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by nocoiner 3y ago
Man, so glad I decided to finally click on the comments after seeing the article at the top of hn most the day - we don’t have radon where I live (I don’t think?) so I figured the dryer thing wasn’t applicable to me. But for the vast majori
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by nocoiner 3y ago
They’ve been pretty darn good about keeping their other apps updated following a one-time purchase, and I’m just glad to see any new product launched with an option other than subscription pricing. Not sure what happened with Pixelmator&#x2
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response, no criticism inferred (and certainly no offense taken). I have daughters too and ultimately may not be able to stick it out either, but not sure where else I’d want to move to.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think this is a brilliant and healthy way to look at how to build meaning in modern American life. I came to a similar conclusion a few years back - it’s hard work, but so is everything else worth doing. I’m not particularly good at it th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I live in a republican sun belt state where the legislature’s politics have never matched my own (at least not as long as I’ve been able to vote), but until pretty recently, it was generally all mostly in the vein of smallish government, bu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I wouldn’t call it veiled, or even much of a threat for that matter. It’s a rational actor plainly stating facts that are readily apparent to everyone. There’s no good reason why the corporation should make any future significant investment
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I don’t think Musk is a very reliable narrator in general, and given the history he’s probably particularly unreliable in the context of OpenAI. As far as I know, the terms of their deal with Microsoft aren’t public, but all the reporting I
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This was a bizarre thing to read. I felt like it was straight out of the uncanny valley of human interaction. “No one talks this way!” I thought. Except for that little voice in the back of my head that reminded that, yeah, some people do a
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Looking at the now-unclassified report, it appears that the results were disclosed, though, in a way that seems generally consistent with the article. Page 8 of the linked PDF (the report of this experiment, heavily redacted for public rele
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Regulation “typically only” serves the interests of incumbents? Surely that’s an overstatement, no? Personally I tend to think that the inability to move fast and break things is a good thing when it comes to, say, air travel or food safety
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by nocoiner 3y ago
“Financial think tank” is a weird way to say investment bank.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, well, fossil fuels made the entire city of Houston unlivable.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I thought there was a price cap on vehicles that qualify for the federal tax credits (I assume that’s what you mean by “good incentives”). Aren’t the S and X priced above that threshold?
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My question is though, how many of these people who are supposedly offloading the mental energy of writing onto ChatGPT are good writers in the first place? And are they really delegating that much substantive thought? I think the pg commen
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Even if we stipulate that “bad” trading is limited to directional bets on the price movement of a security, and as such is definitionally a 50/50 proposition (at least in the very short term - in the long run, every issuer is going to
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I doubt that’s the move at all - I think they’re just trying to capture more of a share of the extraction revenues. If you look at the history of the hydrocarbon industry during the 20th century, you saw the exact same trend over and over i
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Quite possibly. But not certain; and quite likely not with the cost of lawyer bills and court fees to get to that point (to say nothing of the distraction that would cause to the business and/or key executives).
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m a lawyer. I think a reasonably competently drafted terms of service could obviate most legal exposure. In the event that a promissory estoppel cause of action was established (like other posters have, I think, correctly noted, but which
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Everyone born is an “accidental” citizen of some country - I don’t believe it’s possible to be born entirely stateless (and in the narrow circumstances in which it has occurred, by all accounts it is a tremendous headache and complication f
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by nocoiner 4y ago
What does livestock have to do with this?
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I read the un-paywalled paragraph, and have a simple solution: renounce your US citizenship. Easy peasy. Now I shall read the rest of the article, no doubt about how jackbooted IRS thugs are kicking down doors in Toulon or something, but t
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by nocoiner 4y ago
The only possible upside to the proliferation of tipping culture is that maybe this will finally result in legislation that bans it altogether? And then with it banished from the sit-down restaurant industry, it can be relegated to the very
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Honestly, I couldn’t have come up with a worst demand than this. I almost have to think this is an idea that was introduced by a subversive element in the union. Literally ten monkeys on ten typewriters could have produced something more co
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by nocoiner 4y ago
And, hey, look, now Finland’s a member of NATO. Geopolitical galaxy brain Putin hard at work here.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
1. It’s an organized unincorporated territory of the United States. 2. It is neither a state nor a colony (it is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States). 3. Citizens of Puerto Rico are American citizens, so yes. The exi
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Togo is actually a direct ancestor of the vast majority of Siberian Huskies in the United States today. He had a very, uh, fulfilling retirement and as a consequence he’s part of almost every modern day husky’s genetic line. The dog that pl
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Togo was the real hero, though.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I am frankly kind of shocked that “credit_guy” is kind of glossing over the tremendous amounts of high-yield debt that were deployed to fund the shale drilling program between 2010-2020 that creditors took an absolute bath on.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I bought that book years ago, it was so stupid. It was like a naive teenager’s uninformed screed about how international trade, development and finance are intrinsically bad. I didn’t know about the fabulistic aspects of it, but that’s not
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by nocoiner 4y ago
You know, this is pretty clearly the right answer. Software developer salaries are ordinary business expenses. There’s some alarming language in the section about deductibility of R&E expenses, but core business functions aren’t R&E

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