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by GDC7 5y ago
They disclose a bias: "Those dying from COVID-19 may be an at-risk population whose remaining life expectancy is shorter than the average person’s remaining life expectancy"
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by GDC7 5y ago
> That you continue to repeat this, despite it being clearly disproven above, is telling. Where are the airpods? Not even the last model, even 2017 Airpods.. you know just to provide some aftercare to the customer after screwing them so
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by GDC7 5y ago
> And consumers were harmed by one company controlling 97% of the desktop market When the 97% is potentially all free, then I don't where's the monopoly, unless you also include in the definition of monopoly having a special pl
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by GDC7 5y ago
Evidence is Pocket PC Evidence is also how the iPhone struggle to communicate with Windows PCs and everything which isn't Apple. Evidence is also the fact that out of the box you cannot charge your 1700$ phone while listening to music
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by GDC7 5y ago
Anti trust laws were made to protect consumers, not paper-millionaires shareholders of other compenies. There wasn't an organic hatred against Microsoft, people were teaching courses on how to create a startup aimed at getting acquired
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by GDC7 5y ago
How can you be anticompetitive when your software is free? Antitrust laws were made to protect the consumer, the same consumer which was robbing Microsoft blind because they allowed piracy.
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by GDC7 5y ago
> What a strange complaint to make, and it’s even stranger to tie it to your even stranger take on the DOJ and Microsoft. Had the DOJ not attacked Microsoft we'd have a better, more open phone which would also come out of the box wi
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by GDC7 5y ago
How can you be anti competitive when your software is free?
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Microsoft got a slap on the wrist Microsoft gave small users everywhere a free license to use the best GUI OS in the world. Not to mention the browser and the productivity tools It has always been a free software , unless you are reall
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by GDC7 5y ago
In any event it was state intervention. When that happens the victory/defeat of a company becomes political , not technical or due to financial or business acumen. The worst thing is that the majority of the American population would h
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by GDC7 5y ago
> It's very rare that you see acquisitions work out like this The acquisition was a normal acquisition. What made it special was the DOJ stepping in to destroy Microsoft because Bill Gates was essentially too rich and his riches wer
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by GDC7 5y ago
People test themselves because they feel unwell. If you catch covid but don't feel it, then you'll go back to normal without ever testing and thus ever knowing you had it. If this happens for many people in a country (because of w
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by GDC7 5y ago
people argued Microsoft would have taken over the US, had the DOJ not stopped them. In reality we'd just have a much more open phone which you can both charge and listen to music on.
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by GDC7 5y ago
they don't have an abundance of people like the other 2 tho
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by GDC7 5y ago
Just like you have the dating app or the mail app on your phone. The west is the money making and business app. Strictly business, don't even call or seek people for reasons which aren't business or money making. Social relationsh
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by GDC7 5y ago
It's just a normal bank wire to his most loyal business partner: The US Federal Government. Uncle Sam would wire him back in FY2022 in the form of subsidies, tax breaks and all sort of artificial economics so that he'd be able to
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by GDC7 5y ago
Honestly this seems like hell. I'd rather work remotely for a US company and move my ass somwhere like Brazil or Nigeria or Philippines or Thailand. You'd maybe feel the boredom and the lack of power in the decision making and the
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by GDC7 5y ago
Mark said that one of the many input to start Facebook was to bring people to the internet. He thought to himself : "there's news, there's sport, there's search, where are people and personalities?" It turns out peo
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Hopefully we can then compare COVID to the season flu on any large media outlet It will never happen, humans take more and more to recover from traumatic events and people who claim that it's time to put the traumatic event behind
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by GDC7 5y ago
bingo
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Signalling is how mating works If you buy a jpg for 300k while you could have bought a nice house with that amount of money, you are honestly unfuckable and being unfuckable and gullible is all that you are signalling. Besides, it&#x27
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by GDC7 5y ago
That's right! Innovation is what propels human civilization, it can't ever be a bubble. As it's demonstrated by Cisco Systems stock performance from 1995 to 2010 you can clearly see that the power of innova...never mind....as
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by GDC7 5y ago
Is a Brad Pitt autograph from 1999 worth more than his autograph in 2020? We are really latching onto the pipe smoke here.
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by GDC7 5y ago
> A safe 3% withdrawal rate would put you at around $250k a year of extremely tax favored passive income that you get without having to do anything. What the heck. It's the movies and Forbes list constantly in your face. Di Caprio&#
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by GDC7 5y ago
> So an earlier minted NFT may be more valuable to some than those that were minted later Are dollars printed during the 2008 recession more valuable than those printed during the 2020 recession? > In the same way, conceivably, a firs
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by GDC7 5y ago
Ok let's say that we cheat and operate as you say. That is not by not solving OP's problems but by eliminating his "worry" Do you think exercise is potent enough? To me you'd need psychedelics such as LSD, Salvia an
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by GDC7 5y ago
> When an artist mints an NFT and sells it, the NFT provenance is part of the value. Except when I buy a painting I can lend it to a museum and get a steady income, with NFTs you are only hoping that some bigger fool will buy your jpg, b
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Owning scarce items gives them status. NFTs are not scarce. A painting is scarce because you can never replicate the original painter physically impressing whatever they see in their mind on a blank virgin canvas. If the original paint
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by GDC7 5y ago
Au contraire, once you have beaten the long odds of going from 0 to 7.5M on what amounts to a lottery ticket, then beating the 50:50 odds of divorce seems a piece of cake. More generally OP should feel like a god right now, what's the
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by GDC7 5y ago
> In early November I sold everything and after taxes I now own 7.5 million euro You are not out of the woods yet, I understand that for an individual this sum is massive, but for a bank it might not be (Deutche Bank, UBS, perhaps Credit

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