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by qgin 4y ago
Unbelievable. This has traversed the uncanny valley and come out the other side.
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by qgin 4y ago
Sounds like the dev team has a lot of work to do then
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by qgin 4y ago
I don't know enough about crypto to understand what it means that the team is working to restore the peg. Unless something is literally 100% collateralized by the thing it is pegged to, what code changes are there in the world that can
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by qgin 4y ago
I would focus on finding brands to trust vs stores. Stores do absolutely zero diligence on ingredients of supplements. https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/02/major-retailers-order... > Three to four samples of
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by qgin 4y ago
A 50% drop would trigger 99% of holders attempting to cash in.
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by qgin 4y ago
Stick to brands that have a reputation for quality worth defending. It's no guarantee, but you want a brand that perhaps charges a bit more because of their long track record of quality. The longer and more solid their track record of
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by qgin 4y ago
Why would anyone do that? It makes a great dystopian novel storyline, but no other medical advancement has ever been treated that way. The elites could easily have everyone dying of simple infections, but I can get antibiotics for $5 at the
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by qgin 4y ago
I love to hate on tech bros as much as the next tech bro, but I've watched so many people suffer with terrible diseases that I'm totally fine if it we end up with 1000 hairloss biotech startups if that also means we get one that p
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by qgin 4y ago
Improvement is just when you make a change and you subjectively think the positives outweigh the negatives. If the negatives subjectively don't outweigh the positives, that's usually considered "deal with the devil" terr
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by qgin 4y ago
Good alternative is getting used Chromeboxes or Intel NUCs on eBay for $30-ish each.
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by qgin 4y ago
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/el-salvador-b... The government is issuing Bitcoin-backed bonds. Subsequently the market has sold off El Salvador’s 10Y traditional bonds to a level that increases th
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by qgin 4y ago
Add a large coke and you can easily hit 1500 in one meal. 1 lunch, 1 dinner, a snack, and a nice healthy breakfast and you can easily clear 4000-5000 a day without feeling like you ate an abnormal amount.
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by qgin 4y ago
I can overeat 1000 calories without even trying. It would take me 4-5 hours to walk off 1000 calories.
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by qgin 4y ago
It’s easier to open a Robinhood account than a savings account at a typical bank, tbh.
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by qgin 4y ago
99.9% of Netflix content isn’t outrageous in any way. There’s a lot of attention for letting famous comedians do their usual routines in a recorded special, but we’re talking about less than 10 hours of television in a library of like 20,0
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by qgin 4y ago
I think what they’re saying is that the caution needed to avoid offending anyone would be too much of a handicap in the goal of making content that people like. I know there are specific examples where a person could say “so THIS couldn’t h
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by qgin 4y ago
Maybe social media companies can declare themselves "religious businesses" and bypass this new regulation since just last year, this happened in Texas: > Federal judge in Texas rules in favor of religious businesses over LGBTQ
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by qgin 4y ago
It's hard to know what will be a success unless it's a rehash/remake. The Netflix strategy is to spend less per production on more productions to give more shots on goal. They can greenlight more productions and take more cha
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by qgin 4y ago
I’ve been on the receiving end of an acquisition boot more than once.
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by qgin 4y ago
I hear so much about why fiat is bad because of money printing. So it’s wild to me that so much of Bitcoin is basically propped up by Tether printing.
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by qgin 4y ago
Bukele has often outlined his economic thesis around Bitcoin on Twitter: > El Salvador just bought the dip! 150 coins at an average USD price of ~$48,670 #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1467000
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by qgin 4y ago
He’s extremely popular
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by qgin 4y ago
It’s frustrating when someone says “oh don’t worry about this legalese” when it suits them. When the tables are turned, they have no problem using every inch of that legalese against you and to protect themselves. If it doesn’t matter, don’
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by qgin 4y ago
Soaps, lotions, all manner of potions go straight to the consumer because they're not marketed as drugs. It only counts as a drug if you want to claim on the package that it has a biological effect. The FDA process as it's set up
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by qgin 4y ago
Pretty much every other country has better and less toxic sunscreen than the US, but unfortunately we categorize sunscreens as drugs and there’s not enough money in sunscreen do the kind of trial FDA requires for new drugs.
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by qgin 4y ago
Healthy markets have that fear. It’s been gone for a long time.
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by qgin 4y ago
But if there is no mechanism for giving cash to the shareholder, ownership is essentially worthless (from a money perspective) except for the possibility of amassing enough ownership to take a controlling stake in the company. But even a co
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by qgin 4y ago
Not a lot of overlap between people concerned with legality and crypto-wealthy seeking multiple passports.
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by qgin 4y ago
The value of stocks is pinned to two events that you often don’t directly participate in but are absolutely connected to in a real way. 1. The IPO. While it’s true that only the people who buy at the IPO directly finance the company, if the
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by qgin 4y ago
Curious about #3. 10 years is a long time for Cruise or Waymo to get to SFO. Any particular reason?

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