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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
What matters isn't the specific brand or even what they're selling, it's that it's The Cool New Thing. The tech bro demo in SF loves high tech electrical stuff, and Lucid, Rivian, Taycan, etc. are, COOL and NEW and align
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Esp for a "property-and-casualty insurance agent" role, which presumably is high volume, high stress, and is about screwing people out of insurance payments.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Most of the OKCupid data is out there on archive.org or similar sites. It's out there if you're willing to do a little searching. Match tried to squash it cuz it's unflattering and implies that different demographics probabl
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
They're not going to be able to guess that, or be especially concerned with the range -- if bullets are coming by they're getting down or hauling ass. You aim for the center of mass -- roughly at the heart. A bullet, thusly aimed
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> no one is coming to save you Thought that was about working extra hard to make money and CYA, but really it's about finding your own happiness, regardless of what it may be in a money / status / property sense. > ever
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
aka "the online marketing bots are only picked up by the algorithm so often"
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> At this point I don't believe it is present. Why rob banks for $10k when you can whip up fervor on social media for millions? Criminal activity is there, basically, cuz people want to get what they want, norms, morals, and the wel
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Unless the hacker ethos has died, and we're back to the 1980 where middle managers in business suits are the cool guys. Those hackers got cool and became the guys in the suits. Dollar Uber Alles
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
See also: The Russian Firehose Model of Propaganda https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
is that the extend or extinguish part?
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Arguably, that's Zelensky's main strength: he's a comedian and did tours; he's a showman, a diplomat, a talker. His primary role viz-a-viz the war is going around talking, doing meetings, and drumming up support. Get hi
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Eh, this is good for crypto. Only if you stockpile lots of GPUs and generators
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
I'll join the group of folks saying "same". 60 minutes at the gym, doing some light running, 3-5km, plus some weights isn't crazy. More about change of scenery, getting out, and tearing myself away from social / pe
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
An awful lot of oligarchs and other powerplayers, including a few who were affiliated with the Siloviki, have "committed suicide" or "had heart attacks" in recent months. Honestly I think if Putin pulled out he'd be
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Cuz that worked so well in Kharkiv, right? By that logic Russia should be taking back that area any day now...
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
11000 people lose their jobs -- "let's make more shows about it!" to quote an old guy: "first as tragedy, then as farce"
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> because in truth those worker endured much more violent management, there is little space to spin it in a funny way. what? no one got beat over flair, and having worked in a lot of serving jobs, the level of violence serving drinks wa
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
I'm sure General Mattis and Kissinger being involved didn't hurt either.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
His publicist will care, and they probably charge him way, way more per month than $20. SK will hem and haw but 6 months from now his team will quietly reinstate the account.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
for the ships I'd imagine it's for obfuscating how much they're dumping for environmental regulation reasons. they leak shit and oil everywhere they go, basically. probably true for mcmurdo, but it could also be that any&#x2
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Treaties require that no waste can be dumped there by anyone.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
My thought was more like gmail getting hit by (likely) the Chinese in an attempt to get David Petraeus' email accounts, esp. the emails where he was sharing things he shouldn't w/ his mistress. Honestly if he kept it in his p
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Is there a website or service that lists cost ranges for enterprise SaaS products? Probably not. Have had good success in the past posting random stuff on reddit, like "I'm paying 12000 / core for Oracle, am I high? Is
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Still a lot of Musk fanboys. And it's still a large, complex, big-name Tech company; experience with working on problems at that scale could open doors later, regardless of who is calling the shots at the top.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Yes and no. I choose a few sites, and check them periodically. BBC News, Drudge, Mother Jones, and occasionally the routing services like AP, Reuters, and AFP. Usually every other day or so, or when I'm bored, have downtime, etc. Oc
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
And then lost it!
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
He tweeted all sorts of ridiculous nonsense, to include talking about Tesla, long before he bought twitter
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Depends on who is telling the story; a eulogy could be a good story.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> “If you’re explaining you’re losing.” that was Reagan, IIRC
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
the freakonomics podcast had a bit about this, "the wisdom of quitting". and a follow up about coin flips for sufficiently abstract or complex decisions.

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