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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
It’s not uBlock, but I’ve found AdGuard to be very effective at blocking ads on mobile safari.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Hard to delist Facebook and Alphabet.
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I can confirm this. I opened a distillery during the pandemic and had to pay a middle man during some online sales simply to cover legal requirements. The middle man never even handled the product. Very frustrating way to spend money.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
While appeal to consensus is a common logical fallacy, we can make stronger arguments to support government tax software. Tax preparation is 100% deadweight in an economic sense. Nothing useful is created in that time, and yet billions of h
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I find it very unlikely the IRS is not already writing tax software. They would need fairly sophisticated in-house software to evaluate returns, so it would just be the creation a new UI to be tax-payer facing. I would imagine all the requi
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Is there a sizable population of unemployed black engineers living in the United States to hire from? What if the qualified candidates simply don’t exist to fill the seats?
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Also note that doing so creates inflationary pressure on all dollars in existence, essentially taxing everyone that holds $USD.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Because knowing where you should try to put that ball, and being able to do it, are different skills. Golf is not purely a mental game, unlike investing.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
It’s more than just the air that gets lost from a ball, the felt is delicate and even small changes in distribution affect the spin. The stresses in tennis are intense, with 100 mph common for even pretty low level amateur serves. Most play
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Well, they are kind of failing at their job in a big way, likely costing the company billions of dollars in the process. I don’t feel that bad for them. 5% of other socials in revenue per user is comically bad.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
From my experience, there are huge differences between stores in terms of pricing and customer service. The industry is so new that just having your doors open is a license to print money, but it’ll start to standardize once banks are allow
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
For anyone that has read “The Circle”, this should feel like life imitating art. The antagonist company in that book repeatedly “finds” child pornography on inconvenient people to exert ever-growing control over society.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Stochastic domestic terrorist is not a term I ever expected to read, but it seems very fitting for the “data-driven” (but generally poorly evaluated) future we find ourselves drifting into.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Simpson’s Paradox takes many forms. If your sampling or measurement criteria are wrong, even subtlety, then the results are nonsense without anyone knowing. Practicing statistics in an area for which you are not an expert is almost always a
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
The US would be primarily responsible for forcing Korea into the war. The border of North and South Korea is only about a day drive from Beijing, allowing the US to threaten the Chinese government from the very beginning of any conflict. Th
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
It’s hard to imagine a situation that both removes Taiwan from play and preserves peace in Korea. It’s unfortunate the world’s chip supply is so geopolitically concentrated.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Is there any timeline for the stream release? The release date on the store page just says, “Time is subjective.”
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Isn’t that a bit unfair of a comparison, since Medicare disproportionately covers the elderly who have higher medical costs, while the NHS serves the whole population?
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Maybe the model T can compete? I expect iPhone to have a longer run though.
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Apple has had the price of their stock drop at least 40% on 3 separate occasions, the most recent of which was 2013. So you are right that they have had a strong run for almost 10 years straight. They do frequently post record profits, and
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
I think a more accurate presentation would be that iPad revenue is 90% that of Macs.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
The fact that cheap sedans have such a low profit share in the industry, and already get great mileage, probably means that will be one of the last ICE segments to get eroded.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
This is what bothers me about Norway. They have become rich by harvesting abundant natural resources, and now spend that money to try and stop other countries from exploiting their own. It seems hypocritical to me, especially because they p
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Is there some evidence to support this being a purely right-wing phenomena?
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Are planes really more noise pollution? I agree they create more concentrated noise, but they seem to be less noisy overall than trains since planes are quiet once in the air.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
The US has world-class train service for freight. The lower population density of the US than Europe and East Asia makes planes a better investment in the US. Less rail to lay per person server makes a big difference.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Well Japan has a little bit of a population density advantage over the US. This seems to be an important factor when looking at where rail has been most successful for commuters.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
Does the employee have to buy into that stake? Do they surrender it, or sell it, or keep it when they leave? Do they get more over time? Why should minimum wage field hands that will work for a month own part of my farm? We have had negativ
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
It’s a mathematical impossibility for everyone to be at or above average.
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by opinion-is-bad 5y ago
As an introvert myself, I found the book “Quiet” by Susan Cain to be an excellent read on the differences, strengths, and weaknesses of introverts vs extroverts.

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