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by guyzero 2y ago
This entire forum is an advertisement for an investment firm. Many posts are advertisements for startups.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Do you walk out of a movie once someone drinks a Coke on screen? This seems like a level of ideological devotion that makes doing anything pretty difficult.
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by guyzero 2y ago
I find it crazy that someone will say "I still consume it more than any other type of video media" but somehow just paying for it isn't an option. You can pay to make YT ads go away. And the payments go to the video creators
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by guyzero 2y ago
Going to The WBB in the 80's was a great experience. So many books to browse, it felt like they had every magazine and periodical in existence. But it did get a lot worse by the 2000's, turning into what Indigo has become selling
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by guyzero 2y ago
"Shop around" is a great capitalist mantra, except that medical emergencies are pretty obviously a situation where you're absolutely not going to shop around.
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by guyzero 2y ago
But there's as many shuttered pot shops in Toronto as there are open ones. I think the industry is still shaking out and there's a lot of volatility.
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by guyzero 2y ago
yes, thank goodness Meta finally invented dividends.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Headquartered in Pacific Grove? Wild. The alternate history of Silicon Valley being the Salinas Valley instead of Santa Clara valley.
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by guyzero 2y ago
It's Tower Heist, which is pretty funny.
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by guyzero 2y ago
Every rational repeal proposal is a phase out with a few exceptions for seniors. And the reason it hans't been phased out is that the state has significant issues with legislative process as well as economic management. i.e. passing co
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by guyzero 2y ago
It's less artificial scarcity than production management to ensure consistent high prices. Lost of Canadian agricultural sectors have quotas to keep prices high to ensure domestic supply and are a de facto subsidy to farmers. Dairy, po
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by guyzero 3y ago
"Corporate money" builds everything - that's how capitalism works.
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by guyzero 3y ago
Cupertino schools are a draw for young families that can afford a $2.5M+ house, which is not every family in the area. I live in the area and bike to work past Nivdia HQ every day. Santa Clara used to be "cheap" and unsurprisingly
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by guyzero 3y ago
Santa Clara finally caught up with Palo Alto, Cupertino & Sunnyvale. It's not really that surprising considering all the other big companies - literally the entire FAANG - within a few miles of Nvidia's HQ.
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by guyzero 3y ago
Exactly! I know naming is hard, but there had to be a better choice here. +++ ATH
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by guyzero 3y ago
Tiller is $79 a year - https://my.tillerhq.com/ - but puts all the data straight into a Google Sheet and lets you do what you want with it. I love the flexibility.
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by guyzero 3y ago
I live in California and it's still my most-used feature. I gotta know if I need to dress for 17C or 19C.
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by guyzero 3y ago
The layoff pattern is rising interest rates.
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by guyzero 3y ago
Programming a mainframe while working from a hotdesk. Who would have imagined.
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by guyzero 3y ago
The price of toys has fallen drastically since 2000. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SERE01 That's got to come straight out of Hasbro's bottom line.
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by guyzero 3y ago
I suppose one could argue whether Walmart's primary value-add is sales or whether it's logistics, but certainly either of those is a higher priority than making things for consumers to sell. House brand items are still produced an
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by guyzero 3y ago
Spotify is a sales channel. Walmart doesn't actually make anything, US car dealerships don't make anything. But they have customers and that's all it takes to sell something. And, strangely enough, once a sales channel is bi
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by guyzero 3y ago
Microsoft is way ahead of you: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/teals "Technology Education and Learning Support (TEALS) is a Microsoft Philanthropies program that builds sustainable computer science (CS) programs
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by guyzero 3y ago
I see people saying to can low-acid foods in water bath canners for a really long time. There's no amount of time at 100C that kills botulism in low-acid foods. Tomatoes are high acid. It's things like carrots or green beans and s
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by guyzero 3y ago
The original zeppelin & blimp program that ran out of the same hangars as this one was cancelled after a Navy admiral died in weather-related crashes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5) In general the
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by guyzero 3y ago
What's truly crazy is that I see Facebook groups for home canning regularly suggesting people do unsafe things, like water bath canning of low-acid food, things that are well known to cause botulism. Please, please follow recipes from
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by guyzero 3y ago
But you have to deal with Samsung's UI in the S23 Ultra. It's still not that great after over a decade of existence.
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by guyzero 3y ago
I was laid off from a FAANG company I won't name on January 20th. I was, however, given the opportunity to look for a new job internally for three months. Some people got cut off hard, a small number got either 3 or 6 months before the
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by guyzero 3y ago
AM radio is a terrible transmission format in many ways but it's good because as you note it's extremely easy to decode into sound!
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by guyzero 3y ago
Yes because the universe will end before most people finish reading it. The only thing Scott Alexander seems to not tolerate is an editor.

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