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Man the reddit apps sucks

- Fucked up predatory remittance money shops, and forced them to lower their fees and actually start competing. - Offered a more stable unit of exchange for people in places where …

And the fact that it sank on its maiden voyage. The tragic irony makes it obvious why humans bestow such significance upon it.

Yes, exactly what huthuthike said. As I Lay Dying. Sound & Fury is great but a much more challenging read.

Ya McCarthy borrows heavily from Melville and Faulkner, which he readily cops to. Judge Holden and Ahab have a lot in common.

Some of my favorite quotes, from my favorite McCarthy book, Blood Meridian: War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practi…

Many have already pointed that there have been studies to measure the accuracy of sleep analysis by wearables. They aren't that great. If you have a concern, you should definitely …

Purely anecdotal but I know way more TVs with an Apple TV device than I know humans with an Apple watch. In most cases they are households with many TV-Apple TV pairings, and maybe…

Yup. Federal law enforcement uses interstate nexus via server locations to establish jurisdiction.

I don't see familiarity being with the touchscreen buttons being the issue. The issue is that actually touching a certain amount of pixels on a disembodied screen, while driving, w…

> Brave | do not use | This term perpetuates the stereotype of the "noble courageous savage," equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man. Should we get rid of bravo then…

Tangentially related, Russ Roberts of econtalk had a good interview a few years ago with the founder of a free market hospital in Oklahoma. Super interesting. https://www.econtalk.…

I have been under the good faith assumption that most (though definitely not all) of the employees that have departed Twitter were probably necessary and valuable to the company. I…

No, I think the article makes it very clear what the value and function of SRE is. The point of the comment you're responding to is that the author was the only one doing this—not …

Your source is a Texas-secessionist rant with no citations? Do you have any actual objective reviews of why the power grid issue happened?

I'd guess that turns aren't a big deal. Commercial flights rarely turn above 10k feet, so really just some risk of airsickness briefly at either end of the flight. Wing flex during…

OP's idea is that the FTC punted this at the direction of an elected official who gets campaign donations from tech companies. It does not follow that because the FTC has a revolvi…

Unlikely. High ranking government lawyers usually don't just put on cases to appease the donors of the executive. These are high-achieving, career-driven people. They want to win.

You swore Tile off because because you don't like how batteries generally function?

Perhaps other MSM publications. The specific article here talks about US accidents in high-standards labs, and posits that those same accidents can happen in other countries. It's …

Ya, this is really it. I bought a Model 3 about 6 months ago. I spent about 3 months researching, test-driving, talking with dealerships. I had zero interest in a Tesla when I star…

And if anyone decides to read this, please make sure you read In The First Circle , not The First Circle . The latter is the "first" publication, which Solzhenitsyn abridged and mo…

The law requires brokerages to assess clients knowledge and fitness to trade more advanced instruments like spreads and naked options. This individual most likely lied to the broke…

Half of their models start at $80k+ USD. Sure seems like a luxury brand.

Which continent is the one where no one speaks english?