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by Hilift 1y ago
Google doesn't own all of ads though, only search ads. Facebook nets $70 billion per year with an ad system that prints golden bricks. No-one cares how it works due to it makes so much money. 80% of shares are held by institutions.
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> Weber also argued that the Protestant work ethic influenced the creation of capitalism An alternative explanation is for the first 140 years of the US, "Protestants" were the "people that did the work". Catholicism
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The US has a lot of people that were from affluent families and sort of drifted away. Another fascinating person is Huntington Hartford. He inherited most of the wealth of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. He funded the Gallery of Moder
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From 12 Years Ago: August 26, 2013 "In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands of times faster. The media coverage sen
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The FDR administration two of the Treasury architects of Bretton Woods were Russian agents. One of them, FDR's chief economist, had his US passport and US citizenship revoked. He lived the remainder of his life in Columbia, presumably
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DC Metro can use funds from developing property near Metro stations. This has been one of the positive things about Metro. The Purple line has evolved into a financial disaster. It will be the most expensive train line ever constructed, $10
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BART is unfortunately doomed. It had been running on federal aid, and with a deficit. Ridership is down 60% from 2019 (50 million vs 118 million). Now with San Francisco and Oakland in a long, slow downturn, it is unlikely to improve.
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The Gingrich Revolution happened shortly after Souter arrived. Republicans corrected all the previous mistakes and succeeded in stacking the court after that.
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This isn't about science, issues, or voting. The message is: "We don't like you and it would be better if you weren't around". Also, why is NSF fielding 40,000 proposals per year? That is 110 proposals per day. Is t
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iOS is a second class operating system platform, with Android not far behind. iMessage has been the subject of multiple device takeover zero days, no user intervention required. "20 zero-days patched by Apple in 2023". https:&#x2
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Indeed. The FBI made a lot of cases with that. It wasn't unusual for a corporate user to not know that all of the texts, contacts, and numbers called were available centrally.
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Ludicrous. You can't build a reactor in the US for less than $10 billion. Combine that with natural gas at prices five times less than Europe and that means that no-one will loan money for a project. If they do, it is usually subsidize
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Everything in the cloud is throttled. Network, IOPS, CPU. And probably implemented incorrectly. AWS makes billions if the customer infrastructure is great or terrible. I found that anything smaller than an AWS EC2 m5.8xlarge had noticeably
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Even if Pakistan wanted to do something to reign in the extremists near the borders, they don't have the resources. Pakistan required a $7 billion loan from the IMF last September just to function. This is a very precarious situation f
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Kashmir is a natural buffer zone.
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It is worse than that. Mobile, and iOS in particular, is a second class operating system platform. Your device and data can be taken over by a text message that someone sends you, and you don't even need to open it. That's bad. Lo
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This isn't about consumers or decisions. Rick Perry stated in the 2012 election that he would eliminate several departments, including Energy, Education, and Interior. The Republicans don't want life centralized around a federal g
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Check out the story on Block 216 in Portland. A well known local developer sunk a lot of his own money into the development of an upscale hotel/residences. The result? The new, finished development is valued at $415 million, however th
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META creates $70 billion per year in NET profit. Mark Zuckerberg is the best business person in the history of business. He's an angel to investors and advertisers. Vanguard has 43 million shares of TSLA. They lost $10 billion in stoc
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> Sure, but aren't we past rational debate on this point? There is no point debating the administration or supporters. Peter Navarro hatched this idea, and he is nearly alone in his logic. However, a broader debate is useful. A prof
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If anyone is not aware of Retraction Watch, their implementations of "tortured phrases" was a revelation. And it has exposed some serious flaws. Like "vegetative electron microscopy". Some of the offending publications&#
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A bit late, but there was a bug in the GitHub Win32 OpenSSH that was introduced in last October 2024 cumulative update. This was precipitated by a PR from September 2023. It performs a permissions check on the logs and other folders, and ap
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Yes, retail insurance is up. This is due to crime and theft. In some cases, it's the we don't want your business/headache rate hike. NYC has about 835,000 unauthorized immigrants. That is up from about 400,000 in 2022. https
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San Francisco hospitality is on death's door. The SF Hilton Union Square owner (Park Hotels and Resorts) had to turn the note over to the bank and walk away from a $750 million loan due to they aren't able to make interest payment
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Could be the terrain and geology. About 15,000 years ago, after the last glacial maximum subsided, the largest flood in history carved out that part of Oregon. Maybe there is a similar timetable where the Columbia is silted up. From Wikip
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A lot of orgs had VPN with forced tunneling before the pandemic. They caved on that in the first few days due to the increased usage and instant split tunneling with no planning. We also caught multiple people who connected unauthorized net
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They have to though, right? If you look at the nonsense people generate in logs, it would be a war crime to not monetize that. 20% of the PB's of data is probably the same 2,100 UTF-16 characters of Windows event id 4624.
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People who have published books recently on Amazon have noticed that immediately there are fraud knockoff copies with the title slightly changed. These are created by AI, and are competing with humans. A person this happened to was recently
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Windows Enterprise edition has been subscription-only licensing for several years. The lowest edition cost is about twice that of Professional over a five year period.
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Facebook is a cash machine. $62 billion net profit, from ads. Anything with that much revenue will attract fraud. Facebook will likely present themselves as victims, taken advantage of by organized criminals.

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