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It helps that they have less civil rights in Europe. Or less civil liberties. In America the state is very restricted in how it can deal with the homeless.
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She was a Modis employee.
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Spend some time thinking about the difference between holding $4M of dollars and $2M worth of Bitcoin, and which you’d rather have. Can you see it now? Or is it still too confusing?
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It doesn’t matter at all whether you have realized a loss by selling the asset. If they sold the Bitcoin, they could easily buy it back with hardly any transaction costs. I did not actually make a “very large statement”. It is trivial to
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It’s a liquid asset, so that’s a false distinction.
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> Growing revenue while still not making a profit is not impressive. It is when you’re a software company and the marginal cost of the goods is zero.
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What is wrong with having a small mediocre business: 1. Companies provide useful products to customers. 2. Growth means that you built products that more customers paid more money for, because it was useful. 3. Thus, growth means your compa
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Plan B isn’t an “abortion pill” (though some may see no distinction); that’s RU486.
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> it is a response to the bigotry and harassment problems that were endemic to the open source communities Such as???
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It’s a non sequitor.
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Nonsense. America was ahead of the curve on gay marriage before Obergefell and its abortion laws as of yesterday and in many states today are far more liberal than Europe.
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What on earth are you talking about? The workers got promised they’d work on electric cars. And then they worked on electric cars. Please identify the gaslighting and manipulation.
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Obviously. The company exists to sell electric cars, not to “care” about workers. Their relationship with workers is to trade money for work.
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He’s on Substack.
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Especially considering one of the most famous hedge funds was founded by an MD.
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Obviously they know something about the cost/benefit you do not.
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What non-violent opportunistic crimes are putting young Americans in jail? Theft? Is there bipartisan support for reducing its penalties? Or do you mean some other one? I can see bipartisan support for reducing penalties for victimless,
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I didn’t make the original comment about liberal judges, but Burger voted for Roe vs. Wade.
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It isn’t “designed” or “used” to racially discriminate if it’s not intended. The word “Intententionally,” specifically, is present in section 706(g) to expressly prevent accidental discrimination from violating Title VII.
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The word “intended” is right there.
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Griggs vs. Duke Power. The CRA explicitly allows testing. It was amended to introduce the word “intentionally.” The courts ignored the text of the bill and the intent of the congressmen who voted for it in developing disparate impact theo
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It sounds fine and I like the concept, conceptually, but I have these things to say: (1) Stocks have tight spreads (during standard trading hours) and slight differences in price execution is not an issue for long-term investors. (2) Comp
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> The transcript also showed officers tried to calm down Mr Bickings' companion as she grew increasingly distraught, telling her they were getting a boat. Mr Bickings’ companion didn’t jump in and save him either.
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It’s private property, a city inspector has no right to trespass.
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> And yet it's also short enough that Coinbase leadership was certainly already preparing to make this decision. You don’t need any “preparation” to make this decision. Information changed, and a new course of action is taken.
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The acquisition happens, and you sell the FB shares. It’s not like you’d allocate your portfolio based on how much FB you already have.
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But that’s not what you do with the stock.
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Simply, but not precisely. The same macroeconomic factors that affect the public companies’ value apply.
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You mean 3/4 of the states.
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If you were right, we wouldn’t see comments like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619188
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