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by tribune 4mo ago
They could not have bought better advertising
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by tribune 5mo ago
Might as well get while the getting is good and Anthropic is subsidizing the cost of compute
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by tribune 4y ago
We had this (thankfully an optional addition to physical keys) at one of my previous buildings. The failure rate was maybe 2% but still way too high to trust for regular use. The locks also ran on batteries, which a technician came out mult
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by tribune 4y ago
Airbnb vs. hotels is like Mom and Pop restaurants vs. fast food to me. You might have a better experience at the former, but you know exactly what you're going to get at the latter. My last Airbnb went perfectly smoothy but there was s
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by tribune 5y ago
Note that the Forbes list doesn't necessarily reflect how people are getting rich at the moment, but how people in the more recent past have gotten rich. The catalyzing events that launch the fortunes of the wealthiest were already
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by tribune 6y ago
RobinHood has served the purpose of getting the other "real" brokerages to eliminate fees on trades. Now that they're not the only discount show in town, and given their track record of anti-user behavior, it's past time
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by tribune 6y ago
Uh... Mississippi has the highest adult obesity rate in the country at 40.8 percent and Colorado has the lowest at 23.8 percent. Seems like this must be different (or old) data by State?
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by tribune 7y ago
I think it was Dan Carlin who suggested it might be a good idea to (every decade or so) conduct a live nuclear test above ground and publicize it widely. Not to make sure the bomb worked - but to remind everyone of the destructive power of
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by tribune 7y ago
Ok this is bad but maybe shitty customer service and slow processes are the price of a functioning financial system. Say what you will about the dated technology and opaque processes - legacy big banks work, your money is safe there, and th
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by tribune 7y ago
If divination by bird augury is so wise, why don't we still use that to plan agricultural layouts? /s But that sort of underscores the main argument against this stuff. Is it possible that many traditions, while once adaptive and
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by tribune 7y ago
"[Women] make up 13.8% of mining and logging jobs, up from 12.6% a year earlier..." That seems like a huge recomposition in a single year. What caused this?
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by tribune 7y ago
It's not really about the leverage on its own. As Levine points out in his take on it [1], it's about finding ways to "hack the system". And, in no small part, entertain the merry band of fools at r/walllstreetbets
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Peter Thiel's Dinners Are the Hottest Ticket in LA(vanityfair.com)
5 points by tribune 7y ago|1 comments
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by tribune 7y ago
My phone crapped out during my first day at Oktoberferst in Germany. I figured it was the perfect excuse to "live in the real world" for the experience. I certainly did live in the real world. I also spent hours trying to find my
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by tribune 7y ago
Once I overheard a guy ranting about how iPods were bad because if you carried your music with you everywhere, you could feel whatever you wanted at any time, which was unnatural and bad for your psyche. I think he was crazy. But it gave me
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by tribune 8y ago
The company didn't sell a product that people wanted and its investors lost money; sometimes that's how things are supposed to work.
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by tribune 8y ago
From Matt Levine of Bloomberg: Here is a New York Times story about the “McKinsey Investment Office, or MIO Partners,” the in-house hedge fund of consulting firm McKinsey & Co., which invests employee money, including in companies that
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by tribune 8y ago
1. $3B in "incentives" sounds like a lot, but would this have been a good investment? i.e. would the city and State have gotten a reasonable return in the long run? 2. New York already has a lot to offer in terms of labor market,
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by tribune 8y ago
It's hinted at in the article, but it's worth noting that Mandarin Chinese numbers are much simpler than their counterparts in most other languages. 1-10 are all monosyllabic and the system thereafter is pretty regular. Numbers ar
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by tribune 8y ago
The chart showing USG spending / GDP excludes transfer payments, which strikes me as misleading. Transfer payments have ballooned in the time period shown and are still transfers of cash out of the government's coffers. I'm n
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Mean Body Weight Among Adults: United States, 1999–2000 – 2015–2016 [pdf](cdc.gov)
2 points by tribune 8y ago|0 comments
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by tribune 8y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, this is correct. If you, for example, overhear an executive on the street discussing how his company is going to bomb their earnings report, you wouldn't get in trouble for trading on that (if you someho
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by tribune 8y ago
There's some interesting analysis in here but overall, I think it's focused on the wrong points. I don't want to ignore the danger posed by propaganda committees like those described in the article, but the author’s dismissal
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by tribune 8y ago
I disagree with the author's conclusion that we have failed to reject the "myth of technological progress". The progress itself has not slowed - but people are certainly wary of it. We've kept the pin in the nuclear anni
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by tribune 8y ago
Wouldn't sun shades blocking any amount of sunlight have a negative effect on agriculture and endanger the food supply?
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From Prime Numbers to Nuclear Physics and Beyond (2013)(ias.edu)
1 points by tribune 8y ago|0 comments
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by tribune 8y ago
How can you eliminate "www" altogether? It's just a subdomain like any other now
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by tribune 8y ago
Thinking about this always dismays me. Given humans' proclivity for living near the coast, it seems likely than many (even most?) interesting sites from this period are gone.
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by tribune 8y ago
I don't disagree with you but the reason for this shutdown is a much-needed reconstruction of the tunnel under the East River (it was damaged during Hurricane Sandy) along with station upgrades at all the Manhattan stops. This is inv
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by tribune 8y ago
To be clear, he said that the words of Holocaust deniers are allowed on Facebook. I guess what you think shouldn't be allowed on Facebook depends on what your definition of free speech is (if you accept that Facebook should allow free

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