spoonjim

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by spoonjim 4y ago
The Dominican Republic has much more cultural influence in the United States, than, say, Greece.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You don't pay for two streams, you pay for two streams at one address in conformance with their Terms of Service. That of course has nothing to do with whether you pirate their content or not.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
High performing hedge funds make way more money per employee than Google.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Say what you will about Google but at least it's not a complete fucking parasite on society and the economy like a hedge fund.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You're missing an important part of the equation. That 1920s lifestyle includes lower population density outside of the big cities, food that is organic by default, etc etc. You can't just look at the downsides.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
No, YouTube has not peaked, YouTube is only getting better. However, the only way to experience this is to DISCOVER CONTENT OUTSIDE OF YOUTUBE. If you just click around YouTube you will get the content equivalent of Mountain Dew and Cheetos
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Well many of those places (outside of Italy) add stuff to the coffee like milk or sugar. In that case you want a dark roast because the flavors get cut by the additives. But if you’re drinking it black then a dark roast is very nasty.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It has a built in editable fallback. If you link a LucidChart it can disappear. If you screenshot it, it’s uneditable. If you have a markup based solution, it shows best if everything is working, but if the renderer is broken you still have
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Look at the arrests numbers and homicide numbers for all of the big cities pre and post George Floyd. Arrests are down, homicides are up.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Holy shit! That looks fucking gorgeous. Probably >$250 a square foot which people would rather just pay 2x as much for stickbuilt in CA.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
"Urban" is too broad of a term in the US where 80% of the population is defined as urban. Needless to say, Hattiesburg, MS and New York, NY are both defined as "urban" areas but have very different ratios of land value t
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Don’t overindex on anecdotes. Policing has problems but in general where police in America have retreated, crime has gone up.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Besides watching 4K TV there is almost nothing that you need 100Mbps for. I don’t see why this is necessary.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes - you can still get a great reliable workhorse typewriter and have it professionally serviced for less than the cost of a Hemingwrite. I have 3 at home and use one regularly.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
They could be investor secondary sales which won't have the same restrictions.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
But that's not what they said. They said that the masks wouldn't work for us plebes, that they would only work for trained professionals. Did that preserve some mask supply from ravenous packs of selfish Americans who would have m
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's a probabilistic outcome. It's not "dumb luck," I always wear an N95 into any crowded indoor area, and only dine at outdoor restaurants. Sure I could have gotten it, but I achieved a better outcome on the risk-cost s
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I can see why this is happening. For a certain kind of person, New York City is the most desirable place in the world to live. With work from home becoming possible, all the people across the country with the desire and money to do so will
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Leakers tend to be optimists and idealists. But it’s cynics and misanthropes who are the best at opsec.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don’t find that extremely surprising. The Catholic Church scandals have shown that child sexual abuse is much more widespread than anyone would like to think, and with all of the teenagers out there taking nude pictures there could easily
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by spoonjim 4y ago
And what is it that those scammers are doing to millions of senior citizens? I would think that actual literal torture could describe it.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I know that catching scammers is rare but if they gave the ones that they did catch 25 years in solitary confinement, widely publicized, I think it would go quite a way to reducing the problem.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don't think the arc of crypto looks much different if you subtracted the grifters. There were enough true believers in the space. I know people who have sold $1m of crypto but still HODLing 90% thinking it will go up.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
To get people to read what you’ve written.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
A friend of mine made more than $10 million in crypto essentially knowing full well that it was a Ponzi. He simply believed that he could get in and get out quick enough to find a bagholder and he was right.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Those interactions from other users can be totally fake to boost engagement.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL. I think a lot of people look at something like this and think "I could do this" because, very plainly, they know that they could. I don't think there are a lot of people who read A Confederacy of Dunces or The Cask of
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s not the level of effort that’s weird, it’s the terrible output despite the level of effort.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If Harvard, Yale, and Princeton mutually agreed to withdraw from these rankings it would go a long way towards killing them.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Your job is to insulate your team from the normal course of business (customer negotiating) so that they don't feel like it's "insanely disrespectful." Your job is to process it unemotionally and handle it unemotionally.

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