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by smoovb 3mo ago
The CEO then went on to explain, “We raised base salaries in Japan by 10 percent in April 2023,” adding, “Since then, we have continued to review our compensation system to ensure that remuneration aligns with employees’ demonstrated capabi
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by smoovb 3mo ago
Debit cards have to pay too many people. The acquiring bank, the receiving bank, the network, all take their fees. Stripe and their minimum $.30 per transactions leave no room for $0.01 API calls.
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by smoovb 5mo ago
I am a donor and the EFF post feels performative and political. They still post to Flickr!
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by smoovb 5mo ago
Maybe most people here are social platform agnostic and thus EFF's limply constructed reasoning does not make make much sense for a brand trying to maximise their audience. Unless EFF are not platform agnostic and hold some view of th
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by smoovb 5mo ago
>The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. Have the costs to post to X grown too high? The salary of someone with the technical know-how to work the social media platform is too expensive? How does the math compare with Mastodon? Do y
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by smoovb 5mo ago
Satoshi Nakamoto was likely created in response to the December 2005 raid of e-Gold in Florida by U.S. Secret Service/FBI, and other similar incidents. e-Gold was the largest Digital currency at the time clearly showed the dangers of
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by smoovb 7mo ago
Biggest take away - 90 million acres in the US go to corn/ethanol production. 31 acres of corn for ethanol to match the energy production of just 1 acre of solar panels. Revenue could be 3-4x that of corn production. Get ready for ri
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by smoovb 7mo ago
We are living thru the 'doctors prescribing cigarettes' era of lucrative fear-mongering.
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by smoovb 8mo ago
Youtube has this model with Preimum. If Chrome rolled out Chrome Premium, (and copied the Brave BAT model of paying sites you give attention to), I'd be happy to pay.
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by smoovb 8mo ago
You'd love Brave browser then.
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by smoovb 8mo ago
electrek.co recent Tesla headline summary with sentiment: (negative) Tesla to stop selling Full Self-Driving package, moves to subscription-only (negative) Elon Musk says Tesla 'almost done' with AI5 design, 6 months after
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by smoovb 9mo ago
So Seth Weintraub sold $TSLA at $35 a share in Jan 2020. Today $467. Then Seth missed out on gains of 1,200%. And Fred selling in Sep, 2024 missed out on 100% gains.
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Show HN: Long term, data only eSIMs – built with Claude Code(jetogo.com)
6 points by smoovb 9mo ago|1 comments
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by smoovb 10mo ago
Scan their other posts - you might notice some bait. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=autoblog.com
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by smoovb 10mo ago
Consumer reports put VW 18th out of 22 in reliability, yet some how this article states: "Volkswagen emerged as a dominant force in the reliability rankings, with the Golf Sportsvan, T Roc, and Touareg earning top marks in the four-yea
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by smoovb 10mo ago
While I'm not sure that is true, it's fun to watch the bets that were made, unfold. And who's going to take spot #3?
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by smoovb 10mo ago
If it comes to pass that traffic jams are in large part due to poor human choices, that will bode poorly for the general populace to continue to be allowed to drive. Flying used to be like this - my grandpa had 3 airplanes, used one to fly
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by smoovb 10mo ago
Maybe we are meant to vote on it. I vote $299.
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by smoovb 11mo ago
Maybe it had the "I bought this long after I knew Hitler was a fascist" bumper sticker?
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by smoovb 11mo ago
I was doing the math on leasing an EV and really seems to work. With the EV deprecation, you are actually coming out ahead of buying in many cases. A friend did this with a Kia a few years ago and looks like its a valid option.
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by smoovb 11mo ago
Picked up a 10 year old Fiat 500e with 50k miles for $5k as my daughters first car. She and my wife love it. Way more power than the gas model, and a super fun drive. Thank you "Plummeting Resale Values"!
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by smoovb 1y ago
Why would the mobile provider want to catch it? If these guys are paying MobileX for 256 sims per bank * 64 sim banks = 16,384 sims and say $20 per plan = $327,680 per month of company income.
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by smoovb 1y ago
The Secret Service is being overly alarmist, but to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. “We need to do forensics on 100,000 cell phones, essentially all the phone calls, all the text messages, anything to do with communications, see whe
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by smoovb 1y ago
When taking a break from tending my agents, I like to eat lunch, some exercise or check on other work and emails.
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by smoovb 1y ago
Somewhat tangential - devious unsolvable captchas use to infuriate phone scammers. https://youtu.be/TOzEnwl7LkA?si=ZG5DJXAjUDCNaAuL
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by smoovb 1y ago
All that cooling, surely Alaska would make more sense?
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by smoovb 1y ago
Interesting, a apparent GFW insider (GFW官方代表) making a statement on the leak and its source: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/519#issuecomment-33...
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by smoovb 1y ago
I don't know who this is, but given the number of comments, seems to have mattered. Only point of this comment is assure others who don't know his work that you are not alone.
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by smoovb 1y ago
Etherscan has tagged these addresses already. As of this check, none of the other block explorers have. Etherscan - yes - https://etherscan.io/address/0x4Cb4c0E7057829c378Eb7A9b174B0... Mempool.space - no Blockchair
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by smoovb 1y ago
Here's what Claude has to say about electrek.co: Tesla Headlines Sentiment Analysis - Electrek.co Bottom Line: Strongly Negative Sentiment Based on analysis of Tesla headlines and articles from Electrek over the past few months, the se

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