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The US has been the the only major country sanctioning Cuba for a decade and a half, but the economy has only gotten worse. Sanctions may explain why they has lagged behind in tech. It doesn't explain why Cuba needs to import 70-80% o
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> If I order a subordinate to kill the most likely candidate and I get promoted, I don't think that the prosecutor would think to add a "prohibited employment compensation" charge They would if you had used your company c
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If Donald Trump ordered the military to manicure the lawn at Mar-a-Lago, would that be considered an official act? Obviously not. The Emoluments Clause dictates that all federal officeholders cannot benefit from their positions besides thei
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> Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. There is no way that Sotomayor genuinely believes this. If Trump becomes president and is prosecuted again, I guarantee she'll argue that his crimes don'
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Kavanaugh "lied" because in 1999, he criticized an aspect of the Nixon ruling but 19 years later, in a response to a softball question from a Republican senator, called it "one of the greatest moments in American judicial his
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> Page 14 notes that the President's official responsibilities "include, for instance, commanding the Armed Forces of the United States; granting reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States; and ap- pointing pu
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You can use a Coravin to sample all the wines while introducing minimal oxygen.
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Even if this is true, this is a distinction without a difference. If a developer can't sell their property to someone else, there's a good chance they wouldn't build it in the first place. If they do decide to never sell thei
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Corporate landlords are the only people adding new housing units in NYC.
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Some automakers do a better job than other for sure, but I heard that Tesla's basic autopilot is pretty good already.
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How much better is it than regular adaptive cruise control?
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It's not sexy, but the number one way to reduce plastic pollution is to build landfills and proper waste management systems in developing countries. Plastic bans are largely performative and often counterproductive. Instead of bringing
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This may work out great if you happen to have worked on Rails for your last job. However, I doubt that everyone you interview is actually that familiar with Rails but rather is pursuing any sort of opportunity that they can get. In that cas
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> Forcing people to study for two months is blatantly discriminatory to age and family status, at a systemic level. How is this any less discriminatory than any other assessment based interview where you need to prepare? Non-assessment b
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Atlanta is barely a city compared to New York or Tokyo. New York City is 8 times denser. Tokyo is even denser if you're just counting the special wards, which is what most people think of as Tokyo. You need trains to alleviate the traf
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The most successful social democracies actually have significantly flatter taxes than the US. IMO, overly progressive taxes are the reason why nobody gives a shit that the government is so inefficient at spending money. Those who benefit th
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Sears is an odd example because Eddie Lambert didn't want to treat it as private equity investment and he wanted to take operations in his own hands. He thought he was the next Warren Buffett, but he wasn't, so Sears hemorrhaged
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This has nothing to do with the board's power. Simply firing him doesn't stop him from taking all his employees with him. The lawsuit would be for the damage of Altman's lies, and would prevent him from simply starting anothe
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It's not typical for the board to directly intervene with the affairs for the company, but it's still far less unprecedented than making the most important decision in their history while deliberately excluding a third of the memb
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> the board (of any company) has basically one job: to hire (and fire) the CEO Yes. In a formal board meeting, not in an secretive one behind Altman and Brockman's back. That's what makes it seem more like a coup. > They&#x2
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> Before you throw around accusations of incompetence, you should probably have some shred of evidence. The evidence is in this interview. It sounded like the board basically let Altman walk all over them until they suddenly decided that
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It's very unusual to vote to fire a CEO without all members being present. Doing so made it seem like they were stabbing him in the back
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> "Filed a formal complaint" with whom? For their own records. They can use it for justification for disciplinary action or legal ammunition. It is always useful to document things in writing. It's the same reason why comp
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I think there is a very good chance this is true, but it also paints the picture of the board being incompetent and incapable of confrontation. They could have filed formal complaints, mandated increased scrutiny, handed off Sam's resp
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> By March 2024, the game generated $2 billion in revenue just 10 months after launch and three months after hitting $1 billion. This is absolutely wild.
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The government is doing everything they can stop it, but home prices are indeed falling [1]. A 2.2% decline doesn't sound like much, but it's wild given the strong GDP growth over the same period. https://www.reuters.co
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The difference is that China had a housing bubble. After it popped, housing prices started plummeting. In the US, housing is just expensive. Given the current supply and demand, there isn't a good reason why the price should be lower.
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I don't think the mannerisms of a performance something that's copyrightable though. It sounded like they used a voice actor who was instructed to speak with a similar intonation as Her, but Scarlet Johansson's voice is more
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Also, artists can no longer make money by selling music, so the majority of their income comes from performances now.
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It sounds racist because they phrased it very bluntly, but that aren't saying that black people can't do math. One of the reasons why Americans are bad at math is because our expectations of math are abysmal. Raising these expecta

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