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chad_c··on Every postcard tells a story
Museums. Bookstores.

Those are the top-two places I see them when traveling abroad from the US.

chad_c··on GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
People will both-sides this, but you are right. When your express purpose and position is to promote unitary executive theory and destroy US democracy, everything is suspect.

Marketplace (APM) has had several discussions about how difficult it is to mess with BLS numbers, but it's only a matter of time as Vought and Heritage make their way into these organizations.

chad_c··on How to earn a billion dollars
You can't.

For some subset of the population, they are okay with exploitation as long as they are able to exploit someone else that is lower on the capitalist hierarchy.

chad_c··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
Along with his zero credibility. Dude torched his career just like Taibbi.
chad_c··on Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
Capital is orders of magnitude more powerful than labor. Until that changes, this story will be repeated.
chad_c··on Operating Margins
So that’s where the South Park Epsiode name comes from. Holy cow.
chad_c··on Tell HN: Azure outage
It was here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749054 but that comment has been deleted.
chad_c··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
I’m sure an anthropologist can clarify, but once a community reaches a certain size, it seems that emergent properties take over.
chad_c··on Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed?
Who profits from lying about the acceleration of climate change?
chad_c··on Reinvent the Wheel
It’s not that you can’t tear down the fences. It’s that you studied why they were there in the first place.
chad_c··on Reinvent the Wheel
I’m reminded of Chesterton’s Fence [1]. I just explained this to a coworker that was proud of indiscriminately eliminating 200+ positions.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence

chad_c··on Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?
What panels do you have? Do you have energy storage as well?
chad_c··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
DHS is a counterexample here. It’s huge.
chad_c··on How to Remove Useless Localizations
Monolingual used to save gigabytes on OS X.
chad_c··on Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food
For those interested in learning more about the cases here, the precedent is referred to as "Chevron" [1] and the case seeking to overturn it this term is Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo [2]. Cafe Insider discussed the case in detail this week [3].

[1]https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/467/837/ [2]https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/loper-bright-ent... [3] https://cafe.com/insider-podcast/cafe-insider-1-2-do-agencie...

chad_c··on You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe
"in conversation with Joe Rogan"

Yikes.

chad_c··on Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age
And just living!

Our time is short.

chad_c··on APPL $3T valuation isn’t far off – but no thanks to Vision Pro, argues Bloomberg
I didn't know this was an investment philosophy when I started investing, but it's exactly the approach I've taken!
chad_c··on APPL $3T valuation isn’t far off – but no thanks to Vision Pro, argues Bloomberg
Don't take investment advice from strangers and all that, but...

I bought a single share of AAPL in 1/2008. Then another share in 10/2008. I slowly expanded my investment as it split. It's the second-highest performing stock or fund I've owned over that 15yr period ($TSLA is the highest).

$AAPL pays a dividend. Reinvest the dividends and go long.

chad_c··on Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale
Has to be.
chad_c··on Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale
Maine Brewing Company would make waves.
chad_c··on Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale
The industry in Atlanta shifted to these types of beers right around the start of the pandemic. Every brewery here now has a lager, rice lager, or low-abv pale ale. The best is Halfway Crooks [1]!

[1] https://halfwaycrooks.beer/

chad_c··on Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades
What’s the best way to find job postings in this industry?
chad_c··on Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing
There are plenty of great cordless trimmers and electric power washers. Milwaukee, Greenworks, Ego, Krantzle (for car washing)…I think you should expand your search and look at GPM, not max PSI.
chad_c··on Books to read to understand financial crime
Dark Towers is an excellent read; while it is focused on a single bank, the practices certainly were not unique to Deutsche Bank: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45730424-dark-towers.
chad_c··on Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected
Same here. I graduated college during the financial crisis. It's been a wild ride.
chad_c··on Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks
I refinanced with them 2 years ago; they beat my local credit union and several banks at the time. Closing costs were competitive and extremely easy to schedule -- they sent an attorney to my home.
chad_c··on Kubernetes 1.23 Released
Isn’t that what https://metal.equinix.com/ sells?
chad_c··on What's Salesforce? (2019)
Fix the business processes first or you risk codifying bad business processes in the platform.
chad_c··on Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac
This is so often overlooked -- Apple's revenue capture of the market is what is astonishing.

In 2019, Apple captured 32% of the global revenue for the mobile phone industry and 66% of all profit in Q3 of 2019 [1]. Asymco used to report on this frequently but I'm having trouble finding recent examples [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/12/22/global-... [2] http://www.asymco.com/2011/08/02/apple-share-of-phone-revenu...

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