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by TMWNN 9mo ago
>Good. now that it is done, can EU and the rest of the world push for regional ownership of Instagram, WhatsApp and Youtube without the US complaining unfair practices. >Chinese ownership as a security threat is currently in between r
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Gold tops $4,900/oz; silver and platinum extend record‑setting rally(reuters.com)
9 points by TMWNN 9mo ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
> For my product niche, Amazon has (many) more buyers at my pricepoint and value prop I see. Thank you for the comparative rundown; very interesting.
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
> My fees are high but my COGS are low -- they're typically <30% 45% for me in 2025. >but our typical unit pricing is <$30 $59 ASP in 2025 ($63 average revenue per sale). >Most bigger sellers I know live in the 10-30% ne
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
>They already take 50%+ of our revenue for all expenses As mentioned my revenue is far smaller, so I need larger margins. My total marketplace fees plus shipping spend in 2025 was 26% of revenue. My net margin was 28%, but the metric I f
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
>We've got ours since 2018 and when we balked on the price they just waived the fees You must be in the seven figures revenuewise or higher. I am not, and can't imagine getting the fee waved. That said, what I've heard abo
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
The refund structure has always been in place in the going on five years I've sold on Walmart. The random discounted fees have started in the past year.
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
I sell on both platforms. >Would Walmart take a lower fee? No, it would be the same as Amazon. Walmart charges less in two ways: * No monthly membership fee. * Seemingly random fee discounts, up to and including 0%. More than once I&#x27
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
What I've heard about having the "Premium" (pay) version of Amazon account manager: It's just another layer of the same of the usual awful seller support. Since the "manager" can't actually do anything, ha
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
Agreed on all counts. I've thought more and more as time passes, that Jeanne Kirkpatrick was right when she said after the Cold War that the US should declare victory and exit NATO. More from me on this: < https://np.reddi
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
Your question is not an unreasonable one. One fifth of all Greenlanders live in Denmark.
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
Title shortened by me from "Led by Texas, New Hampshire, U.S. states race to prove they can put bitcoin on public balance sheet"
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Led by Texas, New Hampshire, U.S. states put Bitcoin on public balance sheet(cnbc.com)
2 points by TMWNN 9mo ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
So Microsoft continues to support something that is presumably harder to maintain than Apple just continuing to ship existing 32-bit libraries?
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
Is the MacOS equivalent what was deprecated in Catalina, ending compatibility with 32-bit applications?
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
>No one would have recognized any tropes in 1957 beyond Shakespeare. Nope. Just within science fiction, early issues of Galaxy had many editorials denouncing/mocking science fiction stories with overused tropes, such as Western tr
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
Thanks for the detailed answer; I very much appreciate it. You've given me much to think about.
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
> If you are careful and lucky and the users aren't too inventive these spaces won't contaminate the data, although generally contaminated data is the normal state of most data in FileMaker. Thanks for the example. I have a cop
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
Sticking with Apple, FileMaker
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PaperClip on the Atari 8-Bit(stonetools.ghost.io)
3 points by TMWNN 9mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
> I know a lot of couples who feel like the wife's job is a hobby, because after taxes it barely covers childcare (especially if you also value spending time with your kids). When described that way ... aren't they right about
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by TMWNN 9mo ago
> Some kind of tech hipsterism drives this. But a lot of these proponents were just suffering under inferior tech. Well put. futuraperdita put it well in his reply, too. According to said hipsters, the underdog is always superior, and
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We Are Excited About Confessions(alignment.openai.com)
4 points by TMWNN 9mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 10mo ago
Yes. That said, I work for myself at home in a job that takes only a few hours a day. The money would affect that in the sense that the additional assets and guaranteed income would allow more investing in my business.
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What Happens When Superhuman AIs Compete for Control? (From "AI 2027" Project)(blog.ai-futures.org)
3 points by TMWNN 10mo ago|0 comments
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Hubble Telescope's Final Countdown: Could It Disappear Sooner Than Expected?(dailygalaxy.com)
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by TMWNN 10mo ago
Starlink has no ground stations on Iranian soil and is formally prohibited by its government, so there is nothing being "provided" to Iran, per se. Iranians smuggle Starlink dishes in, at great personal risk.
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by TMWNN 10mo ago
>Now I guess I get to do business with Chase again, which is neat. I’m happy to be part of an economy where I can vote with my dollar like this. You were unusually unlucky. The US has a very decentralized banking system, with thousands o
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Columbia Univ. Center on Global Energy Policy: Q&A on US Actions in Venezuela(energypolicy.columbia.edu)
3 points by TMWNN 10mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 10mo ago
I point out that any European attempt at economic warfare against the US would inevitably affect both sides, and that the US is much less dependent on foreign trade than Europe ... and yet you again speak as if any impact would be solely on

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