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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
If a company with a drug in clinical trials is publicly traded, going long or short on shares of that company is functionally equivalent to a binary bet on the outcome. Stock in a biotech company that has a drug in clinical trials is equity
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> I get the addictiveness of TikTok and Reels but I don't know what the solution is to the supposed insidiousness. They just figured out what you like to watch and showed you more similar stuff. The solution for an individual is not
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Oracle is primarily a legal department that sells software licenses to give their lawyers something to extract money from customers with. Google “Oracle org chart meme” and look at image results, only it’s not a meme.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
There are examples of people manipulating precipitation monitors to get crop insurance payouts: https://www.agweb.com/news/business/rain-robbers-how-four-fa... The incentive was already there without prediction ma
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Biotech stocks for premarket drugs are functionally binary bets on the drug trial itself and have existed for a long time. Wildfire prediction markets would be incredibly reckless and dangerous. The two situations are not even close to bein
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
It’s not, anyone claiming otherwise is arguing from an emotional position, not a rational one.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Binary bets on drug approvals for publicly traded biotech companies are no different than going long or short the equity of the biotech company. The incentive to interfere in drug trials has been around as long as biotech companies have bee
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
This specific policy is because one thin-skinned narcissist lost a legal case in Scotland over wind turbine aesthetics. His personality disorder makes him hold grudges forever and lash out and punish unrelated parties. I bet the two of you
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Humans have sex and kill each other and always have. It’s intrinsic to human nature.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> I think a lot of us probably would agree that pornographic content is generally bad for society. I don’t believe that at all, in fact, I believe the opposite. I think a religious minority forcing a parochial view of morality onto peopl
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Generally, property in places where the landscape is well-maintained is worth substantially more than property where half the lawns are uncut and the fence lines are overgrown with weeds. The US is a land of individualists who also have mos
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Most city code about turfgrass lawns mandates cutting them if you have one. If you don’t want to maintain a lawn by keeping it trimmed, rip it out. It’s a non-native monoculture, allowing it to grow un-maintained is uh, stupid. Rip the sod
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
There are municipalities in the US with lawn ordinances, mine has one. > Tall Grass and Weeds > Weeds or grass more than eight inches high or that have gone to seed must be cut or mowed. Noxious weeds, as defined by the state Departme
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
The LLM generated article was deleted because the ACM doesn’t accept LLM generated writing for republishing.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Kansas is mostly a gigantic farm and there’s farm roads every mile or so. Laying out roads along section (square mile, 640 acres) or quarter section (160 acre) boundaries is probably how Kansas developed its road network. 36 sections make u
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> Do these clowns actually forget that part? No, they are aware. You and I are not the audience for this post. People with capital to invest are the intended audience.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> Our great grandfathers were practically guaranteed to be marrying virgins Lol yeah, and fetishes were invented in the 1950s. Very few people in history made it to marriage as virgins.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Find product that users like and can be difficult to switch away from, cut operating costs to the bone, and jack up prices. Ideally the money you extract from the remaining customers pays for the acquisition plus generates a profit. Someone
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Probably the same reason some food delivery people place my bag next to the door instead of in front of the outward opening door where it will tip over, unsure what that reason is but I’d like to know.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
People who use the threat of violence and actual violence to control people at work being more likely to do so at home to their own family seems self-evident to me. Not making any moral judgements, if I used violence professionally I’d expe
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
It was Netflix. Only the most milquetoast pablum gets made over there and it’s all shot with the same cameras and settings and it all looks the same and every idea is ripped from either an HBO show if it’s a series, or an older film if it’s
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Kinda hard to farm on land when it’s worth $1000-3000 a square foot like land is in Manhattan. I’m not even sure a vertically integrated coca plantation/cocaine refinery would be profitable with those property taxes and your gross marg
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent... Look at the very first row, Japan is the single largest holder of US Treasuries. Why did you post this false claim? Please do better.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Thanks for the honest response, I appreciate it! It’s a great idea for an AI tool and as long as you aren’t selling directly identifiable data, I don’t see a problem with using it. I worry about my data being sold if I used a tool like this
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Who are you selling the conversation logs and customer info to? If you’re not selling customer financial data (yet), how much are companies offering you for it? I’d rather get no response than be patronized, so no linking to corporate polic
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
If I have to buy a consumer fridge and they all have screens, that’s when I’ll call up a refrigeration company and buy a commercial refrigerator.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Toyota is the least objectionable car manufacturer and used vehicle deprecation curves don’t lie, I trust money decisions more than words. As long as they keep annoying ads and subscriptions out of their vehicles, I’ll keep driving them.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Stellantis shows ads on their screens in-car. It’s expected behavior from an awful manufacturer like Stellantis, but I wouldn’t have expected this from BMW. It’s tacky and would turn me off from buying a BMW if I was looking at one.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I don’t understand. Do you think the Dutch came to Manhattan in the 1620s and found it fully built out with streets and skyscrapers?
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
You can buy recessed LED cans with remote drivers. It’s not super common, but they exist in commercial installations. The largest LED drivers that I am familiar with are 24VDC/96w which is enough for (12) 8w recessed cans. Individual d

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