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by surge 5y ago
Someone must have heard Kevin Rose postulating a possible use for NFT's on Tim Ferris's podcast. Basically one could reserve a spot Limited Edition sneakers as an NFT, then if they resold the NFT (hence the sneakers on the open ma
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by surge 5y ago
There's tons of talks on burn out, mental health, its a common problem. That said its less stressful for me now in some respects then when I was purely on the ops side.
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by surge 5y ago
>For local matters, there is considerable flexibility and internal conflict. Currently, Beijing encourages citizens to find fault and report administrative issues at local levels, but will brook no dissent of its own management. In domes
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by surge 5y ago
It literally meant the day stores would go into the "black" because many stores would be in the red for the year overall until they sold so much on that one day they'd turn a profit for the year or go into the "black&quo
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by surge 5y ago
there are a few low acid tomato varieties that are still flavorful. Keep your eye out for them, they tend to be less red (or yellow/orangish).
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by surge 5y ago
Sub poena is basically a rubber stamp after filling out a form. Often done in secret with the barest of oversight. A warrant requires a bit more justification at least.
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by surge 5y ago
Great, you're in the 10%, but if you know other smokers, you know they throw their butts on the ground at least some of the time, I've seen smokers do it when a receptacle was 5 feet away. I was being hyperbolic, but having witnes
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by surge 5y ago
Yes, I hate litterers too, but most people don't litter, almost all smokers litter (probably the plastic too), so I'm inclined to be biased against them.
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by surge 5y ago
I hate smokers because they they don't police their cigarette butts and leave the things littered everywhere, including parks, playgrounds, nature reserves... If nothing else, I'd tax them for that BS. It's the shopping cart
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by surge 5y ago
It's the same crap as the ad-pocalypse. Journalists with an agenda use a disingenuous tactic, if they have a problem with a person or entity, they'll call up their sponsors, business partners, vendors, etc, and say "we'r
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by surge 5y ago
I believe the way it works here (US), is most people with the standard deduction works for probably 80-90% of cases because their finances aren't complex enough or they're not doing enough where the deductions exceed the standard.
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by surge 5y ago
Probably going to use it to replace Chime. Edit: For those that have never heard of it, its their own IM, that while publicly available, is mostly used internally for company communications, similar to Slack or Skype for Business. https:&#
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by surge 5y ago
https://guilded.gg is pretty decent
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by surge 5y ago
You're also not factoring in risk that comes from investing, the argument is lower taxes on investments encourages people to invest their money. If there is risk of loss, plus high taxes when there are actual gains, there is lower retu
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by surge 6y ago
Yeah, reddit has suffered it's Eternal September several times over. The astroturfing and low value content/commentary makes the default front page with the default sub-reddits like looking at a magazine rack at the check out coun
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by surge 6y ago
It pretty much is and is a chilling attempt at limiting speech. Free press, is free press. CNN and MSNBC both spread their share of misinformation. You need to be able to watch multiple news sources with different takes in a free society, t
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by surge 6y ago
We did, it resulted in smartphones and tablets, so what the OP is saying applies still. I would argue that's "general" computing now. They finished what the webTV started, providing a basic platform for people who had only v
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by surge 6y ago
What's funny is I didn't even link to them, I just named the sub-reddits. I think Reddit has gone way downhill and far surpassed Eternal September (I refer to it as the new AOL), but that's largely the defaults and popular su
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by surge 6y ago
That video was on Twitter too, and YouTube. What's your point?
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by surge 6y ago
Your* Most of the people who are saying this never actually looked at the site, the reality is the majority of the content seen was no worse than that of Twitter, in some ways better and more politer (that's what you get with an echo
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by surge 6y ago
Yeah there's a lot of non-religious people who are finding the advantages of abstaining from porn (/r/nofap and /r/pornfree) or trying to limit its use. They say the T boost is temporary, but the behavioral factors
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by surge 6y ago
I think the problem is now, school fights are handled by actual police, so there's very severe consequences, as in criminal records, not just a suspension. So its likely no tolerance policy removes these kids or ruins their lives.
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by surge 6y ago
I don't think drunken bar fights was ever socially acceptable anywhere but the lowest of social strata. I'd blame lifestyle changes and BPA far before I thought exercising normal "gentlemanly" restraint caused T to dip.
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by surge 6y ago
Well I'm talking about the 12th, China was rounding up and arresting doctors talking about it and making them sign apology statements. You might be thinking of a week or two later.
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by surge 6y ago
>in late January what I said: >In fact a year ago, exactly Key word is exactly, as in Jan 12, 2020.
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by surge 6y ago
Didn't I just say testing wasn't reliable then, because it was very new? So it wasn't a long time ago. Reliable tests weren't available en masse until maybe summer, and even then not in all countries/areas.
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by surge 6y ago
To be fair, weev (in this case) didn't really do anything legally wrong IMO other than maybe should have stopped once they had PoC as you would with a bug bounty. However, those standards for responsible bug finding/disclosure wer
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by surge 6y ago
Tests weren't widely available a year ago. 3-6 months ago maybe. In fact a year ago, exactly, the existence of COVID was still being denied or downplayed by the Chinese government. Very few people in the US even knew about it, and only
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by surge 6y ago
Well, got to remember, when there were far fewer cases, tests were still in prototype phase, not widely available, and in some cases unreliable (I think a lot of the Japanese cruise passengers that got the WHO test tested negative, then lat
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by surge 6y ago
Reviewers had the access media problem, it was discussed at length on the 1-up podcast. They can't be trusted, especially on AAA titles or they risk being shut out of preview copies on the next releases, which is bad for business. I ju

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