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by nostromo 5y ago
Brave should work with Facebook to unlock a massive amount of this content. Facebook will not work with Google for competitive reasons, and for similar reasons, it would make sense for them to build up a search competitor like Brave. My own
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by nostromo 5y ago
Unfortunately no politician will have the guts to do this. This is why people are skeptical of the federal government getting involved in just about anything. They passed this program to help students afford school, and it’s done the opposi
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by nostromo 5y ago
Apple is disincentivized to take this on. Apple sells ads on search indirectly via Google. (Google pays Apple to be the default search engine.) Google’s payment to Apple is bigger than the revenue Apple makes from the Apple Watch.
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by nostromo 5y ago
These folks know exactly what they're doing. I've worked with one of them -- he saw it as a plus that he's slowing down drivers and blocking traffic and would cycle in a way that made it impossible to pass him. He framed it
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by nostromo 5y ago
I get what you’re saying. But remember laws like DOMA that were passed not very long ago that were explicitly written to prevent states from expanding rights. And almost all recent civil rights advancements have not come from congress but t
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by nostromo 5y ago
Federal power can be used to eliminate civil rights just as easily as it can be used to create them. Besides, the congress stopped expanding civil rights decades ago. Now it only comes from the Supreme Court, which is unaffected by more fe
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by nostromo 5y ago
Lots of them, but they are mostly available through dermatologists. Retinol, niacinamide, acid treatments, vitamin c, sun screen, botox, microneedling, etc.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Actual study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35235716/
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by nostromo 5y ago
That's because Reddit is one of the few places left on the web that is open (aka: not a walled-garden like Facebook) and has people talking to people without financial incentive. HN is another. Reddit is changing fast though. It&#x27
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by nostromo 5y ago
Evolution explains how life evolves, but doesn’t explain the origin of life itself.
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by nostromo 5y ago
American law is so disjointed. On one hand, we're decriminalizing drugs. Pot is widely legal now. Other states are allowing mushrooms and LSD. Cocaine and heroin are not legal, but have all but been decriminalized on the West Coast.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Just wait until they disallow using credit scores for determining who is credit worthy.
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by nostromo 5y ago
This happened to me in Seattle. I have a duplex and my renter just stopped paying. It's a joke that this had anything to do with Covid - the job market is tighter than it's ever been. I will never again take a chance on a renter
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by nostromo 5y ago
This is facepalm level “science.” Longer life is correlated with general health. General health is correlated with strength. And strength is correlated with grip.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Ethics aside, this is bad analysis. Gas prices putting financial stress on Applebee's employees will also put financial stress on Applebee's customers, who may cut spending on things like going to Applebee's.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Is the price the same for both? It seems odd not to include this information.
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by nostromo 5y ago
The only way out is to cut spending. The Fed is sending a signal to congress.
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by nostromo 5y ago
> This will go down as one of the biggest policy mistakes in Fed history. The Fed largely caused the 2008 crisis by underestimating the effects of falling house prices on bank solvency. What's crazy is that all I hear about in the f
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by nostromo 5y ago
S&P 500 is down 7% this year and inflation is running at 8%. Those compound so folks are seeing 15% declines in wealth in 3 months. The Fed can only choose one of those "problems" to solve -- let asset prices fall and tame in
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by nostromo 5y ago
> The American bureaucracy is insane. This is an California issue, not an American one. > Americans seem to know what the problem is, but just accept that nothing can be done about it. Again, this is a California issue. We know the b
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by nostromo 5y ago
I’m not just talking about wealth… Look at our prison population and you’ll find people raised by a very young single parent. Look at people that graduate from university and you’ll see the opposite. It strongly correlates with just about a
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by nostromo 5y ago
We’ve borrowed trillions of dollars from future generations, and have guaranteed ourselves trillions more in retirement benefits. If the population goes down, each individual is going to have a massive burden of debt and taxation to shoulde
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by nostromo 5y ago
> Have them early if possible. The two most important factors in having successful children are: 1. having two parents and 2. having older parents at child birth. There’s a ton of data on this. Maybe it’s correlation only, but it also m
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by nostromo 5y ago
I saw polls during Covid where Americans estimated that 10% of the population had died of Covid. It’s hard to know what’s going on with these polls. Perhaps it’s simply mathematical illiteracy.
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by nostromo 5y ago
China.
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by nostromo 5y ago
True -- but note that Yellen was appointed by the same president.
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by nostromo 5y ago
The economy would collapse, along with the US government, at even moderately-high interest rates. The federal government is $30t in debt. Even a small rise in interest rates would quickly make the entire federal budget servicing the debt.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Exactly right. Demand was induced with money printing. Supply was restricted with lockdowns. When demand outstrips supply, prices rise.
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by nostromo 5y ago
The risk seems overblown. Mostly because nobody trusts China either, which has as many economic and political problems as does the US, if not more. Russia just doesn’t have enough power to move global markets. Its economy is smaller than
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by nostromo 5y ago
I had a bike stolen in Logan Utah once and the cops took it very seriously and recovered it in a few hours. I live in Seattle now and wouldn’t bother reporting it because I know it wouldn’t be prioritized for a response.

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