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by addicted 7mo ago
> Corruption within private companies is irrelevant, as the main ones to suffer from it are usually shareholders. And a few millions of people suffering because they're being misled into buying "wellness" solutions. And a
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by addicted 7mo ago
"customer" is a much better term IMO. It indicates this is ultimately a transactional relationship where both sides have certain responsibilities. The customer the responsibility to provide the money, and the provider receiving th
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by addicted 9mo ago
I'm curious what you think VCs, etc. who are investing in all these private companies want to do? The only difference with public companies is we actually have data about their finances. The private companies are doing it all under wra
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by addicted 11mo ago
This is correct. This isn't a financial transaction. This is a "relationship" transaction.
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by addicted 11mo ago
Are there other examples of well capitalized technology startups that have significant revenues that have also opted for significant debt financing?
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by addicted 11mo ago
Yeah, your local friendly police officer isn't gonna do that. They're gonna pay Anduril, Palantir, and a whole host of other business or consulting firms a ton of your money to do that. The criticism that "it's technical
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by addicted 11mo ago
Or a Roomba... One of the first things they want to do is make a plan of the house. But also, don't builders have to submit plans of homes to the local government when building them for approval?
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by addicted 11mo ago
This wasn't a non issue. You touched the phone in the wrong places and you would drop off an existing call. Most people solved this by indeed not "holding it wrong" or getting cases (I don't know if the cases worked, but
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by addicted 11mo ago
There are 2 problems to this. 1. I seriously doubt Apple was accidentally displaying more bars on the phone. If it was a "bars" issue then it was almost certainly done deliberately to make the iPhone reception look better than wha
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by addicted 11mo ago
Yup, that's what they will do now. Which is indeed a benefit for their countries. And is a loss for the US. The brain drain was real and the US was the beneficiary and that may be ending soon. Not sure what your point is? Are you happy
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by addicted 11mo ago
Student enrollment in the US is declining and the big problem for colleges the past few years has been a worry about not having enough students. So it's not clear why US students were struggling to get a college spot. And if you mean t
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by addicted 11mo ago
Yes, they should. Which is a completely unrelated effort from the free money you're getting from abroad. Unless governments institute policies that require them to "tighten their belts" they won't tighten their belts by
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by addicted 1y ago
Any anecdote will suffer from survivorship bias (and also negative anecdotes). The data on the other hand are very clear that people are not doing as well as their parents. Unless you have a theory as to why Americans simply became more laz
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by addicted 1y ago
I think eliminating online sports betting, and requiring it be done within the physical confines of a casino may help mitigate most of the concerns around this. After all, sports betting was legal in several states such as NJ, Nevada, as lo
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by addicted 1y ago
For context, SNAP is valued at $14Bn. This is a straight up giveaway to friends. Even dictators in other countries don't make it so obvious because they're worried their populations would revolt, which says a lot about the America
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by addicted 1y ago
If you think anyone has "forgotten" the issues you're deeply mistaken. Apple essentially has a monopoly on iOS so just because people have adapted to their decisions doesn't make their decisions correct, or at the very l
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by addicted 1y ago
Would similar research in other countries also return similar results? The US is going through a lot of upheaval, which whether you think is positive or negative, is unique, and a confounding factor for any such research.
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by addicted 1y ago
Install Google For Windows... until Lucy pulls the football again. How does Google expect anyone to trust them. I absolutely loved the Google Windows search app, and even went as far as fighting for our org to install the google appliance,
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by addicted 1y ago
Wow, this explains an alarm I missed literally yesterday which ended up being set to today AM instead of yesterday PM like I thought I set it.
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by addicted 1y ago
I thought the US approach to biofuels was always understood as a Republican head fake towards climate change action during Bush without doing anything that would threaten oil interests while simultaneously enriching their donor and voting b
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by addicted 1y ago
The Democrats have a structural problem. The party is defined as being composed of the people who are already elected. So the priority of the Democratic Party ends up reflecting the priorities of those who are already in office, which is to
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by addicted 1y ago
To be fair, a lot of people were fooled by the first term. In the first term Trump hired a lot of retired or retiring generals. They may not have been subject matter experts, but that's fine, since they had subject matter experts withi
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by addicted 1y ago
I can't speak to whether the 6 applications is the correct number, but it seems like a reasonable first pass to apply some limit as long as the NIH is closely monitoring this and modifying the restrictions as needed.
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by addicted 1y ago
Who is advising Apple on these actions? Is it a team out of California? Because their approach to working with the EU seems pretty obviously unproductive and will (as it has in the past) hurt Apple, leading them to give up even more than th
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by addicted 1y ago
I'm confused. An insurance company cannot reject a prescription. They can only reject paying for it. So if you're paying for it with Hims why wouldn't you be willing to pay for the medication the doctor prescribes to you if t
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by addicted 1y ago
Another nice thing about markdown is that you can pick up the formatting even if reading the markdown in plaintext. So lists look exactly how you would expect lists to look like if you were writing it on a piece of paper. Italic/Bolds
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by addicted 1y ago
No, the question is are bicyclists killing and injuring pedestrians disproportionately than cars. And the answer is no. Every time a bike lane is installed on a street/avenue the safety rate for pedestrians increases dramatically.
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by addicted 1y ago
It's largely enforced fine with e-bikes. However, you do have car lane legal scooters that also ride in the bike lanes when convenient which are a real problem. These aren't e-bikes, however, and are not supposed to be in the bike
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by addicted 1y ago
> Anecdotally (London not NYC) I feel like I am "endangered" by e-bikes much more often than cars Speaking of NYC, not London, there are several reasons I see for this. 1. NYC has used bike lanes as pedestrian safety infrastruc
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by addicted 1y ago
So it’s not that it won’t be published today. It just won’t be as popular today. And would, ironically, be crapped on by other people, which is what the author is unhappy about. Thats what the author means, and represents the entirety of th

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