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by CPLX 2y ago
My own involvement in media is not impartial and is not intended to be. My opinion on your question is that Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post to advance his interests, and that the Washington Post indeed has an agenda which is broadl
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by CPLX 2y ago
It’s not a hypothetical we aren’t assuming spherical cows today. Those specific people have a long and public track record that answers this question. It’s not a secret, like I said. There are plenty of editors out there who have never deci
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by CPLX 2y ago
The Atlantic is run by Jeffrey Goldberg and owned by Laurene Powell Jobs. Of course these people have agendas, it’s not exactly a secret.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> "DO NOT SUBMIT" That's pretty good advice if you find yourself dealing with a large tech company.
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by CPLX 2y ago
This is not at all an accurate description of the typical applications of the CATIII landing procedure in practice.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Yeah but to what extent is it all just marketing and promotional type copy, plus maybe "content" that explains or summarizes things. That's definitely responsible for billions of dollars in salaries. But also it's a bit
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by CPLX 2y ago
Without additional context the letter does read as persuasive. Is there significant additional context? Having looked at Matt's comments in the speech I'm not seeing any actual substance of what's wrong with WP Engine.
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by CPLX 2y ago
For obvious reasons a market for a product that is banned by the government is a poor example of a market that exists "without government intervention"
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by CPLX 2y ago
> There are reams of economic literature trying to estimate whether government intervention in the market was a good idea. Most of the time it doesn't turn out great. These sentences are just propaganda. There’s no factual basis for
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by CPLX 2y ago
> Obviously Mr. Beast isn’t as far out ethically as casinos That’s not obvious
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by CPLX 2y ago
I honestly think these videos are horrible and chasing those engagement metrics is basically the opposite of creating art. But one thing that did help me gain perspective is a comment that these are literally global products where English i
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by CPLX 2y ago
Not only is it serious, it’s the central argument of all political systems since there have been political systems.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Allowing literally anyone to get into any airport and into any locked cockpit without any screening is critical to flight safety. If you can’t immediately see why I’m not sure what to tell you.
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by CPLX 2y ago
I could definitely be wrong. But that seems unlikely here. The entire basis of the company is illegal, it's hard to see any settlement here that doesn't involve them completely ceasing to exist and having to pay fines.
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by CPLX 2y ago
In the case of RealPage that doesn’t seem like the most probable outcome. They’ve been caught red-handed engaged in blatantly illegal price-fixing conduct that has harmed millions of American families. They’re up against the DOJ and plenty
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by CPLX 2y ago
Medicare is not direct. Direct would be if the therapist worked, on salary, as a therapist, and received a paycheck from the government.
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by CPLX 2y ago
I use them out of the box to track expensive equipment in cases and the batteries are good for 6-12 months or so, sometimes longer.
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by CPLX 2y ago
I went to grade school in the 80’s and high school and college in the 90’s. It wasn’t anything like you describe at all. For better or worse people did actually talk to each other. And while we did call each other on the phone reasonably of
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by CPLX 2y ago
Not sure what you’re talking about, you still can’t buy kindle books on iOS apps.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> That said, the conservatives tend to be literalists from the perspective of the legislature or regulator at the time the law was enacted There’s absolutely no objective basis for this statement whatsoever. The Supreme Court is a politi
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by CPLX 2y ago
> Of the billionaires on the 2023 Forbes 400 list — the 400 richest people in the United States — 70% are basically self-made. And 59% came from an upper-middle-class background or below. I have a very strong feeling the words "basi
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by CPLX 2y ago
The guy is making no sense. Or picked a bad fact pattern to make a point. In the case he's describing you'd just get a search warrant for the garage and everything in it. Or, if you could establish probable cause (which seems like
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by CPLX 2y ago
The fact that it’s a linchpin component of an illegal monopoly is one good reason.
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by CPLX 2y ago
What are you talking about? History shows that a partially communist country that has extreme regulation has come to dominate huge swaths of global business.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Reading the book Palo Alto was a serious eye-opener into how SV culture came to be the way that it is. Let's just say this goes way, way back. https://www.amazon.com/Palo-Alto-History-California-Capitali...
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by CPLX 2y ago
There’s lots of services like this that I have seen, including a popular one where you can donate $1 to a charity in order for your email to reach someone’s inbox.
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by CPLX 2y ago
It’s almost certainly an automated tool that is installed in the whole blog.
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by CPLX 2y ago
That’s not really true. The regional carriers like Republic and so on have had a variety of different paint jobs (United Express, American Eagle) and it hasn’t been considered an issue. Not to mention the issue of random call signs like Bri
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by CPLX 2y ago
> If marriage is not some kind of "special" arrangement, why do we place so much value on the concept? Marriage is an economic and logistical framework for the raising of children. Any society that doesn’t come up with a viable
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by CPLX 2y ago
> If we also were to have children, I/we would also be imposing my/our will upon them. I/we would be violating our childrens' unalienable right to liberty and potentially pursuit of happiness. I cannot accept that. Wh

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