nscalf

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by nscalf 2y ago
On approach, and dropped from 600 feet to 400 feet at a rate of 4000 feet per minute. So a 3 second drop. I don’t know much about what is normal here, but that seems like important framing.
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by nscalf 3y ago
I lived in Florida for a long time, I can tell you that people don’t evacuate when it’s a cat 4 threatening to maybe become a cat 5. Having a category meaning “this is much worse than a 4” would be meaningful here. I see no reason to have a
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by nscalf 3y ago
Nintendo also makes notoriously bad consoles (by spec, not uniqueness). Their IP is more of the reason they succeed than is the case for most consoles. Their hardware is always years behind the specs for competitors.
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by nscalf 3y ago
I think the caveat here for people doing something legal is the questionable future status of crypto. Countries have completely outlawed holding them before, I’d rather just not have it tied to my name if there’s any risk of it becoming ill
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by nscalf 3y ago
It is nothing shy of disgusting that someone clearly incapable of serving the role of senator dragged her constituents and the country through this till death. Shame on her, her family, and her staff.
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by nscalf 3y ago
She’s a strong advocate for the democrat process and will continue to serve her term.
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by nscalf 3y ago
Sometimes doing stupid things is fun. That’s the point.
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by nscalf 3y ago
This robot didn’t pull money that would otherwise be used for giving people healthcare. You’re complaining about unrelated things, the problem is around bought and sold politicians allowing for regulatory capture in healthcare, not around g
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by nscalf 3y ago
There may be alternatives to specific subreddits, but there is no Reddit alternative. There is only one macro network like Reddit, and that is Reddit. Maybe that network effect breaks, but I doubt that happens because of this.
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by nscalf 3y ago
It might be worth listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Nintendo. They are very far from perfect, and have had a good number of serious failures, along with some very strange decisions that clearly hurt them. Nintendo has a die har
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by nscalf 3y ago
Venice did a good job with this, New Orleans still has hope.
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by nscalf 3y ago
We should expand energy production where there is extra demand for energy. That new energy should likely be nuclear. To pass judgement on what the energy use should be is ridiculous, and very counter to the behavior of this country that let
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by nscalf 3y ago
Social media has created more mental illness in people. It's become normalized to jump to extreme slander like racist or sexist, etc. In my experience over the past 8 years on HN, when I am flippantly called things like that for disa
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by nscalf 3y ago
In my experience, conversation rates were ~6% from a pop up timed to land when you were nearly done with the article (though on short articles, it was similar to what is described—I don’t have data on those two broken out). Subscribers stuc
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by nscalf 3y ago
The situation OP is describing would drastically cut costs by not filtering out good employees who are either bad test takers, having an off day, or didn’t have an “ahh ha” moment early enough in the evaluation.
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by nscalf 3y ago
Let’s not pretend like anyone thinks we can reasonably reach out to someone and have any impact on what the SEC does. This country runs off money, not voter sentiment, and we all know it.
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by nscalf 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes you think interest rates need to go higher to stop inflation? I know that’s the standard response to inflation, but economics is wildly complex. My read on this situation was always that we needed to decrease th
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by nscalf 4y ago
Absolutely nuts. It’s apparently been 8 months with no CRO.
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by nscalf 4y ago
I think the biggest concern with SVB was about the contagion risk because we didn’t know to what extent they were the counter party for other banks risk management. If you hedged your low interest bonds via options with SVB holding the othe
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by nscalf 4y ago
You’re missing a big part of this, banks with good risk management hedged these positions. SVB did not, they also did not have a chief risk officer.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Yep, get a loan denominated in USDC. You can lever up in USDC and buy USDT with it.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Oof, absolutely terrible idea. The first priority always has to be making sure your business survives. You’re doing a disservice to your investors and employees.
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by nscalf 4y ago
I don’t think any of this really matters. You can just not have a Facebook account, almost none of us are in positions to defend our social status or prevent social engineering on Facebook. If you’re famous, that’s one thing, but there’s no
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by nscalf 4y ago
I'm curious how much of the research going into Nature if funded by the US government.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Oof this isn’t even close to being proven to the point of being a reasonable recommendation. How about you wait 10 years and see if that’s real science. Dietary science is hard.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Like real time language translators, jet packs, and video phone calls on a hand held device?
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by nscalf 4y ago
We spend trillions in military programs. If many pilots are saying they see something crazy in the sky, and are backed by other eye witnesses, on board radar, and supporting ships radars, the only reasonable response is investigations. Ther
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by nscalf 4y ago
Yeah, I completely agree with you. It seems like the best path for them would have been something like what slack did. There was a time when Dropbox was a widely used product, that would have been a great time to get acquired and bundled.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Dropbox is an $8.5b publicly traded company, so it’s in a much better place than an idea that got shot down on the internet and never went anywhere.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Once you go public you have no option other than to just grow at all costs. The cost of Netflix pushing growth is turning consumer sentiment against them by cracking down on account sharing and pushing ads into the service. Netflix had a

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