mrmcd

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by mrmcd 3y ago
Previous reporting on this (when the JPM civil suit was filed) mentioned that JPM didn't care about the fafsa forms business at all. They bought them entirely to get a big pile of marketing leads to sign up young people for banking ser
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by mrmcd 5y ago
Right. GE is $100/5 years. So, might as well pay the extra $3/yr for faster passport lines too.
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by mrmcd 5y ago
Just pay the government a $100 bribe^W 'application processing fee' for Precheck or Global Entry, and no more taking off your shoes. Or taking out your laptops or liquids, or having a government employee look you over in the nudie
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by mrmcd 5y ago
This guy also has a bunch of posts on the same site denying climate change and rehashing conspiracy theories about fraudulent votes for Biden. I wouldn't take anything he says very seriously.
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by mrmcd 5y ago
Yes, but more likely the major naval powers would just ignore you unless you were doing something that specifically angered them (fugitives, human trafficking, piracy, etc). Otherwise I think they'd be happy to let you sit there on you
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Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania(bbc.com)
152 points by mrmcd 6y ago|82 comments
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by mrmcd 6y ago
It cost me $10k to mod the battery on my phone, but now I won't have to charge it again for over 5,000 years.
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by mrmcd 6y ago
The degree to which HN is obsessed with AMP is hilarious at times. You'd think every single one of the 100k engineers that work there do nothing but dream up ways to trick people into using AMP for some secret illuminati end goal. If y
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Citi Bike and Revel Scooters Shut Down During Curfew(nyc.streetsblog.org)
13 points by mrmcd 6y ago|2 comments
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by mrmcd 7y ago
> I don't know why people in this thread seem to think that Turkey is a poor developing country. In the EU, there is a lot of prejudice against Turkish people because of the decades of immigration. Think of how most Americans ster
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by mrmcd 7y ago
My girlfriend is from Turkey, and I shared this story with her a while back (I discovered it while also researching some Unicode collision issues.) She said that while it's an entertaining story, there's almost certainly a bit of
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by mrmcd 7y ago
In other words every actual payment company didn't want to get a colonoscopy from every regulator on Earth for Zuck's Spruce Goose hobby.
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by mrmcd 8y ago
Google Home stores everything after the hotword trigger until the light goes off (you stop speaking). Each action has a card that explains what triggered it, what device, and what result was given, and you can listen to it. You can also tur
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What Amazon Could Learn from Google in New York City(nytimes.com)
2 points by mrmcd 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrmcd 8y ago
There's 8.6 million people in the NYC legal limits, over 20 million in it's greater metro, and a way more diverse economy. You'd need waaaaay more tech to get anywhere close to SV, which just isn't that big population wi
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Google X director named in NYT report leaving(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mrmcd 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrmcd 8y ago
> But they’re way behind, need to spend tens of billions to have a competitive global cloud infrastructure, and have a much more severe customer problem than IBM: their customers hate them Had a good, long laugh at that one. Jesus, is th
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by mrmcd 9y ago
Or more accurately, a JP Morgan customer bought a Bitcoin ETN.
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by mrmcd 9y ago
Unrealized capital gains aren't income because I can't pay my rent and buy groceries with Amazon stock. Even if I could once I did it would be realized same as if I sold it for cash, and I'd owe tax. You could argue that capi
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by mrmcd 9y ago
"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that apply in Australia is the law of Australia." Numbers aren't real in the KANGA Kingdom! Lalalalala I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
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by mrmcd 9y ago
Oh boy, a "travel voucher" that likely has so many restrictions it's worth 1/10th the actual number printed on it. I'm not gonna hold my breath these people will actually offer cash.
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by mrmcd 9y ago
I wish there was a way to give imaginary internet upvote points to all the people who didn't act like harassing shitheads, but I guess we're stuck with giving them to this asshole, who whines about "this isn't who I am!&
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by mrmcd 9y ago
The terms of the loan we're really, really unfavorable. They essentially pledged every piece of IP they have to get the loan. It's not the kind of loan you take if your company is healthy and has easy access to financing.
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by mrmcd 9y ago
Instead of crazy conspiracy theories, how about this: USA Today isn't actually that popular, but some botnet programmer with an imperfect understanding of American culture thought it was a brand ordinary Americans all love and read reg
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by mrmcd 11y ago
So you are literally selling them futures on your next preferred series, except if the valuation comes in below the cap, then they get extra stock, so there's no downside for them except total equity wipe-out. Why do I feel like this i
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by mrmcd 11y ago
Yes, but, what if I wanted to get the blockchain involved somehow?
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by mrmcd 11y ago
oh... it's a "PR" stunt is it?
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by mrmcd 11y ago
Did you read the article. It talks about how that trick no longer works on a lot of sites because they are now checking User-Agent strings too.
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by mrmcd 11y ago
I assume the NYT headline was a reference to a few years back when Page was talking about how great Glass was and by way of comparison described looking down at a phone screen as "emasculating". I assume he (Page) was just meant t
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by mrmcd 11y ago
I can't speak for MDMA, but I have experimented (ok, recreated) with psilocin (shrooms), 4-ACO-DMT, and DMT, which are all serotonin agonists. The best I can describe it is that a high enough dose feels like putting your brain into deb

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