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by paggle 7y ago
You can get it vinyl wrapped before “vandalizing” for a few hundred bucks. That actually improves the resale value since when you peel it before selling the original paint job will be in much better condition having been protected.
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by paggle 7y ago
“Literally billions” is a severe understatement, it’s $245 billion.
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by paggle 7y ago
Yes, “medicine” would have been the correct term.
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by paggle 7y ago
Yeah, med school is the only “brainy” career path that endures military-style hazing on a ritualized and widespread basis.
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by paggle 7y ago
Not to mention that even the full purchase price of $100-$200m doesn’t make the Microsoft CEO even raise one eyebrow one millimeter.
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by paggle 7y ago
It was tactically smart to initially refuse to resign... it shifted the Overton window so that now he’s seen as defeated simply by stopping being the Media Lab director, instead of needing to make any attempt at restitution for the damage h
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by paggle 7y ago
Interesting to see the choice of the word “prominent law firm” rather than “excellent” or similar... an appeal to reputation rather than ability. Essentially, what Reif aims to do is what Epstein did... salvage his tattered reputation by af
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by paggle 7y ago
Client support for every random configuration you can imagine (Windows XP in Arabic for example) and a ton of server side performance optimization.
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by paggle 7y ago
A lot of smart people, when they acquire power, start to behave recklessly. It’s not necessarily irrational — powerful people are almost never held to account for their crimes, so you see people getting life in prison for robbing a liquor s
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by paggle 7y ago
The Media Lab in particular is a corporate PR/money vehicle, it’s not really an academic lab like a cancer research institute. There is some real research there but also a lot of “stick 25 Arduinos in something and make a video for a F
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by paggle 7y ago
Richard Branson “hangs out” with 2x-year-old women, not 14-year-old girls. The difference is literally infinite in the legal realm and still enormous in the moral realm.
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by paggle 7y ago
I wouldn't criticize them so roundly. 1) People want to be slow to accuse 2) People want to believe that most people are good -- that Epstein is a huge outlier and not that he had lots of willing accomplices, co-conspirators, and legit
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by paggle 7y ago
Note that the ballot measure recently passed in Florida to restore voting rights for felons specifically excluded murderers and sex offenders. It's not so "interesting" to many people that they want a weed dealer to be able t
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by paggle 7y ago
It wasn't secret, just not published publicly. Epstein went to the Media Lab and hobnobbed with people there, had them over to his house, went to their houses, etc. So when people were skeptical of him, he would say "Oh have you m
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by paggle 7y ago
Yes, the upside of the terrible MAX crashes is that it was a good alert that the FAA is not trustworthy. Without them, we might have been relying on a smoke detector with a dead battery.
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by paggle 7y ago
He is much worse because his policies led to widespread starvation killing millions. Not just killing 100,000 people. Both are terrible of course, and should have died in a brazen bull.
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by paggle 7y ago
I can say that in my college dorm, one of the essential things was that the people near me were not random. They were my same age in the same college and in the 700 people who lived there a lot shared my interests. That’s what these facilit
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by paggle 7y ago
This article isn’t about working in the tech industry
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by paggle 7y ago
That might be bad for your mental health but I know several people who enjoy that, and prefer the privacy of having a tiny personal space rather than a larger shared house. It’s important to get the right people into these.
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by paggle 7y ago
That’s a solution to housing, not urban loneliness.
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by paggle 7y ago
It takes me so much effort to get to my IKEA I would be so totally enraged if I was stopped as a “suspected hide and seeker” and denied entry. I cannot imagine.
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by paggle 7y ago
When there is a live issue I like to get everyone on a call and just keep it running even if there’s nothing to say. Just the little sounds of puzzlement or frustration are sometimes a clue to open up further conversation
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by paggle 7y ago
Power is power. Never paid any price for the horrors he inflicted on millions.
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by paggle 7y ago
Why wouldn't they? The FAA has lost its credibility and can now be considered a subsidiary of Boeing.
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by paggle 7y ago
A statement about differences between two populations can be true without being true for every member of each population.
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by paggle 7y ago
Women are shorter than men; some women are 7 feet tall.
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by paggle 7y ago
You may be more than capable of making the decision yourself, but most people are not (cf Facebook's user count), so it's perfectly reasonable for Apple to set rules to minimize risk rather than enabling the most capable users. Le
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by paggle 7y ago
The hash table for mapping keys to values will be implemented in hardware on the device, rather than needing to come off the SSD to the CPU.
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by paggle 7y ago
What macro factors tend to influence the connections/100 citizens? I don't see what Panama, Sri Lanka, Finland, and Saudi Arabia would have in common to have such a high number of phone numbers per capita.
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by paggle 7y ago
What a fucking amazing company. The biggest challenge in making a loan is getting repaid. When you control the vehicle by which your debtor gets paid by their customers, you can easily and frictionlessly take your repayment without having t

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