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by nwiswell 4y ago
All of this is true but it's totally unrelated to the fact that fluoropolymers are forever chemicals. Fluoropolymers themselves are harmless, even if their byproducts are not necessarily. And presumably the compounds of concern you&#x2
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Yep these are fluoropolymers. But I'm not sure how much that really matters... a regular un-fluoridated polymer like polyethylene that sticks around for a thousand years is not all that different in practice from a fluoropolymer that w
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by nwiswell 4y ago
... yes? The Internet is big and full of people, both things are happening.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Define "recent"? This 2007 article uses the term: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/2664-wall-street-rea... My point is that this could easily be a slip of the tongue, the kind of mistake that I could s
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> all three branches of government. … You know, the House, the Senate and the executive While it's objectively the case that this is not accurate, control of those three is commonly called a "trifecta" by pundits and polit
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> some sort of fallacy that I'm too lazy to look up. Is it? I didn't object to the rest of your comment but I don't see how it was relevant either. > He was donating half his salary while working at Jane Street. So do
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> Should we assume that everyone who's in movements is in it for cynical reasons? This is an all-or-nothing fallacy. Perhaps we should view facially "altruistic" movements much more skeptically. Indeed in hindsight it seem
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by nwiswell 4y ago
This is silly. Way too many things would meet this standard for "scam"/"ponzi". Gold for example: it costs money to dig it out of the ground, and critically to keep it stored securely, insured, tested for purity, et
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> He lives in USA This is incorrect, he's an actual physical resident of the Bahamas, where FTX is also domiciled.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
If you just went from "famous decabillionaire" to "probable felon" in the span of a week, you'd probably be in cope mode too
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I think people who know / met him just legitimately like him. Nerd charisma, I guess. Matt Levine actually copped to it in his column.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Except if Musk succeeds in ultimately destroying Twitter he's holding a $44 billion bag. Kind of overshadows making a couple of years of modest profits. You'd think he'd be more circumspect about how he handles this $44 billi
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Wow, yeah, what a utopian vision you paint. Wait hold on a minute isn't there already some kind of amendment that makes this irrelevant? Although since the Saudis own such a massive chunk of this newly private company I guess the US go
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> Why wouldn't we want that? Because it's possible to have multiple goals at the same time. Reality is a co-optimization problem. The points that you have made above are why there are still many more female nurses -- it's
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> if your handle has blue check and you are not banned from Twitter, it basically means you are promoting Twitter allowed leftist/progressive agenda and everything you write should be taken with big grain of salt https://
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Sounds like there was something at play besides pure camaraderie and no-man-left-behind ethos: > Hambleton had Top Secret access to Strategic Air Command operations and was an expert in surface-to-air missile countermeasures. The North V
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I can think of another context where "special" is a pejorative... :)
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> It became the New York Supreme Court under the New York Constitutional Convention of 1846. Sounds like they blew their chance to name it properly. Oh well.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> There are kids in their 20s getting burned out at Amazon who'd be able to singlehandedly revolutionize the engineering processes at most normal companies in the world. You'd have to believe that talent and compensation are ac
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by nwiswell 4y ago
That is bizarre. Most states call them "superior" courts. Supreme implies, well, the superlative authority, and it is definitely not.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I think it's implying that this legislation would be "taxing" womens' goods to bring them to parity. I do like "The Pink Subsidy" better though.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> Absorption spectrums have never let us down Devil's advocate: we have never had the chance to actually verify an exoplanet absorption spectrum. Could be that they are letting us down every time. In this solar system, yes, absorp
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> I think it is quite possible that humans attempting to “fix” nature is what will ultimately lead to the extinction of the human race. Do you feel similarly about freezing CO2 out of the air in the interior of Antarctica and burying it
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Prima facie it is wrong because it's victim blaming. But using weak and/or compromised passwords is a bad idea in exactly the same way that it's a bad idea to leave your front door unlocked. Legally, we do assign fault for ne
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Honestly I do not think Samsung would be concerned about the single-digit number of people who manage to get free internet this way. If you really wanted it to be secure, you could use a TPM instead of a private key in memory, but that&#x
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by nwiswell 4y ago
So it does not censor the sort of thing that reasonable people do want censored on their social media, and does censor the sort of things that people don't want arbitrarily censored. And in exchange for that, you get to deal wi
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by nwiswell 4y ago
How do you get the private key?
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> No one is going to just give Samsung free Internet except the hapless consumer by supplying Wi-Fi credentials. I think it's implied that Samsung would pay Amazon for Sidewalk access. > Samsung might make a deal with providers,
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by nwiswell 4y ago
In my experience, tech companies contract out roles like security, food, janitorial, shipping, and even facilities, so those people would not be included in the 7000-person figure. The people who manage the relationships with the contractin
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Alright so: 1) That's not white collar tech jobs, that's ALL jobs in SF 2) That's base salary, not inclusive of other comp like stock and bonus 3) Benefits are a huge slice of the compensation pie: insurance is not cheap, mos

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