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by purpleblue 3y ago
> We have no evidence to suggest that your personal information has been misused against you. What a fucking horribly disingenuous statement. They are trying to say that nothing bad happened, but their SSN and information was stolen!! Th
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Ah, okay so we shouldn't bother with checking VAERS anymore. Got it.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Nothing large enough to cause a planet to split into two ever collided. Yes.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Everything was formed by the spinning of gas clouds and consolidating into planets and such. That's why the planets haven't fallen into the Sun after 14 billion years.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
The idea that something collided with the Earth and created the Moon is an unscientific, absurd idea. There is a zero percent chance that a collision as described could result in the Moon maintaining an almost perfect orbit around the Earth
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by purpleblue 3y ago
It's funny that YC is posting this video, because as far as I can tell, YC teaches its founders to keep most of the equity for themselves, and dole out as little equity as possible to their employees. Back during the dotcom days, most
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by purpleblue 3y ago
He's a human being, not a robot. He's trying the best he can and he's being completely honest about it. I'm not sure what you're expecting from him, but he's not perfect nor does he claim to ever be. He's
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by purpleblue 3y ago
The biggest issue with 0% interest rates is that it let the stock market skyrocket. From 2009, the returns on some stocks like FAANGs are 20X or more, in less than 15 years. This created a huge, ridiculous income gap between the haves (ie.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I guess it depends on what the definition of "without an agenda" means. He has opinions, some of them very strong, but he doesn't bring someone on to push an agenda that he wants to publicize. He has people on that he wants t
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Joe Rogan Experience is the best podcast that I listen to. It has a wide variety of guests and topics, from regular politics to Neil deGrasse Tyson to Elon Musk to Bernie Sanders to aliens to psychedelic drugs to anti-mRNA vaccines. Joe Rog
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The Solar-Panel Backlash Is Here(theatlantic.com)
2 points by purpleblue 3y ago|0 comments
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by purpleblue 3y ago
How does Softbank still keep standing? They keep losing on the vast majority investment they've made, and yet they haven't come up against any financial issues? I feel like Softbank going bankrupt is going to be the Black Swan tha
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I agree. Can we auto-flag articles from sites like this?
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X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it(theverge.com)
11 points by purpleblue 3y ago|1 comments
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I think anti-facial recognition makeup will become a lot more prevalent.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
There is ZERO evidence that it's zoonotic spillover. In almost 4 years they haven't found the source. There's actual hard evidence that it came from the Wuhan lab.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I'm glad that things are slowing down here. Virology research is one of those things no one ever thought about, but the fact that a single careless lab was able to release a virus that killed tens of millions around the world should be
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Yes. Middle management is basically managers managing managers. A few levels of those could be eliminated, causing more stress for the survivors, but the workers aren't actually affected so it's a direct cost savings on the back o
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Spend the next year making work the least significant thing in your life. Do a good but not great job at work, and instead focus on doing things like travel or finding a girlfriend/boyfriend if you don't have one. Work out once a
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Elon has been constantly getting hammered by the media, social media, etc. And yet it doesn't affect Tesla at all. It actually couldn't be doing better. Does anyone have any thoughts on how Tesla is able to escape this wrath?
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by purpleblue 3y ago
If I had $470 million in stolen crypto, I would target to keep around 10% of that, and with the other 90%, just send them to random crypto wallets around the world. I would do that for years and years and lead the cops on expensive wild goo
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by purpleblue 3y ago
700,000 / 500 = 1400 half lives, or 2^(-1400). I'll let you do the math on how much would remain if we had 1 million tons of horse DNA with a 500 year half life. I'll even let you assume we have 1 trillion tons of horse DNA.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I spent a month in downtown major city this summer and I loved it. I could walk to work, walk my kids to summer camp, we all took the subway and walked sometimes back home. They loved it, and I loved it, despite being on a crowded subway or
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by purpleblue 3y ago
When I read articles like this, I can totally understand China and India's argument as to why they won't or don't prioritize fossil fuel consumption. The West has spent centuries modernizing itself to the point where there is
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by purpleblue 3y ago
It's math. If the half-life was 500 years, there would be nothing left to sequence after 700,000 years.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
In a similar vein, scientists discovered T-Rex fossils that had bone marrow that was gellified, something that was supposed to be impossible. They could see blood cells and other structures. I've been waiting for 10+ years for followup
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by purpleblue 3y ago
According to Modern Monetary Theory, debt levels do not matter. Japan has sustained a 200% debt-to-GDP level for decades. I don't think the US has very much to worry about for a while, despite all the fearmongering.
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Sam Altman on Joe Rogan Experience(open.spotify.com)
8 points by purpleblue 3y ago|0 comments
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by purpleblue 3y ago
It leads to fewer bugs of a certain type, but there are plenty of bugs being generated in statically typed languages in different ways.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I did C/C++ for the first 15 years of my career. I generally agree that strong typing is better for everyone. But when I started working with python, I understood the beauty in it. At first I couldn't believe you could have a syst

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