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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
When something is in the entire public sphere, it feels off to call it "cool" when it only appeals to a certain small subgroup. At that time, the much larger general population had the opposite take on them. It's like calling
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
You've got that backwards. Prius weren't cool all the way until 2014, around the time environmental status symbol transferred to EV's and the used Prius started becoming very economical. Certain half of the political spectrum
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
It's even more skewed than that because $600 of that is principal, so you're just effectively paying $1,000 interest net if you assume the house appreciates at $0. However we know long term it's at least the long term targete
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
> Apple could hire nine NSO equivalent teams to do what NSO does. No they can’t. If Apple could, they would deploy their war chest billions to do so. People often make the mistake of thinking some objective is money-constrained, and a pl
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
This is a common one. The Echo -> light is very quick and easy. The hard part is quickly inferring what action you meant via NLU. There's a hop to cloud, ML, and then a hop back to device. This is being worked on to improve immensel
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
Ya last round of book controversy making the rounds was local progressive groups banning Huckleberry Finn.
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
Ok so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29388310 is Ryan (and probably the other copycat temp accounts). I’m having a hard time believing him when he gets basic facts like Lyft not being in YC wrong… I guess it’s like Gr
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
Russia?? Purely based on socioeconomic differences? They invaded Crimea and the Donbas in Ukraine. They are literally about to further invade Ukraine and have already amassed 100k troops and heavy weaponry, thousands of Ukrainian lives and
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
Newspeak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
> What does Iroquois style participatory democracy actually look like? If it’s anything like California’s direct democracy ballot propositions, I wouldn’t be very enthusiastic. A lot of decisions end up being short sighted “voted X becau
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
It probably is depressing. I’m expected to choose between a less enjoyable life or knowingly making myself stupider and unhealthier, obstructing other life goals I may have had. How do you think I’ve never been outside in similar nature? Th
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
They are literally the ones asking the IMF for a billion $?? I’m always amazed when people are mad about transaction details they themselves initiated. Duh, if you need $1b, the creditors need some assurances you’re actually able to repay?
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by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
Seriously. Am I supposed to just work and have a boring milquetoast existence hiking or whatever to make it to 80? When it really comes down to it, the most euphoric moments and best memories of my life have been messed up on weed and alcoh