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Comment · 7 months ago
The business of demand aggregation has been replaced by Temu, where the consumer data is worth more than the average item.
Comment · 9 months ago
This almost always happens when you are in the passing lane, and you are not passing. It’s much more rare in the right lane. Mythbusters, and also other traffic studies, show that returning to the right lane on the freeway whenever possible adds almost no time to a trip.
Comment · 10 months ago
When the start/end doesn’t matter as much for my team as changing the default duration to 25/50 minutes. This way even if a meeting would start at the quarter hour you would always end up with a small gap between.
Comment · 1 year ago
Many religious extremists, gender unrelated.
Comment · 1 year ago
The less voters you have in your district the easier it is to gerrymander a guaranteed win.
Comment · 1 year ago
The majority of counterparties were regular citizens, who did not understand that what Jane Street was doing was even possible.

Money is debt, you can’t make it without someone else owing it. Taking billions in profits from India’s stock market is pretty straightforward, millions of Indians lost their savings.

Comment · 1 year ago
The article does not come to any health conclusions, just studies the impact on indoor air chemistry.
Comment · 2 years ago
You are consenting to the experimentation by accessing the software. It’s covered by the terms and conditions.
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s specifically dismissing the idea that the problem is new. That this is the first time kids have been different, that workers wanted better conditions. Nobody wants to work “anymore”… The kids “these days”
Comment · 3 years ago
Why do parents feel the government needs to restrict everyone to solve parenting issues. Does the drinking age eliminate under age drinking?
Comment · 3 years ago
Wow 11 years ago. i switched to an electric car recently and still frequently smell exhaust fumes from cars that are running rich or burning motor oil. I might be alive to see the end of internal combustion engines in cities which seems inevitable now.
Comment · 3 years ago
See rule 11.
Comment · 3 years ago
We used aws lambdas to execute the pdf renders and upload the result to s3 using a signed url passed in from the request. Complete insulation from our own application process, all of data is passed into the request so the worst the user can do is add a malicious file to our s3 bucket.
Comment · 3 years ago
Enron, FTX
Comment · 3 years ago
Switch to contexts and add the same secret under multiple names

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