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Amazon has ownership of the company not a management stake. If you had a startup and filled all your boards seats with only EU board members. That doesn't mean the CEO and other officers are bound by EU law. Sure they could fire CEO
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Neonicotinoid are just analogs of nicotine but with less affinity for mammals aka less toxic(higher LDL). If you’re worried about the effects of nicotine(eg: cancer,ADHD in kids), don’t eat anything from the nightshade family like eggplan
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Dirt diamonds instead of found diamonds.
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It didn’t help making senators directly elected. Makes them vulnerable to populists movements.
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I bet it’s also a rev share model. Hotel doesn’t pay for the device but revenue is shared. Like the traffic cameras where they shorten yellow light to durations that a car is incapable of stopping in time.
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Its very dangerous when it doesn't. Saying due process only applies to citizens, government can just label anyone they don't like a noncitizen and with no due process, those people will never be able to challenge it.
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Intel runs their own fabs. NVidia, AMD, Qualcomm outsource chip manufacturing.
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Government job reports this year have been revised down up to 35%. > The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised down by 65,000, from +185,000 to +120,000, and the change for April was revised down by 30,000, fro
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Depends on the level of KYC. If you're just doing social and birthdate, its easy to bypass. You could add additional checks like check phone and email which are readily available from data brokers. You could send a physical mail to
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If it didn’t work on people companies wouldn’t spend hundreds of billions of dollars on ads. Everyone says the same thing that ads don’t work on them but the data says otherwise.
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Its fine to swim in a creek polluted with sewage though.
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All Cancer vaccines that trains your body to kill the cancer cells, we won't be able to get in the US.
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Gilead charges $85k for Harvoni. There's also alternative drugs from different manufacturers because there still lots of money to made. Treatments you're constrained by the duration of the patent thats need to be filed before t
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If execs are willfully blind to criminal activity done by employees, they can and should prosecuted. Problem is they have too much clout and money that they won't get prosecuted.
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If an exec breaks the law, they can and should be prosecuted. Whats weird is filing criminal charges against a company, it’s not like the company can be incarcerated. There are ways to impose fines/injuctions via the civil court sy
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What if the model was controlling a weapons system like what is being worked on right now at other companies?
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You can go install another OS on your android phones like LineageOS.
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At least two times they had unauthorized changes to their prompts to inject far right content that showed up on random content. imagine you're using it for a chat bot and it starts spouting off white nationalist content like "gr
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If it was any other AI provider like ChatGPT or Gemini, it wouldn't be flagged. Big deal when a major player allows employees to just to change the prompts.
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Question that needs to be answered if they were prosecuted. Losing your job but getting to keep the bribe just means it will still happen.
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Air travel is heavily regulated. They don’t do over the air updates on a weekly or biweekly cadence. Safest form of travel.
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They do beach replenishment to build up the beach to give more buffer. Spend lots of money on it. Also there is the federal flood insurance program that is running up a big debt. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article
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I would always screenshot people's desktop/email when they started presenting, lot of people dig up decks in their email or they share their full desktop. Emails are useful especially when dealing with a vendor to see what other
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This is to separate search index from Google. Ad is even worse as Google doesn’t even control the majority of digital marketing market. Only case i can think of is the Amex case but Supreme Court rightly found you can’t be an abusive monop
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How much things have changed when antitrust used mean unfair practices by real monopolies. Real monopolies. Standard Oil which you had no choice in what gas you used. The Bell System(ATT) controlled all of long distance, you had no choic
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They were owned by medical device company. Same company that sued Apple and why we don’t have an oximeter on Apple Watches in the US.
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Bluetooth took off because it was easiest path to do wireless headsets when handsfree driving laws passed.
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freight_Shipping_in_... Here’s tonnage miles by class. For comparison. There is only 20,000 miles of railway that Amtrak operates on. Thats a fraction of passenger railway com
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We run the largest freight rail in the world and ship more stuff via train than any other nation. BNSF Railway's revenue is $24 billion a year. Same with Union Pacific. They dwarf the major truck freight companies like Fedex Freight o
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US is already the largest shipper of freight by train in terms of shipped tonnage and also total tracks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_Uni...
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