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by throwawayfire 5y ago
It would be unsurprising to me if Amazon had buried this claim and didn't want it to be repeated, because in my opinion that would be clear evidence that they were breaking labor laws.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> Your comment sounds like a rationalization from a middle/upper income person. In most countries that I am aware of, the tax rate becomes essentially flat at, or relatively close to, a median income. If you tax people on a lower in
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
Everybody thinks we are in a golden age of television series, don't they? I don't claim that these examples have the same history as music.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> What evidence is there that Trump or anyone else had a financial incentive to untowardly push HCQ? I assume you are not denying that they did push it - so, I want to ask in return: for what other reason did they (specifically Bolsonaro
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
If someone said "about fifty bucks" and it turns out to be $62.17, I'd immediately understand them to be scamming me.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
I think this essentially agrees with my point (that there was more creativity in the broad space of 'pop music' when pop music was a newer phenomenon). I appreciate the reminder that a lot of pop music has a longer history as it d
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
>Source? https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 You can change the week yourself. If you pick a few random weeks before 2000, you likely won't find this pattern that I identified, with the same artist in the
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> Everyone says music "used to be better" but that's just survival bias. Not "just" survival bias. I think it's quite reasonable to take a position that there was more innovation and creativity in pop music
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> You can't enforce a DMCA claim against an entity without ties to the US. This is less obvious than it might appear - the US has pushed to include DMCA-equivalent claims in international trade deals. E.g. The proposed UK-US Free Tr
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
This was a deliberate form of copy protection. A little bit sub-optimal in terms of communicating that they wanted you to purchase the game: if they told you this was copy protection, you could have just got copies of the relevant materials
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
Maybe that there is a customs border internal to Norway?
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
Right. The result for headlines of 65 chars - shared 50,000 more times than 60 chars or 70 chars - seems too incredible to occur at random and suggests instead that a popular news source has implemented a 65 chars policy. [Edited to note: Y
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
You understand that you're characterising crypto as a pyramid scheme, I guess?
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
This is a tricky one. There is one route to revoke consent and another route to object to legitimate interest, and it doesn't seem that you can precisely follow both routes. I assume the second option does both, but it's not clear
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
Citymapper at least tries, but is still bad for bike+public transport. I look at the options that Citymapper gives and then have to recalculate the route, in my head, correcting for wrong decisions about where I'll have access to a bik
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> it consumes the battery (increasing carbon footprint) Using web-searched estimates, the carbon cost of leaving this on constantly for a full year is approximately equivalent to the carbon cost of one single liter of petrol.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
Gambling-adjacent reasons are: it's difficult to tax in a fair way (what proportion the capital gains due on crypto have been paid?), and has potential to be used as a front for organised money laundering.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
Considering that life expectancy for a 30 year old man is around 79.3 in Germany 2018, and you're reading it to be 76.9 in 1930, that's far less change than I have ever heard anyone previously suggest.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
One could argue this to be evidence that Apple is willing to disagree with an authoritarian government.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
This is just saying that rich people are rich. Someone with obscene wealth can be imprisoned and still buy a yacht - even incarceration has a much greater impact on a poor person. As such, I'd rather fine them in proportion to their we
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
That's a great business model if you have investors. You get a proven long-term return of 25% per annum. If you're doing it out of your own bank account, you'll bankrupt before realising this return: it's not a lifestyle
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> "Here's what I want to do" By saying only this, you might give me sufficient information to allow me to gauge how you value my service. I don't have to ask "what's the maximum you will pay" directly,
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> There are a lot of sharks swimming in the capital markets with deep expertise. I would argue that you have proven my point - if I have a bunch of money, I can pay for expertise/management that is going to net me a higher return.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
>the cost for a ~$1 million mortgage The scenario in this thread was originally "the house they live in just happened to appreciate significantly and is now worth over $1mm". You're describing quite a different situation.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
If so, they still have $1 million more to spend on rent.
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> It's as hard to do as turning $10,000 into $1,000,000. It's hard, but provably not as hard . If you don't need the money, you can afford to take more and better risk with it. More risk is enough to get this article (not
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by throwawayfire 5y ago
> it's likely that a lot of people ended up saving time on their routes. It's theoretically possible this describes a Braess paradox, whereby everybody loses: https://image.slideserve.com/280060/braess-s-pa
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
One or two developers working and testing on their own machines will have an awful experience trying to make their app work multi-platform. This type of app is going to be valued higher by Mac users.
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
> The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals In general, temporary disruption has some long-term positive economic effects (which is directly why 'disruption' is valued in Silicon Valley). For example, during London Tube
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
I agree that it wastes space to represent time on one axis, if space is a resource that you want to conserve, and I see how that has historically influenced music notation. But, I have a digital screen that can scroll at a specified pace, s

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