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by magnusss 1y ago
Yes, but they asked even if you were paying with a credit card! I guess it was "separate systems."
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by magnusss 1y ago
Yes, Radio Shack was often the only place you could find the odd resistor, vacuum tube (for an audiophile-grade amp, what else?), or coax signal splitter. But they always asked for your phone number on checkout -- why? It's not like
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by magnusss 3y ago
Why does docusign need such sophisticated and powerful AI models, to the point that they’re willing to risk their customers’ ire by training on their data (yes I know, even though it’s anonymized per “industry best practices”)? Are they in
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by magnusss 3y ago
I had a teacher who promulgated the same technique for what we called Calc III (similar to a proofs class, I imagine; Spiwak was the text). It was very effective.
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by magnusss 3y ago
> Rite Aid is currently going through bankruptcy proceedings and the order will go into effect after approval from the bankruptcy court and the federal district court… Talk about kicking someone while they’re down.
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by magnusss 3y ago
> The same Latin root is found in more familiar words such as acceleration and even celebrity, a word used when fame comes quickly. According to the OED, celebrity comes from the Latin “celebritās, [the] state of being busy or crowded, f
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by magnusss 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the entire premise of this article is based on a model, not any empirical measurement of Manhattan actually sinking. The article then tries to distract us from examining its thin thesis too critically by connecting it
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by magnusss 3y ago
I think neither a 40-billionaire nor Harvard would risk legal trouble by pulling off such an easily auditable maneuver.
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by magnusss 4y ago
The whole value proposition of a contractor is that you can onboard them quickly when you need to augment your existing staff, and can terminate them just as fast when they’re no longer needed. This is in no way a layoff or mass firing, it’
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by magnusss 4y ago
Haha right! Or that some ne’er-do-well tricks or coerces you into revealing your treasure’s location.
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by magnusss 4y ago
SBF’s plea deal can’t be far behind. He is uniquely positioned to help FTX’s receivers recover the maximum amount of money, and will use that leverage to strike the best deal possible. The whole FTX crew will likely pay their debt to societ
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by magnusss 4y ago
Interesting point! What may be an effective management style for running a company you own could be deleterious when running a country for which you are an elected official.
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by magnusss 4y ago
What I love most is that the new CEO of Twitter is front and center making a major product and pricing announcement to the entire customer base within 4 days of buying the company. That’s awesome execution, baby! Not to mention the best typ
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by magnusss 4y ago
He didn’t cause the collapse, but he failed to deliver on his promise to his customers that Celsius was structured to protect their savings from market volatility. In fact, the promise was fake — it was never possible to fulfill, from the o
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by magnusss 4y ago
Celsius seemed to be a classic Ponzi scheme wrapped in a cloak of crypto. The founder was a smooth-talking pitch man who claimed to have “discovered” a risk-free way to earn outsized returns by arbitraging some flaw in the centralized finan
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by magnusss 4y ago
Not as much fun to build and deploy, but equally effective is pigeon-repellent adhesive. It prevents the birds from landing on treated surfaces and is not too unsightly. https://www.nixalite.com/product/4-the-birds-gel-
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by magnusss 5y ago
The US and other government wills outlaw all cryptocurrencies but the ones that they control (“Govcoin,” as The Economist refers to them). Game over.
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by magnusss 5y ago
The reason that cyberattacks are proliferating is because it has only recently become easy for the threat actors to receive massive payments quickly and anonymously. Remove that ability and the entire cyberattack ecosystem shuts down instan
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by magnusss 6y ago
Exactly this. The single most important question with a shootout is “Who fired the first shot?” The Times clearly misleads the reader to think the police fired first after a “brief confrontation,” only later to reveal that this confrontatio
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by magnusss 7y ago
> Hospitals in the USA marking stuff up 500 or 1000% ARE harming society already. Agreed, that needs to be fixed. > If all shoe companies charged $400 for a $2 shoe, I believe society would be harmed, yes. A competitor would step in,
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by magnusss 7y ago
Or selling software with 0 marginal cost for $40k? :-) As with all moral issues, it is difficult to come up with an objective distinction between wrong and right. I tend to rely on Kant’s categorical imperative: Would society be harmed if e
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by magnusss 7y ago
Come on, guys. Hoarding a commodity in order to corner a market and thereby profiteer is immoral, (often) illegal, and a distortion of the free market. It’s bad behavior. Please stop.
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by magnusss 7y ago
It seems like the majority of the commenters here are missing the point. The increasing rate of student loan default is not a result of kids who go to a four year college, graduate with an unmarketable degree in philosophy, fall on hard tim
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by magnusss 7y ago
Let me make sure I understand: If I take gigabytes of “enriched” personal information and make it available to the public for free, then I’m an irresponsible, idiotic, incompetent buffoon. But if I put a paywall in front of it and sell tha
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by magnusss 7y ago
Same here, though the DMC car looked futuristic for its time. This is simply hideous, a meme of itself. Any idea what the curb weight is?
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by magnusss 7y ago
It strikes me that these “woke” students and faculty who value victimization over free speech are simply lazy. It takes far less effort to justify a position with dogma than with an intelligent, nuanced argument.
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by magnusss 7y ago
Any email with an img tag can change its contents between views. AMP is not required to do that. The img content is retrieved from a server (or a proxy) every time the email is opened, and that content can change between opens.
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by magnusss 8y ago
Great example, thank you. Sounds like you had a fun 12 weeks :-).
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by magnusss 8y ago
Excellent analysis! I would modify #2 slightly, as a workaround might also be convenient and cheap. Obviously one should use common sense to avoid adverse outcomes. Inexpensive productivity tools get approved more quickly, whereas upgrade
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by magnusss 8y ago
"Intentionally" would have been a better choice of word than "explicitly," as I use delay as a decision-making tactic rather than an official, published policy. Yes, it is possible that people are gaming my tactic and I

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