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by smugma 3y ago
I don't agree with his comment, but he does address it: In other words, there is actually a reason to hope that Meta might win: it seems like we could all do with more connectedness, and less isolation with incredible immersive experie
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What’s the best app you’ve tried?
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“‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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Except that someone did question it and look up Wikipedia, a trusted source of sorts. And this thread about questioning sources is near the top of the whole thread.
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By this argument, teachers should be paid more. There are teacher shortages across the US and the article touches on shortages in Oz. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/12/free-tra...
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11%, below the Irish rate of 12.5% https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/09/profits-a...
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13B in question for 6K jobs => 2M per job
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SF has a Commercial Vacancy Tax, for properties unoccupied for 182+ days a year. My guess is that it is not well-defined and therefore generates minimal revenue. I also can't tell if this applies to office buildings or is more for stre
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A friend was a full time jazz musician for years (he’s not famous but played with many/most of the big names in jazz) and said it < https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/ > was r
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Kind of, but no. This explains the “needless” complexity well, but it is complex: https://philosophynow.org/issues/125/The_Golden_Rule_Revisit... ).
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Ex-Apple VP Mike Abbott Joins General Motors as Exec Vice President, Software(investor.gm.com)
95 points by smugma 3y ago|181 comments
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Article title his “a child” not “his child”. No need to put child in quotes. The article opens with: In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy
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“D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.”” “Thomas gained legal custody of Martin and became his legal guardian around January 1998, according
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“Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month:
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Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition(propublica.org)
15 points by smugma 3y ago|12 comments
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Grades often determine placement for classes in HS. If you want to be in advanced math or honors English, you need good grades in middle school.
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We shouldn't let banks fail and destroy the economy. A key difference here is that bond and equity holders are wiped out, which helps reduce moral hazard. The broader concern is the privatization of profits while losses are absorbed by
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Did your company have layoffs by chance? Maybe this is why so many tech companies have had layoffs… it is terrible for morale but maybe not a lot of work is being lost.
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“installing Windows XP on reasonably fast modern systems is very amusing, the setup wizard will say that it has 30 minutes remaining and then proceed to blow through the entire installation in less than 15 seconds”
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Most of the Bay Area gets about the same amount of rain as London. The key difference is that in Cupertino/Los Gators/Palo Alto it rains less often but with more intensity.
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Him running Meta to the ground may be his greatest contribution to the world.
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by smugma 4y ago
You can transfer money from your bank that is used to pay your CC bill (I just confirmed this with a $10 transfer, it takes "1-3 business days"). I think the 0.25% extra interest they are offering is reduced marketing expense (gen
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by smugma 4y ago
It's 0.25% higher than the rate they pay for Marcus. I've been a Marcus customer for a few years, and the rates consistently go up (and down) after the Feds change their rates. Why is the Apple rate higher than the Marcus rate? It
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Amnesty International report from 2017. Apple is the top rated consumer electronics company (page 78 for all the companies together, 94 focuses on consumer electronics): https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/upload
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The reverse/inverse is taking about a physical sport in cerebral terms, like the other commenter comparing boxing to chess. Another analogy would be someone talking about their music like (a) code.
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As a publicly traded company, you have to hire auditors. If you don’t like EY you can go to PwC, KPMG or Deloitte, but what’s the difference?
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Yet Shephard Fairey’s Hope didn’t meet the bar for being transformative.
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Skechers was founded in Manhattan Beach. They’ve grown their footprint. MB is a very expensive city for housing but the commercial buildings on PCH aren’t outrageously priced. Sure, more expensive than Lawndale or Gardena, but cheaper than
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Not the OP but my $80 Yamasaki Japanese dish rack is great.
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Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple(gq.com)
3 points by smugma 4y ago|1 comments

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