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by woobar 22d ago
> You can also beat the Neo on every measure by comparing it to $700 Windows laptops Can you count how many (out of 9) measurements the windows laptop beat the Neo in that article?
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by woobar 3mo ago
> How can cursor be worth even 10% of 60B? Maybe because SpaceX paid with monopoly money (all stock deal)?
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by woobar 4mo ago
Would you prefer to pay $100 for software, or a 50% marginal tax on a meager £100K?
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by woobar 5mo ago
The numbers you mention are total fraud losses. Most of fraud has nothing to do with phones, it is fraudulent money transfers and card charges.
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by woobar 8mo ago
Pretty good. Compare with a real sunny day on that street. https://maps.app.goo.gl/kf7ELMLoFPn3qioDA
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by woobar 9mo ago
Facebook offered paid subscription for ad-free experience in Europe.[1] First, europeans complained it is too expensive. After a price cut, they EC still wanted a free version with less personalization.[2] If google offers something similar
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by woobar 9mo ago
Look at the traffic signs. You have very limited time to read the sign. That's the reason they have distinct patterns and rarely (except in USA) rely on blocks of text.
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by woobar 10mo ago
Nano Banana is focused on editing. But the Pro version handles your prompt much better. First image is Pro, second is 2.5 https://imgur.com/a/3PDUIQP
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by woobar 1y ago
> but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs Technically, there is no decline in jobs. There were more jobs as of March 2025 than a year before. Less than reported earlier, but the overall number of jobs is stil
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by woobar 1y ago
What are your assumptions are based on? NC outsourced safety inspections to private sector decades ago. And nothing you have described has happened. - the service prices are all fixed ($30 or $13.60) - tons of places to do your inspection,
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by woobar 1y ago
It is clear what you are saying. It still doesn't make any sense. If I buy a bottle of wine, a chicken, a cake, and a pint of blueberries, is it correct to say that my diet is 99% fruits? There are more than a 100 of blueberries in the
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by woobar 1y ago
> Imports from China are ~40% of all US imports You mean 14%? https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-by-countr...
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by woobar 1y ago
I have my BMW key in Apple Wallet. When I was out of town and needed to share the key with another person, all I did use a standard share sheet for the key. It let it share via SMS, email, AirDrop, etc.You can revoke the key later.
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by woobar 1y ago
Technically Russia's Plesetsk is in Europe. With hundreds of launches over the last 60 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome
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by woobar 2y ago
Looks like they have designed Tesla prototype. https://www.automobilesreview.com/pictures/volvo/ycc-2004/wa...
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by woobar 2y ago
But it doesn't do this right away.I was traveling with a group of people that had AirTags, and I only start getting alerts by day three.
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by woobar 2y ago
> I won't burden her financially either as I happily live out my retirement on a decent pension. What is a decent pension and where it will come from? I'm projected to get a decent SSA pension (bigger than a median income in to
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by woobar 2y ago
Probably Cat's Eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road)
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by woobar 2y ago
I've tried to watch an old Seinfeld episode during this event. It was freezing every few minutes even at downgraded bitrate. A video that should be on my local CDN node.
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by woobar 2y ago
You are saying that multiple dentists found issues with your wife's teeth, she routinely refuses treatment, and this is somehow a scam?
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by woobar 2y ago
Because contracts that people sign when they buy a subsidized phone are not really enforceable. Folks will get a "free" phone and stop paying. There is not much that provider can do. The cars are valuable enough and when you stop
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by woobar 2y ago
It is not about stress. You are asking to pick between a) do same job at a different company for 2-3x income, or b) learn to do something different for a chance of smaller/same/or bigger income than in the previous case. First op
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by woobar 2y ago
FizzBuzz?
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by woobar 2y ago
Hmm. Isn't the temperature adjustment a feature of any dryer? Concerns about damaging clothes could be easily rectified by choosing lower temp.
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by woobar 2y ago
Never heard about others but Revolut is not a great example. 1% exchange fee plus another 0.3% on exchange rate. I agree that Amex is scamming their european customers. But my point was that they don't do it in US despite the lack of r
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by woobar 2y ago
It is an example that greed is everywhere. Not only among card issuers but also among merchants. The moment merchant find a socially accepted way to extract extra they will do it. Similar to tip screens on square terminals in all takeout pl
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by woobar 2y ago
Debit txs are not free. For big ($10B in assets) regulated issuers they are pretty low, but for everyone else they are close to 1.9% [1] https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis..
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by woobar 2y ago
Interesting. Europe has stricter regulations that cap interchange. As a result not a lot of rewards cards and less competition in that space. In US no caps, but much more players in the rewards cards space. I've checked recent foreign
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by woobar 2y ago
Is $60K cash split between these 6 people? Then it is not that impressive. If you want higher ROI on spreadsheet hobby start using it for your own financial/retirement planning. Playing with numbers in that field can change outcomes by
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by woobar 2y ago
> ends up costing 2-3% more than it would otherwise This is a very simplified view. Cash handling is not free. Fraud levels with cash are different. Overall attractiveness of a small but cash-only business is different.

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