NickC25

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> Redefines the meaning of genocide to fit the shape of the conflict -- a war started by Hamas on Oct 7 My man, Israel had a blockade surrounding Palestine on all sides for years prior. October 7th was a retaliation for a lot of the p
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>The government can’t just stop letting businesses incorporate because it doesn’t like how a county voted. The government can revoke a corporation's charter at any time it desires to.
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what does AOL even do these days? genuinely curious.
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Companies need to seriously stop with this. I don't care if they make money by selling that ad space, I'm not going to fucking buy a fridge that advertises to me and needs the internet. It's a fridge for god's sake. Un
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the canadian system might suck but it's infinitely better than what we have in the USA. we have a capitalist bastard child of for-profit "insurance" companies who are heavily subsidized (yet are still allowed to profit massiv
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the medical insurance industry and the hospitals do this whole song-and-dance charade where they pretend that they are charitable, public-protecting institutions who serve noble goals of helping sick people. in truth, they are doing nothing
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You most certainly are, Boz. You've pursued "growth" and made a bunch of wealthy people (who certainly don't need the money) a magnitude wealthier, by exploiting the negative side of youth self-consciousness. You're
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>So you would enjoy playing Magnus more than playing Stockfish. Oh, no, I wouldn't enjoy playing him more. I'd enjoy playing Stockfish infinitely more because I could learn new strategies from it. Knowing you're going to
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Magnus. With him being human, there's a 0.00000000000000000000000000000001% chance that he might miss something or miscalculate deep into a game. With Stockfish, those odds are quite literally 0%. Magnus could make a mistake. Stockf
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Magnus's peak rating was 2882. Stockfish is currently rated 3644. Lc0/AlphaZero was estimated to be rated 3800. Stockfish would destroy Magnus even with queen odds.
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> would a 499 billion cap make you happy? Yeah. No single individual needs that much money. especially in this day and age where politicians are cheap as fuck to buy and the markets will reward any and all regulatory capture in th
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>Because he founded a company that turned into PayPal No he didn't. He co-founded (with several other people) a company that merged with a company founded over a year before (that he had no involvement in) which eventually became P
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>It would add up to a lot of money for Tesla, but for customers? Some of these people paid $15.000 years ago for something that hasn’t been delivered, and now, they would be able to get $10,000 ‘back’, only if they commit to spending way
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Just seeing this! Re: shipping -yes that's where we're trying to get to. Right now going through traditional distributors is what we are doing because that helps us get retail footprint but one day, yes, we want to be D2C. Re: si
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It doesn't make sense, until it does - because Mark's shares are quite literally a separate class from all other shares and IIRC have 10x the voting power as common class A stock. If he announced he is selling them all at once, I
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Shares of a company are indeed money - or can be used as money in a roundabout way. They can be placed as collateral in exchange for a loan or other similar ways to access capital immediately. If Zuck walks into a bank and asks for a millio
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The train of thought here is that product people innovate and launch companies, but operations & finance people have no idea how to innovate or create new products. Putting in a finance/ops person as the CEO will stagnate a company
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Bezos, Ellison, and Zuck combined have over $1 trillion in net worth. That alone places a combined 3 people with more money than the GDP of all but 20 countries.
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>The author could be inviting lawsuits from a company that clearly has no qualms playing dirty. Could it possibly involve a particularly litigious law firm masquerading as a tech company run by one rich asshole?
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>Typically smart people arent limited to specific areas of being smart. That's kind of the definition of being smart is figuring things out. Having worked with everyone over the course of my life from PhDs to construction workers, I
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because the infrastructure in their home countries likely don't exist. some people are just that much smarter and need such an environment. Or, there's risk to being in their home country where academic freedom might not really b
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But they pay several multiples of money more to study than the average US citizen, take on no debt, and most of the time are studying for advanced technical degrees. Most Americans are not. If we want to have top-tier universities, and prod
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>China should have strong car companies for their domestic market. The problem comes when they end up destroying other/outside markets. Agree. However, those other companies in other markets didn't just destroy themselves over
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I have no issue giving kids a utilitarian dumb phone that can send and receive basic text messages as well as make calls. Giving them smartphones? Moronic idea at best.
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And shockingly, the company actually listens to the Chinese government. Because the company knows that if they resist, their executives will at best be quickly "re-educated", or straight up disappeared overnight. Here, the compan
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Give the kid a dumb phone. It can make calls. It can send/receive basic text messages. The most addictive thing on that type of phone, if it can even be installed, is Snake. Utilitarianism wins. Social media companies loose. I'
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>If this was Instagram nobody would care. Yes, people would care. People who have been ringing the alarm bell regarding kids on social media for literally decades now. Congress wouldn't care. Mark would make $ure of that...$om
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>From what I read she also invoked various privacy law excuses to give them the run-around while they were pressured to close the deal. And that should have been a massive red flag for JPMC. They should have nope'd out of that deal
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>Have you looked into this? Yes. I get asked this frequently. I don't want to follow the same trend bandwagon that it seems everyone is on. Stick packs taste fake and often are loaded with non-essential junk (the FDA also doesn&#x
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Great point! I will add it to our site. In terms of our sugar content, is 16g sugar and 17g sugar, respectively. (2 of our flavors are 17g, one is 16g). In terms of "no sugar added", it's true, we don't add sugar. But

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