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by mrep 7y ago
What climate change effect [0] do you think will cause societal collapse or result in mass horrible deaths? [0]: https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
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by mrep 7y ago
The problem isn't line spacing whatsoever, it's tracing which one of the 10 lines you are reading from one side of a screen to another as your read it. Did you make your comment 3 paragraphs ironically?
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by mrep 7y ago
Ironically (I cannot seem to word this in my mind without sounding like an ass so please don't take offense), your comment is about 10 lines long on my 15 inch laptop making it somewhat difficult to read for us vision readers. A doubl
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by mrep 7y ago
> In the name of all that is holy, why would anyone rip off that show? It is literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television While I have never seen the show, 10-20 million people apparently watch it [0] so apparently a lot of p
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by mrep 7y ago
> If your entire socioeconomic model is based on positive rates of return (retirement, pensions, investment income, etc), and you can no longer obtain those returns safely, things start to break down. Which is why most companies in the U
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by mrep 7y ago
So much this. Every recession that I remember studying in my economics classes had an actual market failure acting as a trigger that caused widespread panic which resulted in a recession. The 2018 us stock market downturn comes to mind as
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by mrep 7y ago
That is ignoring real gdp growth rate per capita [0]. [0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
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by mrep 7y ago
Right along with charles schwab [0]. Amazing what a little competition from Robinhood can do. [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/charles-schwab-is-eliminatin...
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by mrep 7y ago
For salary sure, but it is 345 total comp and the stock is pretty much as good as cash considering it'll vest monthly and you can set it up to immediately autosell converting it to cash.
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by mrep 7y ago
Total compensation [0]. [0]: https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/
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by mrep 7y ago
Main use case I have is to side load a tethering app because the carriers have monopolized that functionality into one solution with a rediculous fee in the app stores. Cannot stop me from side loading though on Android.
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by mrep 7y ago
> it was called installing from sources instead of side loading, but it wasn't the default, and it's something you can do anyway in both iPhone and Android and it takes more or less the same effort and knowledge. Really, can y
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by mrep 7y ago
What? You've been able to do that for a long time on Itunes, Google play, and Amazon. You have also been able to buy individual tv shows and movie physical copies at stores for decades.
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by mrep 7y ago
They almost certainly would be lower as the aggregate demand curve for individual products is lower than the aggregate demand for a bundled group of products [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_bundling
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by mrep 7y ago
Speak for yourself. In Chicago, we've got the metra [0] which goes to the far out suburbs (L goes to close ones [1]) and there are plenty of upper class people that ride it for their daily commute. [0]: https://en.wikipedia
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by mrep 7y ago
Is that sarcasm, because I had the first iphone and being able to use a browser anywhere was the killer feature, and it was amazing.
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by mrep 7y ago
Yep, consumers win. In fact, Charles Schwab just dropped there trading fees yesterday and equity trading stocks completely tanked. Shares of Schwab fell 9.7%, TD Ameritrade plummeted 25.8%, and E-Trade shares cratered 16.4% due to it [0]
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by mrep 7y ago
All the talk about Apple being all about privacy is 100% marketing. There is no way apple is going to give up $12 billion dollars a year in revenue [0] to not default to google for search. [0]: https://fortune.com/2018&#x2F
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by mrep 7y ago
> You can get a college degree just for showing up. Highly depends on the college and major. My CS degree had a ton of out of class homework assignments and projects not to mention the need to study to pass the tests preventing you fro
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by mrep 7y ago
> The NASA effects are the Disney version. As many countries have already found (and many will discover) you can get an "apocalyptic future" with seemingly small changes. What countries have experienced an "apocalyptic fut
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by mrep 7y ago
> Or, you know, that group gets thrown to prison or bombed, and problem solved, how about that? Are you really arguing we go to war with every country who doesn't stop using fossil fuels? > beats dying in a climate apocalypse I&#
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by mrep 7y ago
> just aimlessly wandering the halls (which I'm skeptical about, but let's go with it) For some schools it is a real problem. My girlfriend works at a pretty bad high school and she has tons of students who keep failing their
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by mrep 7y ago
I didn't look up the tar sands because it is kind of irrelevant considering the green river formation in the US alone has 3 trillion barrels worth of shale oil with half expected to be recoverable [0] and that is being extracted at cur
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by mrep 7y ago
Shit, it's around $3.80 here in Seattle if you naively go to shell which seems to be highly priced here everywhere. Granted, I always go to safeway and arco where I can get it for 3.10 but for some reason I see tons of people at the e
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by mrep 7y ago
GAFAM is what the french use which includes Microsoft [0]. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
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by mrep 7y ago
You said "It's common knowledge in the software industry that the best way to advance is to hop jobs every two or so years". That works out when you start for startups, but if you want to make more than 250k, you're goin
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by mrep 7y ago
Oil will never run out in our lifetime. The green River formation in the us alone has 3 trillion barrels worth of shale oil with half expected to be recoverable. At 100 million barrels of oil usage per day for the globe, it could support
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by mrep 7y ago
That's really only the case when you have regulation limiting supply growth upwards, and/or limited amounts of land you can sprawl outwords. I grew up in chicago and we love to build high rises (chicago engineers were the ones th
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by mrep 7y ago
> It can take as much as 2 gallons of gasoline to produce a single gallon of ethanol, so this is just insane. You got a source for that claim because wikipedia says it has a energy return on investment of 1.5:1 [0]. [0]: https:/&#x
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by mrep 7y ago
> High housing costs are always, without fail, a regulatory problem. True, I would have built a 10,000 square foot single famly home with a massive yard in manhattan facing central park but those damn regulations are making it too expens

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