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by obblekk 4y ago
“The letter said the DEA would ensure that “the manufacturing of controlled substances used to treat ADHD is driven by a legitimate need and not improperly driven purely by profit motive, pressure from marketing firms, or a desire to obtain
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by obblekk 4y ago
I really dislike the idea of giving complete access to my digital life to any company, particularly one that needs to grow quickly. The tech for password vaults is so simple, I use keepass + icloud syncing and get free end-to-end encrypted
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by obblekk 4y ago
The prediction is $400k/yr income and 4 hours a day. We made it approx 1/6th of the way to the income goal and maybe 1/6th of the way to the time goal, when you account for improved vacation time, sick leave, mat/pat lea
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by obblekk 4y ago
9mo from the start of the Ukrainian war. For all the criticism modern governments get (often rightly) it’s incredible how fast Germany built these new terminals. And it does show we have just as much productive capacity in western societies
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by obblekk 4y ago
I use KeePass and just save the encrypted file in iCloud. Easy, end to end encrypted, always up to date, free. https://open.substack.com/pub/magoop/p/how-to-manage-500-pas...
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How to manage 500 passwords, without yet another subscription(magoop.substack.com)
1 points by obblekk 4y ago|2 comments
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by obblekk 4y ago
I meant if there are 2 posts that you merge, do you also merge the upvote count (maybe by doing a union on the two sets of upvoters)?
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by obblekk 4y ago
Out of curiosity, do you union upvoters set for merges, or something similar? Not sure if that would be good, just curious.
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by obblekk 4y ago
Good question, but I don't know. I'm not trying to recommend anything. Not sure it's even solvable. Reading this article prompted this observation about myself. I do wonder how often I have been wrong to get frustrated with s
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by obblekk 4y ago
I feel so much cognitive dissonance realizing that there are hard working people literally losing their home and shelter wrongly while I might be sitting across from them at any time, expecting them to behave within normal social boundari
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by obblekk 4y ago
The final legal method is always court. You can always file a small claims or regular civil case. I see dozens of people do this weekly against big companies (my company, link in bio) and it does tend to work well because the legal departme
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by obblekk 4y ago
I'm not sure why airlines should be excluded. They were the "growth at all costs, we'll make it up on volume" business of the 70s and 80s. More capital invested than ever returned over 40 years. Other businesses like thi
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by obblekk 4y ago
I really dislike these takes on low interest rates. As far back as the 70s (when interest rates were 8-15%), there have been random business ideas being started and shutdown (pet rocks, every airline ever, etc.). We don't remember thos
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by obblekk 4y ago
This is true but nuanced in my experience. Often the best managers look around, see other managers being incompetent and messing up people’s natural abilities, and want to fix the problem even if it requires them to become managers. Often t
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by obblekk 4y ago
The issue is there is no competition amongst _type of auction_ being used to sell a scarce resource. Ticketmaster essentially gives tickets to insiders + high spending fans first (this loyalty based prioritization happened in Taylor Swift s
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by obblekk 4y ago
The current limit is 10 houses per owner... there's absolutely no reason the gov should be subsidizing real estate investors like that. This should really just be limited to 1 (or maybe 2) houses per owner at one time. That would creat
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by obblekk 4y ago
Sales of EVs are growing linearly so the displacement effect of EVs grows quadratically (at least for the first 10 years before any significant number are taken out of service). Quadratics aren't quite exponentials, but they're st
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by obblekk 4y ago
"He better not make it tomorrow. Or I will blame u" to encourage a nurse to overdose a patient to hit 6mo life expectancy quotas (from the article). This is disgusting. Is there any fundamental reason the industry is so sketchy? O
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by obblekk 4y ago
This is a great list of suggestions. I found the list of no-code tools particularly helpful. Is there a broader list somewhere? Particularly looking for logged-in dashboard tools to enable users to do basic crud stuff.
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It's interesting to read how much research tbray did on crypto back then. Definitely doesn't seem like new entrants today were doing the same level of diligence, on average.
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by obblekk 4y ago
Ticketmaster is such an obvious monopoly in plain sight. The only reason I can see the FTC not more aggressively pursuing it (and instead wasting time on big-tech) is the people in power at the FTC don't go to enough concerts or care a
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by obblekk 4y ago
Props to Suhail for building in the open (takes a lot of rejection tolerance) and being so honest about the path. That said, I work with lawyers as customers and I suspect there was an adjacent market in data privacy that a hosted browser w
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Saving Twitter: 6 Steps for Brand Ad Networks(magoop.substack.com)
1 points by obblekk 4y ago|1 comments
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Six Simple Steps to Save Twitter(magoop.substack.com)
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by obblekk 4y ago
Ad revenue risk really breaks out by 2 major types of spending: 1. Brand Advertisers These companies don't measure direct ROI from their ads in the short run, but believe that it's important to put their brand and message out cont
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by obblekk 4y ago
I ran the browser bench speedometer2.0 test recently, and was pleasantly surprised to see how much faster safari is than chrome on my macbook air. I'm not sure why I don't find myself using safari more yet, but maybe soon it'
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by obblekk 4y ago
Exciting times. I wonder how scalable the materials tech is here. In the past basically everything lost to Dennard scaling of silicon transistors. Then everything lost to massive capital spend to scale silicon transistors via other optimiza
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by obblekk 4y ago
We should require companies to use the word "license" rather than "buy," unless you receive a universe-wide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferrable at will, independently verifiable license (i.e., what it means to act
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by obblekk 4y ago
This is actually the clearest, simplest explanation I’ve read (including Matt Levine’s). I think this is the first time moral hazard made sense to me from an operational perspective. The fund manager who in old days would feel bad about ris
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by obblekk 4y ago
I expected this to be a smear / petty argument article. In fact, it's a concise, highly specific, quote by quote critique. I don't have enough context to take a side, but this is not just a rant. Beyond their interpersonal di

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