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by smoovb 1y ago
Here's what Claude has to say about electrek.co: Tesla Headlines Sentiment Analysis - Electrek.co Bottom Line: Strongly Negative Sentiment Based on analysis of Tesla headlines and articles from Electrek over the past few months, the se
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by smoovb 1y ago
Just got a 2014 500e for $5k - 50k miles. What a great city car! We also have Model Y, and so the Fiat's 2 pedal driving, lack of good regen, multi-step lock/unlock process can all be forgiven for the price.
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by smoovb 1y ago
Tether had a big chunk of funds seized by a government/bank making them less then whole. They did the needful to get past that and now a distant memory. Scam allegations are made by old curmudgeons who drank the bitfinexed cool-aid.
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by smoovb 1y ago
define scam.
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by smoovb 1y ago
Ad hominem is as ad hominem does.
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by smoovb 1y ago
Counterpoint. Tether has grown into one of the most profitable, well funded companies on the planet. Their past growing pains are irrelevant to where they are now. They make $30-50 million per day with just 200 employees. They are the 1
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by smoovb 1y ago
Much to the chagrin of Circle and USDC
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by smoovb 1y ago
Said another way, much lower legacy technical debt than trying to be a bank.
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by smoovb 1y ago
The actual report is here: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-motalle...
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by smoovb 1y ago
Ads are now my pet peeve. I will not tolerate them. Let me pay for content I want.
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by smoovb 1y ago
As a product manager who has been paying an overseas developer $4,000 a month, I'm getting quite close to replace him with a $100 a month Claude Max subscription. These high subscription costs are nothing compared to the low level empl
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by smoovb 1y ago
The story of minor Chinese celebrity Wang Xing who was abducted in Thailand forced into a scam call center in Myanmar as really shined a light on this scam call center issue. As a result of these scams in Thailand, the Telecoms and Banks ha
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by smoovb 2y ago
On iPhone 15 you can set the "Action Button" to ChatGTP voice, which is a nice proxy for what Siri could be. Settings > Action Button > Shortcut
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by smoovb 2y ago
Am paying 0.044 per kWh with super off peak timed home charging 11pm - 7am in Washington.
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by smoovb 2y ago
> With two oil changes needed per year at an average cost of $100 each, the additional expense shortens the break-even period by approximately 0.5 years. Add 10 mins there and back, the booking and you're looking at 1hr for this eve
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by smoovb 2y ago
Maybe because it’s failing? https://www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-...
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by smoovb 2y ago
Paper bills, or “fiat” money, also have no intrinsic value. Using paper money has already defined you as a participant in accepting the societal construct of money. As such, Bitcoin having no intrinsic is not novel or consequential and has
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by smoovb 2y ago
It's not hard to imagine your tokenized income stream and tokenized assets, algorithmically qualifying you for a defi loan with out need for some guy at a physical desk in a physical building. Hence it's also not hard to imagine
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by smoovb 2y ago
Yes. But esim.me high prices, clunky kyc and other issues left plenty of room for competitors.
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by smoovb 2y ago
If the eSIM is registered, you can also reissue a Thai eSIM online.
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by smoovb 2y ago
Routing data back to the home network is how it can get counted and charged for. The host roaming network is just selling in bulk, but does not own the customer.
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by smoovb 2y ago
As China bans TikTok too, this move shouts “We don’t want this app either.”
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by smoovb 2y ago
I wish Brave had succeeded with their YouTube Premium model of web browsing. Let me pay one single provider to remove all web ads and paywalls, and that provider pays creators. Still a great mobile browser.
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by smoovb 2y ago
> Even with these sobering financial details, it’s clear that the agency’s decision to balance the books by cutting seasonal jobs came as a shock to many employees. Time for this to stop being a shock. The country needs some harsh belt t
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by smoovb 2y ago
Now go back 7 years and watch the proposal for 1 hour flight anywhere in the world - https://youtu.be/2tf2KpCG2fM?si=EfDUcL4x7MpGt51C&t=27
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by smoovb 2y ago
Yeah stuff like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ZmdIh1qpI
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by smoovb 2y ago
Proposed 7 years ago - go anywhere on earth in an hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tf2KpCG2fM
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by smoovb 2y ago
I would pay for Chrome Premium, as I pay for Youtube Premium. Prefer the Brave/YT Premium model where creators and sites get some share of your payment. The Kagi model, unless I missed it, seems to be "just pay us" with not
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by smoovb 2y ago
>The Valley’s enthusiasm for Biden, however, was short-lived. The President quickly appointed three prominent tech skeptics—Gary Gensler, Lina Khan, and Jonathan Kanter—to oversee the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade
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by smoovb 2y ago
A few of the links to the 5 other times this has been posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078059 on Jan 5, 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584 on May 5, 2019

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