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by nrb 7y ago
Also, all of these gaming events are recorded for later viewing. I can experience Fortnite EXACTLY as it was when the event took place.
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by nrb 7y ago
One underrated way to be a 10x contributor is to mentor others to make 5-10 of your 1-2x self, not including the compounding benefits that accrue as those you mentored begin to do the same (having themselves realized the value of mentorship
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by nrb 7y ago
I didn't notice how unhappy I was with Postman until I switched to Insomnia https://insomnia.rest/
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by nrb 7y ago
It’s not out of “fear of maybe inconveniencing someone”, it’s out of a sense of common courtesy. There are plenty of social events that are appropriate for this sort of interaction. Running errands or just trying to go about your day is not
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by nrb 7y ago
Totally anecdotal, but I’ve had a great experience with Capital One 360. I never really use the card except for occasional ATM withdrawal but the number was somehow nabbed and a fraudulent charge was processed. Since I have it configured to
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by nrb 7y ago
Many major cities have a universal dispatch number you can call and you get the next available cab from any available company. Chicago did not have this, and when Uber offered UberTaxi it really was the best of both worlds, for a small surc
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by nrb 7y ago
I think this can be summed up with a single word: incomprehension. Or in the latter example: ignorance
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by nrb 7y ago
That directory is almost invariably funded with money from advertisements
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by nrb 7y ago
The article does a poor job of explaining how truly incredibly the flight crew of United Airlines Flight 232 performed under crisis; I watched a talk[1] by Nickolas Means recently that goes deeper into the events of that day and the lessons
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by nrb 7y ago
Any purchase agreement would surely include a contract prohibiting any sort of redistribution of the binaries or reverse engineering of the machine? I wouldn’t even be surprised if that prohibition was protected by law.
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by nrb 7y ago
I think above ALL, Boeing’s customers want airplanes that only make controlled landings. If that’s unachievable in practical terms with the current airframe, then it shouldn’t exist in its current form.
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by nrb 7y ago
Alex claims to be a Robin Hood figure, wanting to help people against an immoral industry. His plan for that is to extort an 8-figure sum out of the machine manufacturer to disclose the exploit and help them patch their PRNG to... help them
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by nrb 7y ago
Tax avoidance, not tax fraud. The article was about the ease of setting up series of shell companies, which can easily move money around the world in a hard-to-detect way in order to conceal profits made by people, with no way to determine
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by nrb 7y ago
They didn’t say $100/lb, they said a package as small as a pound would cost $100+, that cost would’t scale linearly with weight but it might with box dimensions, similarly to how a single heavier person doesn’t cost more in passenger a
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by nrb 7y ago
It does if that corporation is used to conceal income in a way that reduces the local tax base, which could negatively affect the utility of nearly all communally owned goods/services.
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by nrb 7y ago
> How do you prevent the tragedy of the commons without knowing who has what? Does this exact argument not apply to the "anonymous" corporations mentioned in the article?
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by nrb 7y ago
Because foreign investment in real estate can massively distort prices for domestic market participants, which can lead to a variety of other negative affects for the communities affected by that investment. One could argue the same applies
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by nrb 7y ago
These games don’t exist in a vacuum, the social interactions are all purely human ones. It sounds like it taught you about what social groups to avoid in real-world society, and the costs of fixating on things that don’t really matter in th
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by nrb 7y ago
They’re in the marketing funnel, because at one point in the past they were in the market to buy a car, and still receive VERY frequent messages encouraging thrm to continue down the sales process despite the fact they didn’t engage with an
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by nrb 7y ago
Absolutely not... who gets to decide what reason is good enough to fly? How about instead of reducing freedom we stop externalizing these costs, no matter their purpose or industry?
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by nrb 7y ago
In this case, I understood the rapids to mean things like production incidents necessitating a coordinated incident response system with well-defined roles and responsibilities.
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by nrb 7y ago
Especially on the plaintiff side... the party you’re representing has already exhibited their willingness to initiate a lawsuit.
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by nrb 7y ago
What's shocking about companies paying for a product from which they derive significant value? What's stopping someone from creating an open source utility bundled free with every Linux distribution?
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by nrb 7y ago
Trying to fight a titan on margin seems like a fool's errand. If customers are truly price sensitive and it makes a noticeable dent in Stripe's bottom line, what's to stop them from a price war with you just long enough to ma
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by nrb 7y ago
There's absolutely a difference between information shared freely with a company in accordance with their privacy policy, and a government organization performing illegal data collection (per the DOJ) on their citizens without their kn
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by nrb 7y ago
Not only all of this, but having each of these interactions chronicled, seemingly in perpetuity, for later analysis/exploitation, or potentially stolen.
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by nrb 7y ago
Yeah Amazon clearly dwarfs the logistics capability of nearly anyone, but as far as the 2-day delivery advantage Amazon has, there are some companies making competition in the space: ShopRunner is one I'm aware of and I'm sure the
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by nrb 7y ago
This seems like something Amazon could trivially solve with software. Product name, description, and listing categories all provide obvious context about what is being sold, they could easily analyze these changes and detect abuses such as
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by nrb 7y ago
...and all it took was 200 years of rancor & malice and one of the bloodiest wars in the history of our country to begin to resolve. That’s a pretty extreme reduction of the founding of America with regard to those deep disagreements am
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by nrb 7y ago
Or deliver malware, or malicious tracking.

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