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by cko 6mo ago
In 2004, as a senior in high school, I tried enlisting in the Marines (infantry, what was I thinking based on the year). I scored 99 on the ASVAB (finished way earlier than everyone else) with a high SAT score as well. Passed all the physic
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by cko 6mo ago
What is it with you guys and stallions?
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by cko 9mo ago
I think he's implying that SpaceX's success is evidence that Musk can possibly deliver on the robotaxis and Optimus forecasts, thus justifying TSLA's multiple. I for one am skeptical.
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by cko 9mo ago
ex-US index funds.
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by cko 9mo ago
This may not make you feel better, but I was lonely until maybe age 25. That was the year I graduated and started my first job and made my first two real friends. Before that I sat alone in the back of the lecture hall in University and hat
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by cko 10mo ago
"Users can create their own personalized color combinations with iPhone Pocket and iPhone." You don't think that's innovative?
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by cko 11mo ago
I use it because it offers a very generous amount of free queries, subsidized by VC money.
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by cko 11mo ago
I once watched a video of a man holding what looked to be a bicycle battery walking into an elevator. After the doors closed, it seemed to have exploded and burst into flame in his hands, and the aftermath was charred remains. After seeing
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by cko 1y ago
Someone once told me that a person who doesn't believe anything will fall for everything. So if we don't know what to believe, do we all join our own conspiracy communities? Like on a grand scale?
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by cko 1y ago
I am a pharmacist who dabbles in web dev. We should easily be replaced because all of our work on checking pill images and drug interactions are actually already automated, or the software already tells us everything. If every doctor agre
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by cko 1y ago
All the "Putin utterly defeats NATO" over and over again thumbnails
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by cko 1y ago
Look up Hindustan Times on YouTube and tell me based on thumbnails if they are a reputable news source.
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by cko 1y ago
I wasn't really arguing about benefit to society though. I just said the gears of the economy turn on the back of such "distractions". Benefit to society becomes a philosophical argument. Personally I don't value most fo
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by cko 1y ago
I'd argue that the reason for people to do any sort of productive work is to be able to spend it on such "distractions" (as you put it) like Taylor Swift concerts and sports events. Think about these fantasy sports gambling a
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by cko 1y ago
> Not investing enough in 401k up to the IRS max. This is not always a given. If your income in retirement is much higher than your working years income, you will end up losing on taxes. In fact, my employer didn't match at all so a
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by cko 1y ago
Small businesses being bailed out was presumably because of liquidity issues. Being underwater does not cause a liquidity issue.
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by cko 1y ago
COVID would be better because the sense of taste is also affected.
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by cko 1y ago
But what about dating? The nether regions should be washed in anticipation for certain activities. There are no diminishing returns for that.
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by cko 1y ago
In the past two years most of my Google searches were: "______ vs ______", <product name> review, and <subject> reddit. Sometime in the last two months I noticed myself going straight to ChatGPT, and Gemini flash when
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by cko 1y ago
Every generation uses this. I had a 60-year old coworker who said this to me when she was training me years ago.
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by cko 1y ago
I'm a huge proponent of "good enough" in all aspects of my life so I fully agree. A two-year old used flagship phone is good enough. A cheap Thinkpad is good enough. Most clothes actually actually last a long time, even the c
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by cko 1y ago
As someone who started a fully remote job (sedentary) 1.5 years ago, this worries me a bit. I've been reading that those giant bouncy balls and treadmill desks are a gimmick and that standing still for a long time gives you varicose ve
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by cko 1y ago
> such as that the purchase of those last two social networks, WhatsApp (one billion dollars) and Instagram (19 billion dollars) Makes me doubt the writer's authority
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by cko 1y ago
> Christina Marie Chapman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments in a US District Court on Tuesday. Why not treason? Any lawyers know?
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by cko 1y ago
Thanks for the saga. It was an enjoyable read. You seemed more prepared than most, intentionally or not. Today (I'm in Romania) I went to buy a bunch of nonperishables. It was heartening to hear that people made the best of it.
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by cko 1y ago
I'm pro choice, but let me play devil's advocate. If you view the fetus? embryo? as a human life, then abortion doesn't just affect the person having it, but also the life being aborted. Not only that, but what are the moral
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by cko 1y ago
Why are you having a debate here? People are trying to understand the benefit for Trump voters, they are not directly taking a position. Abstinence and fidelity are good things, and so is curing diseases.
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by cko 1y ago
We had Japanese internment camps, Jim Crowe laws and McCarthyism and survived. Let's not write off American democracy just yet.
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by cko 2y ago
When I was Christian, we didn't want to call our system a religion. Years later when I was exploring Buddhism, no Buddhist I met wanted to refer to Buddhism as a religion. So the mentality seems to be that everything else is "reli
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by cko 2y ago
In 2015 I had a MAGA coworker walking around proudly saying "Trump is gonna fire everyone." Turns out she was right, just a bit early.

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