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by nradov 4mo ago
Sure, until you need to tow a trailer weighing more than about 1500 lbs or drive on a dirt road where the minivan bottoms out. You might not need those capabilities but a lot of families do that stuff every week.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Fiat currency isn't just a matter of belief or stories. If you interact with the US financial system in any significant way then you're likely to end up owing some income taxes, and those can only be paid in US dollars. If you don
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by nradov 4mo ago
LLMs can certainly make sales faster and more efficient by automating things like updating CRM, prospecting, finding contacts, drafting emails, etc. There's a whole niche industry building AI sales tools now and some of them work extre
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Biological aging and generational shifts in early-onset cancer risk(nature.com)
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by nradov 4mo ago
Most of those gambling sites don't have merchant accounts and aren't able to accept credit card payments directly. Customers take out cash advances or buy cryptocurrency through various shady intermediaries, then transfer the asse
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by nradov 4mo ago
How is that sad? A disruptive competitor will come along and eat their lunch. Creative destruction is the natural order of things. Ideally the badly managed organization will eventually be liquidated, thus freeing up resources for more prod
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by nradov 4mo ago
The target market is more likely to be affluent amateurs rather that pros. The pros will typically have a team car or radio for navigation, and aren't as dependent on metrics like power or heart rate for training. Recumbent bikes might
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by nradov 4mo ago
There have been a few attempts at devices like this before such the Everysight Raptor and Garmin Varia Vision but none of them ever found mainstream adoption. In principle a HUD with navigation cues and key cycling metrics would be nice to
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by nradov 4mo ago
It sounds like you're living in a badly governed city. Have you considered voting for politicians with an abundance agenda? Or moving to a city with more intelligent housing policies such as Dallas?
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by nradov 4mo ago
Apparently you haven't been paying attention to what's happening in the rental market. Landlords in cities with strong tenant protection laws will absolutely leave a unit vacant for months until they find someone with a high incom
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by nradov 4mo ago
What would you like us to imagine? So far everything that we've tried at scale other than liberal democracy and capitalism has inevitably led to war, famine, and genocide. Western liberalism appears to be the only system that empirical
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by nradov 4mo ago
Having shelter is not the same as owning real estate.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Tenant "protection" laws are the type of idiocy that economically illiterate progressive politicians always produce. They end up having the opposite effect by making property owners less willing to rent out to anyone. The only eff
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by nradov 4mo ago
In cities with excessive tenant protection laws, sometimes landlords will negotiate agreements with deadbeat tenants in which the tenant agrees to leave and the landlord doesn't report anything to the credit bureaus.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Why should that be a goal?
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by nradov 4mo ago
You missed the point. Cheap headphones work just as well for this purpose. It's not a class issue.
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by nradov 4mo ago
It's always disappointing to see that level of aggressive ignorance on HN. You completely missed the point. The fund is legally bound to make a good faith effort to track a target index, not to immediately buy every stock the day it&#x
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by nradov 4mo ago
You seem to be confused about how index funds work. Hypothetically even if $SPCX was added to the S&P500, funds that track that index wouldn't be legally required to purchase it at the IPO price. Have you ever even read a fund pros
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by nradov 4mo ago
I don't understand your comment. The SEC doesn't control IPO prices. No one was forced to buy $SPCX at the IPO price.
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by nradov 4mo ago
There are ETFs that track pretty much everything you can imagine. How much retirement money is in those?
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by nradov 4mo ago
Which competitors? Blue Origin and Amazon are trying but they're way behind on space launch capability, and still using SpaceX to launch a lot of their TeraWave and Kuiper satellites. Arianespace and ULA seem to have given up and aren&
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by nradov 4mo ago
Nope. The fiber optic drones are relatively short range, maybe up to 20km. And they can only work over land, not significant bodies of water. Ukraine is still using Starlink heavily for controlling longer range and naval drones. Starlink us
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by nradov 4mo ago
The US national security depends far more on the separate but related Starshield constellation than on Starlink. Your general point is correct though in that widespread use of high-bandwidth, low-latency satellite communications has caused
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by nradov 4mo ago
I took a tour of the BMW Group Plant Spartanburg body shop. It's heavily automated with industrial robots inside safety cages. But they still have human workers pick up parts from rolling carts and place them into templates for the rob
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by nradov 4mo ago
Living in filth is not natural. Animals and primitive humans know how to keep themselves reasonably clean, to avoid attracting predators if nothing else. We seem to be regressing. I'm not particularly bothered by those things either, b
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by nradov 4mo ago
It's not just a social or class issue. A lot of women wear headphones to discourage creepy men from hitting on them or sexually harassing them. The HN crowd skews toward young men and I think many of you don't understand that some
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by nradov 4mo ago
So what? Occasional leaks are no big deal. Very few people die.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Ukraine just hit another civilian target in Moscow. Allies haven't withdrawn support. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-moscow-refiner...
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by nradov 4mo ago
Do you know that for a fact or are you just guessing?
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by nradov 4mo ago
So no evidence of economic importance.

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