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by abduhl 2y ago
It’s rare to find someone argue that confirming only 25% of a massive amount of output enabled only because of the in place system is a good reason to eliminate the system. It’s kind of like saying “solar panels are only 20% efficient, so a
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by abduhl 2y ago
Or at least obfuscate and mask your claim the same way the Trump administration has learned: “many are saying that most of those people are silent quitting or refusing to go back to work” “and how many of those people are silent quitting or
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by abduhl 2y ago
That's a rather extreme reading of "it's cowardly to post a controversial opinion from a throwaway account"
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> most CEOs are too cowardly Posted from a throwaway account created specifically for this post. Cowardly indeed.
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by abduhl 2y ago
It sounds like you don’t understand what the word “offense” means. The literal meaning of offense is a crime. If you crash into a street light and damage it (purposely, probably also negligently) then it is literally an offense against soci
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> If someone crashes into a streetlight, is that an offense against society? Obviously not. That’s literally what it is. That’s why the court case is styled State/Commonwealth/People v. Streetlightcrasher. You can quibble a
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by abduhl 2y ago
I'm glad we agree that cash flow is not the same as EBITDA. The question we are talking about is whether Twitter makes more money now versus before Musk's take over. If "makes more money" means revenue, then the answer
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by abduhl 2y ago
https://altline.sobanco.com/ebitda-vs-cash-flow/ ("EBITDA and cash flow are both important financial metrics, but they serve different purposes and provide different insights into a company’s financial health.&quo
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by abduhl 2y ago
This is an incorrect statement. Twitter’s revenue halved but its expenses were cut as well meaning its EBITDA doubled. The most likely conclusion on cash flow is that it went down actually, probably by a half in line with revenue (since rev
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by abduhl 2y ago
This is political drivel meant to superficially denounce "conservatives" by using soft words ("tend to," "broadly beneficial," "marginalized," "minor or suspected," "many conservatives&
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by abduhl 2y ago
Employers were induced into requiring vaccination based on an impermissible OSHA rule that made vaccination mandatory. Acting as if the federal mandates eventually being stopped by the legal process means they did not shape private action i
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by abduhl 2y ago
Willful patent infringement provides for treble damages based on damages that are often determinable from the infringer’s sales/profits and provides for recoupment of attorney’s fees. If you have a truly patentable idea then the juice
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by abduhl 2y ago
I would be wary of assuming that is true for purposes of RSUs. Whether these folks and the company consider them current "employees" is not the employee-employer test for tax withholding purposes.
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by abduhl 2y ago
Absolutely and that’s probably one of the reasons a 911 is 4th on the Cars With the Most Frequent Occupant Fatalities list. But Porsche doesn’t claim to be The Safest Car Brand Ever and doesn’t claim to be making cars that can be put into a
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by abduhl 2y ago
I wonder if driver behavior is influenced by Tesla’s design of certain systems, in which case Tesla vehicles would be inherently unsafe and have design flaws to the extent that unsafe driver behaviors are enabled or encouraged. “I wonder” i
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by abduhl 2y ago
There are disputes about payment on lots of projects I've worked on. That wasn't your claim. You claimed that liens were filed and perfected on "most" jobs, and that is not my experience.
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Multiple security flaws found in DeepSeek iOS app, incl sending unencrypted data(9to5mac.com)
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> Most large projects have some percentage of total project value in liens. I hate to be this guy but please provide a source for this. I’ve been involved in the construction industry for quite a while, almost exclusively on large an
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by abduhl 2y ago
That is actually the defining characteristic of legal tender: “money that is legally valid for the payment of debts and that must be accepted for that purpose when offered” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leg
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Google employees petition for 'job security' ahead of expected cuts(cnbc.com)
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> In fact, if the 2008 bank bail-out, auto industry bail-out, the Silicon Valley bank prop-up, and other such actions by the US government are considered [2], if this turns out to be a bubble it will be taxpayers who end up fronting
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by abduhl 2y ago
Unionization and the threat of collective bargaining (and other workers’ rights) are economic factors.
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by abduhl 2y ago
I cannot even imagine the indemnity provisions that were entered into by TikTok to give its network providers enough risk mitigation to turn the taps back on. As far as I can see, the app stores still are not listing ByteDance-related apps
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by abduhl 2y ago
Sure, but why can't my teenager smoke cigarettes? The point of my response is: sometimes you have to be paternalistic, and the federal government doesn't need to meaningfully defend the ban to someone who doesn't like it beca
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by abduhl 2y ago
Not a link to the Human Rights Watch report; however, at oral argument this was stated by the US government ( https://www.oyez.org/cases/2024/24-656 @ 1:58:32): Elizabeth B. Prelogar: And the one final point on thi
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by abduhl 2y ago
Hopefully we'll ban those too. The first step is always the hardest, so you should always look for the easiest path (which in this case is banning a foreign government from controlling a social media app).
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by abduhl 2y ago
Lots of people think this way and, to be honest, it speaks more to the inability of the thinker to consider the realities of the US's current relationship with China. A good thought experiment is whether you think the people of Crimea
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by abduhl 2y ago
I assume you were in a non recourse state? Your strategy as I understand it would only work in a non recourse state.
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> These costs need to be accounted for somehow. Why? Realtors have for years committed antitrust violations to the detriment of home buyers and sellers and helped push home values up for no reason because they act in their own intere
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by abduhl 2y ago
This is not what the cover in cut and cover refers to. This is a temporary bridge erected over a cut and cover operation. When the excavation (the "cut") and structure are completed underneath and the backfill/concrete is p

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