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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Unfortunately biology only does spaghetti code.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Well in theory private lenders don’t have depositors, so there’s no average joes to protect.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Reading the details in another article, it seems like this was just old fashioned fraud. They used the same collateral for multiple loans and they were hiding other debt from lenders. Any loan agreement they signed would have required an af
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
If people will pay $30k for a car, I think the default assumption should be that they will readily pay that much for a 24/7 housekeeper. Our family would get way more utility out of a housekeeper than a car, but human housekeepers are
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
IMO it's that frontend wasn't really a separate discipline at the time. Ember came out of Sproutcore, which was a framework created by some Apple MobileMe developers. They were building something that was very much an application
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
It’s a completely legitimate question. It’s the same moral consideration behind whether drugs and alcohol should be legal. Banning them is good for people who can’t use them responsibly, but reduces the freedom of people who can. Given that
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
If you look at the budget, it becomes obvious that the main activity of the federal government is taking money from one group of citizens so that another group of citizens, who are otherwise capable of working, can enjoy a life of leisure f
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Interestingly, I think Apple has inadvertently positioned themselves very well to be able to authenticate various activity as being done by an actual human. What if anything they decide to do with that capability remains to be seen.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Right, but do the vaccines help against the strains of HPV that are transmitted via non-sexual contact? The vaccine being 9-valent implies (to me, a layman) that strains need to be targeted fairly specifically in order for vaccination to be
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Your point is addressed in the comment you're responding to.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
OP here, I actually agree with you about inflation being different from tariffs (which are indeed taxation), but people do often just conceive of inflation as prices going up, which is why I chimed in about the timing of tariffs (which I pr
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Tariffs are just starting to work their way inoto consumer prices now.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
$4.60 is not an all time high for copper. Copper has been around this price for a while. It’s traded within about a 10% band for the last year. It had some fluctuations prior to that, but there hasn’t been any kind of long extended run up i
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Next time just call the metal recycler and have them pick up from you! Never had an issue and we’re usually recycling several thousand pounds of copper wire at a time.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Every single major retailer does this. It's not collusion, it's just smart policy. Shelf space is insanely valuable. Retailers have customers walking around their stores (or making searches in Amazon's case) at the final step
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> Why do I need an Apple/Google account to use my bank account? I can't even log in from a web browser anymore. What bank? I have relationships with various banks. I can log into all of them with a web browser. > That's
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Then the argument is just that you need an Apple or Google account to use Apple or Google products. But that's widely true across all kinds of companies and product categories. I need a Microsoft account to use XBox, I need an account
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> The real problem is that @gmail.com or @icloud.com are now required to participate in society They absolutely are not, though. I've been fully bought into the Apple ecosystem for nearly 2 decades and have used a Fastmail email add
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
If you’re lowering prices because your costs went down, then you haven’t lost money.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
What an incredible story, thank you for sharing.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
The originally announced tariff rates have been “paused” (in reality they were never implemented), but in their place has been a 10% global tariff. China already had tariffs of 25% from the 1st Trump admin, plus 20% from February, so tariff
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
The 20% tariff from Vietnam has been announced by Trump, but unless I’ve missed something in the past week or so, it’s not official. There was a news piece I read a few days after he announced the 20% number that said the Vietnamese side ha
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Thanks for the reminder; website is super out of date.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
FWIW, we’ve been affected by the tariffs (10% for now; we import mainly from Vietnam and Thailand at this point). Did our second price increase a few weeks ago. We’ll probably test out how much the market will bear because operating in this
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
The problem with incentives is that they need to be ongoing. It doesn’t matter how cheap it is to build a factory in the US if foreign competition can still bring comparable products to market for cheaper. Because then you won’t sell anythi
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
I’m assuming legacy admissions apply mostly to children of notable alumni.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
If you think genetics matter for success (or whatever you want to call it), test scores are a proxy, but a successful parent is a direct measurement of the trait.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Legacy admissions actually make a lot of sense if you think that genetics affect the outcomes you care about but also that the relationship between genetics and outcomes is stochastic and messy (which it is, as breeders in the 1800s knew ev
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Yeah, everyone is focused on TSMC as the company with the secret sauce, but really it’s Apple. Whichever foundry Apple goes with gets the majority of leading edge transistor volume.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
I think the theory is that they had an appropriate thermal design for cpus which were supposed to ship but never did.

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