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by snarf21 4y ago
This is why (imo), test prep should be a class you take at school. Why should it be a separate thing and a multi billion dollar industry? A lot of the SAT/ACT prep for HS students is about understanding how the tests work and how to
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by snarf21 4y ago
serious question: so where is a better place for users to get news? or share their thoughts? Also, Twitter is more than just politics .. Lots of hobbies share information with others in their group
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by snarf21 4y ago
Agreed and this is what is so dumb about the whole fake "debt ceiling". Laws were signed that require the spending of $XX and then the ceiling says the government can't spend more than $YY, which is a lower number. So the g
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by snarf21 4y ago
There is lots of articles out there. Try this one: https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/1/23381257/elon-musk-text...
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by snarf21 4y ago
I have no inside info but I think this is because he is getting wrecked by discovery. More and more about him is being leaked from that and he doesn't like it. He'd rather lose billions.
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by snarf21 4y ago
Yeah, IA isn't enough. We need the FBI to step in on all OI deaths.
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by snarf21 4y ago
I think a lot of it is just about "trust". They don't trust the government so they definitely don't trust FDA approved drugs or Big Pharma. I mean there are people who actually believe that the Covid vaccines contain n
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by snarf21 4y ago
There was a Planet Money podcast in the spring that went into this in more detail. I don't have all the details on full recollect but I think the gist was that in the past, he grew up where interest rates were too high for small busine
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by snarf21 4y ago
More and more coal plants have tons of slack as renewables come online. We don't yet have a good system for local generation but that will come. There is no reason that most garage roofs can't be solar storing to banks of lead aci
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by snarf21 4y ago
I can only assume it will go higher. We need to push FEMA to have a 2 and done rule. After that the property must be returned back to dunes/parks/public spaces.
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Unlike Google or Amazon? What happens when there is an outage on either of those? I think it is great that there is more competition in the space writ large.
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by snarf21 4y ago
That is a fair question to ask. One big issue is that the Fairness Doctrine was repealed long ago. TV news used to make quite a lot of money actually reporting the news. While times have changed, they have taken the easy road down the TMZ p
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by snarf21 4y ago
I agree that this is true but don't just blame Twitter. Look at the major "news" networks. Look at the poor quality of "reporting". The bigger cause is the engagement above all else mentality of generating adverti
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by snarf21 4y ago
Very true. Plus this is nonsense. Interest rates are still far too low. There is wayyyyy too much money floating around in the system and global growth has slowed. That money will be chasing returns wherever they can find them and that has
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by snarf21 4y ago
Or the money from it being on display in the museum could be split as a charitable donation to all the countries involved. Seems like a win-win-win-win-win.
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by snarf21 4y ago
No, we just need to fund the SEC and FTC and let them do their job. We also need to enforce consumer protection not simply maximize shareholder value.
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by snarf21 4y ago
I thought the big promise of crypto is that it is censorship resistant. I think people who are in the crowd of "not your keys, not your crypto" forget that "not your infrastructure (including on/off ramps), not your glob
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by snarf21 4y ago
I think you can even attack this position immediately. When a person (or politician) say they have nothing to hide, ask them to hand you their unlocked phone. You will promise to not tell anyone about anything that you learn or see. I'
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by snarf21 4y ago
I think we need to re-think and re-zone these. I think the anchor stores could be great senior living centers for independent and assisted living. The stores could all become medical and senior focused stores. You have a nice area for walki
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by snarf21 4y ago
The short answer is we don't. The main issue we have now is that all the transfer mechanism are private and rent seeking. Most of the world has instant peer-to-peer digital transfer of money that is immediately in your bank. The FedN
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by snarf21 4y ago
Well said! Outrage sells and it is easy to keep it stoked. Everyone is addicted to free. If we get rid of ads, how does (even the barest bones) Twitter keep the lights on? I wonder if there is a cross-over between Patreon, Substack and Twit
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by snarf21 4y ago
Serious question: Why are we so focused on Mars? We haven't even made it back to the Moon once. We haven't built a completely self contained, perpetually self reliant colony in some place like Death Valley or the Arctic? Wouldn&#x
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by snarf21 4y ago
Why bother doing that when you likely can just buy or copy it? Why doesn't Hatebook just make a new complete clone of TikTok, FlibFlab, and push that on users instead trying to half incorporate it into Insta that has a user base that w
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by snarf21 4y ago
It is the misaligned incentives that come from advertising. Click-bait and outrage drive views and ad revenue. Look at the "news" segment these days.
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We need a $20 appliance that is plug and play. Most users aren't installing Docker containers.
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by snarf21 4y ago
Cloudflare has already made an editorial statement in the past: [ https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-daily-stormer/ ] Visa and Mastercard won't processes payments from dispensaries even though they have (ef
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by snarf21 4y ago
Corporations already do this and always have. Movies/TV/Music place limits on whether nudity/violence/profanity/etc is allowed or not. Newspapers decide what articles they print and distribute. Shows/Networks&#
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by snarf21 4y ago
Think about it in a non-web structure: Should someone be able to send a letter about "Killing all the Jews and make all black people slaves" and the New York Times HAS to print it and distribute it to all its subscribers? Or do
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by snarf21 4y ago
It is a problem on two fronts: 1) The USPTO office is criminally under funded. You have people making $75K being given mere days to sort out a new patent application. 2) Say you even have a PhD in some field. In three years, you may be comp
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by snarf21 4y ago
Yeah, we need hope, we need something to look forward to, we need something to be passionate about. In early life, we assume that a spouse and job and kids and a house will be just that. Once we get there (midlife or not), we often find it

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