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by CPLX 3y ago
By default you’re legally able to share it. It’s your data, you’re telling someone how much you paid for something. Something can’t be a trade secret if it’s not a secret at all, and if you’re the seller, and the information is a descript
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by CPLX 3y ago
The first one is obviously distinguishable. It’s an action against competitors. I’ll save myself the trouble of doing your research for you and ask if any of these involved a fact pattern where customers of a service sharing price info wi
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by CPLX 3y ago
It’s a great word that evokes a very specific experience what’s not to like about it. Is there some other way words are created besides people just sort of using them?
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by CPLX 3y ago
I bet they aren’t.
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by CPLX 3y ago
A common legal synonym for the concept of theft is "conversion" which is illustrative. The act of stealing doesn't require the property to be consumed or destroyed. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by CPLX 3y ago
This is excellent, worth reading all the way through. The fact that his character is completely insufferable is, of course, the point.
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by CPLX 3y ago
The services were actually broadly functional and honestly were reasonably successful as a product. I think the thing just didn’t work as a venture backed high growth idea. Some are still around. And of course there was that incident in Chi
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by CPLX 3y ago
That’s not what most of these people are doing. https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/01/05/more-employees-t...
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by CPLX 3y ago
> fantastically bloated administrative and overhead costs Indeed. Go check the trends on the ratio of non-teaching staff to students at these major name colleges.
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by CPLX 3y ago
I just want a machine that will produce a cup of something that is almost, but not completely, unlike tea.
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by CPLX 3y ago
I mean we are used to having at least some privacy when engaged in business negotiations. Do you forward your pay stubs from the prior job to a new employer when engaged in salary negotiations?
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by CPLX 3y ago
Not every corporation is some wealthy shadow network. The owners of an abortion clinic, or a store that sells fur coats, or a therapy practice for the criminally mentally ill, all might have good reasons why they’d like additional privacy.
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by CPLX 3y ago
A common case that doesn’t seem illegal or immoral to me at least is people assembling groups of related properties in order to combine them. So like if you want to buy all the buildings on a block, or something like that, and want to pay f
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by CPLX 3y ago
Billboard publishes dozens and dozens of charts every week each with various formats and criteria.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Hopefully we’re one step closer to realizing that the core concept that determines who wins all the marbles is just an amalgamation of sociopathy and sensitive dependence on initial conditions, rather than some version of merit.
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by CPLX 3y ago
I’m not sure it’s fair to describe something as “dangerous” and as having “killed” people when you’re talking about technicians hired to safely move or install something. By that definition pretty much any object is “dangerous.”
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by CPLX 3y ago
> It turns out people who take amphetamines really like amphetamines. More than that. They also like to post about how much they like amphetamines on the internet. Tirelessly. The part of this article that mentioned that was the most i
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by CPLX 3y ago
It is heavily taxed.
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by CPLX 3y ago
For-hire cars aren't going to add $15 to your fare. Details on that are in the article.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Driving in Manhattan is pretty straightforward. There are parking garages everywhere you'd want to go (though most non-NYC people would probably consider them shockingly expensive) and at night and on weekends street parking is not too
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by CPLX 3y ago
> The US pissed away a ton of money in the middle east, but that money is hardly missing - we know where it went. lmfao https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
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by CPLX 3y ago
What the hell are you talking about? Like you don't understand that if you're a senior executive at a massive defense contractor you can hire former generals who just signed off on your bid to lucrative consulting agreements, you
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by CPLX 3y ago
> How could such a group steal enough money to ruin the US? Some remedial reading for you: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Broke-Capitalism-America/dp/1...
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by CPLX 3y ago
Is this some kind of joke? Do you really think it's strange or unusual to suggest that there's a conflict of interest between professional manager and shareholders, and that the managers routinely rig things for their own personal
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by CPLX 3y ago
I grew up in the DC suburbs. I literally know these people, played with their kids when I was a kid. Like I'm really sure. It's not super complicated. This is basically how the country is run and to some extent has always been ru
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by CPLX 3y ago
Why would they give the money to you as a retail investor? They keep it. There’s a group of like 2000 people or so and they all change jobs every couple years and split the profits and buy houses in Maclean. It’s distributed via consulting
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by CPLX 3y ago
Sometimes people say things indirectly. In this case what they are saying is that Gaudi’s design sense is so unique and iconoclastic that it’s essentially impossible to mix it with other styles of design.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Not sure Silver Oak is the best choice for this. It’s a super mass produced wine that basically occupies the market niche of “expensive” at chain steakhouses. I actually like it but it has sort of a specific taste that’s intended to match w
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by CPLX 3y ago
This article has no substance or analysis. It's a vibes-based take from someone who clearly has direct self-interest at stake. Read this instead: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-s...
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by CPLX 3y ago
We are writing these comments on a discussion site created to serve the interests of a prominent private equity firm. Perhaps we should realize how relevant that fact is to what we read here.

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