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by shagmin 4y ago
The hardest interview in my life was a long time ago when I tried getting a part time/side job updating content on a mostly static PHP website (no database or backend). Thought this would be a nice way to get some extra beer money or s
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by shagmin 4y ago
Those types of issues are mostly handled by local & state governments, which vary wildly in corruption from locality to locality. So many eyes are on the federal government while some city governments have much crazier things going on t
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by shagmin 4y ago
Yet there are a lot of poor people willing to donate to mega church pastors that even have their own private planes, and his base probably overlaps with them quite a bit.
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by shagmin 4y ago
It seems like small fish in dollar amounts compared to other things, and I wouldn't even call it bribery so much as just unethical considering it was coming from political organizations that are responsible for helping those politician
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by shagmin 4y ago
It comes across as exactly more transparent and honest to me. The bait and switch is dishonest and this incentives against that. If the starting price is closer to the final price that's a better outcome and more transparent.
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by shagmin 4y ago
Living in a small city (or large town may be a more accurate way to put it) with lots of greenways, I feel like I get the best of both worlds. Before my office re-located I could go 6 miles (~9.5 km) to/from work on a bike in between o
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by shagmin 4y ago
I think you're describing a different thing. Those vacant residential properties could be owned from someone overseas who has never been to NYC. I interpret pushing out wealthy residents to mean someone moving to Florida and living the
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by shagmin 4y ago
He was more or less fired as CEO of Paypal IIRC, but I'd be hard-pressed to call it a failure either way. Overall I'd say he's done quite well but the world is full of people that were great in one venture and then failed mis
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by shagmin 4y ago
>Stands to reason that 90 percent of followers should see tweets for a person they chose to follow.. It's difficult to take this kind of response in good faith. You asked for any proof and the article puts it pretty directly that he
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by shagmin 4y ago
It was profitable those 2 years, then they lost a big lawsuit which caused a pretty big loss in 2020. But overall since its IPO 2013 and 2020 were the only years where its cashflow actually got worse - overall it was trending towards a more
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by shagmin 4y ago
I wish we had better solutions but I don't see greenwashing as being more harm than good, if we're just talking about replacing ICE vehicles with EVs and such. Some people will think they're doing a good thing for the environ
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by shagmin 4y ago
Nothing is set in stone and the choice is not all one or the other. The US being so large means different regions can experiment with different things (I wish there was more of this). Plus, cities are somewhat like living, organic things. N
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by shagmin 4y ago
Break-up is downplaying it, they've engaged in various proxy wars with each other for a few decades. Lately Saudi Arabia has been cold with US relations, and Iran is supposedly on the verge of having nuclear weapons... so indeed it see
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by shagmin 4y ago
Are you talking about a hypothetical place where schools are self-funded or something, or are you talking about Florida still? It's not that much of a free market if conservative-friendly charter schools get subsidized by the state but
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by shagmin 4y ago
It's even more-so true for t.co URLs though because instead of just 1 point of failure there are 2 points of failure. The original URL may work for another decade but if you don't know what the URL is behind the t.co URL and Twitt
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by shagmin 4y ago
In the book Sapiens it builds on this idea for myths lots of people believe in, or "shared fictions" or artificial truths or whatever you want to call it. Like money for example, it's only worth anything as long as people bel
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by shagmin 4y ago
I think this notion is pretty common amongst the general population. I'm just speculating but I feel like a lot of people think of hunting and there being an apex predator as the natural order of things, and it's only post-industr
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by shagmin 4y ago
Not as much content as HN, but I go here once in a while https://econbrowser.com/
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by shagmin 4y ago
As far as the US goes, it seems like a lot of places with water shortages are very wasteful when factoring in agricultural usage, which needs to be addressed on a political level (water rights and such). Having a one-off surplus of water wo
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by shagmin 4y ago
I live not too far from the area. There was a lot of pressure to call it terrorism early on because this just happened to coincide with a drag show happening in the effected area that Proud Boy members and locals tried to prevent from happe
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by shagmin 4y ago
One could argue the British augmented that by creating better local institutions in the far away places.
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I see #2 being likely, but with it being more of a title thing only and Elon Musk still being just as hands on.
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by shagmin 4y ago
My wife hates it because growing up in North Carolina she associated it with hunters throwing in bits of meat from whatever their most recent kill was - rabbit, squirrel, maybe venison. Never know what you're eating.
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by shagmin 4y ago
That's basically how I remember learning it. The Wikipedia article mentions that also, but only after one of the children who apparently had visions from God and said the Mediterranean Sea would part into two and leave a path (sort of
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by shagmin 4y ago
I don't have a particular citation or anything for this. But a general point I've gathered from learning history is prior to the age of gun powder, there's always been this tension between nomadic pastoralist societies and fa
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by shagmin 4y ago
As to your first point, I'm curious how much of this varies from market to market or how true this is. Where I live there's a big co-working space that has accelerator programs and ties to local universities that's been aroun
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by shagmin 4y ago
Since Twitter became public it's generally been growing its revenue faster than its expenses. 2018 and 2019 it had a net profit.
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Think it's a bit early to tell for sure, many predictions overplay the short term and underplay the long term or sometimes vice versa. Some of that bloat that's no longer there may have been what made Twitter stable without those
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by shagmin 4y ago
Normally outages don't call for a curfew in the area, but in this case there was looting going on.
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I wouldn't try to rationalize the actions of these people too much. Proud Boys confronted/harrassed/intimidated people at a drag show in a city not far east from there just recently and then some people (probably some the sam

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