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by tcbawo 6y ago
In my experience, being a salaried employee doesn't really give you skin in the game at all. It's often illusory, as owning a sliver of equity or profit sharing translates to practically no upside or downside. Salaried employees
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After a 10x rise in less than a year, a 50% decline is definitely not a remote risk. Anyone taking this style of loan should be prepared to face a margin call and avoid liquidating collateral at the bottom.
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You're describing the legal standard of free speech, vs the terms of service laid out by a corporate. As a private company, Twitter is presumably free to draw a line and enforce it consistently. I'm sure it's a fine line to
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Are you equating consensual pornography between adults (presumably legal, free expression) with speech advocating violence?
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I've been in a similar position. I had high hopes for accomplishing a lot of things, but I was actually pretty burned out and didn't accomplish much other than recharging my batteries. I'm retrospect, this was exactly what
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Through all of history, history was proverbially "written by the victors". However, the permanence of a pervasive digital memory might be playing the spoiler to that would-be whitewashed history. And in some perverse sense, it m
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by tcbawo 6y ago
Maybe the plan is to give local governments which are prone to ransomware attacks with a source of Bitcoin.
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by tcbawo 6y ago
Not a lawyer, but pump and dump schemes are illegal under existing law: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pumpanddump.asp Even if the motivation of the 'pump' aspect is perceived to be righting a wr
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Veterinary care has been increasing considerably more than core inflation (quick search turned up https://www.in2013dollars.com/Veterinarian-services/price-in... ). I'm not sure how that compares to inflation in hu
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I won the lottery and you can too! https://xkcd.com/1827/
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agreed. The printf style API is great for deferred/asynchronous log formatting via serialization.
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Does anyone know if this approach would work for food allergies?
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The spam come in from not moderating content? I think his point is to put liability on media companies for their content if they promote content, forcing them to moderate. Or, they can avoid liability by not promoting or hiding anything.
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Mark Cuban had an interesting response. The algorithm is editorializing, even if it's driven by AI. FB either needs to show everything in chronological order, or face the burden and liability of the content it promotes. It might be
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Option 4, lobby for favorable government contracts under DoD, NASA, etc. with the rationale of protecting American strategic advantage.
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With choices of two major political parties, US voters have do not have granularity to approve or disapprove long term/chronic/fringe issues or issues that disproportionately affect a small minority of the population.
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Do you think Intel considers their compiler a profit center/growth market? Or are trying to offset the expense of maintaining their own compiler?
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Has synthetic ivory gotten good enough to replace the natural source? Is it too expensive? Too easily distinguished? Demand too great?
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I was surprised to learn that as intelligent and resourceful as they are, common octopuses only live a couple years.
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Off topic, but do the programmers you know that can't read English struggle using programming languages and libraries where the keywords, class, variable, and function names are primarily in English? I'm curious how beginning or
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Social media as it currently exists isn't going to substitute personal relationships. It misses the trees for the forest (personal vs tribal). To me, it feels like being at a party where I only know a handful of people and I have to
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I agree. Although, in practice digital activities probably help to strengthen and keep relationships alive, which could lead to greater real physical connections in a symbiotic way.
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As the younger people alive today get older, they are more likely to remain connected with technology and spend more time socially with digital experiences (playing video games with friends, etc.). Hopefully, this will help offset loneli
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Given the prevalence of conspiracy theories suggesting Covid is a man-made virus, Democrats cheated to steal the election, and companies making vaccines waited until after the election to publish their results, I'm surprised that a con
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the Financial Times has been tracking this: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest , although it seems to lag somewhat.
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Beside the obvious (destroying a fertilized egg), the best changes of IVF success for some people involves implanting multiple fertilized eggs and hoping one takes. In the event of multiple taking, this brings up some ethical consideration
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by tcbawo 6y ago
How long will it take before we know the long term effects of any subtle changes in food chemistry, especially if this becomes the primary diet of some individuals? This seems wildly complex and unpredictable. It wouldn't surprise me
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I don't believe in the accuracy of the data I currently have to make any judgements. For several months, I have been measuring my blood pressure and noted the effects of caffeine, alcohol, and exercise. I would like to gauge sleep le
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Can anyone comment on the current state of the art for the sleep tracking feature of this or other smart watches? I have a Garmin Vivosmart HR that is close to end of life. I'm looking for something light with >7 day battery life,
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People used to think that productivity advances would lead to a 10 hour work week. I worry that overproduction of energy will be effectively impossible. Without some profit motive, extra energy would be likely be diverted to cryptocurrenc

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