myroon5

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by myroon5 8mo ago
A billion dollars isn't cool; you know what's cool? A trillion dollars
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by myroon5 8mo ago
> don’t need government permission to start new restaurants Zoning, construction permits, occupancy permits, patio permits, food licenses, liquor licenses, health inspections, dumpster permits, etc
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by myroon5 8mo ago
> retreat [..] when it's difficult Focusing on more tractable causes makes sense (fwiw I think there are more tractable causes than both of those geopolitical conflicts: millions and millions die annually from preventable global hea
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by myroon5 8mo ago
57% of operating income in 2025: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx
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by myroon5 8mo ago
[nitpick tangent] the law states a much wider age range of American men can be drafted: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States
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by myroon5 8mo ago
The statistic is per distance driven
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The Frenzied Pursuit of Wall Street's Low-Profile All-Stars(wsj.com)
2 points by myroon5 8mo ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 8mo ago
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-kms-n... https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/regional-product-servi...
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NIH lowered maximum research overhead to 15% (2025)(twitter.com)
2 points by myroon5 9mo ago|1 comments
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Coverage.py sleepy snake logo (2019)(nedbatchelder.com)
3 points by myroon5 10mo ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 11mo ago
De jure, even NYC's existence itself is contingent on NYS' permission: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forrest_Dillon#Dillon's_Rule (de facto realpolitik-wise NYC will continue existing, but my point i
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by myroon5 1y ago
Most years, AWS increases some prices: https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/blob/mai...
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by myroon5 1y ago
> ~$250k TC [..] Concierge care Can you elaborate on concierge care? I have never heard of anyone in tech around or below that compensation receiving https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierge_medicine
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by myroon5 1y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/sam-bankman-fried-considered...
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by myroon5 1y ago
> Dependencies like this should be made transparent even internally, Amazon's dependency graph became visually+logically incomprehensible a long time ago
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by myroon5 1y ago
I listed multiple candidates so disputing one wouldn't dispute my main point ;) Hyperbole to say no major consumer tech brands have launched for decades
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by myroon5 1y ago
> first major consumer tech brand to launch since Facebook from my recollection, post-FB $75B+ market cap consumer tech companies (excluding financial ones like Robinhood and Coinbase) include: Uber, Airbnb, Doordash, Spotify (all also h
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by myroon5 1y ago
$100B Gates 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_centibillionaires $200B Bezos 2020 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezos-net-worth-200-billio... $300B Musk 2021 https://www.cbs
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by myroon5 1y ago
He also wrote this recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/china-amer...
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by myroon5 1y ago
> Or at least turn it off https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/nsa-can-reportedly-trac... + sorry for tracking your comment edits ;)
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by myroon5 1y ago
Example: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
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by myroon5 1y ago
Trying to win debates as a ~sport seemingly involves exactly the type of bad faith dialogue people find distasteful: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_(debate) https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga
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by myroon5 1y ago
> you are paying someone not to emit carbon that they otherwise would have emitted. You're not getting rid of any actual emissions That link recommends charities that include think tanks and lobbyists influencing policies well beyon
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by myroon5 1y ago
NPM was acquired 4 years after that post
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(Canadian) Longest Ballot Committee(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by myroon5 1y ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 1y ago
Teachers still beat kids: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/19/it-is-sti... and looking at state maps, beatings look negatively correlated with test scores: https://reddit.co
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by myroon5 1y ago
Emission offsetting currently only costs ~$50/human/yr: https://founderspledge.com/research/climate-and-lifestyle-re...
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by myroon5 1y ago
https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
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by myroon5 1y ago
nitpick tangent: 95.X%, not 99.5%
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by myroon5 1y ago
For anyone wanting to read more on the topic: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

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