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pastor_bob··on Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Yet, during oral arguments they use some of the most juvenile thought experiments to prove their 'slippery slope' opinions
pastor_bob··on Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
David Sacks is not an expert on gpu architecture.
pastor_bob··on Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
The valuation is driven by its huge margins and growth in revenue. It's an inevitable pump sorts.

It can't and won't last. There's just too much margin for players not to compete or design their own chips. The only question for capitalizing is how to time your shorts.

pastor_bob··on Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants
>Since you mentioned this is using next and django, what are you using shopify for?

Looks like they're just pointing to images hosted by others, most of which are Shopify sellers. One weird trick to save on bandwidth costs...but obviously problematic in the long term.

pastor_bob··on We are moving to General Availability
Curious to see how many of those million databases are from free users.

Feels like we're living in the golden age of free platform offerings.

Wonder when the shoe will drop.

pastor_bob··on Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)
Certainly in their ability to buy homes.

> Since 1963, inflation has risen 896%, while housing prices have risen by more than 2,350%.

> For example, between 1984 and 2021, home prices in Massachusetts rose by 469.89% while incomes increased by 221.10%.

ETC, ETC

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/correlation-inflati...

pastor_bob··on Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list
Not Australian but I wanted to say thanks for all the vids of the melbourne shuffle that came out around that period. Very entertaining for an american teenager
pastor_bob··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
He probably means it spiked 80 from where it was (e.g. 100 to 180)
pastor_bob··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
What are 'treatable' causes other than food intake?
pastor_bob··on Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it
Under De Blasio, NYPD starting protesting oversight with work 'slowdowns'

" was a warning to the public as well, criminologists say, with Lynch alluding to the "Ferguson effect" argument, in which police pull back on acting, leading to a work slowdown because of criticism or administrative decisions perceived to endanger their well being on the streets."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-union-suggests-w...

pastor_bob··on Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE828187/

"A New York Police Department whistleblower's report that his precinct was systematically underreporting crime - an act that resulted in a suspension and time in a psychiatric ward - has been validated by an internal department investigation."

pastor_bob··on Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it
In NYC, you can get robbed and beat up, and the NYPD will refuse to file a report.

There's your 'lack' of crime

pastor_bob··on Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it
The title should really read: [Reported statistics indicate] Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it
pastor_bob··on Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
>Or go back to Ruby on Rails :)

HTMX is basically a backend agnostic Hotwire, which is the direction RoR has gone

pastor_bob··on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio
They laid off all of those early Dev Relations people, from what I understand.
pastor_bob··on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWLO/twilio/shares...
pastor_bob··on How we turned the tide in the roach wars
Interesting,

Advion is what people in NYC swear by (It does the same thing)

pastor_bob··on The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
pastor_bob··on The great cousin decline
When people say 'crushing financial burden,' many mean relative to maintaining their current DINK lifestyles
pastor_bob··on The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
Remote work has made people pursue more space. I live in NYC in an 8 apartment building. 7 are 2 bedrooms, yet only 2 apartments have more than 1 person living in them.

Somewhat ironically, you have people choosing to stay single and not have kids, which gives them more money to spend on themselves for more room, which eats up housing and drives up prices.

pastor_bob··on FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
>prefer sweet potatoes/yams.

Sweet potatoes, as you might expect, have more sugar in them. As do garnet yams.

The issue with potatoes isn't really their (low) sugar content.

pastor_bob··on FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
>and another which results in reduced glucose and fructose content in the potato,

That's pretty amazing. Imagine if we can change apples to produce Aspartame instead of sugars!

pastor_bob··on 'Weird Al' Roasts Spotify's Artist Payout System in Year-End Wrapped Video
If he's mad he should pull his content like Joe Rogan and then come back only if they offered 300 million dollars.
pastor_bob··on Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous
Nobody ever made a billion dollars being generous
pastor_bob··on Charlie Munger has died
Pretty Sharp til the end. The fact that people were still listening to what he has to say about investing in Alibaba as recently as this month is actually pretty nuts (in an impressive way).
pastor_bob··on OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend
Nobody is resigning and giving up their openai shares to go be a cubicle wage worker at Micro$oft
pastor_bob··on Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency
- as a practical matter, Argentina itself does not have enough dollars to make this happen. You need a ton (more than that…) literally of physical currency to make this work. I don’t think their reserves are sufficient to cover it. (You need many additional tons of coins to make it practical too…)

Why do they need reserves? Abolish all federal obligations. Let the exporters accept only USD for their goods and allow them to figure out how it gets distributed through the Argentinian economy.

pastor_bob··on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
>My bladder nearly feels like it's going to burst, because I've slept so long.

I don't think having to pee has anything to do with the type of sleep you get. I've heard, if anything, it's a symptom of sleep apnea.

pastor_bob··on Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
>Arizona, California, Massachusetts and New York have decided to work with the IRS to integrate their state taxes into the Direct File pilot for filing season 2024.

There's the notable point. If states integrate into it, it's a game changer. No need for the vast majority of filers to use any 3rd party.

pastor_bob··on LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams
Why not Ryan Roslansky then. Surely he's the one that made the call if anyone at linkedin
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