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by xibalba 6y ago
I've experimented with nicotine (in the form of gum) myself, but haven't really observed much in the way of benefits. Did you see benefits? What form(s) were you using? How did you end up quitting? (I was turned onto this after l
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by xibalba 6y ago
Yes, Clubhouse feels like the perfect trap for the VC/PM class. It is a product that is extremely appealing to the them, but for which probability of widespread adoption seems low. And, of course, that group of people is one of the l
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And Bezos, who wrote the email, was employee 0. So, by that logic, Bezos claim > employee #2's claim.
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> very definition of a straw man Please elaborate and cite. You dismiss the entire article (i.e. the subject of discussion) with the wave of a hand before diving into your own battle against straw men. For instance: > publicly torture
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by xibalba 6y ago
> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra". Lol, so your take is that you have a better handle on the history of Amazon than its founder? He is likely referring to a point in time when Amazon was just an idea.
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by xibalba 6y ago
I know there is a lot of hate toward Amazon going around these days, including calls for regulation and/or break-up (to which I am not necessarily opposed). But, for my money, the world is an immeasurably better place for the presence
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So, point blank, you believe these restrictions were implemented to protect hedge funds and financial elites? Do you not believe there could be simpler explanations to brokers halting buying of the meme-stonk tickers that are 1) explained b
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> practically no one reads these agreements, and even fewer understand them Argumentum ad populum. Not very convincing. There is a reason the finance industry is so heavily regulated, and, at least in terms of intent, it is not to allow
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by xibalba 6y ago
Interesting counter point to the "elites-pulling-levers-to-protect-hedgies" conspiracy theory: https://twitter.com/arampell/status/1354859474658312196?ref_...
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And, more importantly, will be they be able to preserve that capital over the next 5 years? Will they survive a significant correction?
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by xibalba 6y ago
Exactly this. It is people rationalizing their gambling, sprinkling in an anecdote here and there about someone paying off their student loans thanks to /r/wsb.
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by xibalba 6y ago
So are these laser equipped says inserted between/within the "chain" of previously deployed starlink says?
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[1] has quite a good overview of the HAES movement. It is real. [1] httpss://www.medicaldaily.com/health-every-size-obesity-weight-loss-science-383008
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Unfortunately, we do. There is a movement dubbed HAES which purports "health at any size".
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> She's educated as a data scientist specific to a given field. > [data scientist] is the role you just described. No. She's not a data scientist and she herself doesn't even make this claim [1] Her job titles were: 1)
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Which of those degrees qualifies her as a data scientist capable of contravening WHO recommendations? Moreover, she is repeatedly referred to in the press as a data scientist, but all accounts of her actual work are that of a dashboard deve
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If you have few hard facts, how are you evaluating the justification for raiding her home?
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Whatever happened to the "large scale" UBI pilots that were being conducted over the last few years? I believe some were being conducted by Altman/et al. Instead of (very) poorly fit conceptual models (this article), let&#x27
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by xibalba 6y ago
This viewpoint is puzzling to me. It starts from the assumption that all people want to live in highly dense central areas. This is clearly and completely untrue. Most people who live in the suburbs because they want to live in single fam
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Others have claimed that the author buried the lede by placing the chart which shows runaway healthcare (hospital and medical care services) inflation at the end of the article. However, there are sound arguments for why healthcare costs ha
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by xibalba 6y ago
One nation is currently operating concentration camps and arrests and seizes the property of prominent citizens who criticize the government. Are you sure that's an equivalence you want to draw.
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> But migrating everything is _so painful_ This is a key point is the popularity amongst VCs in investing in B2B SaaS. I take their (and your) word for it. But honestly, I don't actually understand this. Why is migration so hard?
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by xibalba 6y ago
I think we should all pause and consider how it is that at a 120k person company, an announcement by 230 people to unionize makes headline news. Could it be yet another instance of a "journalist" acting as advocate?
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> if I saw "free speech" being championed by anyone other than the fascists. How about the ACLU? Are they fascist? Perhaps you're only seeing alt-right associated with because of the particular filter bubble(s) in which yo
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by xibalba 6y ago
> the techie scum Surely the irony that you're writing this on HN isn't lost on you?
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Texas amended the state constitution in 2019 to prohibit a personal income tax. Also, the legislature of TX isn't structured in such a way that a large increase in Austin's population would enable sufficient political power to alt
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by xibalba 6y ago
Another Austinite here. It's not so much the wealth that is a negative, IMO, but certain elements of the SV culture that feel like they are corrosive. In particular, the attitudes of "I earn high comp and know stuff in my industry
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by xibalba 6y ago
This is just the sort of outside-the-box thinking for which I read HN.
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A closer reading of the article is in order: > 161 investors who paid Thompson $12.7 million to find the ship, never saw any proceeds and finally sued > a different federal judge ordered Thompson to appear in court to disclose the co
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by xibalba 6y ago
Yes. And the timeline was annotated with significant news events, which was truly fantastic. This used to be an amazing product. Still, it's free, so I'm not going to complain too much.

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