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by sigstoat 6y ago
gee, shouldn't they be required to reduce their costs for the consumer, first? a lot of the folks buying video games have even less money than video game developers.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
you can use double metaphone with postgres' text search facility directly: https://github.com/jkominek/dmetaphone
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by sigstoat 6y ago
anyone who could manage to secretly run the world would probably be better at it than the clowns we’ve got publicly running the world.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> It causes less to be consumed obviously. and yet politicians forget that when they're not talking about sin taxes.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> This is like if politicians were shocked that raising cigarette taxes resulted in a drop in cigarette sales. they go back and forth, at their convenience, on whether or not taxing things causes less of the thing to be produced.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> One thing I particularly appreciate about our Dyson corded vacuum is that I can take the whole damned air path apart if needed, without tools. the first time i went to clean the filter in ours, i kept seeing that i could easily take of
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by sigstoat 6y ago
it's definitely faster when you listen to r/wsb one week, and then sane people the next.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
this sort of vague concern about passive investing from folks who profit off of active investing reads like wolves complaining about how the sheep aren't venturing out to eat the tastiest grass at the edge of the fields. it also paints
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> quality of life changes are exponential generally they're logarithmic. that's why billionaires are still basically people, instead of just writhing around in orgasmic ecstasy all of the time.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> lots more money than some cleaning supplies lots more money than 12+ months of cleaning supplies, labor, delayed purchases, and increased transmission risk amongst your staff and customers? i suspect it is close enough that we can&#x27
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by sigstoat 6y ago
treating surface cleaning as a big deal and the air as minor caused many business to make bad trade offs. last summer target was making you wait in line longer (dangerous) while they carefully wiped down self checkout stations between users
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Amazon is amassing this money by NOT spending it on the economy as the sibling comment notes, amazon is not amassing money. rather, amazon has amassed value. you might want to familiarize yourself with what a corporate valuation is, an
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> What's really fun is that Alice and Charlie may not even know that they've lent their stock. last i checked brokers _cannot_ just loan out random alice and charlie's shares. only once you've got a margin account and
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by sigstoat 6y ago
short positions are inherently higher risk than long positions because your upside is finite, and the downside is unbounded. (this is why you might want to... hedge your shorts.)
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> What is it protecting you from when your data is encrypted? various forms of physical damage, including fire and accidental crushing where do you think they ought to store their drives? a little safe that will hold easily 100TB costs $
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> NASA already has a system for that, TDRS. I wonder how busy it is nowadays? last time i had anything to do with TDRSS (circa 2013), it was extremely busy, expensive, and it was the military that got the high bandwidth links. we could o
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> so if a newspaper (NYT or other) withholds information that another media also has access to, then another media will likely publish the story anyway and yet, a bunch of other news organizations wrote about the issue without disclosing
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> He said that actually there was a pile of garbage next to them, but they only put the good looking photos on Facebook. when your friends used a slide projector to show you their vacation photos, they left the bad slides out of the proj
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by sigstoat 6y ago
what about for folks who are already homeless?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> For example, Parler could self-host instead of relying on cloud offerings what do you think the difference between AWS' terms of service, and the terms of service of a data center will be? the last data center contract i signed ha
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by sigstoat 6y ago
will the data centers hosting your "metal" not implement the same policies?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> A smart charger can detect if a battery is present, or at least some load that is safe to dump power into. > defaults to 5V 2A charging i don't think you understand how power transfer works. voltage is applied (by the charger),
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by sigstoat 6y ago
public platforms like twitter and facebook and whatever for the last X years? conservatives have watched themselves banned piecemeal from these platforms, they know exactly what’s coming. the ones you’re worried about have already got priva
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by sigstoat 6y ago
the folks you don't want talking are still talking, they're just doing it where you can't see it, any more. your plan to ban them off all of the places where you're paying attention has been clear to them for years, and
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i was quoting your "Why?", not asking you a question. and if you continue to treat a group of millions as a homogenous unit, you can't have thoughts like "maybe the doctors turning it down right now will accept it after
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Why? overall rates for a group contain millions or tens of millions of people probably aren't going to be dominated by a single explanation. maybe they want to leave them free for groups that are at higher risk? not every kind of
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> The strategy that can work is for the EU to partner with TSMC to build a foundry in the EU that produces at the node they want to intercept (2 nm?). that's hardly in Taiwan's geopolitical interest. perhaps if the EU made some
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by sigstoat 6y ago
still had one as of a year and a half ago, for bringing in phone lines to a business. they'd converted it a year previous to be SIP over an IP link, though. meh. at that point it was only a tiny smidge better than twilio over business
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by sigstoat 6y ago
and yet, they will not.

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