saas_sam

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by saas_sam 5y ago
The only way to avoid shutting down would be to raise prices, right? What if the owner knew customers wouldn't pay higher prices because he has tried to raise prices many times before and knows that it turns customers away?
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I don't think you read his post very closely. His first point was that the government has the ability to print money to pay for what it needs which is effectively "taxing" everyone equally across the board (which we feel as i
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I volunteer to make the replacement human hair belt.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
My stomach dropped reading this. How horrible.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
"Playing with toys" is a really dismissive way to describe the combined effort of 1000s of engineers and blue collar workers who innovated on a scale existing space companies haven't in decades to produce a service that will
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by saas_sam 5y ago
PyWhat only uses one inventory slot vs. 2 for Tome. That's one extra SoJ!
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I remember reading on a different post (can't find it) that productivity went up sharply at the beginning of the pandemic-induced WFH trend, but then subsided over time. The thinking was that people were on their toes early on for fear
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Thank you <3
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Mom's on social security she doesn't hasn't paid for any medical procedure in years. Have you heard of Medicare? Medicaid? You don't know what you're talking about at all selectodude.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I'm close to multiple people with Alzheimer's. I think the worst thing you can give them is nothing as their personality evaporates and they become a husk of who they once were and a burden on everyone around them. I can walk 5 mi
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by saas_sam 5y ago
You know what's weird? I spent part of my morning thinking about "time is a flat circle" today. I swear, the serendipity sometimes in daily life is wild.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I wish I did. A city that is so incompetent as to let this situation arise in the first place cannot be trusted to honestly & accurately account for the root cause of the problem. I want a good source for data that doesn't come in
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by saas_sam 5y ago
The interesting thing about your comment is it doesn't actually contradict what I said unless you are claiming your friends represent the majority of those experiencing homelessness. Is that what you're claiming?
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by saas_sam 5y ago
There are three kinds of people experiencing homelessness in SF: Drug addicts, who settle in the Bay Area because it is Paradise On Earth for drug addiction. Drugs are cheap and plentiful. Dealers transact unmolested in broad daylight in fr
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Personally I feel that the engineers at YouTube are doing a good job for me and I would like to reward them for that.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
One very effective method to avoid ads is to pay for the premium service. $10/month for far more content than any other streaming video service. Can not imagine trying to watch YouTube with ads.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I think we know more about abiogenesis than you are giving us credit for.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Silicon based for one.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Sigh. Analogies are hard.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Let's take a different naturally-occurring type of object that has only ever been found on Earth: waterfalls. To get a waterfall, you need a set of ingredients and circumstances to occur in a particular way that a waterfall results. We
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I don't think this is a very good analogy because we know far more about the nature of life, what is required to make it, and the abundance of those ingredients throughout the cosmos. Life isn't a lengthy, specific sequence of pre
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Thank you, upvoted. I appreciate your politeness.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
OP: "This virus was natural therefore any investigations into its artificiality are moot." Me: "This virus has unique qualities that made it especially contagious, so its artificiality is not moot." You: "Other viru
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by saas_sam 5y ago
>Even if it was a lab release, it's still a natural virus and could have happened without the lab release. That is not the assertion being made by the scientists pushing for the investigation. The assertion is that this is a chimeri
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by saas_sam 5y ago
It makes me think of "dan" too as in the Tribe of Dan in the Bible. Dan = judge. Daniel = god (el) judges me. The Tribe of Dan supposedly spread out and, some say, seeded other civilizations up the Dan-ube river up into Dan-mark.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
I remember the same exact thing being said about Wuhan. That urns were completely sold out, that the gov't was covering it up, just terrible. To date China insists less than 5,000 people died of Covid, though and all of that was conspi
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Really? Tom Cotton might beg to differ.
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by saas_sam 5y ago
Wasn't that the one associated with a known CCP spy? https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2df...
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by saas_sam 5y ago
If you were a CEO and your board & investors thought you were worth $50M a year, presumably you would decline that out of selflessness and insist upon a much more reasonable living wage?
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by saas_sam 6y ago
The ultimate solution to wealth inequality is to destroy all wealth. Bring it to $0. Everyone's equal. Is that a win? Or is there perhaps more to the story worth considering than inequality? Overall wealth, number of jobs, ability to g

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