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by peter422 3y ago
I used to yield at stop signs early on while cycling, but after I was hit by a car who ran a stop sign, I switched to coming to a complete stop at every stop sign, ensuring no cars were about to run their stop signs, then going. Self preser
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by peter422 3y ago
If they start showing ads to YouTube premium then I’ll cancel my subscription and watch a lot less content on the platform. But I’m not going to complain about something they haven’t done yet. There is some price I wouldn’t pay but I probab
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by peter422 3y ago
I find it very funny that everybody bemoans the ad supported ecosystem of the internet, then Google gives an ad free alternative with a monthly cost, and everybody complains that the cost is too high. I pay for YouTube premium, I see no ads
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by peter422 3y ago
There is no amount of defensive driving you can do that would make driving safer than flying commercial.
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by peter422 3y ago
This is generally the case for common stock but not preferred shares (such as you'd get from being an angel), though it obviously depends company to company.
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by peter422 3y ago
The U.S. is a very punitive society and I think if you were to find yourself in the tarmac after an evacuation holding onto your carry on, you’d at minimum be getting a large fine for disobeying a flight attendant and possibly more. Not bei
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by peter422 3y ago
“Ownership” is a spectrum obviously but owning a home still gives you a hell of a lot more control than renting. Source: used to rent, now own
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by peter422 3y ago
Many in the US government have been critical of Israel’s strategy in the last week or so (Lloyd Austin, etc).
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by peter422 3y ago
I know everybody is going nuts about this, but just from my personal perspective I’ve worked at a variety of companies with “important” CEOs, and in every single one of those cases had the CEO left I would not have cared at all. The CEO alw
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by peter422 3y ago
I’ve given up most of my Twitter usage but every time I go there to view a tweet the ads are always some kind of knife self defense class or bizarre right wing causes. I’d imagine that even when IBM and Apple were still advertising, it was
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by peter422 3y ago
Substack’s TOS clearly states that the writer owns their list, so I don’t think Substack could even legally axe the ability to export the list. Even if they did change the terms it couldn’t apply retroactively, and as you say, it would upse
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by peter422 3y ago
I recently installed Windows on my machine and in attempting to download chrome and make Google the default search engine, the OS tried to persuade me not to do it at least 2-3 different ways. I think we can and should be upset at these dea
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by peter422 3y ago
The CO2 released by fossil fuels also can have century spanning impacts.
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by peter422 3y ago
Dry ice sublimates into CO2 which also suffocates the rats as CO2 is heavier than air and will fill up a burrow, taking away all the oxygen.
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by peter422 3y ago
It is only fraud if a jury of your peers would think it is fraud, which is probably a higher bar than you think. Most of the fraud you are talking about also wouldn’t have the explicit benefit directly to the founders the way it did with FT
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by peter422 3y ago
Much like the infamous FTT token, just because it’s worth that much on paper doesn’t mean that is what you could sell it for today. I say this as a person with chunks of stock in a few private companies. And obviously for the people impact
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by peter422 3y ago
FYI if your creditors are demanding their money back and you don’t have it… you really don’t have many other options. The fact that 1 or 2 years later the people will get their money back doesn’t mean there was any hope of surviving this a
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by peter422 3y ago
If that is the standard then I’d say it’s probably impossible to prove anything. I think it’s extremely easy to prove that a covid infection is more harmful than the vaccine in aggregate in every demagogic. Honestly that is probably the cas
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by peter422 3y ago
But in that example a person is selling one house to buy another (presumably a cheaper/smaller one). Market conditions will even out.
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by peter422 3y ago
Serious question: why would any employee want to work at this company? If the founder has already taken money off the table at $100M valuation, they must have an overwhelming equity stake. If they aren’t trying to reach any type huge growth
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by peter422 3y ago
Chrome is not the default on stock iPhone, Mac, Windows or Linux. It’s only the default on Android. Search engine is a different story but people like Google enough they’ll change to Google anyways no matter what the default is.
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by peter422 3y ago
If this is the most embarrassing document as part of this case then I don’t think anything is happening to Google.
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by peter422 3y ago
You can increase monthly active numbers by making unsubscribing harder. You can increase average time on site by just funneling people lowest common denominator garbage all day. Pretending there is some magic metric here and Google isn’t me
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by peter422 3y ago
It seems to me that it is irrelevant how many spike proteins the vaccines causes your body to make considering that most of humanity has had a real covid infection by this point. The question would be if vaccine followed by covid infection
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by peter422 3y ago
As somebody that has been using lastpass for many years and continues to do so… I just do not understand how people who pick weak master passwords complain about this. The lastpass documentation makes clear over and over that your entire DB
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by peter422 3y ago
Just take an aggregate of every news article written in the top 100 newspapers. That's high quality content, timestamped and about current events. There is very little content on Twitter that compared in quality to one will written new
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by peter422 3y ago
So your belief is that being infected with COVID is entirely uncorrelated with having COVID symptoms? Even if there were a minor correlation, then you can infer some information from the trials. I'm not also suggesting that what you
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by peter422 3y ago
Many very smart virologists at the time noted that other coronaviruses in circulation didn't mutate that much (as compared to something like influenza), so it really was not known to what expect and at what speed the virus would or cou
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by peter422 3y ago
They did provide protection against infection initially, and did so very effectively. It was not known at the time whether that protection would maintain or not, nobody knew how the virus would mutate.
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by peter422 3y ago
The content creators could post anywhere, there is no reason they can't cross-post their videos to other platforms. Most publishers who are on Patreon post all their videos ad-free on there so you don't even need to go to YouTube.

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