ryanfreeborn

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by ryanfreeborn 1mo ago
>The only mistake EU policymakers made was underestimating how willing companies were to deface their websites. Yes and that is a MASSIVE mistake for a policymaker to commit. They should absolutely be pilloried for their incredible lack
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by ryanfreeborn 1mo ago
Policy should never assume good faith actors. There wouldn't need to be policy if an assumption of good faith was a valid substrate for the policy. The policy is bad because its authors built it in a vacuum, without any thought or care
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by ryanfreeborn 2mo ago
Man the reddit apps sucks
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
- Fucked up predatory remittance money shops, and forced them to lower their fees and actually start competing. - Offered a more stable unit of exchange for people in places where fiat was not usable. - Cheaper alternative method for f
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
And the fact that it sank on its maiden voyage. The tragic irony makes it obvious why humans bestow such significance upon it.
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
Yes, exactly what huthuthike said. As I Lay Dying. Sound & Fury is great but a much more challenging read.
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
Ya McCarthy borrows heavily from Melville and Faulkner, which he readily cops to. Judge Holden and Ahab have a lot in common.
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
Some of my favorite quotes, from my favorite McCarthy book, Blood Meridian: War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. -- Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
Many have already pointed that there have been studies to measure the accuracy of sleep analysis by wearables. They aren't that great. If you have a concern, you should definitely seek out a polysomnograph, and wearables should not be
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
Purely anecdotal but I know way more TVs with an Apple TV device than I know humans with an Apple watch. In most cases they are households with many TV-Apple TV pairings, and maybe one or two people in the household have an Apple watch.
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by ryanfreeborn 3y ago
Yup. Federal law enforcement uses interstate nexus via server locations to establish jurisdiction.
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by ryanfreeborn 4y ago
I don't see familiarity being with the touchscreen buttons being the issue. The issue is that actually touching a certain amount of pixels on a disembodied screen, while driving, while the car is in motion, is actually annoyingly diffi
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by ryanfreeborn 4y ago
> Brave | do not use | This term perpetuates the stereotype of the "noble courageous savage," equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man. Should we get rid of bravo then as well? I assume people making these lists ha
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by ryanfreeborn 4y ago
Tangentially related, Russ Roberts of econtalk had a good interview a few years ago with the founder of a free market hospital in Oklahoma. Super interesting. https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
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by ryanfreeborn 4y ago
I have been under the good faith assumption that most (though definitely not all) of the employees that have departed Twitter were probably necessary and valuable to the company. I left the article with the same impression as you. This sing
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by ryanfreeborn 4y ago
No, I think the article makes it very clear what the value and function of SRE is. The point of the comment you're responding to is that the author was the only one doing this—not a team of ten, not even a team of two. This is Twitter&
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by ryanfreeborn 5y ago
Your source is a Texas-secessionist rant with no citations? Do you have any actual objective reviews of why the power grid issue happened?
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by ryanfreeborn 5y ago
I'd guess that turns aren't a big deal. Commercial flights rarely turn above 10k feet, so really just some risk of airsickness briefly at either end of the flight. Wing flex during turbulence seems like it would be a far bigger co
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by ryanfreeborn 5y ago
OP's idea is that the FTC punted this at the direction of an elected official who gets campaign donations from tech companies. It does not follow that because the FTC has a revolving door problem (which it definitely does), there was e
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by ryanfreeborn 5y ago
Unlikely. High ranking government lawyers usually don't just put on cases to appease the donors of the executive. These are high-achieving, career-driven people. They want to win.
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by ryanfreeborn 5y ago
You swore Tile off because because you don't like how batteries generally function?
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by ryanfreeborn 5y ago
Perhaps other MSM publications. The specific article here talks about US accidents in high-standards labs, and posits that those same accidents can happen in other countries. It's not attacking China at all. What you're describing
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by ryanfreeborn 6y ago
Ya, this is really it. I bought a Model 3 about 6 months ago. I spent about 3 months researching, test-driving, talking with dealerships. I had zero interest in a Tesla when I started, but I begrudgingly bought one because it was so far ahe
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by ryanfreeborn 6y ago
And if anyone decides to read this, please make sure you read In The First Circle , not The First Circle . The latter is the "first" publication, which Solzhenitsyn abridged and modified, because he did not think that the true w
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by ryanfreeborn 6y ago
The law requires brokerages to assess clients knowledge and fitness to trade more advanced instruments like spreads and naked options. This individual most likely lied to the brokerage about his trading experience, and that's why he wa
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by ryanfreeborn 6y ago
Half of their models start at $80k+ USD. Sure seems like a luxury brand.
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by ryanfreeborn 6y ago
Which continent is the one where no one speaks english?
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by ryanfreeborn 9y ago
This is a pretty absolutist approach. >What's the need? How about plain old abuse? People using services to break the law, particularly crimes with victims? Safety risks? - An uber passenger sees their driver has a gun in the cup ho
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by ryanfreeborn 9y ago
>it fails the stable store of value test ...when compared to a handful of fiat currencies, maybe. It's not fair to gatekeep with top performers, in my opinion. There are many national currencies that lack stability. That doesn'
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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
At least until after a few 10ks

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