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> champagne popping was pretty gauche for a company that already has a “space is for billionaires” PR problem

I still don’t get why this stereotype still exists given you can get sparking wine for like $3 per bottle. During bottomless mimosa specials, I’m pretty sure the orange juice is more expensive than the champagne. Champagne is my go-to for getting drunk as cheaply as possible.

Maybe one day there wouldn’t be any “guys” at all and all wars will be exclusively autonomous units when it comes to infantry.

You really think it's a conspiracy that a predominantly engineering and tech entrepreneurship forum would favor articles about big tech over news about a drone strike?

If the Dave Chappelle show were free but you chose to donate your money to Dave Chappelle anyway, yes, you're a sucker.

Nobody is arguing about contributions to science. You said, "everyone at Bell labs looked the same. So what?"

I told you exactly why people at Bell Labs looked the same and why that is a problem. If someone refuses to hire black people because they think black people are inferior, the answer isn't, "so what?"

The leader of Bell Labs at the time was so incredibly racist that he dedicated tons of resources in eugenics and “scientifically proving” that black people were inferior to white people. You are really going to use William Shockley as an example for why it was ok that everyone at Bell Labs looked the same? https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2711641

It’s when a domain doesn’t quite have what it takes for the MLB.

When I tried buying a hyped NFT, the estimated gas price/transaction fee was around $80,000 lol.

Consumers get cash back on credit cards while merchants have to pay ridiculously high fees.

This proposal reminds me of that classic copypasta, “please drink your Mountain Dew verification can to play Xbox.”

TopShot is nice and I made some money on it — but it only takes fiat currency and can’t be sent to my cold storage or transferred off the marketplace. Nothing about it is in the spirit of an NFT or anything decentralized.

The NFTs that people are making their profile pictures are drastically different from the celebrity and athlete NFTs put out by DraftKings or topshot. The NFTs in profile pics on Twitter (like crypto punks) have randomly generated features making each and every minted nft completely unique.

I feel like there are two vastly different audiences with NFTs. The casual, celebrity/athlete NFTs that are selling multiple of some persons face for fiat currency, and parole who are actively participating in minting NFTs with web3 dApps made by developers with roadmaps and a strong community.

How exactly would they verify it? One can easily be a gamer and a scalper. If by number of games, what’s a hundred games during a steam sale compared to a $2k gpu?

If I’m running a mining operation, I can easily pay people in Asia to play video games on my account for dirt cheap to run up the time.

Is there a center for casual math?

If you are taking credit cards online, I assume you have a man in the middle regardless. Whether you choose to go with Stripe, Square, Braintree, or PayPal is completely up to you.

Why is that specifically, may I ask? It seems like a defendable trademark (IANAL)

What if you got a Go phone/burner phone for like $20. Wouldn’t that quickly solve that issue?

I hope there is a bigger push for apartment complexes to have charging stations. It’s the only thing stopping me from going electric.

1. Doordash does not penalize for skipping orders. They give the total payout first to allow people to skip orders in the first place. It’s a feature. 2. Because you see the price before accepting an order, you are effectively negotiating the orders you want to take based on price. You can sit in your car all day declining orders until you see a price you agree with.

It sounds like you are describing morals, not ethics. Unless, I’m mistaken, morals are a personal feeling of right and wrong, while ethics are the codes of conduct in a society or, in the business world, a specific industry. A person working in finance can be perfectly moral and well meaning but fail to adhere to the governance and regulations of the industry — this must be taught.

So do drivers for grubhub/doordash/uber eats. They see the final payout and have the choice to skip the order if it doesn't pay well enough.

If you are listening to a top 40 station, then of course they will keep playing the same songs over as they are confined to the Billboard top 40. Other stations will constantly play the newest songs from the biggest artists on repeat because that's typically what people want. I really don't think there has to be a conspiracy involved.

If a listener is "seeking" through stations and catch a song they love, they are more likely to stay on the station. The best chance of choosing a song people love is using the most popular songs as often as possible. It's the same exact reason why radio stations try to runs ads at the same time. If a radio station you like starts running ads, but you hear other stations are running ads too, you are more likely to end back at the original station and stay. It's all a numbers game to hook station surfers.

Every movie theater will want to play Disney movies, but that doesn't mean Disney is paying the theaters to play their movies -- in fact, Disney demands theaters to pay far more for their movies than any other movie, but theaters will pay it because they know it will drive people to come and pay for popcorn and other concessions. Same for radio but with ad space. They may pay a lot in marketing to hype people up over a song or movie, that doesn't mean they are paying the theater or the station.

If I hire a contractor to renovate my home to my exact specifications, by your logic they are my employee because they couldn't choose the "route" or "destination?"

If you have actual evidence of Payola, you can report this felony directly to the FCC here: https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides/payola-and-spons...

What do you mean the record labels "tell you" what to listen to?

But they never contracted or asked you to do that hard work in the first place. You can’t mow my lawn without asking then demand that I pay you for your hard work.

Google gave them a $99.9k credit.

Accenture is listed, but when I went to the listing, it had a CO disclaimer and listed the range. It was a massive range but a range nonetheless.

Yeah, what a dummy. If everybody put 100% of their income toward paying the debt, we’d be debt free in 1.5 years!