another unit of measure, like “ounces of gold”, you will get an entirely different picture. If you price the dollar in terms of ounces of gold, then you would think that the dollar is worth more than it wa
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> in America, nobody is forcing anyone to take a vaccine so the position wouldn't make any sense. Employers, en masse, are forcing it as a condition of employment. I do agree with some of these employer mandates, e.g. airlines, beca
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
USD is not down. The dxy index has been going up all year. Inflation is a global phenomenon.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I did eventually buy an iPhone 13 mini. Still somewhat disappointed by it. What I really wanted is something like an iPhone 13 mini pro. I used the zoom on my iPhone 12 pro and never the wide angle, if they only pick two cameras, please g
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
The pace of productivity increases in manufacturing is increasing faster than pace of increase in demand. This is similar to what was happing in agriculture around 1900-1930 or so when 90% of the country farmed. When/if manufacturing
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
> They threatened to report this to a credit rating agency. At any given time it's probably not a big deal assuming 1) you don't need to replace your car or sign a lease or get a personal loan around that time and 2) you know t
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
Sounds like the only harm done to you is some unpleasant emails, and some phone calls that were also rather unpleasant that you initiated. Their automated systems and support seem rather terrible(unfortunately normal). You might have just
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
One can't even judge if 40% is unusual. Most businesses fail. It could a healthy sign that a bunch of businesses were started. It could be a normal amount, or it could be really terrible. Without more context, it isn't really inf
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
Those are also known as ads. I frequently see repeatedly shows I have no interest in(actually negative interest, in that I would be better of not knowing about them). I see stuff that I don't like, I see stuff that pushes or attempts
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
yes, Chromecast with Android/Google TV is all ads all the time on home screen it is rather unpleasant. I changed my home launcher to one like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cosinus.
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
I switched away from Workflowy to a plain text file format. Load times are quicker, navigation is quicker, can use keyboard only without a mouse, the UX can keep up with the pace of my thinking. I prefer vimwiki for this purpose https:&#x
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
When I take my cat to the vet I get upfront estimates. When I take myself to the doctor no one can tell me how much anything costs. Regardless of insurance status the vet gets paid the same amount. My pets get better healthcare then I do an
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by mpalczewski 5y ago
The us has over ten times the population of Australia. The concentration of power is much greater and the distrust of that power isn’t completely irrational. What I can’t figure out is why one state out of the fifty can’t do healthcare. Tha

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