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by wdr1 5y ago
That might carry more water if Mozilla wasn't already earning $826.6 million a year. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...
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by wdr1 5y ago
The problem in California is I've seen countless times were other cars speed up to block me when I use my turn signal to change lanes. I still use them, but I can understand why that deters some people.
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It was hard, but I got out of my own head. I took an interest in other people. What do they think? What's their story? Not to debate or argue, but just to try & understand them. When I was a lot younger my anxiety would sometim
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by wdr1 5y ago
> The folks who are in a financial position to afford private flights are the same folks to fly first class and use airline lounges. Not even close. The cost to fly private is significantly higher than the cost of flying first.
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by wdr1 5y ago
> Reviews are meaningless, they have been for a long time now. That doesn't make this okay.
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by wdr1 5y ago
I mean isn't that basically what happened with Steve Jobs? When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he decided to forgo the aggressive medical treatment advised by doctors, opting instead of acupuncture & fruit juices.
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"The City Council cut the LAPD by $150 million in July, after massive protests following Floyd’s death, pledging to put the proceeds into disenfranchised communities. Council members quickly set aside $60 million, using much of those f
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by wdr1 5y ago
> Actual instances of police funding being reduced are so rare I'm not sure what you mean by rare, but many major cities did proceed with reducing police funds: "New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, Philadelphi
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by wdr1 5y ago
> This is possibly a generational difference, but I HATE the shuffle play I'm in my late 40s and very rarely do NOT use shuffle play. > Spotify is a perfect example of a tech company that gives absolutely no fucks for the prefere
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by wdr1 5y ago
There's a lot you'd have to understand. Not technically, but culturally. In particular: - Most houses had one phone line. The phone line was shared by the household. Without email, text messages, social media, instant messages
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It was pretty obvious to me these algos are busted when an agent mispriced a house in our neighborhood at $600,000,000 (instead of just $6M) and the "estimate" was something like $604,082,000
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by wdr1 5y ago
Related to database indexes, but not the post: a busted database index brought down ticket sales of the 2008 Olympics Games. This was the first time regular people could go buy tickets for events & they had been lining up overnight at
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by wdr1 5y ago
> Does that strike anyone else as insane? That's like 330k per room As someone who lives in California, not really, no.
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I know we're already in the weeds, but Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” did an excellent episode on the stuck accelerator problem, basically showing it almost certainly didn't happen. https://www.pushkin.fm&#x2F
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by wdr1 5y ago
1. https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/guidelines/overse... 2. Rogan was prescribed ivermectin by a doctor
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> So who is actually seeing these ads? Hacker News isn't representative of mainstream society. ~27% of Internet users block ads.[1] > How can those numbers be going up? People continue to shift various activities online. Against
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by wdr1 5y ago
> CNN reported that it is a horse dewormer (which it is) That's like saying Rogan was drinking engine coolant because he was drinking water. The US currently requires refugees from certain regions to take ivermectin prophylactical
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by wdr1 5y ago
You're partly right: With a significant number of reports, you can't keep juggling all the balls yourself. But what varies is how that handled? A micromanager will be absolutely crushed by a high number of reports. In fact 10
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by wdr1 5y ago
LAX changed how ride sharing services worked in the late 2019, with a new program called LAXit. It was HORRIBLE. A total shitshow. As someone who travelled a few times a months, it added 30-60 minutes to the time it took me to get home. T
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My understanding was the only change initiated by AU was the submarine contract. They were still very willing to continue to continue on the diplomatic & cooperation fronts. It was the French who blew up that aspect because of the subma
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At $545,978/year (the min to be in the 1%), you can afford a house anywhere in the United States, except for 3 very specific geographical regions.
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> Is this a bad joke? Distrust of media is largely brought about because it is (mostly) in the private sector You think the 82% of Republicans who distrust the media is due to being in the private sector? And that they would trust it mo
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by wdr1 5y ago
> The internet was a tiny niche...for a year or two What? This statement bears no semblance to reality. I say this as someone on the net since 1991, went through the dotcom bust of the 1990s, the Great Recession & has worked at sever
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by wdr1 5y ago
2021 - 100 = 1921 The US wasn't on the victorious side in World War I or World War II?
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by wdr1 5y ago
Is the hate around Electron just due to bloat? TBH, I don't care if there's no security ramifications.
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Editorial: Homeless people on Venice Beach got interim housing(latimes.com)
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A New Surge at a Santa Monica ICU(nytimes.com)
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by wdr1 5y ago
FWIW, this has existed for a while now. My brother tipped me off to it & I used in 2013 to create a chart of my annual Amazon spend. It's pretty obvious when I joined Amazon Prime.
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This doesn't seem to pass the sniff test for me. The six they list doesn't include YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc where a huge amount of media is consumed. And would they count YouTube as "one" outlet? I wou
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by wdr1 5y ago
> while at the same time pushing to almost completely remove estate taxes, as was done during the 2018 tax cuts Just to stop fake news: The tax cuts increased the exception for estate tax from $5.6M to $11.2M ($22.4M for married couples

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