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by seabird 4y ago
Consumers are seeing a need for the scalpers; their service is valued at $200-$300. Whether or not 20 people botted a single one for their own personal use, or one person botted 20 to scalp, you don't have one in the end. Pay $200ish
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by seabird 4y ago
It's not not-a-monolith just because you can disable or remove an ever increasing number of "tested"/supported functionalities and move further and further away from the supported configuration. This might be OK for pers
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by seabird 4y ago
Tanks, warplanes, artillery, rockets, etc. are for the most part legal for civilians to have and it doesn't really bother me. The cost of most of these systems is prohibitively expensive and if you can afford them, you can have them re
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by seabird 4y ago
I would argue that reddit never was really that great. It has gotten worse (the really aggressive advertising and dogshit UI is fairly recent), but karma farming is as old as time, is pretty much fundamentally unavoidable with their current
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by seabird 4y ago
I think art like Urinal is dumb, but I wouldn't say it's not art. Trying to define "real art" is a fools' errand. It's "I know it when I see it" that doesn't achieve anything. There's plenty
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by seabird 4y ago
By that definition, every embedded device is extremely marketing driven and trivial to clone. With devices like these, you're buying time. People doing reverse engineering for a living or as a serious hobby do not want to fuck around m
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by seabird 4y ago
It's definitely convenient, but I'm not sure I would call it game changing. Unlike Dropbox, where the sum of the parts was the difference between a power user being able to do something, and your average user being able to do that
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by seabird 4y ago
That's just a car dealership. They're not necessarily out to screw you, but they are trying to make as much money as they can, so you can't (and you didn't) let yourself get pushed around. The first salesman thought yo
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by seabird 4y ago
Good luck finding anything at all. This is not a problem exclusive to Raspberry Pis and there is not a huge amount they can do about it.
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by seabird 4y ago
I hope they never think otherwise. Every time the Midwest comes up on this site, you get these laughably stupid takes that it's some bombed-out shithole with no jobs other than crime, and where people kill minorities on sight. At least
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by seabird 4y ago
That 3.5 is almost without exception crime-related. Your odds of being a victim of extreme violence even if you weren't involved in what started it are effectively zero. Miyazaki prefecture probably experiences this same phenomenon. If
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by seabird 4y ago
According to what I've read (which could very well not be representative of the language as it's spoken by your community), grammatical gender (which Dutch still has) is largely dead in Afrikaans. There is no case system present
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by seabird 4y ago
He's talking to his kid. Joe Average isn't going to tell his son that he has plans to use the BCI to transcend this mortal coil and claim the power of God. He's going to do what this guy did -- ask for a beer, to hear some of
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by seabird 4y ago
Average assault and murder rates are massively inflated by a handful of exceptional cities. St. Louis (usually highest murder rate in the US or close to it) is pushing 70 murders per 100k. That is roughly double the rate of Cleveland (rank
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by seabird 4y ago
They were mostly related to fuel storage and delivery for a certain segment of vehicles. I'll save the specifics because my employer would be pretty easily identifiable. Ultimately, it's not really relevant; this is common, even i
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by seabird 4y ago
An idea by itself is generally worth jack shit in most lines of business. People have actually game-changing ideas all the time that go nowhere because a team wasn't/couldn't be allocated to develop that idea to the point whe
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by seabird 5y ago
For whatever it's worth, I don't think you're an idiot. It just sounds like you think a clearinghouse can do a lot of things that they cannot do.
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by seabird 5y ago
I'll go ahead and have my last word: - A clearinghouse cannot halt a market - A clearinghouse's job is to ensure that trades settle, which requires adjusting collateral, which is exactly what they did - A clearinghouse does not
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by seabird 5y ago
They know full well how to handle their collateral requirements; that's exactly what they did! The idea that they "lost control" of the situation is pretty wild; how would they have exerted control over it? GME went nuclear i
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by seabird 5y ago
2008 crash is a decent example of finance being rigged. Robinhood's handling of GameStop is not. They may be a pretty shit brokerage, but DTCC collateral requirements hit everybody , and they just didn't have enough money lying a
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by seabird 5y ago
The Qt Company deserves the names they get called. Their licensing model for Qt is designed by complete shitheads and is engineered to mislead, frustrate, and ultimately bleed money from you in perpetuity. If your company is large enough to
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by seabird 5y ago
Wages were frozen during WWII (Stabilization Act of 1942), and insurance was exempt from this freeze. At the time, it was a way to compete for employees. Eventually, you just weren't in the running if you weren't providing insuran
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by seabird 5y ago
Just because a part passes memtest86 and a couple of hours of Prime95 does not mean that that part is interchangeable with the genuine article, especially as far as an OEM who is trying to meet requirements is concerned. With a counterfei
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by seabird 5y ago
Your GP is not some superhuman that clocks out and parks their ass on the computer for 8+ hours every day to research the specific details of the tens or hundreds of treatments available for any given condition they may run into. The person
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by seabird 5y ago
Remember that a lot of people's issue with antidepressant medications stems from how widely they're prescribed. For somebody going through a fairly minor and "normal" depressive episode, the cure might be worse than the
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by seabird 5y ago
This incorrect idea that there's any trivial way to make a $4 billion purchase is popular because most people don't understand money in those amounts. It's fine if you have a problem with extreme wealth, but if this is how yo
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by seabird 5y ago
>That's not an argument that applies here, because Americans actually do buy stupidly big cars. >" According to data from IHS Automotive, larger vehicles accounted for 63 percent of total US sales in 2013. Meanwhile, large v
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by seabird 5y ago
>Americans are mocked worldwide for their ridiculous cars. Oversized, gas guzzling, ostentatious, and yes - fetishized cars are associated with Americans worldwide. Americans mock other nations for all sorts of shit that isn't true,
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by seabird 5y ago
The percentage of people that will do anything to their car that will negatively impact the emissions is so small that it's not even worth worrying about. The vast majority of people take their vehicle to an oil change chain so they ca
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by seabird 5y ago
Framing any and all success (maybe not what OP is doing, but a lot of people do this so it's probably worth addressing) as "sheer dumb luck" implies that you think there's a lot of things in your life that are outside yo

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