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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Is it one side of the aisle that hates Carter? Because from what I've seen/read from the outside (Canada) looking in, I saw nothing but praise for his humility and humanity. I saw conflicting opinions on what he did or didn't
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
If TSLA gets valued down to $7B then we're all fucked, the floor will have fallen from under the stock market as a whole.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Either way, whoever named these are certified geniuses.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Depends on the dose too. My poor neighbor (late 20s lady, way too young for all her problems) had to take a "might-kill-you" dose of cortisol to survive, beyond the "max" her doctor initially told her (1150 of some units
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
For what it's worth, neither Target nor Walmart have a wholly unrelated cash cow (AWS) to subsidize ventures into new markets at huge losses until market dominance is established.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Fair, Facebook's ARPU per region is a good illustration of how much more valuable that market is compared to everywhere else. FWIW I recall seeing an even higher figure for US teens.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I agree that it seems quite self-evident. But for kicks, here are some proper numbers of average price by OS (couldn't find median). Statista (2012-2018): https://www.statista.com/statistics/309472/global-aver
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
>Europe only cared about Europe Not every part of Europe, even that is selective. Atrocities happened in ex-Yugoslavia right under it's nose and inaction, less than 30 years ago. Who knows if anything would've been done for Ukr
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
His Tesla collateral with Morgan Stanley was dropped two weeks ago (granted he has/had to come up with another $6B as I recall). But the issue I was replying directly to was a call to bankruptcy, I'm not claiming he can't be
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Bankruptcy? I understand people dislike Elon's antics and that they got worse lately, but I feel like the sentiment online overshot. He's liquidated nearly $10B for this deal already, has a remaining ~125B in Tesla stock and ~55B
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I'd call it ordinary. Microsoft offered (IIRC) like a 45% premium for Activision.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
How many duplicates tho? Accounts are only tied to emails AFAIK, how can they tell I'd be the same user behind 2 accounts? Granted, it's kind of splitting hair considering it's still gonna be in the 9 figures, which is impres
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I had pictures of an abroad internship from winter 2014-15 that I was able to find last year as I was aggregating all my pictures. But I just checked their filings, the 700M figure is indeed "registered" users, not "active&qu
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
700M, is that active users? Or does my old account I haven't touched in forever counts?
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Thanks, I did wonder as I was typing my comment if it's par for the course. Do you know of recent examples where historical empires/colonizers (basically France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands or Belgium, do I forget someone?) c
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I argued Google is a good name (IMO, subjectively) in the first part, while I understood OP as saying it's a bad one and that the company succeeded in spite of it (which I indeed agreed with in the second part). I've also already
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
>Spain insists that the bounty is theirs since it was aboard a Spanish ship This quote is making my head spin, what a damn bold statement from a modern democracy. "Yeah you know how our ancestors enslaved, murdered and plundered you
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
What's wrong with Google? I'm sure the origin (googolplex) is lost on most people, but it seems like a decent brand name to me. On top of which, consider if Yahoo! had won the search market, i don't think their brand would&#x
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I don't think it's useful to debate fictitious scenarios. You know of a place where there are only Starbucks selling coffees? I can't think of one, as someone that never steps in a Starbucks, yet often buys takeout coffee in
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
That's a separate subject to anti-competitive oligopolies. Let me doubt people are loyal to lightbulb manufacturers and that the situation is remotely comparable to one of the most powerful and well established consumer brands in histo
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Thanks. I assume this is a technical limitation rather than a business decision to sell more notes. But I do wonder (as someone who doesn't quite understand cryptography and multisig beyond the basics of how Bitcoin works), barring a p
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Because manufacturing lightbulbs today is a well established process and basically any manufacturer can produce them if they so chose, as opposed to 1925's situation. It also quite empirically is no longer a thing as LED bulbs can last
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Meaning the cutting part is literal and the notes are basically single-use?
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Is an oligopoly that isn't a cartel problematic? If the lightbulb manufacturers jack up their prices, how long can that last until new incumbents come around and compete margins away? You know what people hate more than oligopolies? Hi
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I doubt the lightbulb cartel is still a thing. While oligopolies and monopolies exist, it's not the answer to every inflating article.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Bit late to answer, so if you read this, sorry. I must've missed your last paragraph which makes it obvious we are thinking about it similarly. I latched onto genetics because it's why I got involved in the thread.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Any idea how does that work in practice? Seems to me like an unresolvable problem, granted I haven't given it much thought. If users are identifyable, cross-platform self-promotion is inevitable, it's kind of human nature. If user
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
The evolutionary tree, maybe more accurately the phylogenetic tree, wouldn't loop as it is derived from genetics in modern times. Our ancestors' attempts at making evolutionary trees from morphology (can't fault them for not
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
My gripe is not that there is some convergent etymology, it's attributing it to genetics. I think a phycist would feel similarly if it was attributed to "human energy" or something like that. Sure almost all languages share c
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Keekee has sharp consonants and bouba has soft ones regardless of culture indeed. We're in the pattern matching realm, not genetics. Besides, here is one instance where they failed to reproduce this result in Papua New Guinea. https:&

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