silverpepsi

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by silverpepsi 8mo ago
There wasn't but consider the context: at the time YouTube was an almost purely piracy platform most likely the biggest on the planet if quantified in IP dollar value - yet was magically not shut down by the government. How unfair to t
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by silverpepsi 1y ago
Can someone explain why it isn't disingenuous to look at Euros? Firstly, euros cost now as much as they did three years ago. So that is clearly a price that can be reached with any number of causes. Then, UK pounds cost only what they
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by silverpepsi 2y ago
>If you were taking any other drug (over the counter or RX) would anyone tolerate "today it's 100 mg, tomorrow it's 400 mg"? afaik melatonin. Not super happy about it but it is what it is, giving it up has a high cost
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by silverpepsi 2y ago
Not the whole market at the high end either, I have very little trouble getting any pair of Balmain, Versace, and Rick Owens sneaker I want - I have several dozen pairs of all three brands Strategy at the high end is to price correctly but
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by silverpepsi 2y ago
"we want to be able to hang somewhere" ...just saying because I'm sorry I can't contain myself: This is exactly the use case Airbnb doesn't solve. I fly half-way across the world to meet my parents on vacation and a
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by silverpepsi 2y ago
Was the $.99 price point really invented at a point in history before sales taxes came to be established? Round prices have never been convenient because it always come out to $1.07 1.08 1.09 something like that with a mix of state and loca
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by silverpepsi 2y ago
I don't think we can draw any conclusion from that campaign because multiple variables were changed simultaneously The biggest ones in my mind, the ones my family had always played: they got rid of the game playing involved in buying d
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
When you eat at a sit down restaurant, part of the service is not forcing you to walk to the register up front to pay. Hence you leave your card with the waiter and they disappear with it for up to 15 minutes to process the payment at the t
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Doesn't strike me as wise. Your phone is always on you, if you have a biometrics killswitch you're better off than repeatedly entering your password, day in and day out, in public locations where a highly motivated actor WILL be a
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
I type in Chinese regularly It is annoying that Windows keeps Qwerty for it while Mac uses Dvorak. If it was just consistent (I constantly switch machines) it would be easy to handle and entirely subconscious by now... But I start typing th
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
In other words, people destined to die early, of their own accord, don't like to briskly walk, not even for a mere 22 minutes. But how do we know this destined-to-die cohort will change that destiny by merely pretending to be the other
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
This isn't real Every business, every business has people who go in with the "no matter the cost" situation. But the market sets the schedule of pricing, so if either their status is not "revealed" or the business i
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Lol "famous"? Sorry I don't think a pickle can be famous but ya know different strokes.
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
#1 Better to take one shot at $500 before paying a pick-up artist $5000-10,000 from training/conferences #2 Imagine you make $100k USD and haven't scored a date in a decade. Wouldn't taking a gamble of $500 seem appealing jus
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
There's a special place in the inferno for Booking staff who send me distracting notifications about the fact that the hotel I'm currently living out of having availability. These are especially insidious as I dare not turn off th
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
電腦 in Chinese (rather than Japanese) characters to be pendantic :)
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
I see the importance of any argument I'm making on being the best bet for 95% of humans. No policy governing humans is ever going to make imperfect humans perfect, but policies can and do go to far to where they're a detriment to
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Firstly, what I said can be true in one scope of reference and what you say in another. It's not mutually exclusive. I feel your perspective is more about lots of the world after the rise of nation states and dense civilization. For me
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
My grandparents did that, it was one of the principle annoyances I had with visting them as a kid It was very shocking to go from 75dB to an ambient 30dB or something like that out in the countryside. I'd have much preferred to talk ov
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
I really disagree with all the comments that make reference to reality - no that is not at all what "reality" is. The fact of the matter is that as an adult, I can draw a line in the sand and either leave a job or report someone w
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Something I heard a few years back put my life experience as a kid in perspective. At least for me, in the most important way possible, it doesn't sound like regular school at all. The main deep life impacting characteristic of standar
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Just put a time adverbial like last year today tomorrow later "in a bit". :)
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
You're writing this tongue in cheek or really not knowing? That's exactly what Indonesian is , a simplified standardized language to allow hundreds of different ethnicities with their own languages to easily communicate. There are
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
So basically the West giving up any and all claims it has or ever had had (given morally questionable behaviors in the history books) to moral legitimacy for the sake of climate programs? I already strongly question the legitimacy of the US
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Hmm is that just a ridiculously unqualified statement, or do you really mean any old time any old place?
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Well, I dunno if you've ever driven a performance car say around 420hp but having one extra passenger is absolutely noticable and undesirable, it really slows you down. 4 passengers in the car and it's no longer a fun drive. Not a
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Pretending you can logically deduce what the market most desires based on facts about their lives is a theory that is really far out there 1. Do you have any memory of when SUVs went mainstream? Who'd have thought single women would wa
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
There are those who believe it is morally questionable or even a crime to take back any portion of what was stolen from you in an armed robbery, it now belongs to those who employ coercion to obtain things etc. We are not amongst them and h
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
I'm reading this comment as opposition to the rule of law The law they broke is of the type where you can't be known if what you're doing is allowed or not in advance. Dictatorships love these sorts of laws, but unfortunately
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by silverpepsi 3y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right?

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