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by smugma 3y ago
A Physician’s Assistant (PA) is exactly that.
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by smugma 3y ago
Uniqlo (in Japan and at least in SF) has a cool checkout method. You drop your clothes into a big bin (I’ve always done it one piece at a time, didn’t think to do all at once) and it adds up all your items. I’ve used this maybe 8 times, 100
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by smugma 3y ago
https://archive.is/TX53x
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Apple Turns to Longtime Steve Jobs Disciple to Defend Its 'Walled Garden'(wsj.com)
2 points by smugma 3y ago|2 comments
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by smugma 3y ago
A few years ago my wife had a very high fever (105°). I took her to urgent care and they determined she was too sick snd needed to go to the ER. So we shrugged and went to the ER,’where she had to wait for 3 hours before she was given some
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by smugma 3y ago
https://archive.is/OKal7
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by smugma 3y ago
… two bits!
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by smugma 3y ago
The Avatar creators got so frustrated with Netflix they left a year or two ago. I think Apple gives a lot more free rein to its creators. For the Dr. Dre biopic they let it be made and then shelved it. Another notable exception was they all
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by smugma 3y ago
I bought a 2002 Corolla in 2011, gave it to a relative in 2019, who recently sold it for more than half what I paid 12 years prior. Not 500k km but past 300k ie your point is spot on
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by smugma 3y ago
This is also how actual architects feel about requirements given by their clients.
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by smugma 3y ago
I felt like they were trolling… super fancy whiskey and then sparkling white wine that you pick up at Lucky on sale.
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by smugma 3y ago
If you’re talking about Hyundai, that eventually became true, but with a huge time lag.
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by smugma 3y ago
What is gō? It is hard to Google.
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by smugma 3y ago
Here’s a different way to think about it. Each level up makes 25-50% above the level below it. Maybe at director or VP the jump is a bit bigger. If senior engineers in the valley are making $500K TC, directors might clear $1M and VP’s $2M.
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by smugma 3y ago
Why are you grouping MIT into the same group as Stanford?
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by smugma 3y ago
How are you buying seasons? I used to pay $30-40 for a season on DVD/itunes. Or $3/episode for shorter series.
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by smugma 3y ago
Foxconn and TSMC have good businesses on being suppliers to Apple. Sharp too until they got acquired by Foxconn.
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by smugma 3y ago
https://www.eetimes.com/harvard-dropouts-raise-5-million-for... “Uberti cites bitcoin mining chips as an example of a successful specialized ASIC offering.“ The founder also references crypto, so your comparison is an apt r
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by smugma 3y ago
How are the lenses better?
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by smugma 3y ago
Beats were really bad in the past. These were the first pair of Beats that I actually like and didn’t die within 13 months of use. I am in the Apple ecosystem but prefer them to my AirPods Pro.
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by smugma 3y ago
When did you buy that album? iTunes went DRM free 15+ years ago.
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by smugma 3y ago
Better than my idea that they’d get ing.ing.
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by smugma 3y ago
Ing having bank.ing is the best one.
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by smugma 3y ago
I think it’s great. Haters will complain about impact on traffic, parking, busses, shadows cast, impacts on schools, etc.
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by smugma 3y ago
Betterment and Wealthfront both offer higher rates than Marcus. 4.75-5%. They also have higher FDIC limits due to how they spread your money.
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by smugma 3y ago
Ironically, most of my millionaire home-owning friends in SF support more development here. It’s the millionaire Preston/Peskin “saviors” that oppose development.
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by smugma 3y ago
It depends whether you think a 50 story tower in ocean beach is awesome or atrocious: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-hou...
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by smugma 3y ago
Yes, this is an article about S.F. There are other articles about Woodside trying to say its whole town is Mountain Lion habitat, Los Altos, Palo Alto, etc. Here’s a recent one (their mayor is as bad as the NIMBY SF BoS): https:/&#x2
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by smugma 3y ago
TV+ is a good counter point. Apple is going into content creation, which has huge upfront costs. Streaming music is not like streaming TV.
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by smugma 3y ago
*They were profitable last quarter. They’ve never made an annual profit. Spotify is reluctant to raise prices because it is still focused on growth and also, raising prices doesn’t really improve its margins (it has 75% COGS).

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