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by 55555 5y ago
Your intuition is correct. Look up the market cap of gold and then look up the market cap of shovels.
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by 55555 5y ago
> "Not only that but, really distressingly, the funds that come in from paid ransoms fund other forms of organised crime, like human trafficking and child exploitation." Not really. Those things either fund themselves or their
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by 55555 5y ago
Do you have a link to the ableist controversy? I havent seen that.
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by 55555 5y ago
A lot of the issues you reasonably want to avoid seem like they could be solved more directly by other means. The argument seems to be, "America is a hell hole, so everyone needs enough money to escape it." There are poor countrie
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by 55555 5y ago
They should just build pipelines.
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by 55555 5y ago
Sure, but almost all ecommerce companies saw huge growth due to the pandemic. Even for absolutely optional goods.
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by 55555 5y ago
There are major federal government websites that have office hours. The EIN application website only works between 9am and 5pm. I like to imagine that it's this way because there's no webapp, there's just a team of people who
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by 55555 5y ago
I know this would be hard to keep under wraps, and extremely difficult for closed source software, but it seems like the right answer here would be for the NSA to create patches for government use. If the government only used open-source so
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by 55555 5y ago
They always seem to come with a dongle just incase though, and sometimes people use the dongle despite having bluetooth, or plug them in and then connect to the computer's built-in bluetooth.
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by 55555 5y ago
it's a virus. lol. there are many ways to get them onto systems. file download site, typosquatted apt/pip package names, buying/hacking a download mirror website, 0-day browser exploits, etc.
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by 55555 5y ago
Exactly this. A lot of consumer gadgets that cost $60 involve spending $30 on ads.
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by 55555 6y ago
It can be much cheaper in other good states. $250 to 400 yearly rings a bell for WY, NV, DL
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by 55555 6y ago
There are better examples out there than porn companies. And mindgeek is probably the porn company which monetizes the highest amount of their traffic through legitimate offers (paysites) instead of straight-up scams.
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by 55555 6y ago
I thought this was going to be about... bricks. Houses are traditionally made from earth.
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by 55555 6y ago
That's what I assumed. I couldn't see any other way this would be even remotely possible.
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by 55555 6y ago
Can anyone break down what the $430B is going towards?
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by 55555 6y ago
> I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate. I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate - two to one [Note: Feynman mis-remembers here---the
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by 55555 6y ago
Your belief is the basic reddit tier intelligent belief: Bogglehead, Vanguard, blahblah. I used to believe what you believed too. Please reread your comment and realize that it also disproves the ability to make money in business (ie non fi
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by 55555 6y ago
Isn't the markup for a certain product basically it's weight times the spot market price of the metal with an added constant markup depending on how much more complex it is than a lump of ore? I have no idea what I'm talking
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by 55555 6y ago
No. It beats active traders most of the time. Many active traders vastly outperform it -- by over 2X before compounding -- over 20+ year periods, and not by luck. julian robertson, warren buffet, and ~100 of their proteges, as examples. Bas
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by 55555 6y ago
That's great and all, but they literally used to.
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by 55555 6y ago
Same, but I think it's also just that Bellroy is just a massive Display advertiser.
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by 55555 6y ago
I used to think this, but people who just bought a dishwasher are probably somewhat likely to buy another dishwasher, even the same dishwasher, and there only needs to be a tiny fraction of a single percentage chance for it to be worth show
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by 55555 6y ago
Note the Netflix strategy only works for high profit per employee, highly scalable firms.
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by 55555 6y ago
Maybe this occurred because rulers wanted people to identify with their nation (and pay tax and die defending it) instead of their tribe. Or maybe it is just because nations used to all be ethnically homogeneous. It certainly doesnt serve u
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by 55555 6y ago
For the curious and lazy. where'd that money go? 168 million on R&D, 260 million on marketing&sales, 54 million on running the business, 10 million in interest payments Wonder what all that R&D is for. Maybe they are wor
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by 55555 6y ago
Let's be honest: there is prostitution in every country. The people getting this therapy aren't going for prostitution. They could get that elsewhere easier.
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by 55555 6y ago
PHP is often a good business decision because there is no shortage of affordable devs to help manage the code. If you're building a small, low-margin business, it may be the best choice. I hate writing PHP btw.
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by 55555 6y ago
What's the most frictionless page language translation plugin?
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by 55555 6y ago
The author -- an asian female, I shouldn't say -- may herself believe the detail relevant because she believes the 70/30 deals struck by these white male micro-label owners are "exploitative."

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