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by sky_rw 8y ago
Problems also solved by increasing your mouse sensitivity.
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by sky_rw 8y ago
I think you're being a bit too jaded about this. It's less about the recommendation and more about the reach and discovery. There are numerous restaurants, vacation spots, and businesses that I would have never discovered on my ow
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by sky_rw 8y ago
The irony of a person commenting on a companies aggressive sales tactics and having the company immediately respond with sales tactics. Love it. I bet you definitely alleviated and sense of being stalked.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Does the NHS provide enough free market choice that anybody could take advantage of a score even if they wanted to?
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Your definition of survival includes supporting an abusive pimp's $3,000/month heroin addiction?
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Yes, I appreciate that it enables more effective sex work and likely makes her specific case slightly safer. This argument could be used for a multitude of illegal acts, e.g. steroids, heroin, digital piracy, etc. It doesn't change the
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by sky_rw 9y ago
So the argument here is that without backpage she would not have been able to efficiently prostitute herself to support her abusive heroin junkie pimp? I'm fairly certain that the argument "backpage is super effective" is the
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Your parent's pension fund most likely.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
"Fallen apart" is a nice way to put it. Another way to put it is that Amazon duped Toy's R Us into a terrible deal, learned everything they could about the toy market, then dumped them and violated their contract knowing that
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by sky_rw 9y ago
A leveraged buy out like the one Bain Capital used here is often used to milk cashflow and value out of a business that is in a bad position. They essentially seized on the opportunity that Toys R Us' bad decisions left them in to buy
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by sky_rw 9y ago
They are already doing this https://thepointsguy.com/2017/12/emirates-virtual-windows/
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by sky_rw 9y ago
100%. This was the mind blowing realization the first time I fasted for a good 24+ hours. Feeling ACTUAL hunger, and realizing that what I normally associated as hunger was either thirst or restlessness.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Semi-related: I do a once per week water fast on the same schedule (no food thursday, eat friday night) and I have similar mental-reset and body-reset type benefits. Maybe there is something to be said for just breaking yourself out of your
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by sky_rw 9y ago
I'm not being prejudiced. I have a genuine professional curiosity regarding the use cases for this. Somebody clearly spent a lot of time and effort making this, generally people don't do that sort of thing without a good reason. T
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Serious question: Who is this for?
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by sky_rw 9y ago
That might explain why my bespoke fedora startup failed.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
I've been involved in several startups, a couple winners and a couple losers. Like all things in life I've found that the simplest principles are often the hardest ones to grok. It's like jumping into a Indy Car, and you thin
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by sky_rw 9y ago
It seems odd to call them "nutty" when the subject is who to turn to in an oh-shit real-life doomsday scenario.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Secondary delight of HN: The top voted comment is from somebody who didn't actually read the article.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Transportation costs are perhaps the most perfect example of Parkinson's law and it's permutations. “purchasing expands to fill the entire budget.”
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by sky_rw 9y ago
The study quoted here says that 54% of men surveyed subscribed to a belief that prostitution in general decreases rape, not necessarily that they themselves would be more likely to rape a woman. > Fifty-four per cent of these London buye
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by sky_rw 9y ago
With the massive amount of prostitution in Silicon Valley I am constantly shocked that people of prominence have such little self control that they seek extra-marital affairs in such obviously stupid places. The behavior he describes here s
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by sky_rw 9y ago
The irony here being that to many content creators, Patreon WAS seen as the competition to reliance on Youtube ad revenue. Facing demonetization due to politically incorrect content they switched business models to rely on Patreon subscript
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by sky_rw 9y ago
Well, up until recently, they were indeed afraid of the government. Let me introduce you to operation Choke Point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
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by sky_rw 9y ago
I was under the impression that “nothing more than unreasoned executive whim” was all that is required for an executive order - this being one of the chief criticisms of the entire concept.
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by sky_rw 9y ago
I attribute this to most of my lifting injuries. Unscientifically it strikes me as patently unhealthy to go from one extreme to the other without a long warm up period.