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by vecinu 5y ago
The funniest, most ironic part is the ad at the top of the page, "Earn up to 12% APY on Bitcoin, Ethereum, USD, EUR, GBP, Stablecoins & more." I'm so tired of people manipulating others and telling them to throw their sav
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by vecinu 5y ago
> Pro-employee policies are necessarily anti-employer I can't help but feel offended that you feel this way. As a technocrat, sure, let's treat employees as numbers on a sheet that we can hire and fire at will because who cares
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by vecinu 5y ago
I rage-quit when I couldn't scroll the T&C fast enough. I guess my patience has gotten a lot worse as I have gotten older.
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by vecinu 5y ago
Discs solve my issue because 40mm deep is enough to not suffer from terrible crosswinds, if the wheels are made well. The worst problem is after a few minutes of constant breaking, which you have to do if you're descending a mountain c
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by vecinu 5y ago
> the leaked recordings of the CNN technical director basically admitting what everyone pretty much already knew. Could you link this out please?
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by vecinu 5y ago
The only caveat is carbon wheels. I hate rim brakes on carbon wheels,they legitimately suck and disc is way better for that application. I actually just sold my carbon wheels and downgraded back to aluminium until I buy a disc bike for the
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by vecinu 5y ago
This whole thread is a good way to detect bots, they don't understand humor :)
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by vecinu 5y ago
Not only am I not interested in working for repl.it but I have asked my org to never pay for their products due to this behavior, we should not reward it and money has the loudest voice.
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by vecinu 5y ago
Crocodile tears. I'm not being facetious when I say I would cry to influence my RSUs to increase in value if I could.
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by vecinu 5y ago
Specifically on this , yes but keep in mind the US is far behind Europe in terms of civil rights / privacy and other protections for citizens (See GDPR for ex.). I just learned about this "traffic light labelling" going on i
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by vecinu 5y ago
Sometimes it takes a while for the law to catch up to what the populace wants. Imagine if leaders felt pressure to actually do the right thing in most cases because they would otherwise be criminally prosecuted for their incompetence.
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by vecinu 5y ago
I don't necessarily agree that we should use these events as scapegoats. We should truly push for more personal responsibility when it comes to behaving like a civilized member of society. Too often do we find people breaking the socia
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by vecinu 5y ago
> In SF, when the DA refuses to prosecute a criminal and that criminal goes on to kill another person, did that DA fail to protect that victim from future harm? Yes, of course is the answer to your question. Chesa Boudin is guilty of cau
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by vecinu 5y ago
> I don't personally have the time to watch a 20-minute video to see what the hell he's talking about, I personally find your reply in bad faith because both Greek0 and 8bitsrule took the time to find and share the video with y
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by vecinu 5y ago
Did you spend some time reading these posts? I actually did and found them both interesting. The first confirms that once DJT was removed off of large platforms like Twitter, he lost a lot of followers and digital support, proof that large
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by vecinu 5y ago
> I haven't met anyone who is married, above 30, who also works at FAANG, the spouse can legally work in the country, and the household income is below $500K. You may have a very limited circle of folks you talk to and are willing t
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by vecinu 5y ago
I used to live in the GTA previously and after seeing what kind of houses "nice" suburbs offer you in the US, I think the GP meant something more extravagant than the one showed above in Roncesvalles. Americans are used to SFHs ha
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by vecinu 5y ago
The link you provided literally has one option, "Connect", outside of the GDPR cookie banner. I can't even see what this website is doing and you expect people to just trust their money with these types of actors? I think tha
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by vecinu 6y ago
Obligatory Edward Teller talking about Von Neumann => https://youtu.be/ra4K6WPUkpk
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by vecinu 6y ago
This is amazing, I can't believe I haven't seen this page before. How can people still take him seriously? It almost sounds like a bot is Tweeting from his account. > "I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own
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by vecinu 6y ago
> Mind you I live in Montreal, Canada. Things may be different in the US. In particular the bay area. It's difficult to compare these places, when I lived in Toronto the homeless situation was nothing like what I saw in downtown SF,
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by vecinu 6y ago
> In reality kids are not an at-risk group I thought the problem was kids were an infection vector and could spread COVID-19 to older folks at home?
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by vecinu 6y ago
Interesting, I know many 50+ year old men from outside of the US and none of them share these ideals :/
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by vecinu 6y ago
Can you give some examples of what you're referring to? I'm drawing a blank.
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by vecinu 6y ago
The conclusion kind of scares me, especially coming from Dalio. > so they could very well impose prohibitions against capital movements to other assets (e.g., gold, Bitcoin, etc.) and other locations. These tax changes could be more shoc
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by vecinu 6y ago
I'm in the suburbs of SD, paying $3k for an older but updated 2bd townhouse. It's definitely not luxury, I saw what saving $200-400/mo would get me and it definitely wasn't comfortable.
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by vecinu 6y ago
That's an interesting anecdote. I think it highlights why doing that kind of stuff now is more difficult. I know people here in California paying a few thousand $ in property tax on their million dollars houses because they bought deca
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by vecinu 6y ago
I'm amazed by the author's $10-15k/year spending [1]. I subscribe to the FI portion of FIRE and am very frugal 99% of the time but wow, some of these bloggers are spending an impossibly small amount of money per year by geogr
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by vecinu 6y ago
Another likely scenario, people who do "underground" things prefer using not so popular tools to evade authorities but that may prove to have the opposite effect if they're not built robustly.
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by vecinu 6y ago
> Also the pay was laughable compared to any of the other jobs I’ve had before or since. Really? I'm shocked to hear this considering their successful IPO. Most engineers in SV get options and I would imagine those engineering optio

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