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by wavesounds 5y ago
There's too many lawyers, it wouldn't be a problem if law school was cheaper but the fact that so many of them have big student loan debts means they have to find reasons to sue people in order to pay of those bills.
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by wavesounds 5y ago
And Redondo Beach!? I feel like they buried the lead here. Davis is nice and all but Redondo Beach is nearly twice the price per square foot since it's close to LA and ... on the beach!
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Everything Is Down(downdetector.com)
4 points by wavesounds 5y ago|0 comments
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by wavesounds 5y ago
That's a P/E ratio of 533 for those interested https://www.gurufocus.com/term/pettm/TSLA/PE-Ratiottm/Tesla#... .
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by wavesounds 5y ago
If you live in the US I urge you to contact your congressional representatives and ask them to support passing a bipartisan Carbon Tax, which Romney recently said he could support[1], via budget reconciliation. Manchin has blown up the CEPP
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by wavesounds 5y ago
Do you think your professor would really care about monetizing his video? This rule seems to strike a good balance, you can still criticize the orthodoxy all you want but Google's not going to pay for it. It takes the incentive away fr
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by wavesounds 5y ago
Talk about making a mountain of a mole hill. There's a range of possible values that the science supports and he said a number in that range when asked what he thinks.
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by wavesounds 5y ago
They weren't sure about airborne transmission from a-symptomatic people at the time. Delta variant has a higher r0 than alpha, so the herd immunity numbers change. Saying he's purposefully lying because the facts on the ground cha
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To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning(latimes.com)
151 points by wavesounds 5y ago|190 comments
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by wavesounds 5y ago
"By default, Slack encrypts data at rest and data in transit for all of our customers." https://slack.com/trust/security
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by wavesounds 5y ago
Nobody is arguing its "purely" caused by climate change but it seems pretty clear that climate change is making all of these things happen more frequently and intensely than they used to.
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by wavesounds 5y ago
It's because so far all of these crypto currencies use terrible technology that is destroying the planet. There's nothing "cutting-edge" about block chain, it was a neat idea 12 years ago but since then it's proven
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by wavesounds 5y ago
Its $300 a week not a month. $300 a week is $7.50 an hour at 40 hours a week. People are getting this on top of normal unemployment. So it very well may be more than what some people were getting paid to work.
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by wavesounds 5y ago
What if the app made you take a test to understand what you're voting for? (Yes I'm aware poll tests have been abused in the past to disenfranchise people, let's assume we can create an app with fair tests)
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by wavesounds 6y ago
#1 reason to not "invest" in Bitcoin https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
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by wavesounds 6y ago
It's called a boycott. It's not a "monopolistic force" when they're many different companies ranging from lawyers and accountants to cloud providers and app stores. Boycott: "withdraw from commercial or social
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by wavesounds 6y ago
I think this confuses "Duty" with nationalism, it's peoples Duty to stop an unjust war. The Boy Scout oath says "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country". You could replace God with any mor
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by wavesounds 6y ago
Yeah currently $164 a year for a US user and growing [1]. What percentage of users would be willing to pay $13.67 a month? Probably not very many unfortunately. It's an order of magnitude more than what OP said he would to pay 1. http
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by wavesounds 6y ago
I don't get how Apple being a tech company has anything to do with this. If it was NBC making the show and Gawker outed the CEO of NBC does the New York Times think that the NBC CEO would act differently?
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by wavesounds 6y ago
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) tasked with investigating the causes of the crisis reported in January 2011 that: "We had a 21st-century financial system with 19th-century safeguards. The FCIC placed significant blame fo
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by wavesounds 6y ago
American companies are blocked from doing business in China either by the great firewall, having to transfer intellectual property, having to give the government unfettered access to user data or by having to have Chinese ownership. Bytedan
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by wavesounds 6y ago
Typo: 13-24 yr olds
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by wavesounds 6y ago
As engineers in tech have way more power than we realize. Its not a coincidence that the biggest most successful tech companies also have some of the best engineers working there. It's the engineers who made those companies successful
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by wavesounds 6y ago
Don't forget we are in the middle of a pandemic, it's not the easiest time to find a job. Also I don't think it ads much to the conversation to try to minimize someones sacrifice, you don't know their personal situation,
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Snap Says It Will No Longer Promote Trump’s Account(nytimes.com)
1 points by wavesounds 6y ago|0 comments
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by wavesounds 7y ago
If theres a silver lining to this pandemic hopefully it will make people realize the importance of having competent leaders and institutions.
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by wavesounds 7y ago
This is literally the top comment on every recently IPO'd companies earnings. "Why are they spending so much money, why aren't they profitable yet." It's like HN doesn't understand the purpose of going public i
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by wavesounds 7y ago
This is a hit piece. Why didn't she update her article with the results of Snaps Q1 earnings that came out later the day this was published? 190 DAU goes against her narrative of declining users
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Snapchat Partner Summit(snappartnersummit.com)
1 points by wavesounds 8y ago|0 comments
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Bitmoji Party(youtube.com)
2 points by wavesounds 8y ago|0 comments

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