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by barretts 3mo ago
I prefer to interpret this in the most generous possible light. Is it early-stage tech initially targeted at data-obsessed rich techies with unproven health benefits? Sure. Is it also smart people trying to do something novel and hard by ma
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by barretts 3y ago
NYC has a "right to housing" law that requires the government to provide a roof for anyone who needs it, including migrants. With the recent influx of migrants this is causing unforeseen spending that will total $5bn in 2023. htt
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by barretts 6y ago
For a guy who's always railing about the value of honest, rational discourse, he's unbelievably misleading and political in this post. He ignores asset growth and the fact that all the wealth tax proposals have a very high floor f
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by barretts 6y ago
We talk about the lessons of 1968. What does that period of unrest really teach us? It led to the election of Nixon.
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by barretts 7y ago
You're focused on the trees, not the forest. The prior commenter is right: Unless you are very poor (and get Medicaid) or old (and get Medicare), most Americans receive no government assistance for healthcare.
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by barretts 7y ago
I'm sorry for your indentured servitude.
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by barretts 7y ago
And evading paywalls disproportionately impacts the journalists creating the stories you seem to value, though for some reason refuse to pay for.
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by barretts 7y ago
Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.
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by barretts 7y ago
It's not just amount of snow but terrain. A fair bit of snow on a flat surface might be fine, but even a little bit on a slope can quickly become problematic if you don't have 4x4.
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by barretts 9y ago
Wow. If accurate, you've done a better job explaining the situation in 250 words than the entire NYT article did.
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by barretts 9y ago
Finding, downloading, and using those apps is a whole exercise in pain tolerance. Took me an hour-plus to download the timelapse app.
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by barretts 9y ago
I am also a Sony Alpha user and the interface seems anti-designed. Like, willfully obtuse and user-hostile. I know UI is not easy, but relative to the scope/scale of Sony, how hard would it really be for them to cop even a few best pra
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by barretts 9y ago
One important factor unmentioned so far: Federalism. The US has very strong state and municipal governments compared to France and Japan. In many cases, any one of the three can veto a project. A new commuter rail line under the Hudson Rive
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Mountain lions are the key to lower car insurance rates(slate.com)
1 points by barretts 10y ago|0 comments
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by barretts 10y ago
Don't be obtuse. College students painting banners is a far cry from a presidential candidate refusing to concede an election over imagined vote fraud. And there is a strong chance that's what Trump would have done.
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by barretts 10y ago
Yes, Obama also opened up a jobs portal on his transition site.
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by barretts 10y ago
Forbes' "Please turn off your adblocker" interstitial is a great reminder not to read Forbes' clickbait bullshit pseudo-journalism.
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by barretts 11y ago
> Is this the same trend data Google is showing in location search engine results? Very similar idea, but different source (4SQ app versus Android/Google apps). Also I'd imagine the 4SQ enterprise offering has a lot more ways t
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by barretts 11y ago
They're selling location trend data to anyone who will buy it. Retail operators (like Apple) may buy it, but the more typical customers for these types of services are hedge funds and other traders who want an edge. They'll correl
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by barretts 11y ago
I think the scary thing is that it doesn't depend on people using the app - merely having it installed. Pilgrim passively tracks your location whether or not you check in (or even open the app).
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by barretts 11y ago
Not at all true. Employee option prices are not based on market (e.g. VC) valuation. They're based on 409A valuations which are usually much, much lower.
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by barretts 11y ago
Any reason I shouldn't see this as a complicated tax dodge? Simply more multinational pilfering from public coffers? Why shouldn't the Alibaba capital gains be taxed?
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by barretts 11y ago
There is art that revels in loudness, and art that embraces subtlety. They can coexist. A Palahniuk novel does not negate an Ishiguro. The world is too big and audiences too fragmented for any one thing to dominate.
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by barretts 11y ago
> if they could get a company like Factset or Bloomberg to let them do direct data pulls from their databases this exists. bloomberg has a plug-in that lets you pull much of its data directly into excel using normal-looking formulas. the
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by barretts 11y ago
The ease-of-use of these modern "radio-controlled aircraft" is unprecedented - vertical takeoff, live video, intuitive controls - making them much more pervasive than ever before. That's why they're getting more mindshar
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by barretts 12y ago
This is a terrible article. It's just VCs talking their books. I hate the FCC's slow/fast lane proposal but you can't write about it only from the perspective of those with financial interests in the outcome (especially
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How to make $250,000 with ASCII graphics: The story of A Dark Room(medium.com)
2 points by barretts 12y ago|0 comments
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Sometimes the best way to get rid of a dead whale is to blow it up(qz.com)
1 points by barretts 12y ago|0 comments
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by barretts 12y ago
It's cliche, but time to trot out the old Henry Ford line: If he'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. If you asked people in 2006 what they wanted from their phone, would they have come anywhere ne
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The utility of switching lanes when stuck in traffic(blogs.reuters.com)
52 points by barretts 12y ago|60 comments

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