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differentView··on Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends
The CDC did what it thought was pragmatically the best thing to do considering the political reality at the time.
differentView··on I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto
Many are just looking for a bookie to take their bets.
differentView··on Robinhood S-1 IPO
What do you mean you had to close your account for work?
differentView··on Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings
So what's the problem exactly? The rich kids who don't need the money get exploited for free labor, and?
differentView··on Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings
How does it benefit an organization to have rich kids working for them for free?
differentView··on Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
Don't some homeowners object to increased supply because they believe it hinders appreciation of their homes?
differentView··on Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
> but he owns 20% of Tesla, worth about $10B today.

Tesla's market cap is $764.255B. 20% of that is $152.851B.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

differentView··on Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
If bitcoin price continues to rise, wouldn't the power cost become relatively smaller? Wouldn't miners care less?
differentView··on Apple refuses to engrave ‘liberate’ protest slogan on HK customer’s Apple Pencil
Misleading headline. He was trying to engrave "LIBERATE HKERS".
differentView··on U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
He can pardon him to test the effects on polling. If it helps, great. If it hurts him, get Snowden back, arrest him, and claim it was a trick to get the traitor that Obama couldn't get all along.
differentView··on Why companies lose their best innovators (2019)
We're not all good looking enough to get on Survivor so we play it out in the office.
differentView··on Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
They can ballpark it. Round up if necessary.
differentView··on Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
I, too, turned in a blank piece of paper for my American Ninja Warrior class. But I told the professor a sob story, so I got an "A".
differentView··on A Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’
Perhaps it's partially an overcorrection of his previous reputation and an inevitable comparison to the low bar that Steve Jobs set in his personal life. The thinking being that Gates was a nasty shark in business that was ruthless but at least he wasn't as bad as Jobs in abandoning his daughter.
differentView··on Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
There's no way they don't wave that fee for blind customers.
differentView··on Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users
Except most people don't live in NYC. Here in LA, all the taxis I've ever been in were dirty, the drivers drove recklessly, and were much more expensive.

Whenever I'm in NYC or other cities, it's also much more convenient to just use Uber or Lyft than to have to download and register an account for whatever app that city's taxis use.

differentView··on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
Richest Americans don't lower themselves to running for public office.
differentView··on New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat
Can you provide link to any such research? Even ones funded by the sugar industry?
differentView··on Juul Labs CEO to Step Down
Why would that be incorrect?
differentView··on Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers
Because vast majority of people aren't aware of the financial health of the companies they purchase from.
differentView··on My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews
How do you verify?
differentView··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
You mean like how Stallman pretended that the underage girl that was on Epstein's island had sex with Minsky of her own free volition?
differentView··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
Stallman is all about being technical. Technically, he resigned. So what due process was denied to him?
differentView··on I was seven words away from being spear-phished
You may be overestimating the writing ability of native English speakers.
differentView··on How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
99.99% of time when people say "99.99%" it's just made up.
differentView··on How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
>They seem to provide no actual service

They help connect thieves with their victims. They also get a small cut from the thieves for this service.

differentView··on How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
Most likely that number was pulled out of her ass.
differentView··on Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie
So what's the punishment for what the parent comment described?
differentView··on France bans the publication of statistical information about judges’ decisions
Source?
differentView··on Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed
Holy shit!
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