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by L_Rahman 9y ago
This is the opposite of correct. Toys R Us core business is profitable and throws off 200 million in profits a year. The reason they went bankrupt is that a private equity company bought them in an LBO and the debt load became unserviceable
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It came from the pockets of insurers and individuals who couldn't afford insurance at all when he jacked up the prices of essential drugs. That wasn't illegal at all though :) Just that he lied to his investors about the source of
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Saying this is because of unions is like saying America has political problems because it is a democratic nation state. Democracies and unions are modes of people collectively exerting power with inherent. The actual criticism to be made he
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
'Sometimes even newspaper critics' - oh man this is harsh. I don't like the biases that newspaper critics tend to have but Pete Wells and Ruth Reichl at the Times, Sietsema (previously at the Village Voice, now at Eater) all
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
If Twitter can't figure out a way to build a platform that does not damage society without violating First Amendment protections, then perhaps Twitter should cede its responsibility to the platform but opening the social graph up to le
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
You're not a weirdo. This is something I feel similarly about, but here's the thing about rich people: 1. The path to becoming rich puts them in a social class that warps their view of what matters and leaves measuring themselves
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
It's not for urgent transit. They're probably trying to take a cut of the transportation voucher program available to seniors and those with disabilities to access subsidized rides from existing services. http://web1.ct
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I promise you that most New Yorkers are deeply unhappy with the subway. The pride that we feel in the MTA is in carving out a non-automobile based way of life in a country where the ability to drive and own a a car is synonymous with indepe
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
When I first read the grandparent post, I thought it was a deliberate choice of words to denigrate "the cloud" but the fact that it's the accidental result of an overzealous browser extension in a thread talking about dysfunc
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They're starting to resolve this in some stations. Many Manhattan subway entrances now have boards above them showing the arrival times for the next two trains.
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
I am one of the Matt Levine readers who thinks that this nationalization would be an interesting path towards American socialism. Edit: also /u/aomurphy I'd love to chat about your "information stack" so to speak. I
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Presumably to avoid any impression of special collaboration between Google and Motorola that would have spooked the large Android OEMs of the time - Samsung, HTC and LG.
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Healthcare companies are getting rich. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...
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there is clinically proven evidence that seeing the same provider in the same setting improves outcomes: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/the-heroism-of...
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Fellow alum here, most engineering majors still have a similar design project as a significant chunk of how they spend senior year. For mine (I was a biomedical engineering undergrad) we built a computational model of the metabolism of HIV
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Yes, left-handed notebook nerds! I'm a loyal Lleuchtturm user, but have been considering the Midori notebooks. How do they compare?
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
My uncle is one of those people who sits in subway booths. He does almost nothing. He makes 80k a year. My political ideology is deeply in favor of the working class. I believe in strong worker protections, in the unionization of labor in
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
I promise you that New Yorkers care about this deeply. https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/the-human-cost-of-subway... Any survey of New Yorkers and government services will tell you how much this matters. The biggest
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
The absence of other people outside your community was not an accident. Members of the government, of financial institutions and urban planning departments made deliberate choices to exclude certain types of people: https://www.t
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
At a lower level, this is the game everyone who participates in "access journalism" is playing. Journalists and publications build relationships with sources and report stories keeping one eye on the writing/impact/truth
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
This post seems to have brought the concentration of corporate power / regulatory capture HN critics out of the woodwork. I am so happy to see and read all of you.
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> each time anyone passes go, the player with the most money gets to create a new rule. Guess what? The game is gonna get pretty skewed, pretty darn fast. We call that crony capitalism and it is very much the opposite of a free market. I
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
I can confirm that the foreign SIM card override works from my experience a couple of years ago. My T-Mobile had free international roaming baked in at 2G speeds. Unlike the US however, most foreign carriers in developed Asian nations (Chin
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Most likely a drone mounted stingray device with find/follow capabilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
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This is a fair response and one that lifts from "disruption" like thinking processes. I've made a personal decision however to retreat from "realpolitik" like political analyses because it requires me to play mind g
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Ha, a fair criticism. I was aware of the distinction, Salman seems to be sovereign in name only these days which is why I took the liberty of framing MBS as the decision maker: > The question now arises: Will the king abdicate the throne
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Since the person behind this project is the sovereign of a nation-state, perhaps they should build a new way of living in their existing cities and society. A good place to start would be enshrining basic civil liberties and not bombing civ
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
SaaS is essentially an acknowledgement that the most profitable and extractive business model in modern capitalism is to build a capital intensive product and rent it out. With software there is the added benefit of low-cost, highly scalabl
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It's difficult to imagine because there has been a not widely acknowledged rise over the last twenty years of incredibly well-resourced parents who spend all of their available time, energy and money on their children. Elite education
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Thanks for putting the links together. If I understand this correctly (my biomedical engineering undergrad finally coming to use!): 1. Cancer cells present antigens that are specific to cancer cells and do not occur in healthy cells. 2. CRI

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