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by tyrfing 4y ago
Those sites are low quality and it's often easy to get much better free data. SF recorder's publicly posted property records, searchable by name, for example. There are also numerous private databases with high quality data which
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Can you link to the transcript or recording of this question and response? I am unable to find it.
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The limit is approximately what you would be capable of paying. Putting value on life is a common practice, particularly in single-payer healthcare, mostly relevant to certain drugs. There are, of course, problems with a system like this. &
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> Right now I am on a six month wait to see a rheumatologist. Why? Capitalism. Typically that's anti-capitalist: there are very strong government and regulatory limits on who can perform the services, and for self-serving reasons, t
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Doesn't that pretty much start with the fact that Medicare pays far under cost? "Just stop optimizing costs" is a hard sell when a huge chunk of services are sold at a loss. Either optimize the business or go bankrupt.
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> If someone offers to buy all the stock and it doesn’t shift up to at least close to the offering price, then something is wrong with either public perception of the company or the entire stock market. No, it's a reflection of unce
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Most jokes build on shared context, therefore jokes are inherently exclusionary and discriminatory by excluding people without the shared context. Avoiding most humor is thus a good idea.
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A lot of companies have seen margin expansion since the pandemic, supply/demand has been way out of balance and their input costs have forced price increases anyway. Using these retailers as examples and quoting profits in absolute ter
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It's a counterexample, not an attempt to prove equivalence. Banks-as-middlemen allow reversing just about anything on the basis of firm handshakes, with little regard to the wishes of the parties they stand in for. Taking "reverse
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This seems to be a description of how coordinating counterparties can reverse transactions made over any medium, with a bit of argument alchemy to shift the discussion from individuals to banks representing them. > It took the combined f
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The Xeon exclusive for this generation is AMX, and I believe Sapphire Rapids has 2 AVX-512 pipelines (sorry, too early to remember the correct term) vs 1 on Alder Lake / Rocket Lake. Disabling it on the consumer chips is related to the
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> telecoms arguably have a monopoly power in the US and were dragging their feet in offering fiber up until Google announced they were becoming an ISP. One of those is extracting monopoly profits, and it's not the telecoms.
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If you're interested in thinking more about it, Peter Thiel's Zero to One is a very interesting book. It's certainly not necessarily true that a monopoly ends up providing value like that, but with Google as an example, it&
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They do, just not universally. The infrastructure bill included a section requiring them, so every new car will in a few years, along with systems to detect if you're impaired or drunk and refuse to allow operation if you are. https:&
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> They don’t sell ads so there’s no cannibalism Apple sells huge amounts of ads, I believe it's the fastest growing part of the business right now. Estimates are $5 billion in advertising revenue in 2021, with one projection of $20
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by tyrfing 5y ago
If you're curious how that was solved, it certainly wasn't stimulus or unemployment running out. It was FedEx increasing starting pay rate 30-40% overnight, bringing them near parity with competitors.
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> Modelling provided to the city estimated that about 30 per cent of gas stations and 40 per cent of parking lots would install chargers by 2030 Basically, they expect the majority of gas stations and parking lots to just pay the fee ins
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Where is it stated that he was tracked for 2 years?
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> The Proposal is non-binding and, once structured and agreed upon, would be conditioned upon [...] > There can be no assurance that a definitive agreement with respect to the Proposal will be executed or, if executed, whether the tra
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by tyrfing 5y ago
You are incorrect. He made a non-binding offer contingent on a number of different conditions, such as obtaining financing, and with the ability to withdraw or modify it at any time, for any reason. Here is the filing: https://ww
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A WFP firewall like simplewall (by henry++, not the corporate one) can block everything by default, including services like Windows Update, and is IMO the most straightforward option.
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Said it better than me, at the same time. It's also better than a fully controlled intersection with lights for pedestrians, since you don't have to wait for a light cycle or choose to cross on red. It's pretty sad to see peo
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I intentionally did this very recently for a whole bunch of old repos (mainly because a Github bot decided to start emailing me weekly about vulnerabilities in stuff that has been untouched for nearly a decade) and was mildly annoyed at how
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> What does Russia do? Russia appears to have staked the farm on this operation. Can it afford anything less than total victory? I haven't been tracking developments very closely, but a minimal set of objectives would be claiming la
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The arrangement described there is convoluted, but it's misleading to say they own the fleet. They (or an affiliate) do own the vehicles, but lease them to "independent contractors" who happen to exclusively work with Amazon
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Where "high quality positive news" is a tweet of a drone video, and "low quality negative news" is an LA Times article about ridiculous racism at Tesla.
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> What makes the artists fake is that they are publishing only a couple songs for the specific purpose of providing the streaming platform with royalty free music The article has 3 examples. Two have easily identified 3rd-party labels, t
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That meme also contrasts with the rise of modern ESG, where a lot of shareholder pressure on management teams has been in the direction of making less money. There is a lot of really interesting stuff out there done in the name of ESG, EX
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My guess from this press release is it'll be heavily focused on the China domestic market, since there are a lot of MIC 2025 related subsidies/incentives for that. Note the list of compatibility with various domestic architectures
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It actually does have undo, something I know about from it frequently detecting waving my phone around as an attempt to undo.

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