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by repeekad 1y ago
Google had a very competitive employee ping pong league and one of the coaches was on the USA Olympic team, I doubt they would lie about ping pong skills
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by repeekad 1y ago
Also don’t forget, only very large companies can make this kind of calculated risk; when the parking ticket isn’t calculated based on your income, the parking ticket for some is just a fee to park while to others it means not making rent th
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by repeekad 1y ago
Obligatory reminder that BART is going to run out of its emergency funding by spring 2026
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by repeekad 1y ago
Did China stop whaling or did they just add it to the list of things they have to be quiet about? like how drugs are heavily controlled on the mainland and yet fentanyl precursors almost all come from China before being smuggled into US?
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San Francisco's Map(youtu.be)
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by repeekad 2y ago
I remember hearing from friends at Facebook that an insider story was FB used VPN and in app IP address tracking to identify that instagram and whatsapp were hitting crazy growth metrics and that's how they knew they needed to buy them
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by repeekad 2y ago
Sure, but you can understand the perspective of someone growing up with zero access to those resources and lives in a rural part of the country hearing your argument and then voting for someone like trump, I would argue that sentiment is on
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by repeekad 2y ago
@TimorousBestie (I can't reply inline due to comment depth) I didn't say fund harvard xor fund local schools, I said it's crazy how much money harvard gets. The comment I'm replying to is who implies I must support harva
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by repeekad 2y ago
you say as your comment about downvotes gets downvoted, echo chambers are dangerous to democracy imo
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by repeekad 2y ago
that's 10 cents per american (still crazy!), but not $30, and $30 is only for Harvard much less how much federal funds go to other schools Obviously I'd rather that 10 cents go to something productive, but on the national stage tr
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by repeekad 2y ago
this is identity politics, rather than discussing ideas we discuss whose ideas they are and whether we like that person, I don't like that kind of discourse and don't find it valuable, bad people can have good ideas and vice versa
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by repeekad 2y ago
nope, just a random stranger trying to add some random noise into these often one sided conversations, I of course support public academic investment and Trump is bad for the country, but I worry we've fully mapped one to one trump and
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by repeekad 2y ago
given my comment got railroaded instantly, this is clearly what everyone thinks, but let's at least have that conversation rather than blindly pumping money into academia while local schools can't even afford books
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by repeekad 2y ago
$9 billion dollars from the federal government to Harvard equates to nearly $30 per American, that is an ignorant amount of money for a single academic institution, surely the world isn't so black and white that we can have a conversat
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by repeekad 2y ago
Apple Watches start at $250 and up to over $1k, pebbleOS offers way more functionality and 10x battery life, they’re not overlapping audiences
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by repeekad 2y ago
You really think a child is more likely to be abducted by police in NYC than anything else? What are you talking about?
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by repeekad 2y ago
Entering into a contract doesn’t sound like ignoring, we did it to them only makes sense they can get away with exactly the same thing now
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by repeekad 2y ago
You’re right. But if the guy paid to guard the door is told to start letting gangsters in by management, whistleblowing and civil disobedience become championed by the public rather than condemned, that’s “the people’s” check and balance to
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by repeekad 2y ago
I missed this earlier, not sure if you’ll even see it, but just know that your story hit home for me. I got a job out of college at #BigTech and gained a lot of momentum quickly, they were gonna promote me and threw money at me, but I reali
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by repeekad 2y ago
Yup, I’m saying it’s not a rural issue to have bad upload, often it’s just a way to charge more money even in a major US city (particularly one with limited ISP competition) In San Francisco monkeybrains is the best ISP I’ve ever used to da
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by repeekad 2y ago
In downtown Columbus Ohio the only internet provider (Spectrum) maxes out at maybe 5 mbps up (down 50-100x that), it's not just a rural issue, non-competitive ISPs even in urban cities want you to pay for business accounts to get any k
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by repeekad 2y ago
Are patents in general even useful in tech anymore? I remember older mentors almost keeping score with how many patents they authored, now I almost never hear the word patent mentioned unless it's a patent troll going after up and comi
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by repeekad 2y ago
I don’t think you’re allowed to post anything about the US healthcare system being good sometimes, I thought they banned that a while ago
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by repeekad 2y ago
If they lie then it’s a lawsuit, and the tax dollars and waste that would go into a centralized solution like you want would be eye watering
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by repeekad 2y ago
what's funny is debating about "what is a woman" vs having to work 6 days a week 6 to 9pm, I know which country I'd rather live in
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by repeekad 2y ago
Sure, but there’s no executive order saying we promise not to enforce it (I assume?), that would be counter to the law even if the absence of enforcement is a legal grey area Either way it feels like there are games being played, and the co
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by repeekad 2y ago
The issue is Trump doesn’t have legal authority to issue an executive order delaying the ban, executive orders “execute” the law, delaying would be the opposite of the law, a law that was held up 9–0 as constitutional by the Supreme Court
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by repeekad 2y ago
This reminds me of when they tried to de-gender Spanish and the vast majority of native Latinos hated it, Google still refuses to back down on “Latinx”
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by repeekad 2y ago
The blur effect on the bottom of the page makes me feel like I'm constantly about to be price walled, haha
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by repeekad 2y ago
You won’t get much traction on here but you’re right, I think democrats often project issues actually happening on their own side

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