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Record jobs gain of 4.8m in June smashes expectations(cnbc.com)
3 points by adventured 6y ago|0 comments
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Four Top Tech CEOs Will Testify on Antitrust(nytimes.com)
2 points by adventured 6y ago|0 comments
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by adventured 6y ago
You're contradicting yourself in the skepticism. You recognize the valuation premise is based on expectations of future results, then you nail Tesla for its past results (no history of annual profit) for a supporting argument ("gi
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by adventured 6y ago
Canada is one of the most affluent, stable, peaceful nations. For 2019 Canada's GDP per capita just barely missed surpassing Germany. They happen to be a prominent neighbor to the US, their primary cities are positioned next to the US
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by adventured 6y ago
> Not sure what the old media hacks are trying to accomplish here. They're trying to keep their channels artificially expensive and trying to limit the success of (previously) less expensive TV channel platforms like YouTube TV. The
2916.
by adventured 6y ago
A girlfriend of mine went to the Philippines for three months for something school related (her family was originally from there). At the completion of the classes, they took graduation photos for each student. When she received the photos,
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by adventured 6y ago
The majors rarely buy when they should, they only buy when they shouldn't (price based acquisition fever). Happens over and over again, with the latest being Occidental and Anadarko. The industry is almost universally stupid when it co
2918.
by adventured 6y ago
> Isn't Vietnam too small to be a real competitor to China? No. They're too small to compete with China at everything at the same time. They can compete effectively in various industries. Samsung is utilizing Vietnam for 50% of
2919.
by adventured 6y ago
It's not self-funded by D'Angelo. Quora has raised several hundred million dollars, the overwhelming share of that from traditional venture capital firms. They also don't have the luxury of treating it like a hobby business,
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by adventured 6y ago
They look nothing alike, it's a distant reach. It's sad that someone even attempted that comparison given how weak the link is. There's a reason that shot by shot only has about 30 seconds of remotely similar footage. Do you
2921.
by adventured 6y ago
The Liberty Caucus has eight members in the House. Who knows how these people will vote though and which ones can be pressured to vote for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Caucus
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Far-UVC light efficiently and safely inactivates airborne human coronaviruses(nature.com)
4 points by adventured 6y ago|0 comments
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by adventured 6y ago
The last version of GitHub had as many rounded corners. They didn't change that, they increased the roundness (they increased the border-radius).
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by adventured 6y ago
Regular Americans have very little interest in the rest of the world and derive very little ego from that global role. Americans are nearly universally mocked for that lack of interest. The notion they derive much ego from something they pa
2925.
by adventured 6y ago
> Well, wasn't the US about capitalism, free market and all that That's an appropriate use of was. The US hasn't been a Capitalist nation in nearly a century. It's a heavily regulated mixed economic system. That trans
2926.
by adventured 6y ago
Chanos, the guy sitting on a bearish call against Tesla in November. The stock is up 200% since then. If Chanos were really betting to match his propaganda, he'd never work again after being destroyed like that.
2927.
by adventured 6y ago
> CERN isn't a US government project and the US doesn't provide funding. That's news to US taxpayers, which have provided money to CERN projects for decades, including LHC. Half a billion dollars for LHC was considered a l
2928.
by adventured 6y ago
> indeed.com puts the average software engineer in silicon valley at $112k with a $5k bonus per year That figure or the number you edited it to at $141k, is on the low side. The median software developer in the US is at ~$110,000. The to
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by adventured 6y ago
You'll see wild swings in these numbers depending on how specific you're being about the type of place being rented and even between services doing the reporting. Here's a March 2019 article from CBS bay area (based on data f
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by adventured 6y ago
For reference it's approximately $143 per year for the US market, per user ($11.92 per month). ~220-230 million monthly active US users, $31.4 billion in sales (projected 2020 figure) for that market. That's of course not adjustin
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Domain registrar Network Solutions threatens to drop anti-immigration website(abcnews.go.com)
11 points by adventured 6y ago|0 comments
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by adventured 6y ago
> its getting a bit scary about how far USA is behind Asian countries in high tech Yeah right. Cambodia, North Korea, Myanmar, Mongolia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, Russia, Afghanistan,
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by adventured 6y ago
> where the state department can just overthrow the govt of a major country if it likes That's an extraordinary exaggeration. The state dept does not have that power at all, not even close. Show me all the examples of this happening
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by adventured 6y ago
> For a long time now, StackOverflow has lost its way. A big tell on this, is their homepage is no longer about the Q&A platform. The new stack: https://i.imgur.com/RkzckLF.png The old stack: https://i.img
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by adventured 6y ago
> Unfortunately, we are living in an era of "America First" where a vast segment of the population has no interest in engaging with or providing aid to the rest of the world. Little has changed about the US foreign aid budget i
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by adventured 6y ago
I was unfamiliar with the Ted Turner black & white movie colorization controversy (circa 1980s), interesting cultural conflict: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-23-ca-6941-s... http://arch
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by adventured 6y ago
They're far older concentration processes, which is a factor ignored by other comments about why. The US is still filling in, settling, its vast territory. European territory is mostly settled, the cities are established, their process
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by adventured 6y ago
Exponential growth doesn't inherently require population expansion. This would especially be true for a far more advanced civilization. You could dramatically amplify your colonization efforts with machines, reducing your need for trad
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by adventured 6y ago
I'm surprised it was available as recently as 2019.
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by adventured 6y ago
Increased encirclement & isolation (economic & political persona non grata) by a large group of the liberal affluent nations is the only approach that will work to curtail military attacks like this one. The CPC ego is extraordinari

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