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by Quinner 11y ago
The troubles in Venezuela started while the oil price was still high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela
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by Quinner 11y ago
The spec is fine but they mis-wired the cable in the factory, badly.
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by Quinner 11y ago
That exists, it's called Social Security.
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by Quinner 11y ago
Why does this have anything to do with it's status as a B-corp, rather than other market pressures on Etsy specifically, including Amazon's efforts in the space?
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When the Fed Raises Rates, in One Rube Goldberg Machine(nytimes.com)
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by Quinner 11y ago
Except the NYT has surprisingly turned things around, considering five years ago they were a dinosaur on it's way out, much as Yahoo was and is. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/business/media/
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by Quinner 11y ago
Correct, different developer, same publisher.
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by Quinner 11y ago
I'm all for bringing down the government, but I have to believe there's a better way to do that than Donald Trump.
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by Quinner 11y ago
So you're comparing the theoretical speeds in lab tests to actual speeds in the real world of older wifi tech? That's not really a fair nitpick.
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by Quinner 11y ago
Or, you know, any of the several Windows releases since XP.
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by Quinner 11y ago
It's really a mix of over-regulation and under-regulation, with a lot of regulatory capture. In this case the monopolies are not illegal, they're actually protected by regulation.
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by Quinner 11y ago
I think your nit-picking needs more thought, nuclear bombs are illegal for an individual to possess, and if someone had managed to obtain a bomb from say the former USSR, they would most definitely be considered a criminal.
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by Quinner 11y ago
It's worse, because a gun is a discrete physical item. Encryption code is virtual and infinitely replicable, regulation is extremely ineffective at restricting it from those that want it.
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by Quinner 11y ago
This is their response: https://www.ampproject.org/
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by Quinner 11y ago
That's probably an official exchange rate, with the currency being much weaker unofficially.
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by Quinner 11y ago
Wut.