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I doubt their API would handle 100k requests per second. That math was roughly indictive of what the cost to send 100k requests per second would look like. He did mention that that…

You don’t even always need a third party. My wife works in HR for the government and part of her job is literally to contact neighboring counties and send them requests for their s…

There’s nothing wrong with genetics and nothing wrong with stores having their own brand. We just need regulations to ensure that vertical companies are engaging in arms length tra…

How is it clearly anti-competitive if they are providing a better value for the consumer? When a name brand has market power and charges a premium for a basic product, then another…

We are a social species, but we also heavily compare ourselves to others. The quickest solution might be to remove yourself from others so that you don’t mentally make the comparis…

Having a SAHP is always a difficult thing to compare to todays world. A lot of people can’t have a SAHP because their peers don’t have a SAHP. When your peers are willing and able …

People tend to underestimate the cost of living in a high demand place. You could make top 10% incomes globally, but if you are living in a top 1% location then you are being price…

I would be cautious how much of your frustration is because of the US changing or not meeting your expectations vs you happening to make major life decision right when there happen…

> Reddit finally finds a way to possibly become profitable and everyone calls them scumbags focused on profit? If the numbers shared for the API costs is what it takes to be profit…

Uh what? Quick google shows that a Hyundai Ioniq gets around 4 miles per kWh. An average US household uses 886 kWh per month. You’d have to drive 3,500 miles a month to have the el…

What is the purpose of copyright in other countries?

> By temporarily defacing the Sega website I may have missed it but what did they deface? I see a proof of script execution in what appears to be an uploaded file of a random strin…

I mean, that’s why the person had to be kidnapped by a non-family member. If a family member kidnaps them the it follows the usual formula of who cared for the kidnapped person for…

I use default safari on iPhone and was able to hit the x to hide the timeline and then another x to hide the donation banner.

In short, using IRC for your free software/open source (FOSS) software project is a very bad idea. Ease of use matters — that’s why you’re writing code, after all. To make peoples …

> This way the big players can just carve out a bigger market for themselves. Or it’s because there is a near infinite number of domains so it’s relatively simple for spammers to a…

What’s the difference between a student loan that can be discharged in bankruptcy and a personal loan? Sure, the student loan can only go to a school but neither has any collateral…

The issue with notes is when the solution changes because of an update. Using Google and grabbing recent solutions gets you updated answers if and when things change.

> The ethical problem is that you can't do research on people without their consent. But can you do research on a business without the businesses consent? Or do I need a businesses…

Websites aren’t sentient beings, but they are more similar to commercial entities than people. Even if not intentional, websites gain traffic and can display ads. They have Google …

> Cluster berries, from raspberries to pineapples, are never poisonous. I know nothing but that still seems too generalized that it doesn’t have an exception somewhere in the world…

Because your contract here is with the subscription service, not the bank. Just as you can’t cancel your brothers subscriptions, the subscription service has no reason to accept a …

> Nobody talks about the larger effects of the traffic in US cities I always assumed truckers took mandatory breaks during rush hour. Here in Charlotte, traffic is minimal except d…

This is kind of ignoring that we don’t have high unemployment and our labor participation rate is nearly recovered as well. So anyone who wants a job, basically has one. A company …

I think this is completely different than having a credit score. I’ve never ‘needed’ a credit score unless I was requesting a line of credit. I’m which case a credit score is bette…