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This is not news. Market gains generally have always been dragged along by a small percentage of companies: Focusing on aggregate shareholder outcomes, we find that the top-performing 2.4% of firms account for all of the $US 75.7 trillion i
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Well if we zoom out to the moon so that everything looks the same “in the area we are talking about” then I guess there are no distinctions between anything, are there? A person that gets robbed is the same as a person that forgets their wa
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In the US, adverse possession is a takings by a third party, not the government. And it’s not permitted when a land is unoccupied since one of the central tenets of adverse possession is open and notorious occupation. And, as you know based
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>> The legal principle has a long, long history across many different legal systems. Cite them.
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>> It's a public policy failure for land to sit vacant like that. Then the government should buy the land. >> For a very clear example: if you're surrounded by starving people, and you own a warehouse full of food that
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>> I suspect it would make more sense to do so via tax policy, i.e. high property taxes (or LVT) with a deduction for each occupant. Vacant land use taxes do make sense to me. That is not what GP advocated for: “Owners should be requi
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You do have a right to do a metal concert in your living room on Saturday at 1AM. You don’t have a right to violate the local noise ordinance or, because your example has you as an apartment owner and not a building owner, the condo associa
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The government should tell property owners that they are required to keep their property occupied otherwise the government should seize their property? This is an extremist view. Who defines what “maintained” means? Beyond safety concerns a
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>> It's why I keep rental car coverage for our vehicles even when we don't need it -- to hold the insurance company's feet to the fire, so they feel the financial pain, too, when they hold your car hostage for a month.
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2y ago
$869 sale means you sold between March 2024 and last week. Let’s game this out: 100 shares of NVDA at 453 pared down to just profits from 869 sale would mean holding about 48 shares and selling 52 shares. After today’s after hours movement
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I noticed that your post failed to include important details such as when option 1 or 2 will happen or how option 2 will be implemented. I don’t disagree, I’m just pointing out that your post is worse than useless blathering, it’s useless n
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>> Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? As a non white person that has lived in both Seattle and Texas: I am not suggesting, it I am affirming it. It’s weird
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Where do you live? Based on your attitude I’d guess Seattle or Portland. Last I checked, there’s proportionally more white folks in the PNW than Texas, proportionally more white folks in Seattle/Portland than say Dallas or Houston, and
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>>all of the wasted effort that went into ensuring the Pharoah's resurrection and immortality after death. How do you know that it didn’t work? What if it wasn’t a waste?
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Tesla spending ad money to influence shareholders re Elon Musk's $55B payday
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To quote Judge Easterbrook from the 7th Circuit: So what? Who cares? If TikTok and its parent have been remiss in documentation or the ability of the entity to operate on its own in America then that’s their problem. When cigarette advertis
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The most important things financially are cash flow and coffer size. Being able to take on debt at advantageous times provides both of these things because it allows you to shift cash flow temporally and increase the money you have on hand
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What is the market for SpaceX shares? Are they liquid?
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In case anyone was wondering: Long ton = 2240 lb (1016 kg) Short ton = 2000 lb (907 kg) Tonne = 2205 lb (1000 kg) Long tons are rarely used outside shipping. Short tons are what people mean when they say ton in America. Tonne is the metric
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So you are actually in complete agreement that you can’t prove a negative and you also agree Greenpeace is not operating in good faith but rather is agenda driven.
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Like many NLRB administrative law judges, the judge here has done nothing outside of work for the NLRB. It is no surprise that he found a violation here and it will also be no surprise when he is overturned on appeal. “Judge Brian D. Gee wa
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I downvoted you. Your whole post is a thinly veiled marketing post that is only tangentially related to the topic at hand, as others have noted. Beyond that, your tone is annoying and your additional posts only serve to justify my initial i
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From the data we see that violent crime has dropped across the board but property crime is up 3% between Q4 2022 and Q4 2023 for cities with a population of a million or more. The article asks “Why does the public think it’s going up?” Well
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We can see from https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate that we have actually returned to a low interest rate environment from a zero interest rate environment and that we are not even close to a high
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and all I'm saying is that it doesn't make it on to the job in the first place usually and it certainly doesn't make it out to the public like with the cybertruck pedal
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I have a pet theory that bots and AI generated content are constantly being posted to a couple subreddits (AITAH, AskReddit, etc.) where the general theme of the post is basically cheating and/or open relationships. These posts garner
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Why are you so sure that criminal liability ends with the driver? Washington’s first degree manslaughter law requires “recklessly caus[ing] the death of another person.” Second degree requires merely causing the death of another person “wit
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There’s a lot of posts here besides yours talking about the “dignity” workers deserve. What does treating a delivery driver with dignity mean/require?
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I have seen multiple thousands of dollars of precast concrete get junked because an edge was less than half an inch out of tolerance. Multiple times. I have myself rejected multiple thousands of dollars of rebar because the hook length was
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Idk man, why do some think that someone is racist just because they say All Lives Matter? I don’t see any words referring to race in the slogan.
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