spoonjim

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by spoonjim 1mo ago
> The people who really need the chips, and would be willing to pay a lot more than $X for them, will be competing with people who are only willing to pay $X for them. If there was an Ozempic shortage tomorrow, it's not the morbidly
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by spoonjim 1mo ago
The first two videos listed on PornHub.com are "FUCK THE CONDOM! Skinny Blonde Girl Opens HER LITTLE ASSHOLE FOR MY BIG COCK" and "2 Friends Want to Try an African Dick in the Ass for the First Time While They're Pissed
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by spoonjim 3mo ago
CEOs who think that excavators replace their hand-diggers are just bad CEOs
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by spoonjim 1y ago
Cool font bro, but what's the license? I can "use" it in Microsoft Office? That raises more questions than it answers. This is why I only use Google fonts. They're all permissively licensed so I don't have to worry
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by spoonjim 1y ago
I've sold a product that were only possible to sell because of targeted advertising. The customers were happy and I made a profit. Hard to see advertising as outright bad even though it should probably be more regulated than it is.
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by spoonjim 1y ago
Her fate is going to come down to whether she pocketed enough from the transaction to purchase a pardon.
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by spoonjim 1y ago
First of all, the F-35's job is to kill people, let's not get overly moralistic here, but of all places, the military is quite explicit about using human lives as expendable resources to achieve military objectives. If the Chairma
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by spoonjim 1y ago
Of all places, the military is quite explicit about using human lives as expendable resources to achieve objectives.
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by spoonjim 1y ago
It's not a bad practice to automatically dismiss any pilot who ejects from a plane (other than test pilots) except in cases which are wholly obvious equipment failures. It will ensure that for these planes which cost hundreds of millio
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by spoonjim 1y ago
Americans are great marks because we are so relentlessly optimistic
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by spoonjim 2y ago
This uses the economists' definition of "productivity" creating a confusing headline. In reality, "productivity" as a layperson would understand it hasn't increased at all and the reason isn't very "c
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by spoonjim 2y ago
They tend to have cult dynamics because the people who subscribe to the cult dynamics are the ones who get promoted. If you’re happy to just make a living as a software engineer instead of trying to propel your way up the ladder of the worl
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by spoonjim 2y ago
I agree for something like a McDonalds employee or even entry level software engineer but this is a senior managerial role at Facebook. Nobody needs to do this job. Unless your spending is out of control you do not need this income. So if i
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by spoonjim 2y ago
If we imprisoned people for playing their music on speakerphone in public there would be a lot fewer murders
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by spoonjim 2y ago
Why? Pausing a surgery to take an insurance call is highly unusual. It’s a very serious allegation. Why shouldn’t its veracity be subject to scrutiny and verification by a court?
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by spoonjim 2y ago
The first quote is from a 50-year-old mother of two who left her husband and kids in British Columbia to do ocean research in Arizona so that’s the kind of weirdo you’ll be living with
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by spoonjim 2y ago
Norvig is a world level genius and he outdid Jefferies because of that. No shame in losing a basketball match to LeBron James.
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by spoonjim 2y ago
If you see an enterprise software product starting to decline, as VMWare has in the cloud era, then sometimes the "best" (but evil) thing to do is just milk your customers as hard as you can. Just squeeze every penny out of people
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by spoonjim 2y ago
The two problems with your approach are: 1) There is always some post you'd be interested in that you won't see because it's outside your social network. Different people have different preferences on how much of this they wa
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by spoonjim 2y ago
In America you can’t say that anyone’s better than anyone else. This even applies to murderers
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by spoonjim 2y ago
I've never heard of a "bricked" iPhone. I didn't think you could flash its firmware outside of official methods so how exactly would you brick it?
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by spoonjim 2y ago
Oh no, they have to live in Palm Beach? The Florida punishment for murdering 5 people in cold blood is a needle in your arm. What should be the punishment for murdering a million?
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by spoonjim 2y ago
This is not an “edtech startup.” It’s a side hustle
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by spoonjim 2y ago
My kids still use and love my Flip camera
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by spoonjim 2y ago
Kaplan started The Melt and is now ambassador to Singapore where he has been accused of misconduct. Flip got shut down by Cisco
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by spoonjim 2y ago
You already get rewarded for better performance in the heat by being allowed to participate in the race!
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by spoonjim 2y ago
Interesting that they named their company after the Amazonian fish that can supposedly swim up your penis and lodge itself inside
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by spoonjim 2y ago
It’s also because the phones aren’t getting better as fast as they used to. When the megapixels were doubling from 1 to 2 it was noticeable. Now the photos are as good as I’ll ever need.
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by spoonjim 2y ago
What you're looking for used to be called a "project box." They still sell them.
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by spoonjim 2y ago
Maybe kids should pay less attention to things happening outside their sphere of control? Did kids have this much anxiety growing up in the Great Depression where literal starvation was a common condition?

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