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by alehul 9y ago
Considering another relevant example posted elsewhere in this thread was the Swedish War of Liberation of 1521-1523, this is as recent as I could think of actually! The fall of the USSR lends a great look into many countries' beginning
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You're right that Estonia was not the best possible example in terms of lingual similarity, and Lithuania would've served the purpose better in terms of recent history. Sweden and Denmark are a great choice, but I think the Swedis
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by alehul 9y ago
The same could be said of Estonia in the recent past, and it has done quite well as an independent nation.
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Countries will support the likely winner, or more specifically, whichever choice is advantageous to their national interests. When Turkey's coup took place, for example, Western countries absolutely wanted Erdogan gone and Ataturk&#x27
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You summed it up really well. I think the issue lies in that those central governments have become more tame over time, while Spain hasn't. They were largely united under a dictator where, in the very recent past, it was illegal for Ca
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by alehul 9y ago
> Whoever the winner of this fight is, it will be a sad day for Europe, because nationalism and national borders will have prevailed and this goes against everything we need to build a stronger and better EU. I presume it was also a &#x2
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by alehul 9y ago
Also, as a separate comment, I understand the crazy appearance of Amazon's valuation but I think it's one of the most justified giants in terms of market cap. They're positioning themselves as a monopsony for the modern world
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You're right that it's a more complicated process than it sounds, but it's been a common trick for ages. Apparently, however, in recent years, it has been focused on capex while still retaining the same fundamental idea. In t
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by alehul 9y ago
You're right that Amazon has higher capex than income, however this has been intentional; I haven't been in finance for a while, and apparently this is how they're doing it now, but the main point holds true of purposely avoi
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by alehul 9y ago
The sibling comment regarding avoiding a taxable income is correct. When a company makes a profit, it pays taxes on that income. The dividends are then either 1. distributed proportionally to the shareholders, or 2. reinvested into the comp
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> it’s paired with the language processing company Receptiviti.ai to compute the compatibility between me and its user base using the contents of our Twitter feeds. They're measuring compatibility on language analysis of your tweets
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by alehul 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just due to their accounting preferences? Amazon has had the capability of making profit for years, but prefers to expense everything off in an effort to grow rather than pay increased taxes
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> Twitter has been criticized for not being as proactive as Facebook, which this month said it planned to strengthen its review process for political ads and would begin disclosing which pages purchased them moving forward. Facebook&#x27
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Twitter banning all ads from RT, effective immediately(businessinsider.com)
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This really resonates with what I've found as well, and it's a concerning dilemma. The internet stores incomprehensible amounts of information, but there's a lot being left behind. Most of these books have been created as a r
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This seems like a fascinating place. It's remarkable to google historical places like this and see just how little there is available on the internet, which we usually attribute with holding most of the world's information (the to
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Just to be super clear, I didn't mean to pass any judgement on the choice of attending nonetheless. Bootcamps seem like a great value and I'm glad to hear you're doing well!
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by alehul 9y ago
An HN user's perspective as a Flatiron student, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11734796 > One of the things that attracted me to Flatiron School was their audited jobs placement report. Very detailed stat
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by alehul 9y ago
True. The difference in scope, however, is critical. One was rather irrelevant, while the other will result in more distant relations with our Cold War rival, serious witch-hunting, and most importantly: further polarization of the U.S. pol
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Facebook employees desiring to impact elections is the stuff of nightmares, and would have a much more severe impact than any potential inference, if true, had.
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While I agree with both the GP and your post, it seems worthwhile to note that GP isn't attacking the individuals for their views, even if wrong. He's attacking Vanity Fair's decision that their opinions are newsworthy, espec
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Twitter evaluates newsworthiness as a factor in banning accounts, and given Trump's presidency, his tweets are certainly too newsworthy to erase. I find it exponentially more frightening, actually, to consider the notion that world lea
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I agree with that mentality! In regards to gender stereotypes: children are very impressionable, and we should encourage the ideology that people of either gender can have any combination of personality traits, interests, and so on. If gend
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I understand the plight and I think that has certainly occurred in some instances, however, in reaching the ideal, the importance seems to be inclusiveness yet straightforwardness in purpose. We should aim to promote gender inclusivity, but
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by alehul 9y ago
Though I'm unsure about competitors, there's a startup named ThinkNum which focuses entirely on scraping public APIs to provide investors with more data on tech companies.
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I agree with you on a scientific level, for example, that men have more testosterone and thus are more likely to be aggressive in their pursuits, which is often critical to success. At the same time, however, there are many men who are less
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From the article linked within, where 'Lil B' sent Vice News the posts that led to his ban: > In a phone interview, Facebook spokesperson Ruchika Budhraja defended the company's decision. "I think if you were to chang
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by alehul 9y ago
IANAL, but: Is that the reason behind the racketeering charge? They've developed a method of systematic theft of IP, which, though technically legal as an isolated incident, shows malicious intent when strung together. Is that enough t
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> Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a judge in the case noted last year that the firm has argued that Attia gave Google rights to his technology “without a condition of later payment.” So Google's defe
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I completely agree with this solution being ideal, but I think it's a matter of engineering effort and memory. It's not worth the time investment to build a system more complex, and it's a lot easier memory-wise to just pool

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