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by skizm 4y ago
> Why is abortion literally a major topic in every presidential election over decades? Abortion is a big issue that will continue to come up because one group of people view it as literally murdering a child and another group see it as a
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by skizm 4y ago
Weirdly enough, I like that vibe about snapchat. They are the "cheaper" social media. Nothing is meant to last, and everything is meant to be low key, low stakes, "fun". You're not there to read articles or argue
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by skizm 5y ago
Why is the government so afraid of allowing new student loans being issued to go into bankruptcy? Wouldn't this solve most issues going forward? Separate note: instead of loan forgiveness programs, just pay for people's school up
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by skizm 5y ago
I really do feel like there are two versions of the internet. One for people who aggressively use ad-blockers, pay for premium (non-ad) versions of things, manage their inboxes well, and generally are tech savvy enough to avoid 95% of unwan
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by skizm 5y ago
This is why airpod pros or similar noise cancelling headphones are worth their weight in gold. After having them in a city environment for more than a week, I realized I'd gladly pay north of $1k for them. If I lose them I will instant
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by skizm 5y ago
YouTube was losing over a billion dollars per year for a long time. It is going to be tough to take them head on as a direct competitor.
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by skizm 5y ago
As intended since you wouldn't need to see this post.
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by skizm 5y ago
Banks or stock exchanges would just revert any bad transactions like they do with most scams, thefts, or accidents. It is built into the current system by design.
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by skizm 5y ago
Aggregate keyword data to sell to advertisers and hedge funds. Same thing pretty much every smart device does.
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by skizm 5y ago
Facebook's revenue up 35% year over year: -26% (P/E ~16) Amazon's revenue up 15% year over year: +12% (P/E 60+) I don't get the stock market. Facebook can simply turn on billions in revenue whenever they want still
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by skizm 5y ago
> If a stock is priced at a huge multiple to earnings and sales... FBs P/E ratio was well into the value stock territory of ~22 before this dip. They were trading at the lowest multiple of any other big tech company by far, now they
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by skizm 5y ago
Are there any alternatives to RPs in the <$100 range that are more available?
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by skizm 5y ago
> Maybe try and see if javascript is enabled. I have a lot of questions. Number 1: how dare you? /s
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by skizm 5y ago
Have they done any monetization on WhatsApp yet? Which is ~2 billion users. They could literally add a few billion in revenue by showing a single text ad once per day or similar. That's not counting the fact that instagram is still bas
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by skizm 5y ago
3 doesn’t apply. The only way to make money is to resell the token/coin/whatever. The holder can’t actually extract any value from the underlying asset.
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by skizm 5y ago
Timestamp shows which one came first.
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by skizm 5y ago
You can tell who minted it. So the "uniqueness" comes from the fact that the original artist minted the NFT and the timestamp tells you if this was the first and/or only one minted by this artist for this URL.
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by skizm 5y ago
How’s the work culture? I’ve heard pretty bad stuff.
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by skizm 5y ago
I'm actually excited for hedge funds and financial institutions nail this process down and houses are both 1) very liquid, and 2) priced "correctly". Moving when you own a house will be as easy as moving when you're rent
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by skizm 5y ago
No access to your money for a fixed period of time and usually (much) lower returns than if you just invested in a broad market mutual fund / ETF.
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by skizm 5y ago
The metaverse will be Facebook’s VR/AR App Store. They’re churching it up for marketing, but that’s pretty much it. They’re building a bunch of hardware to try and be the Apple in that space. Will it work? Who knows? But they have the
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by skizm 5y ago
So I do agree that if someone found out how to subvert iOS and Android’s sandboxing and also figured out a way to block the OS from showing the icon that your mic is on, that FB or Google would guard the secret with their lives. But to assu
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by skizm 5y ago
PHP wins because you can write a few lines of code in single file, shit it into an apache folder, and you have a fully functional front and backend of a web app. There is no other web framework / language that is easier to get started
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by skizm 5y ago
> regulated out of existence Regulation would further entrench Facebook as the only social network able to implement everything legally required to be a social network. Facebook wants legislation the same way Amazon and Walmart want incr
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by skizm 5y ago
Visiondirect.co.uk sells contacts to US customers without a prescription FYI
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by skizm 5y ago
Genuinely curious: if Amazon was very up front about this, and in no way pretended to be a neutral marketplace would this be allowed? Example: when a user signs up to sell something on Amazon they're hit with a warning like "Amazo
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by skizm 5y ago
Probably the norm going forward to thwart ad-blockers. Also ads will most likely be generated server-side and served from the main domain in the future. I'm surprised this hasn't happened already TBH. I guess the ad-networks like
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by skizm 5y ago
The point of the article is that Tether is already doing all of this traditional finance stuff under the hood, but just with Chinese paper so they can rake in more yield, but is way riskier.
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by skizm 5y ago
Seems there is a (very large) market for a legit version of Tether. What's stopping some other company from doing what Tether does with more traditional commercial paper / US based short term loans / govt. bonds / etc.?
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by skizm 5y ago
I’m with you. Facebook brings way more good to the world than bad. And the bad it brings is just amplification of what already exists. And with the Internet that amplification will happen with or without facebook. Also the fact that much of

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