akhatri_aus

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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
> Jeff Bezos is literally the richest human being on Earth. If anyone could afford to pay his workers a fair wage, it's him. Actually it wouldn't be so simple. Amazon is one of the lowest margin businesses on earth. The vast ma
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
> Morality should not be restricted by geographic borders. Conquest & colonialism want us all to see things with the same glasses.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
> and also not needing another capital raise in the near term. It's very probably they need to raise cash for their foray into China. > If they make their 5k/week production target by the end of this month How many months&#x
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
After reading Creativity, Inc I've come to understand Disney's turnaround under Bob Iger is really down to John Lasseter in bringing their bags over to Disney from Pixar after the acquisition. It'll be interesting to see whet
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
That's pretty snarky. The natural path is towards dark themes with OLED displays. It wouldn't be exclusive to Apple.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Sanctions involve a total ban on trade. tariffs involve a tax on imports, quota impose a limit on imports. If only 0 was an asymptote it would fit your description.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Not really, even Singapore has its duties. It's only 0% for everything if you're going for re-export. https://www.customs.gov.sg/businesses/valuation-duties-taxes...
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
I think you mean sanctions, not tariffs or quotas. There is not a single country that does not apply tariffs or quotas.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
The reasoning I suspect is more to do with price differentiation. It is easy to charge more to Australian consumers and I bet this is a business/commercial decision on Amazon's part more than it is to do with the technicalities of
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
You realise China's current political system is merely a stage of its economic development, I hope?
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
It seems De Beers strategy is to clearly differentiate a man made stone vs a natural stone. This way a man made stone can't easily cannibalize the value of a natural stone's market price premium. The goal it seems is in-fact to ma
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Yet another reason there is ambiguity in the terms. Most websites can portray themselves as good meaning. Socially defined justice is not really the law.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Looks like Netflix decided "Lost in space" would be their Sci Fi genre champion and that's it. It's likely with Amazon that Netflix would lose the previous seasons too as SciFy had some rights issue with non-cable/s
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
This is why GDPR has the fines up to €20m. Hopefully some of these users who were breached file for a breach, if you can't hold my data you don't deserve it. Good intentions aren't compatible with the law.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
There is no way to serve free content with targeted ads, blocking it outright seems really harsh. A paywall can help justify the efforts of compliance.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
For many of us the meaning of the internet itself is being able to access things at 5000 km away.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
There was kind of. When they turn the EMDrive on its side the thrust doesn't come from the cone anymore it comes from an angle meaning that the angle at which the EMDrive/cone is placed has no relevance to the thrust's vector
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
More like Google was ready to deal with the PR and spun the story of just a few engineers resigning..
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Whois can also be used to identify who owns IP blocks. Which is crucial to many applications such as security. If you don't want your personal information to be visible thats very different to the full range of what whois can do. You c
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Nonetheless, the option exists. Meaning the data on the statement is really of no use to RH & isn't part of their business model.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
You don't have to provide your transaction history, you can use an ACH trial deposit as an alternative to verification.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Repblicanism vs Monarchism seems a terrible comparison.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
The first transplant was actually in South Africa, in Dec 2014.
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
One thing very at odds with Apple's design etiquette with iTunes is there are a lot of message dialogs that block the whole ui. Typically a message dialog that blocked things underneath it would be a last resort, and of all things in a
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by akhatri_aus 8y ago
Bloomberg isn't a tech blog.
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by akhatri_aus 9y ago
It's a bit baitey.
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by akhatri_aus 9y ago
If you can take a picture with your phone or a screenshot of the email, what's the point?
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by akhatri_aus 9y ago
Making a new engine technology takes a long time. The jet engine took decades before its reliably seen for consumer use. It's likely there are still a couple more funding rounds down the road. Why put in a large amount when you could w
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by akhatri_aus 9y ago
They're likely doing it so they can support the current x64 apps easily on the ARM chips they're supposedly building in a Rosetta like fashion. You could use all sorts of ways, but if the underlying CPU changes it becomes emulatio
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by akhatri_aus 9y ago
The Mata Hari you mentioned moved to Sumatra, Indonesia. At the time a Dutch colony. Hence probably the Bahasa language relation to the stage name she chose.

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