milesskorpen

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by milesskorpen 8d ago
Also debit cards run by smaller credit unions charge credit-card like fees (and then are used by fintechs to earn fees while making it harder to pass those fees on to end users).
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by milesskorpen 3mo ago
While that does happen occasionally in SF, it's <5% of my commutes.
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by milesskorpen 4mo ago
Americans save at a much lower rate than Europeans (5% US vs. 15% EU), which I think makes your whole thesis backwards. Maybe Americans SHOULD be saving more for retirement, but they aren't!
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by milesskorpen 4mo ago
It's read-only data, fwiw
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by milesskorpen 4mo ago
My RSS reader downloads a local copy of posts so I can read offline (Reeder). I imagine that would trigger his analytics.
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by milesskorpen 5mo ago
Yes - I've set it up as an 'office manager,' where it mainly snakily interacts with the local team via Slack, and controls an office TV to show our quote board, PTO calendar, and upcoming events. The Clawe is overkill for the
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by milesskorpen 6mo ago
Huge amounts of cash were given to many Americans during Covid.
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by milesskorpen 6mo ago
1950-1985 and 1985-now are pretty steady. Decreased inflation volatility over time. I think your chart shows the "that inflation slowly erodes purchasing power over time." That doesn't mean there aren't periods of change
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by milesskorpen 6mo ago
Facebook stock is up 6x in ~3 years, so the market does not agree with your assessment of his track record.
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by milesskorpen 7mo ago
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the FAA maybe did not trust CBP to "test" operate the high powered laser near civilian aviation, in part given that they mistakenly identified a balloon for a cartel drone.
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by milesskorpen 7mo ago
Yes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-... FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on Tuesday night decided to close the airspace — without alerting White House, Pentagon or Homeland Security official
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by milesskorpen 7mo ago
I agree the risk transfer is very important, but Visa and Mastercard don't do that (they just facilitate it)
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by milesskorpen 8mo ago
It's extremely improbable that a random critique of Thiel led to one of the many many many companies he invests in banning this guy. It's not impossible, but - Occam's razor, it's not the simplest assumption. Your initia
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by milesskorpen 8mo ago
But you'd have an asset you own at the end of that period, and your mortgage payments wouldn't go up over time whereas rent likely would.
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by milesskorpen 9mo ago
I was thinking autonomy, but you're right for EV alone.
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by milesskorpen 9mo ago
1/6 is a lot lower (good!) but is that sufficient to say they're not a large source of particulate air emissions?
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by milesskorpen 9mo ago
EVs help with air pollution & congestion, but a huge part of the AQI impact of cars is tires, and I don't think there's a solution for that yet short of "fewer cars"
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by milesskorpen 10mo ago
It's a big number - but still less than tech industry profits.
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by milesskorpen 11mo ago
What?
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by milesskorpen 11mo ago
Yeah. He starts with reasonable points about the economy changing into the Electronic Era and then starts making increasingly less-evidenced points by the end.
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
He clearly says this is in the context of "transaction processing" in the comment you're responding to.
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
I doubt it's her husband. She's more powerful than he is.
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
There are extremely high fixed costs + we require hospitals to do unprofitable work (they aren't allowed to turn anyone away from the ED, for example). In many small regional chains, their profitable hospitals in one area fund unprofit
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
While this could be true, I don't think OpenAI is investing the $hundreds of millions-to-billions that would be required otherwise make it actually true. OpenAI's fund is ~$250-300mm Nvidia reportedly invested $1b last year - stil
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
At least in the US, insurers have been losing money in recent years. Definitely not price gouging. Insurance is an amazing service.
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
yes
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
Does it matter? Wasn't a technical breach of their systems, but instead social engineering.
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
The tip piece is interesting - that'd close a big chunk of the price gap, if people are tipping 10-20%
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by milesskorpen 1y ago
Such a blast from the past. Had so much fun with these back in the day, along with Winamp themes. I can't tell if I've aged or tech has aged such that this kind of thing isn't really around any more. Probably both.
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Zoom is down because the registry disabled their domain(old.reddit.com)
30 points by milesskorpen 1y ago|2 comments

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