Cederfjard

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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I think Enginerrrd is saying that there could be a larger supply of other artists, that would satiate fans and make the demand for any one performer less impossible to meet. I’m not sure I think that’s true, but that’s my interpretation o
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
See my response to your sibling comment.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I was mostly asking because the explanation in the parent comment seemed overly simplistic, and to indicate that this approach would destroy the scalpers’ business model entirely. I’m totally open to the idea that this is a good solution th
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
What if the kid passes at $30 because money is tight, they’d prefer to pay $20 and want to try for that, but scalpers snatch up all the cheapest tickets before the kid is able to. The kid still really wants to go, however, and is willing to
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
WhatsApp had like half a billion monthly active users when they were acquired, that could be considered fairly large scale, no? But I agree with your point in general.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
You only do voice calls six times in a year?
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Your logic isn't really valid. It could be that the glue is indeed effective in facilitating waterproofing and was put in place for that reason, however not to the extent that Apple wants to make any promises that it will survive being
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Not their salary per se, to be clear. They will tell you how much income someone paid tax on in the previous tax year.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
The point is that what you think is true might not necessarily be true. So only reading things you like and believe to be accurate could mean you’re getting the truth, but it could also mean you’re getting a feedback loop of misinformat
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
This is from their website: https://www.postman.com/trust/security/ > Depending upon its sensitivity classification, customer data is AES-256-GCM encrypted at the server-side before storage. Postman environment
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
First off, I’m very sorry about the suffering your mother (and you, I’m sure) had to endure because of this. The idea isn’t ”if we legalize opiates and opioids, no one will ever get hurt from them again”. It’s ”when they are illegal, even m
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> The comparison to Canada and prohibition doesn’t pass the smell test. Given that the war of 1812 wasn’t predicated on getting the Canadians into a drunken stupor as a tactic of economic warfare. Since we’re speculating freely anyway, w
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
This seems relevant, although it doesn't explain everything: > How pay is determined >"This is a haphazard process. The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So the contracts usually have a minimum pay seg
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
So this is the crux of the disagreement. You believe that you either need maximum possible security or none at all, so when you need to be secure, it doesn’t matter if you have to use an inconvenient solution, because it’s that important.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Just because you hide a big bag of cash where no one can find it, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s yours, just that you have it. If the US government says that it has lawfully seized your bitcoin, then by law the US government owns the bitc
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
>>> One may even wonder why a police officer accused of rape was not only still on duty, but even training other officers. >> Because accusations are cheap enough to be weaponizable as a denial-of-service attack. > Police
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> This is the problem. Blaming it on people being programmable instead of looking at real issues of rust belt dwindling into starvation, shipping manufacturing overseas and letting our cities crumble into infrastructure rot. > But, ye
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I wonder how it could translate into practice. It seems like it would be quite the boon to organized crime if you could rid yourself of a meddlesome cop simply by way of accusation.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
What legal justification does PayPal use for keeping people’s money when they shut down their accounts? Even if the funds were obtained in some illegal way, they are still surely not PayPal’s. Banks can’t decide unilaterally to just keep so
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> "Congratulations" on typed chat, phone call to boss within 3 minutes, and required a written report to senior senior management. There was unironic suggestions of doctors notes when the reason for the congratulations was thei
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
”Charles Baggage” made me giggle a bit.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
In the article it said that the creator makes around 60% of their income from AdSense, 40% from Patreon (which Google sees nothing from). A quick search says that Google pays the publisher/creator 68% on the AdSense revenue. So how doe
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I think you’re assuming that it’s the value that’s variable, and not the units of stock. That already from the beginning the company has decided on how much stock to give in terms of units, not dollar value. But the point that’s being made
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> Using the same argument, it could be said that cash should be banned because its private & semi-anonymous nature allows for its use in transactions for gambling, drug use, child porngraphy, assasinations, & slave trafficking. I
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> Is your solution to keep the walled garden systems we currently have that benefit proportionally very few people on earth? Almost every single person on Earth benefits in some way from the current systems over not having them at all. Y
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Who are you to decide for whom it does and does not matter? Like others have said, this isn’t a court of law. You have made your standard here clear, cool. Other people have other standards they apply to various situations, and they are usi
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I think the idea is that at the end of the day, the money always come from individuals - that companies aren’t some nebulous, ethereal entities with no connection to real people, and so you should keep those individuals in mind when levying
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Estimates aren’t necessarily accurate just because they end up being close to reality - that could just be chance. The estimate for a project that came in substantially under budget was just as wrong as one that came in substantially over,
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I’m sure you’d usually get very reasonable answers when asking about the rationale behind a set wedding date. For one, engaged couples are probably looking forward to being married, so there’s value in having it as soon as possible. You’ll
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> The worst tech team you've ever seen and yet they are generating 20 million a year? I think you should give them the respect they deserve and understand the limitations they have been under. If the right opportunity is there, you

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