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by likpok 1mo ago
It would still get tied up in litigation. The “takings” doctrine that requires compensation is based on the fifth amendment: “ nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." I believe regulatory changes
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by likpok 3mo ago
Why do you project 10% growth over the next 6 months? Looking at the other metrics on that page which have history (total unique likers, posters, followers), the numbers are flat or declining. That shape doesn’t seem great for a social medi
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by likpok 6mo ago
Modern shareholder law is definitely a strange business. People have successfully brought suits for a variety of bad-but-not-illegal causes. There were a lot of lawsuits about sexual harassment and climate change, I believe the theory being
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by likpok 7mo ago
Eh, doorbell cams aren’t that controversial (ad aside). A lot of people have them already, both from ring (with the concomitant privacy issues) or from other providers (with different but similar issues). They’re controversial on hacker new
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by likpok 8mo ago
The article goes into detail about how this level of morphine in the breastmilk could not have given the baby a lethal (or even clinically effective) dose. Furthermore, Koren lied about what the tests showed the stomach contents to be: he o
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by likpok 8mo ago
The article clearly lays out that the answer is yes. It points to specific ways the researcher adjusted their reporting to mislead readers. I think the key here is where Koren attempts to specifically account for the stomach content explana
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by likpok 1y ago
One of the minigames in the game is "upvote post". Your username is the username of the post. I have no idea what the content of the post is, it went by too quickly for me to read it.
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by likpok 1y ago
The varroa mite has been pretty effective at removing them so far. Today honeybees are essentially livestock, to the point where any given bee you see is very likely owned by someone.
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by likpok 1y ago
The pipes are pressurized, so I would expect there to be limited avenue for infiltration. (Also, for sewage exposure, you’d need two leaks close together. Not impossible or anything, but much less likely.
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by likpok 1y ago
VR is immersive, but it’s hard to fit in to life and there’s a limited array of content available. You can easily use a computer, watch TV or play video games while still being somewhat present with the people around you in reality. VR make
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by likpok 1y ago
The soft cap thing seems like exactly this kind of penny-foolish behavior though. I’ve seen people spend hours trying to optimize their travel to hit the cap — or dealing with flight changes, etc that come from the “expense the flight later
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by likpok 1y ago
That’s super annoying, but it is still straightforward to sideload books in a way that works with Amazon sync, via either the email address or uploading through Amazon.
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by likpok 2y ago
You don't need to require same-order initialization, but allowing people to do different orders will be confusing when actions are reordered behind the scenes. Especially imagine if there are dependencies between the objects you'r
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by likpok 2y ago
China has blocked US social media for years (decades perhaps?). I don't know if they've explicitly said all the reasons, but "social stability" is a big one. As an aside, TikTok itself is banned in China.
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by likpok 2y ago
Insurance always balances between cost pooling and making people pay for their increased risk. Car insurance has always been more expensive for riskier drivers: young men pay more, driving “high risk” cars pay more. If the overall liability
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by likpok 2y ago
Landlords will raise the rent but can only raise the rent to what the market will bear (which presumably they’re doing anyway). They then have incentive to ensure the broker is worth the fee. Previously landlords would require renters to wo
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by likpok 2y ago
It’s all fits together in a very nice way. It’s very much a space archaeology game — if you like exploring the game universe and understanding how it works, you’ll like it, but that exploration is the bulk of what it has going on.
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by likpok 2y ago
Is it tax-advantaged? My impression is that RSU costs count as cash at grant time, which is a good deal (for the company) when the stock is going down but a bad deal when the stock is going up. The RSUs you get are counted as ordinary incom
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by likpok 3y ago
Another aspect is that insurance companies can make money on the float, and this can potentially let them be profitable while paying out more in claims than they take in (or at least netting out to paying out what they take in). That’s assu
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by likpok 3y ago
The UK is redirecting a number of asylum seekers to Rwanda rather than letting them settle locally.
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by likpok 3y ago
It's been known to not do a whole lot for at least a decade, it just took until recently for the FDA to catch up and say "no you can't sell it".
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by likpok 3y ago
Based on the lockup alone he can't have gotten that wealthy. LNUX had a 180 day lockup, after which the price had fallen to $40-50 ( https://itsfoss.com/story-of-va-linux/ ). That'd be around $6 million based o
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by likpok 3y ago
Less market concentration. Lina Khan, the current head of the FTC, argued before she got the job that market concentration and not consumer harm was a better target for antitrust enforcement. Amazon does exercise a fair amount of their ma
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by likpok 3y ago
ATT, where apple hobbled other ad networks running on iOS. It used to be that DTC companies could use the fine-grained targeting offered by FB and Google to reach consumers without needing to go through a major distributor. Since the target
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by likpok 3y ago
The trouble with this argument (which gets made a lot) is that this is basically every large retailer. Walmart has great value, Safeway has safeway select, Target has good and gather. In all of these cases large retailers take well-performi
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by likpok 3y ago
Your link sort of hints at the reason, I think. There's enough posted to make a serious run at replicating it, and it seems to be simple enough that you can do it in a kitchen. At the same time, it's not so easy that people have
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by likpok 3y ago
Yeah, without new stock the house price falls based on the mortgage affordability. So the nominal price is lower but the overall price is the same. Works well if you’re paying cash, I guess. But of course most people don’t have to sell. T
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by likpok 3y ago
There’s lots of chemicals that are extremely lethal to pests with apparently limited ability to develop resistance. There’re no bleach resistant bacteria, for example, and no fire-resistant moths. Surfactants attack the waxy layer that inse
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by likpok 3y ago
Yeah I mean if it happens once or twice I’m gonna switch to a different default card. The .5% extra cash back isn’t that much, especially for something that’s all about convenience. Mostly the Apple Card was a novelty for me: 100% of my usa
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by likpok 3y ago
Maybe. I think Amex is still the leading corporate card — hard to find a less price sensitive bunch than people spending someone else’s money. That was part of why Amex was accepted in many places: high potential for big orders. If my Apple

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