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by natchy 5y ago
Getting the president of a country to push other countries to take the vaccine is next level go-to-market strategy. > some profit. Ha! We’re talking 10s of billions. Personally, I’m waiting for the Monsanto vaccine before I take it.
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by natchy 5y ago
> Biden has vowed to vaccinate 70% of the world in the next year Imagine the profits Pfizer is going to have. Hell of a quarter.
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by natchy 5y ago
Qualtrics gave engineers RSUs in 2015 when they were still private.
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by natchy 5y ago
Same. Couldn’t view the link and won’t be installing an app I have no intention of using.
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by natchy 5y ago
> rationalist and never believe conspiracy theories That’s irrational to NEVER believe them. How do you know what is or isn’t a conspiracy theory? Whether it was fact checked by our overlords?
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by natchy 5y ago
Maybe Tesla was actually innocent and they are counting on the Streisand effect. It’s a stretch.
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by natchy 5y ago
I’ve never seems a timeline-view calendar in the terminal like here: https://github.com/SitanHuang/ledg What libraries were used to do that? I don’t see a package.json
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by natchy 5y ago
That’s just a client though, right? They write JavaScript too for clients. It’s probably production level services, not just projects.
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by natchy 5y ago
The vilest? Not even. That was a mild 4chan thread.
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by natchy 5y ago
Facebook/Instagram?
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by natchy 5y ago
> even offered $100 to get the vaccine Must be one hell of a pandemic if that is a greater incentive than immunity.
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by natchy 5y ago
It wouldn’t be inconsistent to advocate for voter ID laws and let minorities disagree. His point was not speaking for minorities.
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by natchy 5y ago
> a free, readily available vaccine Nothing is free. How much did pharma companies make from the vaccine? I don’t know the answer.
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by natchy 5y ago
This isn’t a brutalist site just because it has little color.
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by natchy 5y ago
Square is a public company. Not a startup by any means.
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by natchy 5y ago
> both sides There’s not only 2 sides. I stopped reading any news or social media (outside HN or stocks) since New Years. I don’t feel on a side anymore.
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by natchy 5y ago
You used the term “homeless” after saying you hate it?
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by natchy 5y ago
Nobody mentioned cars. This little 125cc motorcycle get 125-150 mpg. Tops out at 55mph. https://powersports.honda.com/street/minimoto/trail125-abs
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by natchy 5y ago
Related, I was just talking about why middle/high school years seem to last longer than now. The variety of the time spent was probably a factor (Playing in the band one day, focusing on decathlon another). Life is monotonous these day
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by natchy 5y ago
From the article: > We asked whether it is “fair or unfair for people who say grossly offensive things to be at risk of losing their livelihoods?” Nationally, 48 percent believe it is “fair,” but this figure rises to 65 percent for soci
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by natchy 5y ago
> this is a huge argument What was the argument. I didn’t see an argument. That fact that expensive apartments exist? > let them pay in blood for the privilege Why? Follow this thread of envy and it ends at a guillotine for anyone wit
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by natchy 5y ago
So she admitted that political climate at work contributed to her emotional/medical leave? Sounds like she would be more fulfilled at a non-profit. Sounds like she was spinning her wheels doing things that don’t necessarily make the co
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by natchy 5y ago
> There is a new Pokemon game coming out called "Pokemon Snap" where apparently the whole game consists of traveling through the game world and taking photos of Pokemon At first I thought you were joking as if we were in the 90
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by natchy 5y ago
So it’s not “empowerment”. It’s equal outcomes. It’s not “leveling the playing field”, it’s removing the playing field. If that’s your goal whatever, but dressing it up behind platitudes is dishonest.
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by natchy 5y ago
> The measures she proposes would likely raise wages for everyone Then it’s not realistic. How can companies afford to raise their highest expense? This will put a cap on skilled negotiators since it creates a fixed range. Call it a “ben
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by natchy 5y ago
How does this empower women? Sounds like lowering the bar for everyone. The author even said she’s likely to undervalue her own worth. This proposal is a business straight up telling them their worth. Opposite of empowering. She wants price
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by natchy 5y ago
If they don’t want to do it themselves then some of our billionaires will be happy to invest and own huge portions of the upside.
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by natchy 5y ago
> This is a colonialist policy nations can’t even do some kind of sanction to promote clean tech without some social justice moralisms? It’s so tiresome. The plane is going down. First class goes down with coach.
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by natchy 5y ago
> Competition is good for consumers On the whole, yes, but not for all consumers. If some people lived near a beautiful meadow and river, and everyone else lived in the desert, then competition (e.g. opening up a direct train to the mead
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by natchy 5y ago
> For example, if Elon Musk succeeds in landing the first person on Mars, his coin price should theoretically go up. And if, in contrast, he makes a racial slur during a press conference, his coin price should theoretically go down. Ye

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