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by ponker 6y ago
I see that the effect is concentrated in households with a car, but I wonder how much of this is due to the car seats themselves, and how much is due to the vast array of things designed for a “family of 4.” Restaurants take twice as long t
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by ponker 6y ago
And a 3br house there is probably $1.4 million.
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Homeschooling doesn’t always make kids weird — parents of weird kids often pull them out of school because of bullying or fears of bullying.
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by ponker 6y ago
For my phone I just prefer fewer things to mess with in general, and a smaller API surface, since I don’t want to be tweaking and untweaking shit on a device which is already so unergonomic. On my desktop I prefer Windows and Linux to mess
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by ponker 6y ago
Thanks for the reminder about why I don’t use Android. I definitely don’t want to be screwing with my phone more than I already do.
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by ponker 6y ago
There are very few things in my life where I’ve purchased the highest-features version. I have a regular Medeco lock on my house instead of a Smart Lock. I didn’t give my TV internet access so it acts as a “dumb TV.” I own two kitchen knive
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by ponker 6y ago
Nothing is as powerful as having someone’s attention. If Brownlee can get this guy $100K with a tweet imagine what he’s pulling down himself.
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by ponker 6y ago
There can be external candidates with that qualification. In general the standard is “Bona Fide occupational qualification” which means that you have a legitimate reason for the requirement. For a college hire this would likely not suffice
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by ponker 6y ago
I have read the abstract but my point was not really about the paper itself. Imagine a group that made you say “the Earth is round!” or they’d throw a rock through your window. Frankly, I’d just say the earth is round. But I would still hav
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by ponker 6y ago
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-ana...
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by ponker 6y ago
The core assertion that there is an epidemic of police killings of Black men is contradicted by a study from a Black Harvard professor who claims that white and black men are killed at the same frequency by police, and that the real problem
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by ponker 6y ago
An attack on a large infrastructure is not necessarily a large attack. Social engineer into one account and disable some cron job somewhere and the infrastructure falls over.
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by ponker 6y ago
Yes, but what's the reason to believe that Coinbase employees can impact the Coinbase culture more than McDonalds employees can? In the case we're discussing now, they tried, and the CEO told them "don't let the door hit
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by ponker 6y ago
There's something that makes me very uneasy about companies and individuals having to go on the record saying "Black Lives Matter" or being ostracized. It feels like a shibboleth, like kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance,
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by ponker 6y ago
Congratulations, you're one of the winners. Talk to your local McDonalds employee and you'll get a different story.
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by ponker 6y ago
The state of politics today, as a base layer under and inside everything , is such that politics cannot be kept out of work. Look at something very straightforward like Covid-19, an airborne disease. For reasons that I can't explain
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by ponker 6y ago
Or, that when one goes down, people overuse the services of the others, causing them to go down, causing a chain reaction. Not denying the existence of state actors but they are not a given.
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by ponker 6y ago
One thing that people don't mention is just having a beefy computer. Programs like Zoom and Teams are a combination of horribly engineered and replete with processing-intensive features like virtual backgrounds and noise/echo remo
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by ponker 6y ago
The Emoluments Clause has been in open violation for 3.5 years and nothing has happened. Doesn't mean anything.
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by ponker 6y ago
Apple should provide a button to basically permanently liberate the hardware. You no longer get security updates from Apple, perhaps there's a permanent light that turns on on the front so that any buyers know that this device no longe
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by ponker 6y ago
The fact that there even is an "industry rate" is evidence of price fixing, if not by the legal definition (which may require explicit collusion) then by the layperson's definition.
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by ponker 6y ago
Talking about competitors only makes sense in narrow circumstances. The fact is, a lot of people who find you don't know who your competitors are, and it's better to keep things that way! Let them Google for alternatives -- half t
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by ponker 6y ago
You use italics for the word “billion” but JPMorgan doesn’t.
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by ponker 6y ago
My "social cooling" hasn't come from big corporations harvesting my data (as far as I can tell, they're doing close to nothing with it that affects me directly). My social cooling has come much more from the (I believe)
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean if you agree with the math of creating $80m in value it would be hard to argue that he doesn't deserve $500K of that.
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by ponker 6y ago
“A Career in Professional Basketball: is it worth it?” by Lebron James.
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by ponker 6y ago
Did the books get you the gigs as expert witness?
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by ponker 6y ago
What conditions on other planets would evolve human pathogens more effectively than the conditions very similar to those that humans live in?
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by ponker 6y ago
1) If you operate in the global super-elite you lose sight of the fact that actions can even have consequences. Especially before ubiquitous cell phone videos, you could scream obscenities at a poor store clerk and nothing would happen to y
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by ponker 6y ago
The ones who eke out $1400m get museums named after them. The failure here is to make enough to buy an ownership interest in the law.

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