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by yrdmb 4y ago
What really ruins the movie theater experience. 1. People browsing their smartphones in the middle of the movie. 2. People talking loudly during the movie. 3. People kicking the back of the seat. 4. Sticky and dirty floors, seats, etc. Neve
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> And I've just essentially stopped using things like Doordash where there's already like $7 or $8 tacked onto the bill even before tip. They lure you in with "25% off first 5 orders" or "March Madness special&qu
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> There’s potential danger when pranksters alter Wikipedia entries, or fraudsters publish scientific papers with bogus data, but the truth eventually comes out. Pranksters? No, the danger is the people with power meddling with informatio
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> at worst, a ban would force us to either adopt China’s censorship technology or create our own equivalent. When india banned tiktok, it was tiktok that actively enforced the ban. Tiktok bans all indian based IPs. I'm sure they&#x2
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by yrdmb 4y ago
It's not just the economist. So many finance publications have been predicting a recession for years. I guess their logic is that sooner or later they'll be right. The Peter Schiff school of economics.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Apparently, dravidian-speaking groups. "Thus, the f4 statistics indicate a signal of gene flow from India to Australia and, furthermore, that the source population is more closely related to present-day Dravidian-speaking Indian groups
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Wouldn't this just make all teachers grade generously since they all are dependent on each other for their bonuses? If I am grading Ms. Summers' class and her bonus is dependent on how I grade, I would be inclined to grade very ge
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> You can launch your own chip (M1), and improve quality (battery, perf), and improve profits, and get back at intel. It's less about "getting back at intel" and more about having so much money that they need somewhere to
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> The thing western economists simply don't understand, or can't relate, is that unlike in most places, the Chinese print money out of thin air without any central bank lending it to them. Western economists have understood the