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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think there’s a pretty good chance that’s not a very fair statement. OP’s friend was management, not the SPAC sponsor. He would have been subject to a lock-up on his stock following the de-SPAC transaction. There’s a very good chance that
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I saw this in person one time at the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. I don’t think I had made a special trip to see it - I think I was meeting a professor there, and they had it set up as an exhibit in the lobby - but naturally I had to c
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by nocoiner 3y ago
How does that percentage compare with non-crypto financial assets?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I thought this was a nice retrospective on how history rhymes. I think there’s no question in the long run, San Francisco will be just fine. It has too many inherent strengths for it to ever become a wasteland. I do think the city has some
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The Chinese subsidiary basically declared independence. Last I saw the two sides were at an impasse, and the Chinese sub was continuing to do its own thing - ARM parent appeared clearly to have the law and the facts on its side, but without
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I used to hear the best things about namecheap like a decade ago, and have been using them since then, but I’ve heard too many horror stories since then. This comment tipped me over the edge. Porkbun officially has a new customer now.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Same here. I’ll visit if I’m searching for something, and there’s a responsive page, but otherwise I’ve quit it altogether. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything except something to fill time when I’m bored. Instead I’ve mostly filled that
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Damn, cool story. I never had a chance like that at that age, but I definitely would have thought that was the greatest thing ever. What a great experience.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were so distracting that I had to turn it off within the first ten minutes. I’m sure
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wow, never knew that! Today I learned.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Weren’t they ever bigger than that? I have a vague recollection that it was some sort of 8” oddball format. Maybe even a one-off?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m so glad that the term Torygraph exists. I can never remember the British newspapers’ political leanings other than the Telegraph (thanks to Torygraph) and the Guardian (because it seems to be the only left wing UK newspaper I ever come
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I find representations of text in AI generated images equal parts fascinating and incredibly fucking creepy. It must be some sort of uncanny valley effect that it has on me.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wow! Sounds terrific. I really need to visit that part of the world one of these days. I’ve never been but I’d love to see it.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I absolutely refuse to accept that long term human existence is only viable at North Korean levels of economic development. I wouldn’t care to live in that world, and I won’t speak for my children, but I doubt that they would find that part
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think most people should really sit down and give some thought to why these oil companies are so big and profitable. Is it because the executives get off on extracting for the sake of extracting, damn the earth and the flora and the fauna
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m a huge fan of the traditional liberal arts education. I recognize that it is not necessarily a direct pipeline to the needs of a modern, post-industrial economy, but the depth and breadth of the topics that I was able to study during my
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sounds nice, mind saying which part? How has the winter been?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It might imply the opposite; I think a reasonable argument could be made either way. I think most likely the two propositions (energy prices and good governance) are orthogonal at best. But I think there’s very little support for the flat s
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> “(As an aside, it is quite obviously impossible to enforce universal adoption of more expensive carbon-free energy through, eg, mandatory carbon offsets, as higher gas prices are political suicide regardless of system of government.)”
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Weird how you’re having this whole argument without regarding the one word (“cringey”) that was clearly the crux upon which OP’s entire assessment of certain personality traits was predicated.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This is so very much worth a read. It is almost literally mind blowing once you realize how deep the exploit goes.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I was baffled at what was happening after reading the article. Your TL;DR was perfect, and explained it very well in a single short paragraph. Thank you.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
But Apple has been named Apple for, what, five decades? And besides, “Apple Computer Corp.” was surely better than “Computronics Inc.” or whatever was in vogue at that time.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Verizon has a tool online to estimate your fees for a given zip code. It’s hilariously broken - like it will return a list of the same city and county taxes listed dozens of times. It’s completely unusable. But as other posters have noted,
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I agree that many things should not be subject to the profit motive. But I’m going to put my capital at risk for no return - in the best case scenario - while the CEO of a middleman takes home $850k? No thanks.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
By any chance, did you stop reading at the transition that looks awfully like the beginning of an ad box or some sort of call to action for whatever they’re presumably selling? The article actually continues and somewhat substantiates it’s
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by nocoiner 3y ago
And you wouldn’t be wrong to do so! That said, I was legitimately underwhelmed by the protagonist’s (?) arguments for why cash was the superior medium of exchange. I say this as someone who never uses cash, but deeply dislikes both gift car
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by nocoiner 3y ago
LOL, lots of the arguments against gift cards could just as easily be levied against cash - easy to lose? not necessarily accepted everywhere? not always enough to buy what you want? Josephine didn’t want to get bogged down into a rant abou

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