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    Comment #40759176

    > What do they do with the leftovers? Gather them up into a ball, then flatten them into a new wafer using a rolling pin.

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    Comment #40024983

    Why doesn't the monopoly employ the same cost-saving measures for even bigger margins?

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    Comment #39855479

    > kid He's a 32 year old man.

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    Comment #39830069

    Yeah that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point. These ships are built to very rigorous maritime engineering standards.

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    Comment #39237148

    All of that is true of a digital dollar, too.

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    Comment #39236912

    I don't think so. It's not like we have a branch of the military dedicated solely to maintaining the dominance of the USD. It protects our national security interests as a whole. T…

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    Comment #39236601

    > Bitcoin replaces these things with servers and decentralization. This is totally absurd. We would still need police and military even if the USD stopped existing and we switched …

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    Comment #39234331

    > The question is will there be a way to mine more difficult problems using less power. That is the only way bitcoin power usages stops growing (slowly). That's not how it works. T…

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    Comment #39133762

    No, the company becomes more valuable after the raise. It's more slices of a bigger pie == each slice is the same size as before. > why would a company ever do a stock buyback if c…

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    Comment #39133341

    Compared to a 9-5 in tech? Which is what they're suggesting instead. What is the point of moralizing?

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    Comment #39021760

    I guess it's technically possible a malfunctioning machine could output literally any string of bits. The chances they would just so happen to look exactly how a particular emulato…

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    Comment #38522723

    I did a quick search and it appears the law sets a minimum of about $20 per hour. So I guess DoorDash considers there to be about 40 minutes of "active time" per hour?

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    Comment #38292302

    Also, employees cost more than just their salary.

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    Comment #37629799

    > If a reseller buys the ticket, and then sells it again to the end user, Ticketmaster gets paid twice. So basically scalpers are being paid to be the scapegoat so Ticketmaster can…

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    Comment #37587346

    Or that a store would put it's vanilla ice cream in a separate case in the front and all it's other flavors in another in the back, instead of putting all it's frozen foods togethe…

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    Comment #37136525

    > and still achieve separation of HTML/JS. Why is this important to maintain? People have been complaining about this since the beginning, but I've never seen anyone actually artic…

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    Show HN: OpenPilot, an open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code

    If you have tried GitHub's Copilot Chat, then this will look familiar to you. The main difference, however, is you can choose which LLM to talk to. So far OpenPilot supports GPT 3.…

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    Comment #37065762

    Typically something like an elevator wouldn't be modeled with physics (mass, velocity, etc.) its movement would just be hardcoded. And of course games without a physics emulator wo…

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    Comment #37065019

    > The functionality seems at first glance to be a given for any game with a similar environment, but according to an observation by naoya2k, what makes Nintendo’s solution unique i…

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    Comment #37064267

    You are cutting your TAM by at least 50%.

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    Comment #37063945

    I've never heard that term before, usually such coins are called shitcoins. And while I'm not denying SBF did that with his coin, he certainly didn't pioneer it; XRP has been doing…

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    Comment #37054905

    > does this prevent them from being sued for any of it, where they could have been successfully sued otherwise? As I understand it, anyone can sue anyone for anything. What matters…

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    Comment #37048314

    This is only the case if you're the sort of person who is unsatisfied or anxious while there are goals you haven't yet fulfilled. A mentality of "my life will begin once I've achie…

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    Comment #36988688

    > why would anyone lend money and not do it themselves? Because there are regulations that limit how banks can invest deposits.

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    Comment #36855907

    I know you're being sarcastic, but it's shocking how many people think he's actually a genius and all his missteps are really galaxy-brain maneuvers we just don't understand yet. L…