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woobar

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    Comment #48560389

    > How can cursor be worth even 10% of 60B? Maybe because SpaceX paid with monopoly money (all stock deal)?

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    Comment #48224460

    Would you prefer to pay $100 for software, or a 50% marginal tax on a meager £100K?

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    Comment #47665383

    The numbers you mention are total fraud losses. Most of fraud has nothing to do with phones, it is fraudulent money transfers and card charges.

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    Comment #46838760

    Pretty good. Compare with a real sunny day on that street. https://maps.app.goo.gl/kf7ELMLoFPn3qioDA

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    Comment #46264991

    Facebook offered paid subscription for ad-free experience in Europe.[1] First, europeans complained it is too expensive. After a price cut, they EC still wanted a free version with…

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    Comment #46205961

    Look at the traffic signs. You have very limited time to read the sign. That's the reason they have distinct patterns and rarely (except in USA) rely on blocks of text.

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    Comment #45994433

    Nano Banana is focused on editing. But the Pro version handles your prompt much better. First image is Pro, second is 2.5 https://imgur.com/a/3PDUIQP

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    Comment #45187775

    > but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs Technically, there is no decline in jobs. There were more jobs as of March 2025 than a year before. Less than…

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    Comment #44703585

    What are your assumptions are based on? NC outsourced safety inspections to private sector decades ago. And nothing you have described has happened. - the service prices are all fi…

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    Comment #43859892

    It is clear what you are saying. It still doesn't make any sense. If I buy a bottle of wine, a chicken, a cake, and a pint of blueberries, is it correct to say that my diet is 99% …

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    Comment #43847959

    > Imports from China are ~40% of all US imports You mean 14%? https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-by-countr...

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    Comment #43784698

    I have my BMW key in Apple Wallet. When I was out of town and needed to share the key with another person, all I did use a standard share sheet for the key. It let it share via SMS…

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    Comment #43549578

    Technically Russia's Plesetsk is in Europe. With hundreds of launches over the last 60 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome

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    Comment #42658747

    Looks like they have designed Tesla prototype. https://www.automobilesreview.com/pictures/volvo/ycc-2004/wa...

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    Comment #42466695

    But it doesn't do this right away.I was traveling with a group of people that had AirTags, and I only start getting alerts by day three.

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    Comment #42321814

    > I won't burden her financially either as I happily live out my retirement on a decent pension. What is a decent pension and where it will come from? I'm projected to get a decent…

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    Comment #42196294

    Probably Cat's Eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road)

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    Comment #42159379

    I've tried to watch an old Seinfeld episode during this event. It was freezing every few minutes even at downgraded bitrate. A video that should be on my local CDN node.

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    Comment #42018310

    You are saying that multiple dentists found issues with your wife's teeth, she routinely refuses treatment, and this is somehow a scam?

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    Comment #41614160

    Because contracts that people sign when they buy a subsidized phone are not really enforceable. Folks will get a "free" phone and stop paying. There is not much that provider can d…

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    Comment #41050462

    It is not about stress. You are asking to pick between a) do same job at a different company for 2-3x income, or b) learn to do something different for a chance of smaller/same/or …

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    Comment #40989914

    FizzBuzz?

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    Comment #40478877

    Hmm. Isn't the temperature adjustment a feature of any dryer? Concerns about damaging clothes could be easily rectified by choosing lower temp.

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    Comment #39962017

    Never heard about others but Revolut is not a great example. 1% exchange fee plus another 0.3% on exchange rate. I agree that Amex is scamming their european customers. But my poin…

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    Comment #39933818

    It is an example that greed is everywhere. Not only among card issuers but also among merchants. The moment merchant find a socially accepted way to extract extra they will do it. …