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by nostromo 4y ago
It's a common story. A product is great. The company providing the product raises lots of money. Investors want a return on their investment and the founders want a big payday. So the company starts adding lots of features to increas
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by nostromo 4y ago
Two things can be true… Vaccines are typically very effective. So effective they can eliminate a virus among vaccinated populations. Covid-19 vaccines are sorta effective. They didn’t eliminate virus transmission among vaccinated populati
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by nostromo 4y ago
Since the vaccines didn’t stop transmission, can’t the same be said of them?
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by nostromo 4y ago
Part of it is Alphabet Tourism. I'm gay and many of my legit LGBT friends have noticed a trend where lots of younger folks are claiming to be queer, bi, non-binary, asexual, pansexual, trans, etc., without a lot of evidence that they&#
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by nostromo 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but the iPhone is one of the world's most popular and most profitable gaming device by a long shot.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I’m reminded of Aeroperú Flight 603. The pilots suspected their altitude indicator was wrong, so they asked air traffic control to confirm their altitude. They did and it agreed with their own readings so they ignored other indications tha
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by nostromo 4y ago
Sure, friends are part of it -- family is the other part of it. If you don't have either -- filling that void by spending all day in an office sounds even more depressing. I'd focus more on making friends and finding a committed
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by nostromo 4y ago
Working in person isn't the issue here -- not having friends is the issue. People do make friends at work, and that's a good thing. But it should never be your primary place of making friends. (Friends and family won't lay
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by nostromo 4y ago
I'm just amused that there was an actual lawsuit filed for defamation over Donkey Kong high scores.
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by nostromo 4y ago
For all the hate Musk gets, I love that he really does take on big problems. Gates too, obviously. I wish we had more billionaires like them.
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by nostromo 4y ago
San Francisco is 2/3rds renters, all of whom can vote. You shouldn't pretend that they have no say in how their city is run. If they want more rentals and more density, they have the power to vote for people who can make it happe
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by nostromo 4y ago
I like the plan to have robots build a very tall mountain platform on Venus that would allow us to walk around outside on another planet, in a t-shirt and jeans (and a respirator, as you mentioned). You could probably even grow plants on th
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by nostromo 4y ago
> The researchers claim Apple engages in invasive data practices similar to those it forbids among third-parties Is Facebook funding this lawsuit? I’m all for extending privacy, but there’s a difference between a company I’m a customer o
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by nostromo 4y ago
Primarily by reducing lower working class wages via inflation. It is now more expensive for a number of people to work than it is to not work, which often requires childcare, transportation, and food near the job. The housing bubble also
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by nostromo 4y ago
The Federal Reserve is very adept at blaming all of its problems on everything other than the Federal Reserve.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Believe it or not, retiring at 40 like police officers or making nearly 400k a year as an LA lifeguard [1] wouldn’t scale to the general population. These folks are public sector rent seekers and it won’t be the good times forever. 1. http
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by nostromo 4y ago
Our response to Covid was disastrous. Temporary closures to flatten the curve became permanent closures of many businesses. People asked to stay home decided not to come back. Inflation destroyed working class wages. We spent more on Co
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by nostromo 4y ago
Unfortunately not, according to the FDA. Which is terrible. It means that there are all sorts of barriers in place to developing drugs or therapies that prevent or reverse aging -- because you couldn't get FDA approval for something t
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by nostromo 4y ago
"East Timor's First Female Dictator Hailed As Step Forward For Women" - The Onion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtw3XJoJrE
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by nostromo 4y ago
Need more cash, have more babies! What could go wrong?
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by nostromo 4y ago
This would be disastrous. We already have a housing shortage, leading to high prices. The answer isn't to make it more expensive than it already is.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The data here is worker's comp claims, so there's a financial incentive at stake.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Our Covid response really hurt the case for UBI. It turns out, when people are paid to stay at home and not work, even for a short period of time, we get high inflation and product shortages.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Covid is a problem for working-age people when there is a comorbidity - usually obesity. It'd be interesting to see additional data about these worker comp claims about other health issues as we've known that America has an obesi
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is a step back to the bad old days when every town had its own definition of noon. Communication and anything that required scheduling was a mess because there were too many local definitions of time.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It’s a fun question to ponder but the answer is pretty obvious: UTC. As the clocks very, very slowly drift apart due to relativity, the moon could add a leap back 2 seconds every century to reconcile with Earth. Or add a leap back hour in 2
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by nostromo 4y ago
The problem of course is that he does not look 18. He looks like a healthy 45 year old. Of all the pictures in the article, he looks healthiest and youngest before starting his health regimen, most likely because his BMI is so low which
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by nostromo 4y ago
The influencers are not even creating the content and are just dropshipping the courses on dropshipping from another vendor.
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by nostromo 4y ago
They'd be a startup now. Maybe OpenAI or similar. Apple is the odd-man-out right now amongst tech giants with no layoffs. They also didn't spend like drunken sailors on new hires for the past two years though.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Well, they're going to need to sway two big investors named Page and Brin, who still own 51% of voting rights. They designed it this way to prevent activist shareholders who tend to be very focused on the short-term.

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