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by themagician 4y ago
I also work with basically every Amazon selling platform globally: Vendor Central (Direct PO) in the US and EU and Seller Central in the US, CA, MX, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, TR, PL, NL, JP, AU, and SG. The software is (generally) not the issue.
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by themagician 4y ago
How is that? There are 10 metro areas in the US alone with a population greater than all of Norway. There are, what, 200,000 or so Teslas in Norway? With massive oil reserves and massive wind farms. How exactly does what Norway has accompli
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by themagician 4y ago
There really is no grand plan to increase capacity of the grid. I think there is some hope that improvements in battery/solar production somehow magically fix the energy problem. The EV "revolution" was really powered by one
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by themagician 4y ago
If you were really good about budgeting and the frugal life, you might be able to do it at £50/day sustainably—and that doesn't include the cost of your time. You'd have to pick your spot strategically and you probably wouldn
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by themagician 4y ago
It is zoning that has protected it. If it's 150 years old it's likely a historic district.
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by themagician 4y ago
I agree, but for a different reason. Good zoning laws are what make some places such desirable areas to live. It's great city planning and maintenance that create the few great, walkable, urban areas we have in the US. If we get rid of
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by themagician 4y ago
People just want homes to live in, in areas where there are good jobs, and get pissed when entire blocks of SFR housing are turned into Airbnbs or investment properties. You walk down the street and every house has an STR permit on it. It
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by themagician 4y ago
Cast iron or enameled cast iron. Cast iron really doesn't require much maintenance. You can season it and never wash it and be delicate with it like a fancy chef, or you can abuse the hell out of it and it doesn't matter because i
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by themagician 4y ago
Apple users don't use SMS—they use iMessage. It's seamless and automatic. All your contacts are automatically there as long as you have a phone number or email address which is an AppleID. It's so seamless most people don&#x2
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by themagician 5y ago
I have always thought it pretty straight forward: you consume food and some of the carbon atoms become part of you. When you exhale, carbon atoms leave you in the form of CO2. When you exercise your breathing increases and thus you exhale s
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by themagician 5y ago
I think what people just learned over the last year is that half the population can stay home, and a third can work less or just not work at all, and the world didn’t collapse. There was enough money to go around. In many cases people got p
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by themagician 5y ago
It's people that are holding it, on platforms like Nexo, so they can get their 12% interest. Whenever a crypto company uses the word "liquidity" that's a red flag that it's likely some kind of a scam. It's the
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by themagician 5y ago
This is (always) the way.
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by themagician 5y ago
Yes, Tether is my source: https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/tether-march-31...
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by themagician 5y ago
They do not maintain that million dollars as dollars. They instead buy all sorts of stuff. Only a small portion is maintained as dollars. If there is a run on Tether tomorrow it will collapse. You won’t get your money. Assets will need to b
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by themagician 5y ago
Literally most of what Tether holds is commercial paper—basically IOUs for payroll. From who? Who knows. Probably other startups.
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by themagician 5y ago
The point of Tether is to make money—for Tether, not you. They are getting rich when you buy a million dollars worth.
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by themagician 5y ago
USDC is better than Tether but far from “solid”. They still hold commercial paper, just 10% instead of 50%. The audit is a joke. Who knows what is really considered “cash equivalent”. Hell, it’s possible USDC holds Tether.
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by themagician 5y ago
They only function as proof of ownership if there is no dispute. Basically, it just confirms provenance. If an NFT is stolen, or a more original author/owner emerges, that will take precedence over the NFT in question at which point it
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by themagician 5y ago
In theory. Which is what the current stakeholders want. That was the value offer to do this in the first place. Either way, you end up with a currency that is far more centralized than most stable paper currencies. The number of large stake
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by themagician 5y ago
Does anyone know of an estimate of how many individuals actually hold ETH? The transaction fees are absolutely ludicrous. I can’t imagine the dispersion is actually as high as some people seem to think it is.
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by themagician 5y ago
Those who got that stake by purchasing massive compute power. PoS just solidifies current stakeholders so that they no longer have to worry about competition from new players.
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by themagician 6y ago
Dropbox solved a problem that we all had 10 years ago. Today, for new users, it isn’t much of a problem because every platform (Windows, Android, Mac, Adobe, etc.) gives you free or integrated cloud storage. Many have multi-platform clients
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by themagician 6y ago
Maybe. Maybe not.
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by themagician 6y ago
It’s not absolutist at all. I didn’t say they do nothing. I didn’t say all cops are evil. Those are your words mate.
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by themagician 6y ago
How much you need the police depends on how much capital you have. If you don’t have any the police don’t do much for you. In a world of increasing inequality fewer people need the police.
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by themagician 6y ago
Zooms competitive advantage will disappear when this is over. It’s a service that’s been around for what seems like ever but no one wanted to use it when there were better alternatives. Suddenly have 30 people in a tiled interface was an ad
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by themagician 6y ago
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but the wording on the site makes it seem like those who make over $100,000 are exempt from forgiveness entirely, but it was my understanding that the are covered, just not beyond $100,000. So you can pay so
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by themagician 7y ago
You don’t want to give them the option. You don’t want people to realize how bad they may have it or that their is any other solution. You don’t even want them to be able to think about it. That is why we don’t give money directly to people
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by themagician 7y ago
If you give money directly to people it disrupts the power system. It gives people options if they suddenly have money that isn’t tied to work. By giving it to companies first you maintain the system of wage slavery that exists for the ~50%

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