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david927

10,369karma·2,762submissions·August 15, 2007
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Same. Daily user since the beginning. Haven't been back since.
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Cool! That's always the best project
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Well said, Jacques
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Like Cassandra, no one will believe him now and no one will care that he was right after.
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I literally thought, "I'm not clicking that," when I saw the domain.
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> In 2022, 19% of adults—about 50 million Americans—experienced a mental illness like anxiety or depression. ... That is a ... huge economic opportunity. It's like the author wanted to show …
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I'm not expert enough to chime in but the people that I respect on this subject agree with you. I would also be surprised if GPT-5 was miles ahead of 4. The airplane of today is extraordinarily…
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I wasn't directly quoting him
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The article talks about it.
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This article would be fine but it tries to argue that subtitles lower the degree in which you experience a film and that the "film snob" take is to not have them if it's the same langua…
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He is not just one of the two or three greatest directors ever but also wildly influential. Genius. Exhibit A: https://vimeo.com/153979733 …
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Yes. This is just anti-competitive behavior and it won't work.
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I was going to make a similar joke: you look at them and choose Postgres
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Speed limits on roads exist; if someone's speeding, it's a question of enforcement. Similarly, we're born with human rights as ratified in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. To your p…
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Fajny!
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I always thought the John Wick character represented death itself.
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I was curious and wanted to put that same data together -- so thanks. That curve looks terrible and yet it confirms what I expected.
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RIP Petrodollar 1971 - March 29, 2023
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I'd argue. I think it was both. Yes, it was an answer to Java but remember, VB apps didn't scale. They exploded at scale. And no matter how much you, as an organization, promised yourself…
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This is an important step that needs to happen everywhere.
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And in the 90's, what people would do is to do the prototype with VB and expect to write the app in something else. But then the executives would see it, think it's 80% done because the UI …
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The poor domestic monetary policy is the equivalent of one or two fewer lifeboats but make no mistake: the end of the petrodollar is the iceberg.
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This is, by far, the most important story of the decade and explains a lot of what we're seeing. The implications for the US Dollar are especially dramatic.
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Koch's Law
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Supply issues are a bit of red herring. Compare industries with more and fewer supply issues and you'll find that it doesn't play an oversized role. The main catalyst, and by that I mean es…
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