mountainofdeath

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by mountainofdeath 2mo ago
Raw cloud computing costs have a fairly small margin over what they could be. Nobody with real purchasing power is paying anywhere near the listed retail rates. It's part of the reason smaller providers e.g. OVH, can remain quite compe
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by mountainofdeath 2mo ago
History is littered with the corpses of companies that had exceptional but expensive products that were replaced with cheap, good enough products.
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by mountainofdeath 4mo ago
Of course they would. Private equity looks for the following things 1. Things with an inelastic market and fixed demand. 2. Many overlapping small time competitors. 3. Steady cash flow, preferably with low capital costs though not always Yo
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by mountainofdeath 5mo ago
The same thing was said about the crazy build-out of fiber and telecommunications infrastructure. That infrastructure did prove useful but it took about 10-20 years before that was the case. It took 4G becoming broadly available and the ens
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by mountainofdeath 1y ago
The implicit assumption in libertarian perspectives is that all parties are rational and have similar levels of information. In healthcare, this is simply not true. The average person isn't capable to judge what is and isn't neces
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by mountainofdeath 2y ago
To add even more noise, there is a similar service from Samsung called Samsung Cash which lets you transfer cash between other Samsung Cash users using a prepaid Visa debit card on the backend. It
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by mountainofdeath 2y ago
The unbanked in the USA don't have a bank account for a variety of reasons. Typically 1. Mistrust and fear of "being in the system" 2. Having a legal judgment against them e.g. child support, fines, overdue rent 3. Avoiding s
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by mountainofdeath 2y ago
When I was in China, the government issued an edict that basically said "merchants of a certain size must accept AliPay/WeChat Pay/UnionPay CloudPay universally". All of the above are almost identical "Scan my QR co
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by mountainofdeath 2y ago
Yes and no. It's still a cash-equivalent transaction, requiring you to either have an Apple Cash balance and/or an attached checking account or debit card (in the USA at least).
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by mountainofdeath 2y ago
To my knowledge, zero. If you really mean Jews, I think there are roughly 40 between both houses of Congress. None of them are Israeli citizens. Jews are not automatically citizens of Israel though they do have dedicated pathway to obtainin
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Also, cats. I now have two cats and now I average 1-2 American roach sightings a year.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Coffee makers. I once picked up a nice, high-end Keuring machine for free from a neighbor. Later than evening, I noticed something moving around it. It was full of roaches. I put it in a trash bag and ran to put it in the garbage outside. T
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
This isn't a new concept. NYC (among other cities) had networks of Pneumatic tubes to shuttle intra-city mail around. For NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor... For Paris: https:&#x2
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Indeed. In my time, it wasn't uncommon to have 6 AP classes a semester along with at least one time-intensive extracurricular. Assuming each class is the equivalent of 3 credit hours, it's the equivalent of an above average number
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
FWIW, I have Verizon FiOS in NYC at a reasonable price. The city of NY and the state do their best to keep Verizon and Spectrum at arms length. By way of contrast, my parents live in the mid-west and were plagued between a choice of slow AT
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I've actually seen this elsewhere as well. The local rural telephone cooperatives tend to have better service and better support if the customer base decides it and can afford it.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Having a license is not a prerequisite to buying a vehicle. having money or equivalent is. You just won't be able to legally drive it.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but the only material differences between contractor and employee status are 1. Who pay's the employer side income taxes. Contractors pay both sides. 2. Not eligible for benefits, you have to go to overpriced o
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
This is stupid. In an ideal US world, where healthcare insurance premiums aren't insane and aren't skewed toward large corporations, then everyone should be a contractor. The person hiring you sends you payment and you do the work
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I vaguely recall DI.FM having a similar map circa 2006, complete with descriptions of each genre.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
FBA de-risks the transaction for Amazon and the vendor. You sell a known quantity with a known delivery window. Small businesses often struggle with this and criminals use this to their advantage. If eBay/non-FBA is a flea market, FBA
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Much of what Amazon does is what other retailers already do. Amazon just does it more overtly and with smaller businesses. In fact, various aspects of this where pioneered by WalMart and Costco. 1. WalMart determines the expected product an
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
So, that's like, a fraction of a percent of revenue of this particular online product? They may as well attribute it to marketing and keep doing it.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Exactly. The worry was that it would provide justification for violence against specific groups which is why it wasn't publicly entertained as a theory even if privately it was. Planting the seed of that thought in an armed populace al
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Indeed this is the case. The timing was unfortunate in that the pandemic hit during the absolute lowest point in trust of public institutions and bad faith actors stepped into the void to take advantage of that. In terms of covid specifical
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
An automobile is basically a requirement to not starve anywhere outside the core of maybe 5 American cities with acceptable public transit. It's the same as having a pair of shoes.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Axis supports ONVIF as do HikVision and Dahua (if you are OK with Chinese brands). I've yet to find an ONVIF compatible camera with reasonable quality that didn't cost $$$.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Frankly I'm surprised only the Chinese are doing it. You would think large corporations would do the same against internal troublemakers, competitors, etc.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I believe none of them require proof of employment eligibility e.g. immigration papers so it's a way for those on the fringes of society to make a living. It's basically the same as why people work bad jobs for cash that is less t
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I agree. I've seen all of the above and more. I've seen full-on motorcycles in bicycle lanes going the wrong direction. I've seen them ride right through a crowded sidewalk, I was in China recently and it struck me how wide t

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